{"id":61753,"date":"2022-02-02T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61753"},"modified":"2022-02-02T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:00:48","slug":"what-has-been-asserted-without-evidence-may-be-dismissed-without-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61753","title":{"rendered":"What Has Been Asserted Without Evidence May Be Dismissed Without Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/02\/01\/what-has-been-asserted-without-evidence-may-be-dismissed-without-evidence\/\">What Has Been Asserted Without Evidence May Be Dismissed Without Evidence<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-11025\" class=\"post-11025 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-burden-of-proof tag-logic tag-news tag-propaganda tag-russia tag-ukraine\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/what-has-been-asserted-without-evidence-may-be-dismissed-without-evidence\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1207877827&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>We\u2019re being bashed in the face with western propaganda about the Ukraine situation with increasing forcefulness. Every day now we\u2019re seeing things like \u201canalysts\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/31\/russia-willing-to-go-to-war-and-incur-sanctions-over-ukraine-analysts.html\">claiming Putin definitely wants a large-scale war<\/a>, very familiar-looking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-business-europe-world-news-russia-5d04f61f06ff3953b7a4669478c03074\">puff pieces about Ukrainian guerrilla freedom fighters<\/a>\u00a0based on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1488418245325381634?s=20&amp;t=-hDk6sIOqkGdcPhfVFZbFA\">claims by anonymous intelligence sources<\/a>, think pieces on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/01\/1076936492\/america-russia-ukraine-border-invasion\">why Americans should all care<\/a>\u00a0about Ukrainian freedom from Kremlin tyranny, and, of course, a lot of entirely unsubstantiated assertions about what Russia is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the British government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2022\/01\/26\/caitlin-johnstone-the-secrecy-of-evidence\/\">evidence-free claim<\/a>\u00a0that Russia was planning to install a puppet regime in Ukraine being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DecampDave\/status\/1485300203372658688\">debunked within hours<\/a>\u00a0and then shown to be a US intelligence claim\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjmate\/status\/1487504211889643521?s=20&amp;t=VGfan73HKzEDHocDHPDArA\">dishonestly packaged as a British one<\/a>\u00a0days later, mass media outlets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/bO9gh#selection-967.46-969.53\">still to this day<\/a>\u00a0repeat the allegation like it\u2019s a real thing. Despite the entirely unevidenced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/false-flags-suddenly-no-longer-a\">US government claim<\/a>\u00a0that Russia was plotting to stage a false flag attack in eastern Ukraine failing to prove true in subsequent weeks, US Senator Bob Menendez went on CNN over the weekend and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/AwV0Y#selection-2235.81-2235.158\">declared<\/a>\u00a0that this false flag which never actually, physically happened was grounds to sanction Russia effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The US political\/media class is just saying whatever it wants about what Russia is doing and planning to do with no regard for facts or evidence.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/lunatic-pundit-says-its-all-but-certain\">Nothing is too cartoonishly hysterical<\/a>; in fact the more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrueNorthCentre\/status\/1487465754668810240?s=20&amp;t=CFDXz18JH1em0ZyXVaCucQ\">clickbaity and attention-grabbing<\/a>\u00a0the better. They feel free to scattergun these outlandish claims willy nilly all over our information ecosystem because five years of Russia hysteria have taught them that they will suffer exactly zero professional consequences when they are proven wrong, and that they will in fact see their stars rise as a reward for advancing the interests of the US empire.<\/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=1487465754668810240&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F02%2F01%2Fwhat-has-been-asserted-without-evidence-may-be-dismissed-without-evidence%2F&amp;sessionId=a266a49b5d1c771c94f915a904534fad72aa3cf1&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=0a8eea3%3A1643743420422&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1487465754668810240\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Has Been Asserted Without Evidence May Be Dismissed Without Evidence Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 We\u2019re being bashed in the face with western propaganda about the Ukraine situation with increasing forcefulness. Every day now we\u2019re seeing things like \u201canalysts\u201d\u00a0claiming Putin definitely wants a large-scale war, very familiar-looking\u00a0puff pieces about Ukrainian guerrilla [&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],"tags":[17039,14545,655,694,820,821,2080,827,834,862],"class_list":["post-61753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61753","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=61753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61754,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61753\/revisions\/61754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}