{"id":26470,"date":"2019-02-03T19:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26470"},"modified":"2019-02-03T19:19:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T00:19:56","slug":"i-oppose-interventionism-but-but-nothing-dont-be-a-pro-bono-cia-propagandist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/02\/03\/i-oppose-interventionism-but-but-nothing-dont-be-a-pro-bono-cia-propagandist\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Oppose Interventionism, But-\u201d But Nothing. Don\u2019t Be A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Medium <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/i-oppose-interventionism-but-but-nothing-dont-be-a-pro-bono-cia-propagandist-26633bd33ee9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI Oppose Interventionism, But-\u201d But Nothing. Don\u2019t Be A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cAll of a sudden now there are millions of Venezuela experts in America, and many of them could not point Venezuela out on a map five days ago,\u201d McAdams said. \u201cAnd everyone has to have this disclaimer, \u2018Well, I know it\u2019s probably worse than North Korea, but the US government shouldn\u2019t get involved.\u2019 It\u2019s cowardice, because once the war starts, they can say \u2018Hey I never called for US intervention!\u2019 No, but you\u2019re a conveyor belt for propaganda. You\u2019re a conveyor belt to get the machine ginned up for war. And so you\u2019ve got to stand up and take responsibility.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am out of my Caitlin Johnstone fan phase, but I think this column makes an important point.<\/p>\n<p>There is probably very little that you and I think we know about Venezuela that wasn&#8217;t put in our heads by the world oligarchs&#8217; news media.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight was the first time that I shut off the television when the &#8220;news&#8221; came on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medium has the article \u201cI Oppose Interventionism, But-\u201d But Nothing. Don\u2019t Be A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist. \u201cAll of a sudden now there are millions of Venezuela experts in America, and many of them could not point Venezuela out on a map five days ago,\u201d McAdams said. \u201cAnd everyone has to have this disclaimer, \u2018Well, [&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":{"0":"post-26470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470","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=26470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26471,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470\/revisions\/26471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}