Just SayingNever mind Hong Kong’s revolution, the world is about to go to war

It certainly feels like post-traumatic stress disorder after nearly seven months of saturation coverage and daily overdoses of news from the revolution of our times.

Particularly mainstream American media outlets, which have been called out by the watchdog, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, for their disproportionate infatuation in portraying this city’s destructive political and social upheaval as a noble, democratic struggle against an authoritarian regime, while dismissing similar chaos in other countries as mob violence and rioting.

All of it has to do with feeding the anti-China narrative, of course, as there is no Beijing to bash and therefore no need to gloss over the violence when reporting on uprisings in the likes of France, Spain, Chile, Ecuador and Iraq.

But Iraq is where everyone’s attention had better turn to, as far away from their backyard as it may be, in light of what the US has just perpetrated there with the assassination of top Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani.