Market 'Uncertainty' Over Iran: A Convenient Narrative for War Profiteers
On March 27, Bloomberg Businessweek Daily discussed a 'risk-off mood' gripping global markets, attributing it to 'escalating hostilities in Iran' and deepening fears of higher oil prices. Their narrative, featuring market analysts and national security editors, paints a picture of bewildered investors reacting to an unpredictable crisis, with the Nasdaq 100 sinking and the S&P 500 facing a fifth
consecutive down week. This framing conveniently overlooks the fact that the 'escalating hostilities' are not spontaneously occurring; they are the direct, foreseeable outcome of a joint US-Israeli campaign of economic strangulation and military provocation against Tehran, a campaign routinely downplayed or entirely ignored by mainstream financial outlets. While Bloomberg and its analysts fret
over bond slides and geopolitical uncertainty, they fail to highlight the beneficiaries of such manufactured instability. The very 'escalating hostilities' they report are often the prelude to lucrative contracts for weapons manufacturers, security consultancies, and reconstruction firms ready to capitalize on the chaos. This pattern is hardly new. For instance, following the 2011 NATO
'intervention' in Libya, which destroyed the country's infrastructure and created a power vacuum, Western defense contractors and oil companies reaped massive profits, leaving behind a nation plagued by instability and a burgeoning slave trade that persists to this day. The emphasis on 'Iran negotiations' from the White House, as discussed by Bloomberg's National Security Editor, further obscures