{"id":56441,"date":"2021-01-16T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56441"},"modified":"2021-01-16T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T20:08:16","slug":"the-two-faces-of-the-us-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56441","title":{"rendered":"The Two Faces Of The US\u00a0Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/01\/16\/the-two-faces-of-the-us-empire\/\">The Two Faces Of The US\u00a0Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-9383\" class=\"post-9383 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-administration tag-america tag-biden tag-empire tag-hollywood tag-inauguration tag-media tag-politics 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\/2021\/01\/medium-7.jpg?fit=1080%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/medium-7.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/medium-7.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/medium-7.jpg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/medium-7.jpg?resize=1024%2C569&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>The Biden\/Harris inauguration event is going to be a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/01\/star-studded-biden-harris-inaugural-events-5-days-celebrate-america-united-1234674481\/\">star-studded celebration<\/a>\u00a0spanning an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/biden-inauguration-day-schedule-celebrity-lineup-how-to-watch-2021-1?r=US&amp;IR=T\">unprecedented<\/a>\u00a0five days, a giddy orgy of excitement at a murderous oligarchic empire having a new face behind the front desk after promising wealthy donors that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/06\/19\/joe-biden-to-rich-donors-nothing-would-fundamentally-change-if-hes-elected\/\">nothing will fundamentally change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/edelman-trust-barometer-2021-ceo-government\/\">Americans are now reporting<\/a>\u00a0that they trust corporations more than they trust their own government or media, when pundits are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/QShkv#selection-1021.0-1021.241\">gleefully proclaiming<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0that\u00a0\u201cCEOs have become the fourth branch of government\u201d as they pressure the entire political system to smoothly install Biden, when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddayen\/status\/1350214806968561666\">the leading contender<\/a>\u00a0for the Department of Justice\u2019s Antitrust Division is an Obama holdover who went from the administration to working for both Amazon and Google, and when Americans are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/consent-manufacturing-for-patriot-473\">being paced into accepting<\/a>\u00a0an increasing amount of authoritarian changes for their own good.<\/p>\n<p>And this manic celebration and increasing brazenness of corporate power are of course overlaid atop an unceasing river of human blood as the globe-spanning empire continues to smash any nation which disobeys it into compliance so as to ensure lasting uncontested planetary hegemony.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, at least they voted out fascism.<\/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=1349934741311647744&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F01%2F16%2Fthe-two-faces-of-the-us-empire%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1349934741311647744\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The US empire is ugly and creepy. The more you look at it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/11\/03\/the-us-empire-is-a-smiley-faced-serial-killer\/\">the uglier and creepier it gets<\/a>. That\u2019s why so much effort goes into keeping the public from looking at it directly.<\/p>\n<p>The US empire has two faces, one rooted in the west coast and the other in the east. The first face, which sprouts up from Hollywood, presents a grinning plastic smile to the world depicting how fun and wonderful and righteous America is and how all its systems are working completely fine. The second face, which sprouts up from DC, Arlington and Langley, is wild-eyed and covered in blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Two Faces Of The US\u00a0Empire The Biden\/Harris inauguration event is going to be a\u00a0star-studded celebration\u00a0spanning an\u00a0unprecedented\u00a0five days, a giddy orgy of excitement at a murderous oligarchic empire having a new face behind the front desk after promising wealthy donors that\u00a0nothing will fundamentally change. This comes at a time when\u00a0Americans are now reporting\u00a0that they trust [&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":[43,17039,12972,6033,14545,827,3142,10864],"class_list":["post-56441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-authoritarianism","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-corporate-power","tag-hollywood","tag-narrative-control","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56441","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=56441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56446,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56441\/revisions\/56446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}