{"id":23839,"date":"2017-05-01T14:34:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23839"},"modified":"2017-05-01T14:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:34:55","slug":"the-existential-question-of-whom-to-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23839","title":{"rendered":"The Existential Question of Whom to Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Existential Question of Whom to Trust<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Special Report:<\/strong> An existential question facing humankind is whom can be trusted to describe the world and its conflicts, especially since mainstream experts have surrendered to careerism, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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The looming threat of World War III, a potential extermination event for the human species, is made more likely because the world\u2019s public can\u2019t count on supposedly objective experts to ascertain and evaluate facts. Instead, careerism is the order of the day among journalists, intelligence analysts and international monitors \u2013 meaning that almost no one who might normally be relied on to tell the truth can be trusted.<\/p>\n

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Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations on Feb. 5. 2003, citing satellite photos which supposedly proved that Iraq had WMD, but the evidence proved bogus. CIA Director George Tenet is behind Powell to the left.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The dangerous reality is that this careerism, which often is expressed by a smug certainty about whatever the prevailing groupthink is, pervades not just the political world, where lies seem to be the common currency, but also the worlds of journalism, intelligence and international oversight, including United Nations agencies that are often granted greater credibility because they are perceived as less beholden to specific governments but in reality have become deeply corrupted, too.<\/p>\n

In other words, many professionals who are counted on for digging out the facts and speaking truth to power have sold themselves to those same powerful interests in order to keep high-paying jobs and to not get tossed out onto the street. Many of these self-aggrandizing professionals \u2013 caught up in the many accouterments of success \u2013 don\u2019t even seem to recognize how far they\u2019ve drifted from principled professionalism.<\/p>\n

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The Existential Question of Whom to Trust Special Report: An existential question facing humankind is whom can be trusted to describe the world and its conflicts, especially since mainstream experts have surrendered to careerism, writes Robert Parry. The looming threat of World War III, a potential extermination event for the human species, is made more […]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[10098,442,2658,7203,815,862,11121,3236,891,1823],"class_list":["post-23839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-experts","tag-iraq","tag-mainstream","tag-robert-parry","tag-trust","tag-war","tag-weapons-of-mass-destruction","tag-wmds","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23839","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=23839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23840,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23839\/revisions\/23840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}