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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Let's Fight WW3 Over Lithuania
Published: 2022-06-21
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx79Ob2GsRM
Title: Let's Fight WW3 Over Lithuania
Published: 2022-06-21
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx79Ob2GsRM
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let's fight world war iii over lithuania notes from the edge of the narrative matrix the problem with anti-imperialists who spend all their time criticizing the evil u.s empire is that there aren't nearly enough of them people who respond to criticisms of the us by babbling about the misdeeds of other governments are just saying you should never criticize the most powerful government in the world for any2/14
reason hey i've got a great idea let's start world war iii over a nato country that most americans don't even know exists liberals learned the word lithuania 10 seconds ago and they're already ready to nuke moscow over it if you're on the front lines risking your own life fighting and killing russians for ukraine i will happily listen to your opinion on why there should be no3/14
negotiated settlement to end this war otherwise shut the up you pathetic couch warrior the worst thing about the george w bush administration is that it never ended i don't know what it's like elsewhere but here in australia it's pretty easy to convince the average citizen that assange shouldn't be extradited to the united states just by sharing a few facts the only reason more don't is because4/14
the press spent so much time smearing him instead of telling the truth it mostly comes down to the fact that the mainstream western press spent so much time aggressively smearing assange after the 2016 wikileaks drops about hillary clinton that shaped public perception of this issue more than anything else they were relentless and they were vile that's why it doesn't make much difference when mainstream publications decry5/14
assange's persecution after aggressively smearing him all those years you can't damn a man ten thousand times and then defend him once and have your defense be remembered you can't churn out smear piece after smear piece about assange like this it's a guardian article titled the only barrier to assange leaving ecuador's embassy is pride and then expect the public to just absorb editorials like this this is6/14
another guardian editorial the charges against assange should never have been brought the decision ought to worry anyone who cares about journalism and democracy people aren't simply going to accept that after you've spent years conditioning them to want assange's head on a spike if people know the facts about assange's persecution they'll overwhelmingly be supportive if they just consumed mainstream news media between 2016 and 2019 without really7/14
drilling down and researching the assange case they'll tend to be unsupportive this is the media's fault between 2016 and 2019 smearing assange was a way of demonstrating to current and prospective mainstream media employers that you will do anything anything at all to defend the empire it was a great way to advance your career and many did so if the press were actually working to create an8/14
informed populace as their job purports to be there would be a tremendous amount of support for assange the reason that hasn't happened is because their real job is the exact opposite to manipulate deceive and propagandize it's impossible to despise the mainstream western press too much in my opinion they are paving the way to destruction and dystopia just as much as the plutocrats and politicians they whine9/14
that the public hates them but really the public doesn't hate them enough the trump administration was an educational time to observe how the populist right is easily manipulated into defending standard republican actions like killing the iran deal assassinating salamani arresting assange starving venezuelans killing attempts to save yemen etc every single time trump rolled out a foreign politic policy decision that would have looked perfectly at home10/14
in the bush administration i'd have maga people in my notifications explaining why his action was actually good and why it hurt the deep state literally every single time without a single solitary exception they were led around by the balls the entire time the so-called populist sentiments on the american right are manipulated toward the agendas of oligarchy and empire in the exact same way the progressive sentiments11/14
on america's so-called left are the whole thing is subject to very aggressive and very effective narrative control it's a safe guideline that any movement which pushes people to align with either of america's two mainstream political parties is controlled from top to bottom if their solution to america's problems at any time includes voting for republicans or democrats they're not worth listening to that's why when i see12/14
people championing obvious empire lackeys like ron desantis as populist heroes and babbling about drag queens and trans people even as we're moving closer to the brink of nuclear war i tend to be pretty dismissive of their entire movement all you need to do to kill leftward movement is flood the information ecosystem with enough confusion about socialist and anti-imperialist issues that it becomes impossible to hold a13/14
lucid position on them without copious amounts of research few are willing and able to do this it's easy to sit back and judge people for believing propaganda and failing to push for real change in adequate numbers but if you look at the vast quantity of sophisticated psyops distorting everyone's picture of the world it's very understandable that there's so much confusion as long as only a small