{"id":11197,"date":"2015-08-18T08:20:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11197"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:20:23","slug":"gullible-americans-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11197","title":{"rendered":"Gullible Americans Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gullible Americans Forever<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cNext the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.\u201d \u2014 Mark Twain<\/p>\n

Listening to NPR news today I was reminded how throughly this once independent voice has sold out.<\/p>\n

I was also reminded of the Mark Twain quote above. NPR reported that Syrians were lined up in Turkey waiting on passage on inflatable rafts to Greece. According to the NPR report, there are 2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey and 250,000 Syrians have been killed. NPR said nothing about the cause of this murder and displacement of vast numbers of people. It was if the plight of these people materialized out of thin air. The fact that Washington sicced ISIS, al Qaeda, Turkey, the US and NATO Air Forces, and Washington\u2019s Middle Eastern vassals on Syria was not mentioned. The view on NPR is the same as Washington\u2019s \u2014 that if only Assad would resign and hand Syria over to Washington, everything would be fine.<\/p>\n

Americans don\u2019t go to bed every night unable to sleep from shame from the atrocities that the US government has inflicted on Syria. And on Iraq. And Libya. And Afghanistan. And Pakistan. And Yemen. And Somalia. And Ukraine. And Serbia. According to the prostitute media, all of these human catastrophes are the work of dark forces that America must combat. It is all a clever orchestration of public emotion in favor of the military\/security complex\u2019s bank balance.<\/p>\n

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Gullible Americans Forever \u201cNext the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1167,8246,522,3099,2190,553,6457,2951,8249,776,8247,818,8248,862,865],"class_list":["post-11197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-greece","tag-mark-twain","tag-middle-east","tag-military-security-complex","tag-national-public-radio","tag-nato","tag-npr","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-self-deception","tag-syria","tag-syrian-refugees","tag-turkey","tag-vassal-states","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11198,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions\/11198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}