{"id":33810,"date":"2018-04-27T08:47:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33810"},"modified":"2018-04-27T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:47:35","slug":"never-let-anyone-call-you-crazy-for-doubting-establishment-war-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33810","title":{"rendered":"Never Let Anyone Call You Crazy For Doubting Establishment War Narratives\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never Let Anyone Call You Crazy For Doubting Establishment War Narratives\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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There has still been no retraction or correction of The Guardian<\/em>\u2018s demonstrably false and completely indefensible claim<\/a> that two normal antiwar Twitter accounts were controlled not by real people but by bot programs based in Russia.<\/p>\n

This is the sort of environment that has been created by the ongoing Russia panic that is plaguing the western world: one wherein mainstream news outlets can openly lie about dissenting voices and antiwar activists, refuse to retract or apologize for those lies, and suffer no consequences.<\/p>\n

And yet they still have the gall to paint anyone who expresses doubt about the narratives they advance about Russia and Syria as crazy, kooky conspiracy theorists. Google the words \u201cconspiracy\u201d and \u201cSyria\u201d right now and you\u2019ll come up with countless editorials with headlines like \u201cSyria\u00a0war: The online activists pushing\u00a0conspiracy\u00a0theories<\/a>\u201c, \u201cDisinformation and Conspiracy Trolling in the Wake of the Syrian Chemical Attack<\/a>\u201c, and \u201cSYRIA GAS ATTACK CONSPIRACY THEORIES FUELED BY TUCKER CARLSON AND FAR-RIGHT FRINGE<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re using the highly stigmatized label \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d to paint healthy, normal skepticism of a notoriously untrustworthy power establishment as mentally unsound paranoia.<\/p>\n

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A look into the “crazy club,” occupied by pro-Assad conspiracy theorists Rania Khalek, Vanessa\u00a0Beeley, Eva Bartlett and co.https:\/\/www.<\/span>thenational.ae\/world\/mena\/the-crazy-club-inside-the-british-propaganda-trips-that-seek-to-legitimise-assad-s-barbarism-1.724176\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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The \u2018crazy club\u2019: Inside the British\u00a0propaganda trips that seek to legitimise Assad\u2019s barbarism<\/strong><\/p>\n

A week in the weird world of the pro-regime tours busing westerners into Syrian cities<\/p>\n

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The other day I wrote an article<\/a> about the shocking number of blatant attack editorials the mass media machine has been churning out on anyone who questions the establishment Syria narrative, and that output has not slowed down since.<\/div>\n

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…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never Let Anyone Call You Crazy For Doubting Establishment War Narratives\u00a0 There has still been no retraction or correction of The Guardian\u2018s demonstrably false and completely indefensible claim that two normal antiwar Twitter accounts were controlled not by real people but by bot programs based in Russia. This is the sort of environment that has […]<\/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":[17039,2370,19960,3801,862,19959],"class_list":["post-33810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-conspiracy-theory","tag-establishment-narrative","tag-mainstream-narrative","tag-war","tag-war-narrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33810","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=33810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33811,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33810\/revisions\/33811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}