The new year is here and it has started off with a fairly earth-shaking event that has called the entire world to attention: the assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Al Quuds commander Qassem Suleimani. You might have noticed that for 99% of the viewing public, the day Suleimani died was the first time they had heard his name. This is the inevitable result of a culture that focuses on ‘bread and circuses’ than it does on relevant geopolitical events and tra