{"id":201769,"date":"2015-11-20T04:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T04:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tangled-threads-of-us-false-narratives\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:04:54","slug":"tangled-threads-of-us-false-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tangled-threads-of-us-false-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Threads of US False Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>One way to view Official Washington is to envision a giant bubble that serves as a hothouse for growing genetically modified \u201cgroup thinks.\u201d Most inhabitants of the bubble praise these creations as glorious and beyond reproach, but a few dissenters\u00a0note how strange and dangerous these products are. Those critics, however, are then banished from the bubble, leaving behind an evermore concentrated consensus.<\/p>\n<p>This process could be\u00a0almost comical\u00a0\u2014 as the many armchair warriors repeat What Everyone Knows to Be True as self-justifying proof that more and more wars and confrontations are needed \u2014 but the United States is the most powerful nation on earth and its fallacious \u201cgroup thinks\u201d are spreading a widening arc of chaos and death around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>We even have presidential candidates, especially among the Republicans but including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, competing to out-bellicose each other, treating an invasion of Syria as the least one can do and some even bragging about how they might like to shoot down a few Russian warplanes.<\/p>\n<p>Though President Barack Obama has dragged his heels regarding some of the more extreme proposals, he still falls in line with the \u201cgroup think,\u201d continuing to insist on \u201cregime change\u201d in Syria (President Bashar al-Assad \u201cmust go\u201d), permitting the supply of sophisticated weapons to Sunni jihadists (including TOW anti-tank missiles to Ahrar ash-Sham, a jihadist group founded by Al Qaeda veterans and fighting alongside Al Qaeda\u2019s Nusra Front), and allowing his staff to personally insult Russian President Vladimir Putin (having White House spokesman Josh Earnest in September <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/09\/25\/obamas-flak-demeans-putins-posture\/\"><u>demean Putin\u2019s posture<\/u><\/a> for sitting with his legs apart during a Kremlin meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/11\/19\/tangled-threads-of-us-false-narratives\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Parry One way to view Official Washington is to envision a giant bubble that serves as a hothouse for growing genetically modified \u201cgroup thinks.\u201d Most inhabitants of the bubble praise these creations as glorious and beyond reproach, but a few dissenters\u00a0note how strange and dangerous these products are. Those critics, however, are then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-201769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}