The Dog’s Curve: How Corporate Media Obscures the Machinery of War

Image by Zoshua Colah.

Here we go again. Another bombing, another military “response,” another foreign policy crisis framed in the language of necessity. The headlines are already there: U.S. Targets Iranian Militants After Escalation. Cable anchors dutifully speculate: “Will this spark a regional conflict?” Pundits from think tanks with Pentagon ties flood the airwaves, telling us what we’re supposed to think.

It’s always the same loop—reaction, analysis, distraction—and it’s always behind the curve.