{"id":55774,"date":"2020-11-27T07:22:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55774"},"modified":"2020-11-27T07:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:22:14","slug":"oligarchic-imperialism-is-the-new-dominant-world-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55774","title":{"rendered":"Oligarchic Imperialism Is The New Dominant World Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/11\/26\/oligarchic-imperialism-is-the-new-dominant-world-religion\/\">Oligarchic Imperialism Is The New Dominant World Religion<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9223\" class=\"post-9223 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-assadist tag-imperialism tag-media tag-oligarchy tag-politics tag-propaganda\">\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:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-10.jpg?fit=800%2C441&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-10.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-10.jpg?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-10.jpg?resize=768%2C423&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>I was just watching a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasminMuj\/status\/1331369536663085057?s=20\">gaggle of blue-checkmarked narrative managers<\/a>\u00a0attack progressive commentators Katie Halper and Briahna Joy Gray on Twitter for platforming antiwar journalist Rania Khalek on the grounds that Khalek is an \u201cAssadist\u201d, which is imperialist for \u201csomeone who opposes western imperialism in Syria\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1331369536663085057&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F11%2F26%2Foligarchic-imperialism-is-the-new-dominant-world-religion%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1331369536663085057\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>At no point do any of these narrative managers bother to address the actual things these women were discussing together or why anything Khalek was saying in their video conference was wrong. They do not feel the need to do such a thing, because they have this label, \u201cAssadist\u201d, which they can pin on one of the speakers and thereby reject one hundred percent of her work and one hundred percent of the people who give her a platform from which to speak. They feel no need to address the arguments, because they have a label which they all agree means they can completely un-person someone who opposes western regime change agendas in a specific region.<\/p>\n<p>There are many such labels that are used to exclude people from positions of influence and power for simply disagreeing with the official doctrine of status quo oligarchic imperialism in any way. \u201cAssadist\u201d is one of them; it allows someone to be completely marginalized from platforms of significant influence without anyone ever needing to admit that they\u2019re simply depriving anyone of a platform who criticized the way the US power alliance used proxy armies and propaganda campaigns in a campaign to topple Damascus. \u201cKremlin asset\u201d is another, as are \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d, \u201ctankie\u201d, or \u201c[insert imperialism-targeted leader] apologist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, these labels are interchangeable with the word \u201cheretic\u201d. They mean \u201cSomeone who disagrees with the mainstream consensus religion of oligarchic imperialism\u201d.<\/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>Oligarchic Imperialism Is The New Dominant World Religion I was just watching a\u00a0gaggle of blue-checkmarked narrative managers\u00a0attack progressive commentators Katie Halper and Briahna Joy Gray on Twitter for platforming antiwar journalist Rania Khalek on the grounds that Khalek is an \u201cAssadist\u201d, which is imperialist for \u201csomeone who opposes western imperialism in Syria\u201d. At no point [&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":[17039,14545,26071,30630,655,30629,1310],"class_list":["post-55774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-management","tag-oligarch-imperialism","tag-propaganda","tag-propagandist","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55774","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=55774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55775,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55774\/revisions\/55775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}