{"id":62137,"date":"2022-03-07T07:48:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62137"},"modified":"2022-03-07T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:48:21","slug":"is-this-russian-propaganda-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62137","title":{"rendered":"Is This Russian Propaganda? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/03\/05\/is-this-russian-propaganda-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Is This Russian Propaganda? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-11182\" class=\"post-11182 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-censorship tag-nuclear-war tag-propaganda tag-putin tag-russia tag-ukraine 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\/2022\/03\/medium-4.jpg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-4.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-4-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-4-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-4-1024x536.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"565\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/is-this-russian-propaganda\">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%2F1226674249&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 risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the \u201cdemocracy\u201d of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from Washington due to a US-backed coup in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefending Ukrainian democracy\u201d makes as much sense as \u201cDefending Mongolian seaports\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The powers responsible for destroying Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen are the same powers we\u2019re trusting to carefully navigate extremely delicate nuclear brinkmanship escalations without ending the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelax, nobody\u2019s gonna start a nuclear war\u201d is a belief that is premised upon the assumption that the empire which laid waste those nations, while destroying our environment and making everyone crazy and miserable, is competent enough to walk that precarious and unpredictable tightrope.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>I keep getting comments like \u201cYou\u2019re saying we just can\u2019t strike Russia AT ALL, just because they have nukes??\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes. Fucking duh. What are you an idiot? What the fuck is wrong with people? Did everyone forget what nuclear weapons are? Did schools stop teaching this or something?<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=1499657744634507266&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F03%2F05%2Fis-this-russian-propaganda-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=8c5d80e7fffc41f05e8a282b5df91107443bc311&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1499657744634507266\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t fix a problem you don\u2019t understand. And right now with Ukraine the entire western political\/media class is pouring a tremendous amount of energy into keeping people from understanding the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>If they were telling us the truth about Russia they wouldn\u2019t be censoring Russian media.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Kinda odd how defending freedom and democracy requires such copious amounts of censorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m sure all those socialist and antiwar Americans that were platformed by RT America can just get jobs criticizing the murderousness and corruption of their government in the free press of the western mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if we should be concerned that the entire western world is propagandizing and censoring like it\u2019s on war footing?<\/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>Is This Russian Propaganda? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 We\u2019re risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the \u201cdemocracy\u201d of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from [&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":[17039,120,512,14545,655,694,821],"class_list":["post-62137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-media","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62137","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=62137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62138,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62137\/revisions\/62138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}