{"id":23474,"date":"2016-12-17T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23474"},"modified":"2016-12-17T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T15:51:50","slug":"aleppo-one-more-way-the-u-s-political-establishment-has-lost-control-of-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/12\/17\/aleppo-one-more-way-the-u-s-political-establishment-has-lost-control-of-the-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleppo: One More Way The U.S. Political Establishment Has Lost Control Of The Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Newslogue<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newslogue.com\/debate\/203\/CaitlinJohnstone\" target=\"_blank\">Aleppo: One More Way The U.S. Political Establishment Has Lost Control Of The Narrative<\/a> by Caitlin Johnstone. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Syrian people will soon be able to start telling their own story, and people telling their own stories never makes the U.S. political establishment look good.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe U.S. establishment completely lost control of the narrative in 2016, which saw the first ever presidential election determined by the sudden democratization of information that widespread internet access gave the American people.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nWhat if tomorrow everyone gets together on the internet and says \u201cYou know? Money is a conceptual tool invented by humanity to help humanity, and the way it works right now isn\u2019t serving us. Let\u2019s all agree that money works in a completely different way from now on.\u201d Well that would be great for us, but death for the plutocracy we all live under. The billionaires who control everything are only \u201cbillionaires\u201d if we all agree that money works a certain way and means a certain thing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this article&#8217;s take on Syria and Aleppo is one that I have come to realize is more real than what our media has tried to feed us.  I have been posting alot about that issue recently.<\/p>\n<p>The third paragraph in the above excerpt is what made me sure that I want to read more from Caitlin Johnstone.  This is an idea that I have been preaching since nearly the beginning of this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newslogue has the article Aleppo: One More Way The U.S. Political Establishment Has Lost Control Of The Narrative by Caitlin Johnstone. The Syrian people will soon be able to start telling their own story, and people telling their own stories never makes the U.S. political establishment look good. . . . The U.S. establishment completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23475,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions\/23475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}