{"id":5126,"date":"2015-02-01T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2015-02-01T09:44:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:44:25","slug":"nyts-tom-friedman-propaganda-shill-for-the-war-partys-ukrainian-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5126","title":{"rendered":"NYT\u2019s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party\u2019s Ukrainian Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/nyts-tom-friedman-propaganda-shill-for-the-war-partys-ukrainian-coup\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYT\u2019s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party\u2019s Ukrainian Coup<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>If you wonder how the lethal \u201cgroup think\u201d on Iraq took shape in 2002, you might want to study what\u2019s happening today with Ukraine. A misguided consensus has grabbed hold of Official Washington and has pulled in everyone who \u201cmatters\u201d and tossed out almost anyone who disagrees.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem, in both cases, has been\u00a0that neocon propagandists understand that in the modern American media the personal is the political, that is, you don\u2019t deal with the larger context of a dispute, you make it about some easily demonized figure. So, instead of understanding the complexities of Iraq, you focus on the unsavory Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This approach has been part of the neocon playbook at least since the 1980s when many of today\u2019s leading neocons \u2013 such as Elliott Abrams and Robert Kagan \u2013 were entering government and cut their teeth as propagandists for the Reagan administration. Back then, the game was to put, say, Nicaragua\u2019s President Daniel Ortega into the demon suit, with accusations about him wearing \u201cdesigner glasses.\u201d Later, it was Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and then, of course, Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of Americans coming to grips with the painful history of Central America, where the U.S. government has caused much of\u00a0the violence and dysfunction, or in Iraq, where Western nations don\u2019t have clean hands either, the story was made personal \u2013 about the demonized leader \u2013 and anyone who provided a fuller context was denounced as an \u201cOrtega apologist\u201d or a \u201cNoriega apologist\u201d or a \u201cSaddam apologist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT\u2019s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party\u2019s Ukrainian Coup If you wonder how the lethal \u201cgroup think\u201d on Iraq took shape in 2002, you might want to study what\u2019s happening today with Ukraine. A misguided consensus has grabbed hold of Official Washington and has pulled in everyone who \u201cmatters\u201d and tossed out almost [&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":[442,1494,655,694,3100,821,3101,834],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iraq","tag-press","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-tom-friedman","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-coup","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126","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=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5127,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/5127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}