{"id":43471,"date":"2019-02-03T09:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43471"},"modified":"2019-02-03T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T14:07:00","slug":"why-all-anti-interventionists-will-necessarily-be-smeared-as-russian-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43471","title":{"rendered":"Why All Anti-Interventionists Will Necessarily Be Smeared As Russian Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/02\/03\/why-all-anti-interventionists-will-necessarily-be-smeared-as-russian-assets\/\">Why All Anti-Interventionists Will Necessarily Be Smeared As Russian\u00a0Assets<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-03-at-8.15.39-AM.jpg?fit=830%2C493&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/five-reasons-im-excited-about-tulsi-gabbard-s-candidacy-3eb8807351a9\">announced her candidacy for the presidency<\/a>&nbsp;on CNN last month, I had a feeling I\u2019d be writing about her a fair bit. Not because I particularly want her to be president, but because I knew her candidacy would cause the narrative control mechanizations of the political\/media class to overextend themselves, leaving them open to attack, exposure, and the weakening of their control of the narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mere&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.primonutmeg.com\/single-post\/2019\/02\/02\/RussiaGate-conspiracy-theorists-target-Tulsi-Gabbard-hours-before-she-announces-candidacy\">hours before<\/a>&nbsp;her campaign officially launched, NBC News published an&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/UDwtS\">astonishingly blatant smear piece<\/a>&nbsp;titled \u201cRussia\u2019s propaganda machine discovers 2020 Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard,\u201d subtitled \u201cExperts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.\u201d One of the article\u2019s authors&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bpopken\/status\/1091671793549668352\">shared it on Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;with the caption, \u201cThe Kremlin already has a crush on Tulsi Gabbard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article reported that media outlets tied to the Russian government had been talking a lot about Gabbard\u2019s candidacy, ironically citing as an example\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/448632-tulsi-gabbard-negative-reactions\/\">an RT article<\/a>\u00a0which documented the attempts by the US mainstream media to paint Gabbard as a Kremlin agent. The article\u2019s authors cited the existence of such articles combined with the existence of \u201cchatter\u201d about Gabbard on the anonymous message board 8chan (relevant for God knows what reason) as evidence to substantiate its blaring headline. Even more hilariously, the source for its weird 8chan claim is named as none other than\u00a0Renee DiResta of the narrative control firm New Knowledge, which was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grayzoneproject.com\/2018\/12\/25\/senate-report-on-russian-interference-was-written-by-disinformation-warriors-behind-alabama-false-flag-operation\/\">recently embroiled in a scandal<\/a>\u00a0for staging a \u201cfalse flag operation\u201d in an Alabama Senate race which gave one of the candidates the false appearance of being amplified by Russian bots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why All Anti-Interventionists Will Necessarily Be Smeared As Russian\u00a0Assets When Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard&nbsp;announced her candidacy for the presidency&nbsp;on CNN last month, I had a feeling I\u2019d be writing about her a fair bit. Not because I particularly want her to be president, but because I knew her candidacy would cause the narrative control mechanizations [&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":[24280,17039,2127,1779,10392,827],"class_list":["post-43471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-anti-interventionism","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-interventionism","tag-narratives","tag-tulsi-gabbard","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43471","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=43471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43472,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43471\/revisions\/43472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}