{"id":43469,"date":"2019-02-03T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43469"},"modified":"2019-02-03T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T14:02:48","slug":"i-oppose-interventionism-but-but-nothing-stop-being-a-pro-bono-cia-propagandist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43469","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Oppose Interventionism, But-\u201d But Nothing. Stop Being A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/02\/02\/i-oppose-interventionism-but-but-nothing-stop-being-a-pro-bono-cia-propagandist\/\">\u201cI Oppose Interventionism, But-\u201d But Nothing. Stop Being A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/medium.jpg?fit=1200%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbettreport.com\/interview-1416-daniel-mcadams-on-trumps-venezuela-coup\/\">interview with&nbsp;<em>The Corbett Report<\/em><\/a>, the&nbsp;<em>Ron Paul Institute<\/em>\u2018s Daniel McAdams spoke disdainfully of those ostensibly anti-interventionist libertarians who picked this moment of all times to loudly and aggressively condemn Venezuela\u2019s president Maduro, just as the US power establishment is ramping up its campaign to topple the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden now there are millions of Venezuela experts in America, and many of them could not point Venezuela out on a map five days ago,\u201d McAdams&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UpZRPOpnz3g?t=1021\">said<\/a>. \u201cAnd everyone has to have this disclaimer, \u2018Well, I know it\u2019s probably worse than North Korea, but the US government shouldn\u2019t get involved.\u2019 It\u2019s cowardice, because once the war starts, they can say \u2018Hey I never called for US intervention!\u2019 No, but you\u2019re a conveyor belt for propaganda. You\u2019re a conveyor belt to get the machine ginned up for war. And so you\u2019ve got to stand up and take responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UpZRPOpnz3g?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>McAdams has for years consistently operated in the hub of one of America\u2019s most forceful and effective branches of opposition to US interventionism, and he is absolutely correct here. On both sides of America\u2019s political divide, the primary objections you will see to this administration\u2019s campaign to delegitimize and topple the Venezuelan government are prefaced with a strong condemnation of Maduro followed by some feeble equivocations voicing vague objections to Trump\u2019s actions, if that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even more often, what you will see is excuses made for the US government\u2019s aggressive attempts to control who runs Venezuela, followed by some mumbling along the lines of \u201cI don\u2019t want us to go to war, though\u201d dribbling out of the corner of their mouths. <\/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>\u201cI Oppose Interventionism, But-\u201d But Nothing. Stop Being A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist. In a recent&nbsp;interview with&nbsp;The Corbett Report, the&nbsp;Ron Paul Institute\u2018s Daniel McAdams spoke disdainfully of those ostensibly anti-interventionist libertarians who picked this moment of all times to loudly and aggressively condemn Venezuela\u2019s president Maduro, just as the US power establishment is ramping up [&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":[135,18364,24278,655,14830,24279],"class_list":["post-43469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-daniel-mcadams","tag-non-interventionism","tag-propaganda","tag-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-venezeuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469","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=43469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43470,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469\/revisions\/43470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}