{"id":43240,"date":"2019-01-28T07:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43240"},"modified":"2019-01-28T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:40:12","slug":"antiwar-hero-medea-benjamin-disrupts-venezuela-coup-circle-jerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43240","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Venezuela Coup Circle Jerk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/01\/25\/antiwar-hero-medea-benjamin-disrupts-venezuela-coup-circle-jerk\/\">Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Venezuela Coup Circle\u00a0Jerk<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/medium-8.jpg?fit=1200%2C709&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before they launch missiles, they launch narratives. Before they drop bombs, they drop talking points. Before they implement crushing starvation sanctions, they demonize and condemn. Before they invade, they propagandize. Before the killing starts, manipulation paves the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reason, the front line of any antiwar movement is a fight against the establishment narratives about disobedient nations that are aggressively promulgated by the political\/media class. And right now one of the very most adept Americans at doing that is an activist named Medea Benjamin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vrw2rp1jckc?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Benjamin once again displayed her knack for getting her message seen in high-profile spaces in a way that grabs attention and punches through cleanly and concisely as she crashed&nbsp;the warmongering bloviations of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at&nbsp;a meeting of the Organization for American States (OAS) in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r4TcmAF1yGE\">a speech<\/a>&nbsp;in which Pompeo regurgitated already established Trump talking points referring to Venezuela\u2019s president Nicolas Maduro as the \u201cformer president\u201d, accusing him of being \u201ceconomically incompetent\u201d, \u201cprofoundly corrupt\u201d and \u201cundemocratic to the core,\u201d Benjamin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/01\/24\/coup-not-democratic-transition-us-peace-activist-interrupts-pompeo-speech-venezuela\">cut off his applause<\/a>&nbsp;by standing at the end of the council room with a sign reading \u201cOAS: DON\u2019T SUPPORT A COUP IN VENEZUELA\u201d and decrying the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to topple the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t support the coup!\u201d Benjamin shouted. \u201cA coup is not a democratic transition! Do not listen to Secretary Pompeo! Do not support the coup! Do no support the coup in Venezuela!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe call on the OAS to support the democratically elected leader and work for a negotiated solution,\u201d Medea continued to yell as security staff cajoled her out of the room. \u201cCoups only bring more violence, war and destruction!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Venezuela Coup Circle\u00a0Jerk Before they launch missiles, they launch narratives. Before they drop bombs, they drop talking points. Before they implement crushing starvation sanctions, they demonize and condemn. Before they invade, they propagandize. Before the killing starts, manipulation paves the way. For this reason, the front line of any antiwar [&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],"tags":[8906,17039,19960,927,24185,1779,851,862],"class_list":["post-43240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-antiwar","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-establishment-narrative","tag-manipulation","tag-medea-benjamin","tag-narratives","tag-venezuela","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240","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=43240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43241,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240\/revisions\/43241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}