{"id":9136,"date":"2015-06-16T05:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2015-06-16T05:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:43:22","slug":"nuke-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9136","title":{"rendered":"Nuke Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2015\/06\/14\/nuke-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nuke Russia?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"pagesub\"><strong>The warlords of Washington haven\u2019t ruled it out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The War Party is a veritable propaganda\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pretext-War-Americas-Intelligence-Agencies\/dp\/140003034X\/antiwarbookstore\">machine<\/a>, churning out product 24\/7. Armed with nearly unlimited resources, both from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/06\/14\/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods\/\">government(s)<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=If+Murdoch+no+longer+wanted+to+be+associated+with+the+contents+of+The+Weekly+Standard%2C+which+loses+more+than+a+million+dollars+a+year&amp;ie=UTF-8\">private sector<\/a>, they carpet-bomb the public with an endless stream of lies in order to soften them up when it\u2019s time to roll. In the past, their job has been relatively easy: simply order up a few atrocity stories \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/FWWatrocities3.jpg\">Germans bayoneting babies<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fVE8rV3-Zos\">Iraqis dumping over babies in incubators<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and we\u2019ve got ourselves another glorious war. These days, however, over a decade of constant warfare \u2013 and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2004\/01\/lie-factory\">long string<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jilA-ZeBUI4\">War Party<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jan\/29\/hillary-clinton-libya-war-genocide-narrative-rejec\/?page=all\">fabrications<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 has left the public\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/25\/us-syria-crisis-usa-poll-idUSBRE97O00E20130825\">leery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s cause for optimism. People are waking up. The War Party\u2019s propaganda machine has to work overtime in order to overcome rising skepticism, and it shows signs of overheating \u2013 and, in some instances, even breaking down.<\/p>\n<p>One encouraging sign is that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Ukrainian+neo-Nazis&amp;ie=UTF-8\">Ukrainian neo-Nazis<\/a>\u00a0have lost their US government funding \u2026<\/p>\n<p>In a blow to the \u201clet\u2019s arm Ukraine\u201d movement that seemed to be picking up steam in Congress,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conyers.house.gov\/index.cfm\/2015\/6\/u-s-house-passes-3-amendments-by-rep-conyers-to-defense-spending-bill-to-protect-civilians-from-dangers-of-arming-and-training-foreign-forces\">a resolution<\/a>\u00a0introduced by Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) and Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Florida) banning aid to Ukraine\u2019s Azov Battalion, and forbidding shipments of MANPAD anti-aircraft missiles to the region, passed the House unanimously.<\/p>\n<p>This is significant because, up until this point, there has been no recognition in Washington that the supposedly \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2015\/04\/17\/ukraine-plagued-succession-unlikely-suicides-former-ruling-party-320584.html\">pro-democracy<\/a>\u201d regime in Kiev contains a dangerously\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/content\/ukraine\/parubiy-elected-radas-first-vice-speaker-samopomich-member-of-parliament-syroid-becomes-first-female-vice-speaker-374095.html\">influential<\/a>\u00a0neo-Nazi element.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuke Russia? The warlords of Washington haven\u2019t ruled it out The War Party is a veritable propaganda\u00a0machine, churning out product 24\/7. Armed with nearly unlimited resources, both from\u00a0government(s)\u00a0and the\u00a0private sector, they carpet-bomb the public with an endless stream of lies in order to soften them up when it\u2019s time to roll. In the past, their [&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":[6400,4349,1610,581,2583,655,694,821,862,6399],"class_list":["post-9136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-antiwar-com","tag-g7","tag-kiev","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136","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=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9137,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions\/9137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}