{"id":63053,"date":"2022-07-14T06:28:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63053"},"modified":"2022-07-14T06:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:28:29","slug":"three-illuminating-quotes-about-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63053","title":{"rendered":"Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<h3 id=\"8fc0\" class=\"pw-post-title ig ih ii bn ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je gj\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/three-illuminating-quotes-about-the-war-in-ukraine-ee4c43f5fd68\">Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"fs fu jg jh ji jj fo fp paragraph-image\">\n<div class=\"jk jl dq jm cf jn\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">\n<div class=\"fo fp jf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cf jo jp\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1400\/1*WbssgHrUU5jragJsrWl89Q.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"367\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"06d2\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph jq jr ii js b jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ib gj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><a class=\"au ko\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/three-illuminating-quotes-about-the-war-in-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\"><em class=\"kp\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"kq kr ks kt ga jj\">\n<div class=\"m l dq\">\n<div class=\"xl kv l\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gh aq as ag cf\" title=\"Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine by Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fw.soundcloud.com%2Fplayer%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fapi.soundcloud.com%252Ftracks%252F1303891822%26show_artwork%3Dtrue&amp;display_name=SoundCloud&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fgoing_rogue%2Fthree-illuminating-quotes-about-the-war-in-ukraine&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.sndcdn.com%2Fartworks-yw4rWAZcQrL28CKk-s09txw-t500x500.jpg&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=soundcloud\" width=\"692\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"9c48\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph jq jr ii js b jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ib gj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u2756<\/p>\n<p id=\"ef1a\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph jq jr ii js b jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ib gj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Chris Hedges have lent their expertise to the subject of the war in Ukraine with some recent comments that help bring some much-needed clarity to an often confusing and always contentious issue. Here they are:<\/p>\n<p id=\"b50e\" class=\"kw kx ii bn ky kz la lb lc ld le lf lg lh li lj lk ll lm ln lo lp lq lr ls lt gj\"><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve spent my career working in the mainstream, and I\u2019ve covered probably seven, eight, nine shooting wars; I\u2019ve never seen coverage so utterly consumed by a tsunami of jingoism, and of manipulative jingoism as this one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"99a2\" class=\"kw kx ii bn ky kz la lb lc ld le lf lg lh li lj lk ll lm ln lo lp lq lr ls lt gj\"><strong>~ John Pilger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"dbb5\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph jq jr ii js b jt lu jv jw jx lv jz ka kb lw kd ke kf lx kh ki kj ly kl km kn ib gj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">This comment comes from\u00a0<a class=\"au ko\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/u9pEotvlW-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">a recent interview<\/a>\u00a0with the legendary Australian journalist by the South China Morning Post, and it says so much about the information ecosystem we now find ourselves floundering around trying to understand things in.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kq kr ks kt ga jj\">\n<div class=\"m l dq\">\n<div class=\"lz kv l\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gh aq as ag cf\" title=\"'This is a war of propaganda': John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange | Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fu9pEotvlW-s%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Du9pEotvlW-s&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fu9pEotvlW-s%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"5c18\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph jq jr ii js b jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ib gj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">From the earliest days of the invasion it was clear that the western world was being smashed with a deluge of propaganda unlike anything we\u2019ve ever seen before. In the first full month of the conflict, American network TV stations\u00a0<a class=\"au ko\" href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/2022\/04\/08\/networks-covered-the-war-in-ukraine-more-than-the-us-invasion-of-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">gave more coverage<\/a>\u00a0to the war in Ukraine than any other war that the US has been directly involved in, including Iraq and Vietnam. Literal\u00a0<a class=\"au ko\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1496455148637679622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">Iraq war architects<\/a>\u00a0were some of the first pundits sought out for analysis of the conflict by the mainstream press, and\u00a0<a class=\"au ko\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/escalation-without-consequences-on-the-op-ed-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">calls for insane escalations<\/a>\u00a0against Russia succeeded in\u00a0<a class=\"au ko\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-overton-window-is-being-shoved?s=w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">pushing the Overton window<\/a>\u00a0of acceptable debate in the direction of warmongering extremism and away from support for diplomatic solutions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"76db\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph jq jr ii js b jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ib gj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">And this was all easily piped into mainstream consciousness because\u00a0<a class=\"au ko\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2022\/03\/28\/caitlin-johnstone-re-visiting-russiagate-in-light-of-the-ukraine-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">the way had been lubricated<\/a> by years of Russia hysteria resulting from the mass scale psychological operation known as Russiagate&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Chris Hedges have lent their expertise to the subject of the war in Ukraine with some recent comments that help bring some much-needed clarity to an often confusing and always contentious issue. 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