{"id":44921,"date":"2019-03-31T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44921"},"modified":"2019-03-31T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:04:11","slug":"some-common-criticisms-of-my-work-addressed-by-caitlin-johnstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44921","title":{"rendered":"Some Common Criticisms Of My Work Addressed, By Caitlin Johnstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/03\/31\/some-common-criticisms-of-my-work-addressed-by-caitlin-johnstone\/\">Some Common Criticisms Of My Work Addressed, By Caitlin Johnstone<\/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\/03\/medium-5-1.jpg?fit=680%2C509&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a relatively slow news day so I thought it might be good to just tap out a few responses to common criticisms of the writing I\u2019ve been doing since I started this gig two and a half years ago. I try to put all my cards on the table in full transparency so that people can decide if they trust me or like what I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously when you do what I do for a living you get truckloads of criticisms every day ranging from the reasonable and thoughtful to the downright bizarre, so I\u2019ll only be able to focus on the most common ones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cCaitlin touts the Kremlin line. Everything she writes is in accordance with Kremlin talking points.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is true that my foreign policy views often align with the foreign policy positions promoted by the Russian government, but this is only because I oppose US interventionism. Russia, like many other sovereign nations, also opposes US interventionism, because it is in their interests to do so. This is unrelated to my own reasons for opposing US interventionism, namely that it is consistently disastrous and unhelpful, and that US military violence serves as the glue which holds together a powerful empire which is oppressive, ecocidal, omnicidal, and increasingly Orwellian.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/why-all-anti-interventionists-will-necessarily-be-smeared-as-russian-assets-cb9b051951cf\">More on this here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, I have nothing to do with the Russian government, and to my knowledge I have never received any money that came from the Kremlin. I\u2019ve been offered to appear on various RT programs, but I\u2019ve always declined because I don\u2019t want my arguments tainted with any perception of loyalty to that network. I\u2019m an entirely reader-funded writer, and I have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/caitlinjohnstone\">my Patreon information<\/a>\u00a0on the most transparent settings available. <\/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>Some Common Criticisms Of My Work Addressed, By Caitlin Johnstone It\u2019s a relatively slow news day so I thought it might be good to just tap out a few responses to common criticisms of the writing I\u2019ve been doing since I started this gig two and a half years ago. I try to put all [&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":[5468,2127,827,17657],"class_list":["post-44921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-criticism","tag-interventionism","tag-united-states","tag-us-interventionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44921","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=44921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44923,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44921\/revisions\/44923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}