{"id":40529,"date":"2018-11-14T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40529"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:20:56","slug":"six-recent-us-antiwar-demonstrations-your-rulers-dont-want-you-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40529","title":{"rendered":"Six Recent US Antiwar Demonstrations Your Rulers Don\u2019t Want You Talking\u00a0About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/11\/14\/six-recent-us-antiwar-demonstrations-your-rulers-dont-want-you-talking-about\/\">Six Recent US Antiwar Demonstrations Your Rulers Don\u2019t Want You Talking\u00a0About<\/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-5554\" class=\"post-5554 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-activism tag-antiwar tag-demonstrations tag-peace tag-protests tag-war\">\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:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-14-at-1.37.01-PM.jpg?fit=925%2C555&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-14-at-1.37.01-PM.jpg?w=925&amp;ssl=1 925w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-14-at-1.37.01-PM.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-14-at-1.37.01-PM.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"925\" height=\"555\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>A friend told me yesterday that he hadn\u2019t seen an antiwar protest in America in ten years. It was a sincere comment; he genuinely hadn\u2019t seen any coverage on any peace activism in his country during that time. And of course he hadn\u2019t; it is mainstream media\u2019s job to distort public narratives in favor of the war-hungry plutocratic class which owns the media outlets. But I\u2019ve actually been noticing a lot of antiwar activism lately which, while often far from the spotlight of mass media attention, has given me much hope for the future.<\/p>\n<p>It is true there was a noticeable lull in vocal demonstrations against military violence since George W Bush left office, largely due to mainstream US partisan dynamics. Mainstream liberals supported Obama, so they avoided bringing attention to his continuation of Bush\u2019s policies of mass murder, while mainstream conservatives ignored the Obama administration\u2019s violence since they focused on attacking him as a weakling and a terrorist sympathizer, and of course had no ground to stand on for any criticisms of warmongering after supporting eight years of Bush. Some antiwar activism did happen in the US during that time, but not much.<\/p>\n<p>And, bizarrely, we\u2019ve seen a mutation of this trend continue well into the Trump administration, with mainstream liberals herded into holding demonstrations in support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/politico-report-says-russiagaters-should-prepare-to-kiss-my-ass-3188376c63d7\">empty Russiagate conspiracy theory<\/a>. The mass media-endorsed collusion narrative has fed into an anti-Russia hysteria among Democratic Party loyalists that has been used to manufacture support for <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/putins-puppet-advances-nuclear-missile-escalations-against-putin-bec5f939da43\">dangerous cold war escalations<\/a> and an obscenely bloated military budget, while any objection to Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/10\/25\/nation-transfixed-in-horror-by-toy-bombs-while-destroying-lives-with-real-ones\/\">warmongering<\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/us-blames-iran-for-impoverishing-civilians-while-prepping-further-sanctions-845cb5136e99\">advancement<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/all-of-these-russia-escalations-were-planned-years-ago-c3e5ad7e20f9\">longstanding neoconservative agendas<\/a> has been intentionally lost in the shuffle.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Recent US Antiwar Demonstrations Your Rulers Don\u2019t Want You Talking\u00a0About A friend told me yesterday that he hadn\u2019t seen an antiwar protest in America in ten years. It was a sincere comment; he genuinely hadn\u2019t seen any coverage on any peace activism in his country during that time. And of course he hadn\u2019t; it [&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":[6],"tags":[14,22979,17039,120,496,512],"class_list":["post-40529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activism","tag-antiwar-protests","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529","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=40529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40530,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529\/revisions\/40530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}