{"id":48010,"date":"2019-08-27T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48010"},"modified":"2019-08-27T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:11:20","slug":"how-to-make-sense-of-foreign-protests-conflicts-and-uprisings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48010","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/08\/27\/how-to-make-sense-of-foreign-protests-conflicts-and-uprisings\/\">How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings<\/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\/08\/medium-5-4.jpg?fit=800%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media outlet, has published an article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-08-27\/the-australian-expat-who-joined-hong-kongs-protest-movement\/11441202\">Australian expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest movement<\/a>\u201c. The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps anonymous but for the name \u201cDaniel\u201d, has joined the protests in Hong Kong. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the whole entire bombshell newsworthy news story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn Australia we have proper democracy but in Hong Kong, democracy is being slowly eroded away and I\u2019ll try to do whatever I can to try and help the cause,\u201d the anonymous guy told ABC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This sort of enthusiastic empty non-story cheerleading is typical for western media coverage of the Hong Kong protests so far, while these same media outlets consistently ignore or downplay protests against the government of France, Israel, Honduras, India, Indonesia and any other region that happens to fall within the US-centralized power alliance. It\u2019s an amazingly reliable pattern: the entire western political\/media class finds protests and uprisings endlessly fascinating when they are in opposition to governments which haven\u2019t yet been absorbed into the imperial blob like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Syria, pre-collapse Libya, or then-Moscow-aligned Ukraine, but any protests or uprisings within that empire are ignored at best or demonized at worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If dissidents in the United States began donning yellow vests and holding aggressive demonstrations in the current media environment, you could safely bet your bottom dollar that they would be ignored for as long as possible and then smeared as fascists, antisemites and\/or Russian pawns thereafter. This would happen with absolute certainty.<\/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>How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media outlet, has published an article titled \u201cAustralian expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest movement\u201c. The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps anonymous but for the name [&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":[7264,204,403,496,26607,657,965],"class_list":["post-48010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-abc","tag-democracy","tag-hong-kong","tag-mainstream-media","tag-proaganda","tag-protests","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48010","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=48010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48011,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48010\/revisions\/48011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}