by Jon Reynolds * Reprinted with permission from The Screeching Kettle at Substack. This week, Iran had the audacity to fly a drone near the USS Abraham Lincoln, an American aircraft carrier innocently parked 500 miles (or 434 nautical miles) off their coastline as part of a Trump naval “armada” deployed amid threats to bomb the country into oblivion over a nuclear weapons program that does not exist. Like clockwork, war-hungry American news networks went into overdrive beating the propagandistic war drums. One headline from The Washington Post, titled “US shoots down Iranian drone that approached aircraft carrier Lincoln”, cited anonymous “officials” who claimed the drone was “acting aggressively”. … Continue reading The Audacity of Iran To Park Its Country 500 Miles From a US Warship