{"id":346033,"date":"2018-01-30T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T12:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/denying-the-obvious-leftists-and-crimestop\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T12:18:29","slug":"denying-the-obvious-leftists-and-crimestop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/denying-the-obvious-leftists-and-crimestop\/","title":{"rendered":"Denying the Obvious: Leftists and Crimestop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And thus the U.S. left leadership sits in the left chamber of the hall of mirrors, complaining about conspiracy theories while closing its eyes to actual conspiracies crucial to contemporary imperialism.<br \/>\u2014 Graeme MacQueen, <em>Beyond Their Wildest Dreams: September 11, 2001 and the American Left<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is well known that effective propaganda works through slow, imperceptible repetition. \u201cThe slow building up of reflexes and myths\u201d is the way Jacques Ellul put it in his classic, <em>Propaganda<\/em>.\u00a0 This works through commission and omission.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this recently after I published a newspaper editorial on Martin Luther King Day stating the fact that the United States\u2019 government assassinated Dr. King.\u00a0 To the best of my knowledge, this was the only newspaper op-ed to say that.\u00a0 I discovered that many newspapers and other publications (with very rare exceptions), despite a plethora of articles and editorials praising King, ignored this \u201clittle\u201d fact as if it were inconsequential.\u00a0 No doubt they wish it were, or that it were not true, just as many hoped that repeating the bromide that James Earl Ray killed Dr. King would reinforce the myth they\u2019ve been selling for fifty years, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary that is available to anyone wishing to investigate the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The general attitude seemed to be: Let\u2019s just appreciate MLK on his birthday and get on with it.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be a spoil-sport.<\/p>\n<p>That this is the approach of the mainstream&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/denying-the-obvious-leftists-and-crimestop\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And thus the U.S. left leadership sits in the left chamber of the hall of mirrors, complaining about conspiracy theories while closing its eyes to actual conspiracies crucial to contemporary imperialism.\u2014 Graeme MacQueen, Beyond Their Wildest Dreams: September 11, 2001 and the American Left It is well known that effective propaganda works through slow, imperceptible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346033","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\/346033","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}