{"id":30938,"date":"2018-02-13T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30938"},"modified":"2018-02-13T07:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:49:03","slug":"how-establishment-propaganda-gaslights-us-into-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30938","title":{"rendered":"How Establishment Propaganda Gaslights Us Into Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Establishment Propaganda Gaslights Us Into Submission<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\u201cGaslighting\u201d can be an effective tactic to instill confusion and anxiety in people, causing them to doubt their own logical abilities, but it can be countered by remaining confident in our judgments, argues Caitlin Johnstone.<\/p>\n

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Poster for the 1944 movie \u201cGaslight\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The dynamics of the establishment Syria narrative are hilarious if you take a step back and think about them. I mean, the Western empire is now\u00a0openly admitting to having funded actual, literal terrorist groups<\/a>\u00a0in that country, and yet they\u2019re\u00a0still\u00a0cranking out propaganda pieces<\/a>\u00a0about what is happening there and sincerely expecting us to believe them. It\u2019s adorable, really; like a little kid covered in chocolate telling his mom he doesn\u2019t know what happened to all the cake frosting.<\/p>\n

Or least it would be adorable if it weren\u2019t directly facilitating the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n

I recently had a\u00a0pleasant and professional exchange<\/a>\u00a0with the Atlantic Council\u2019s\u00a0neoconservative propagandist<\/a>\u00a0Eliot Higgins, in which he referred to independent investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley as \u201cbonkers\u201d and myself as \u201ccrazy,\u201d and I called him a despicable bloodsucking ghoul. I am not especially fond of Mr. Higgins.<\/p>\n

You see this theme repeated again and again and again in Higgins\u2019 work; the U.S.-centralized power establishment which facilitated terrorist factions in Syria is the infallible heroic Good Guy on the scene, and anyone who doesn\u2019t agree is a mentally deranged lunatic.<\/p>\n

This is also the model for the greater imperialist propaganda construct, not just with regard to Syria but with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and any other insolent government which refuses to bow to\u00a0American supremacist agendas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How Establishment Propaganda Gaslights Us Into Submission \u201cGaslighting\u201d can be an effective tactic to instill confusion and anxiety in people, causing them to doubt their own logical abilities, but it can be countered by remaining confident in our judgments, argues Caitlin Johnstone. Poster for the 1944 movie \u201cGaslight\u201d The dynamics of the establishment Syria narrative […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[3334,18453,17039,2313,6963,199,18520,18519,18518,655,1740,776],"class_list":["post-30938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-anxiety","tag-atlantic-council","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-confusion","tag-consortium-news","tag-deep-state","tag-establishment-media","tag-establishment-propaganda","tag-gaslighting","tag-propaganda","tag-psyops","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938","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=30938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30940,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938\/revisions\/30940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}