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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Three Illuminating Quotes About TheWar In Ukraine
Published: 2022-07-12
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1CBIjIy4d0
Title: Three Illuminating Quotes About TheWar In Ukraine
Published: 2022-07-12
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1CBIjIy4d0
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three illuminating quotes about the war in ukraine gnome 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 john pilger i've spent my career working in the mainstream and i've covered probably seven eight nine shooting wars i've never2/16
seen coverage so utterly consumed by a tsunami of jingoism and of manipulative jingoism as this one this comment comes from a recent interview with 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 from the earliest days of the invasion it was clear that the western world3/16
was being smashed with a deluge of propaganda unlike anything we've ever seen before in the first full month of the conflict american network tv stations gave more coverage to the war in ukraine than any other war that the u.s had been directly involved in including iraq and vietnam literal iraq war architects were some of the first pundits sought out for analysis of the conflict by the4/16
mainstream press and calls for insane escalations against russia succeeded in pushing the overton window of acceptable debate in the direction of warmongering extremism and away from support for diplomatic solutions and this was all easily stove piped into mainstream consciousness because the way had been lubricated by years of russia hysteria resulting from the mass scale psychological operation known as russiagate america's most dangerous confrontation in generations just5/16
so happens to have been preceded by years of media generated panic about that very same country despite the ukraine invasion having ostensibly nothing whatsoever to do with the conspiracy theory that the kremlin had infiltrated the highest levels of the us government heckin heck of a coincidence right there buddy boy noam chomsky quote it's quite interesting that in american discourse it is almost obligatory to refer to6/16
the invasion as the unprovoked invasion of ukraine look it up on google you will find hundreds of thousands of hits of course it was provoked otherwise they wouldn't refer to it all the time as an unprovoked invasion end quote this quote from an interview last month with ramsey bowrod is self-evidently true and should be pointed out a lot more often people don't go adding the same7/16
gratuitous adjectives and modifiers to something over and over again unless you're trying to manipulate how it's perceived if your neighbor always referred to his wife as my wife who i definitely never beat you'd immediately become suspicious because that's not how normal people talk about normal things we don't say round earth or the holocaust that totally happened we just say the words because their basic nature is8/16
not seriously in dispute and we've got nothing invested in manipulating or obfuscating people's understanding of them the need of the political media class to continually bleat this phrase unprovoked invasion over and over again is itself a confession that they know they're not telling the whole truth it's the imperial propaganda version of that classic tweet my not involved in human trafficking t-shirt has people asking a lot9/16
of questions already answered by my shirt chomsky outlines many of the provocations the u.s nato power structure engaged in prior to the conflict which countless western analysts spent years warning was coming as a result of the provocative actions that were already being taken by the empire add to that the exponentially increased shelling of the dunbus by kiev immediately prior to the invasion and you can understand10/16
why empire spin meisters are working so hard to push the unprovoked line none of this is to say that russia is blameless in this war if i provoke someone into punching somebody they are still morally responsible for having thrown the punch but i am also responsible for having provoked it russia is responsible for its actions and the u.s nato ukraine power structure is responsible for its11/16
actions putin is responsible for invading the western empire is responsible for provoking that invasion not complicated in the same interview chomsky also says that censorship in the united states has reached such a level beyond anything in my lifetime regarding this war that assessment plus pilger's testimony about war propaganda unlike anything he's ever seen shows that imperial narrative management is at an all-time high which wouldn't be12/16
happening unless the empire had some major agendas it wanted to roll out in the coming years chris hedges quote at no time including the cuban missile crisis have we stood closer to the precipice of nuclear war end quote echoing the urgent warnings that stephen cohen was making at the end of his life a new article by hedges outlines the profoundly dangerous games the empire is playing13/16
with a nuclear superpower and its continually escalating proxy war against moscow the observations by pilger and chomsky about how much effort is going into manipulating people's understanding of this war makes sense when you realize that the agendas the empire is trying to roll out against russia now and then china later down the road stand not only to throw the world into poverty and starvation but to14/16
wipe us off the face of this planet it doesn't have to be this way there is no good reason the world's most powerful government needs to risk the life of everyone on earth in a bid to secure planetary domination it is possible for all nations and peoples to simply get along and collaborate toward the common good together all that would need to happen is for these15/16
agendas of total hegemony to be abandoned a unfortunately the managers of empire don't seem to have any plans to abandon their goal of global conquest any time soon so we the ordinary people of this world may end up having to force the issue with them at some point in the interests of our very survival this is a hell of a time to be alive but man