{"id":59113,"date":"2021-08-24T07:15:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59113"},"modified":"2021-08-24T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T12:15:49","slug":"omg-afghanistan-is-invading-afghanistan-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59113","title":{"rendered":"OMG Afghanistan Is Invading Afghanistan: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/08\/24\/omg-afghanistan-is-invading-afghanistan-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">OMG Afghanistan Is Invading Afghanistan: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10384\" class=\"post-10384 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-afghanistan tag-capitalism tag-humanity tag-military-industrial-complex tag-narrative-matrix 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:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-2-2.jpg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-2-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/medium-2-2-300x185.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/omg-afghanistan-is-invading-afghanistan\"><em>Listen to a reading of this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1111541275&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>During the Trump years the media wept for the poor kids in cages and ignored all the bombs he was dropping. Now the media ignore the kids in cages and weep for the poor neglected bombs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The US empire will literally invade a country so it can spend decades using the people who live there as target practice for its expensive new military technologies and then tell you to worry about motherfucking Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Sure is a crazy coincidence how government foreign policy decisions that would advance humanitarian interests always happen to align perfectly with government foreign policy decisions that would be extremely profitable for weapons manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Love how everyone suddenly started babbling about China taking America\u2019s place in Afghanistan. Like Beijing\u2019s been watching all the world powers smashing their heads against military interventionism in Afghanistan and thinking \u201cYeah that looks awesome, we should definitely try that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Bush era war criminals are louder than ever right now because they\u2019ve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/08\/22\/bush-era-war-criminals-are-louder-than-ever-because-theyve-lost-the-argument\/\">lost the argument<\/a>. The Afghan \u201cgovernment\u201d proved to be an illusion, proving they spent 20 years lying to us about what they\u2019d been doing there, so now they\u2019re trying to salvage their reputations and legacies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t believe there are still highly influential people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/institute.global\/tony-blair\/tony-blair-why-we-must-not-abandon-people-afghanistan-their-sakes-and-ours\">saying<\/a>\u00a0we need to keep raining military explosives on the Islamic world to make Muslims less extremist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s freaking out that Afghanistan is invading Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1429234161122906118&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F08%2F24%2Fomg-afghanistan-is-invading-afghanistan-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=70bacc7869caa4ef65204b9784fa8acb9468ef2b&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1429234161122906118\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is perpetuating and advancing all of Trump\u2019s policies better and more efficiently than Trump himself and it\u2019s hilarious that MAGA people still oppose him just because Candace Owens told them he\u2019s a communist.<\/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>OMG Afghanistan Is Invading Afghanistan: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 During the Trump years the media wept for the poor kids in cages and ignored all the bombs he was dropping. Now the media ignore the kids in cages and weep for the poor [&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":[2487,17039,14545,655,3142],"class_list":["post-59113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-afghanistan","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113","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=59113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59114,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113\/revisions\/59114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}