{"id":55228,"date":"2020-10-05T06:51:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55228"},"modified":"2020-10-05T06:51:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:51:30","slug":"truth-is-the-first-casualty-in-cold-war-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55228","title":{"rendered":"Truth Is The First Casualty In Cold War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/10\/02\/truth-is-the-first-casualty-in-cold-war-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Truth Is The First Casualty In Cold War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-8931\" class=\"post-8931 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-biden tag-democrats tag-media tag-narrative tag-narrative-matrix tag-news tag-politics tag-republicans tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-2.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-2.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Governments make evidence-free claims which the mass media report uncritically, with ordinary citizens expected to either prove them wrong or shut up and believe. The burden of proof is fallaciously placed on members of the public and tiny indie media outlets with no resources to disprove the claims, instead of on massive news media outlets with abundant wealth and resources. It should be the exact opposite: with unproven government claims ignored until hard proof is provided, and with mass media reporters doing their goddamn jobs.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>No institutional changes were made to ensure that the evils of the Iraq invasion wouldn\u2019t be repeated. It\u2019s one of those big, glaring problems people just decided to pretend is resolved, like racism.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Whenever someone says \u201cI oppose Assange\u2019s extradition, but,\u201d everything before\u00a0the \u201cbut\u201d is a lie, and it\u2019s a safe bet that everything after it will be too.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Truth is the first casualty in war. This adage is especially true of cold war, where the absence of hot firepower makes an emphasis on mass-scale psychological operations necessary.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>People who tell you that now is not the time for truthful criticisms of Joe Biden are telling you they only like the truth when it\u2019s politically convenient. Do you know what people who only like the truth when it\u2019s politically convenient are called? They\u2019re called liars.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>The main thing that will change if Biden wins the election is that when the president does something evil Democrats will shift from saying \u201cI hope you Jill Stein voters are happy\u201d to saying nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth Is The First Casualty In Cold War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Governments make evidence-free claims which the mass media report uncritically, with ordinary citizens expected to either prove them wrong or shut up and believe. The burden of proof is fallaciously placed on members of the public and tiny indie [&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":[17039,130,149,694,827,862],"class_list":["post-55228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-china","tag-cold-war","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55228","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=55228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55229,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55228\/revisions\/55229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}