{"id":33834,"date":"2018-04-29T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33834"},"modified":"2018-04-29T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T18:28:41","slug":"fuck-you-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33834","title":{"rendered":"Fuck You, Actually."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/04\/29\/fuck-you-actually\/\">Fuck You, Actually.<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-4511\" class=\"post-4511 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-bots tag-jeremy-corbyn tag-labour tag-russia tag-russian tag-sunday-times tag-trolls\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/medium-4.png?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/medium-4.png 792w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/medium-4-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/medium-4-768x413.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"426\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>For months leftist analysts have been warning that the increasingly hysterical anti-Russia narratives being aggressively promoted by the western media would eventually be used to target the political left. Those warnings went largely unheeded in the United States where the Russiagate narrative was being ostensibly used to undermine the Trump administration, and the McCarthyite feeding frenzies which have become normalized for American audiences have now metastasized across the pond to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Poms have now quickly found themselves in a political environment where anyone who remembers the Blair government\u2019s lies about Iraq is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5W1hD2EsiE0?t=7m36s\">smeared as a \u201cuseful idiot\u201d<\/a>, a private British citizen can be <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/the-guardian-is-committing-journalistic-malpractice-by-not-retracting-this-claim-96708fe43ac0\">falsely labeled a Kremlin bot<\/a> by a mainstream publication without retraction or apology, and a BBC reporter can <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/bbc-reporter-discourages-syria-questions-due-to-information-war-with-russia-e13a3d18e4e9\">admonish a veteran military analyst<\/a> for giving a truthful analysis about the alleged Douma chemical attacks on the grounds that it could hurt the \u201cinformation war\u201d against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>And now, in what is undeniably a whole new level of Russophobic shrillness, Russia is being blamed for the gains made last year by Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s Labour Party.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<article class=\"MediaCard\n           MediaCard--mediaForward\n\n           customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\"><a class=\"MediaCard-borderOverlay\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" role=\"presentation\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesundaytimes\/status\/990334848505143298\/photo\/1\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">View image on Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 511px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 156.3359%\"><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset NaturalImage\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesundaytimes\/status\/990334848505143298\/photo\/1\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Db5gS70WAAAWC74?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"655\" height=\"1024\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Db5gS70WAAAWC74\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesundaytimes\/status\/990334848505143298\" data-tweet-id=\"990334848505143298\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesundaytimes\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"The Sunday Times (screen name: thesundaytimes)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/378800000220413682\/72e9628586a1e9b56a7c5cd3f51856cc_normal.png\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/378800000220413682\/72e9628586a1e9b56a7c5cd3f51856cc_bigger.png\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/378800000220413682\/72e9628586a1e9b56a7c5cd3f51856cc_normal.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-decoratedName\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-verifiedBadge\" data-scribe=\"element:verified_badge\"><b class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tomorrow&#8217;s front page:\u00a0Russians tried to swing election for Corbyn <a class=\"PrettyLink hashtag customisable\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tomorrowspapertoday?src=hash\" rel=\"tag\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\" data-scribe=\"element:hashtag\"><span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">#<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">tomorrowspapertoday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesundaytimes\/status\/990334848505143298\" data-datetime=\"2018-04-28T21:00:02+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: April 28, 2018 21:00:02 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-04-28T21:00:02+0000\">5:00 PM &#8211; Apr 28, 2018<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesundaytimes\/status\/990334848505143298\">a tweet<\/a> from <em>The Sunday Times<\/em>, tomorrow\u2019s headline will read, in all seriousness, \u201cExposed:\u00a0Russians tried to swing election for Corbyn\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0According to the text in the preview, the <em>Times<\/em>\u00a0has allegedly found evidence that Russian bots have been retweeting publicly available posts supporting Labour and criticizing the Tories. Not creating fake news, not even circulating articles from RT or Sputnik, but retweeting conventional, publicly available political commentary.<\/p>\n<p>This would be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sunday_Times\">the same publisher<\/a>, by the way, whose expertise on Russian Twitter \u201cdisinformation\u201d recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haloefekti\/status\/987571160983457792\">led to a false allegation<\/a> against an antiwar Finnish grandmother in an article about Kremlin trolls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuck You, Actually. For months leftist analysts have been warning that the increasingly hysterical anti-Russia narratives being aggressively promoted by the western media would eventually be used to target the political left. Those warnings went largely unheeded in the United States where the Russiagate narrative was being ostensibly used to undermine the Trump administration, and [&hellip;]<\/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":[17039,19974,442,8453,19973,694,15282,19972,2080,3236],"class_list":["post-33834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-douma-chemical-attack","tag-iraq","tag-jeremy-corbyn","tag-mainstream-western-media","tag-russia","tag-russiagate","tag-russian-bots","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wmds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834","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=33834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33835,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions\/33835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}