{"id":54629,"date":"2020-08-10T07:45:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54629"},"modified":"2020-08-10T07:46:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:46:39","slug":"the-undoing-of-illusions-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54629","title":{"rendered":"The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/08\/10\/the-undoing-of-illusions-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-10.jpg?fit=1140%2C758&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Governments have obscenely well-funded intelligence agencies that are literally dedicated to orchestrating secret conspiracies around the world, but if you say they might be conspiring in some part of the world people call you a mentally ill conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Program#Torture\">the Phoenix Program<\/a>&nbsp;existed is by itself an unassailable argument for permanently dismantling the entire CIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A political establishment which thinks it\u2019s crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent is a political establishment that should not exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A political establishment which thinks it\u2019s crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent can never and will never lead to a sane world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A political establishment which thinks it\u2019s crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent has no business calling its members \u201cmoderate\u201d or \u201ccentrist\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A political establishment which thinks it\u2019s crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent is a crazy and extremist political establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A political establishment which thinks it\u2019s crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent is too crazy and extremist to be permitted to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats and Republicans are like male and female starfish; it\u2019s hard to tell them apart unless you\u2019re one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The modern US imperial war machine kills more like a python than a tiger, placing less emphasis on the full-scale ground invasions of the Bush era and more on slowly suffocating the life out of targeted nations using sanctions, blockades, coups, psyops and CIA-backed uprisings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one reason to be dismissive of Trump supporters who say he \u201chasn\u2019t started any new wars\u201d. What they mean is he hasn\u2019t done any old school ground invasions. He\u2019s still attacking and killing with sanctions and blockades and imperiling the world with cold war escalations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Governments have obscenely well-funded intelligence agencies that are literally dedicated to orchestrating secret conspiracies around the world, but if you say they might be conspiring in some part of the world people call you a mentally ill conspiracy theorist. ~ The fact that&nbsp;the [&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":[17039,8552,14545,29490,655,827,5906],"class_list":["post-54629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-illusions","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states","tag-us-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629","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=54629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54630,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629\/revisions\/54630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}