{"id":63851,"date":"2022-10-19T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63851"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:19:42","slug":"were-being-pushed-toward-nuclear-war-on-a-fiction-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63851","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Being Pushed Toward Nuclear War On A Fiction: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/10\/14\/were-being-pushed-toward-nuclear-war-on-a-fiction-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">We\u2019re Being Pushed Toward Nuclear War On A Fiction: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-12111\" class=\"post-12111 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-narrative-matrix tag-propaganda tag-putin tag-revolution 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\/10\/medium-3.jpeg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-3.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-3-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-3-128x86.jpeg 128w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/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\/were-being-pushed-toward-nuclear-war-on-a-fiction\">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%2F1362676048&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 driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who\u2019s just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and won\u2019t stop invading and conquering until he\u2019s stopped by force.<\/p>\n<p>The news media aren\u2019t telling people about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/its-not-okay-for-grown-adults-to-2cf\">the western aggressions<\/a>\u00a0which led to this war. They\u2019re not telling people the US is keeping this war going with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/04\/25\/after-kyiv-visit-lloyd-austin-says-us-goal-is-for-russia-to-be-weakened\/\">stated goal of weakening Russia<\/a>\u00a0and is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2022\/10\/13\/caitlin-johnstone-us-rejects-moscows-offer-to-talk\/\">rejecting peace talks and refusing to push for peace<\/a>.\u00a0All people are being told is that Putin is another Hitler who won\u2019t listen to reason and only understands violence. The world\u2019s two nuclear superpowers are being pushed closer and closer to direct military confrontation based on a complete fiction which omits mountains of facts.<\/p>\n<p>To participate in this madness is indefensible. It is indefensibly immoral to foist a fictional version of events upon a trusting populace in order to manufacture consent for more and more aggressive acts of brinkmanship with a nuclear superpower. These people are depraved.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo no you don\u2019t understand, if we weren\u2019t being told constantly by the media that this proxy war needs our full support and censoring the voices who dispute this and using giant troll armies to swarm and silence anyone who questions this, we might fall victim to propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not anti-war, you\u2019re just anti-AMERICAN wars,\u201d said the person who is loudly cheerleading America\u2019s proxy war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Warmongers don\u2019t like being called warmongers when they support a US proxy war that was deliberately provoked by the US and is being sustained by the funding and facilitation of the US with the explicit goal of weakening a longtime geopolitical rival of the US&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re Being Pushed Toward Nuclear War On A Fiction: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 We\u2019re being driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who\u2019s just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates [&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":[17039,14545,553,581,694,821,827,862,891,1823],"class_list":["post-63851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-war","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63851","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=63851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63852,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63851\/revisions\/63852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}