{"id":54003,"date":"2020-07-04T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54003"},"modified":"2020-07-04T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T14:36:03","slug":"connecting-the-dates-us-media-used-to-stop-the-threat-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54003","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Dates \u2013 US Media Used To Stop The \u2018Threat\u2019 of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/07\/03\/four-giant-reasons-to-remove-the-statues-from-a-robert-e-lee-descendant\/\">Connecting the Dates \u2013 US Media Used To Stop The \u2018Threat\u2019 of Peace<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>his is not a column defending Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, this is a column about context. When&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;reports anonymous sources from the intelligence community say Russia paid Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers, context is very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of that context is that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZCjWAq7563I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Pompeo said<\/a>, \u201cI was the CIA director \u2013 We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses.\u201d So we know for certain that U.S. intelligence agencies lie to you and me. We saw it with WMD, and we might be seeing it again now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But that\u2019s not the context I\u2019m referring to.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could talk about the context of the fact that the Taliban does not need to be paid to kill American soldiers because their entire goal for the past twenty years has been to kill American soldiers. Paying them a bounty would be like offering the guy sleeping with your wife twenty bucks to sleep with your wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But that\u2019s not the context I\u2019m referring to.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could talk about the fact that the U.S. has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/archive\/how-us-funds-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funding the Taliban<\/a>&nbsp;for years! Yes, we fund them, sometimes arm them, and then fight them. This is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/us-contractors-accused-of-funding-taliban-attacks-against-american-troops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">barely a secret<\/a>. So for all intents and purposes, the U.S. does the same thing our corporate media is now accusing Russia of doing (with no proof).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But that\u2019s not the context I\u2019m referring to.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, the context I\u2019m referring to is how our military industrial complex (with the help of our ruling elite and our corporate media) have stopped Trump from pushing us toward the brink of peace. \u2026Yes, the brink of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting the Dates \u2013 US Media Used To Stop The \u2018Threat\u2019 of Peace This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.) No, this is a [&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":[694,862],"class_list":["post-54003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-russia","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54003","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=54003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54004,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54003\/revisions\/54004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}