once upon a time you could see regular demonstrations against american wars but these days it seems they don't happen anymore so everyone must be loving our wars, eh, but wait, there's more;
A friend told me yesterday that he hadn’t seen an antiwar protest in
America in ten years. It was a sincere comment; he genuinely hadn’t seen
any coverage on any peace activism in his country during that time. And
of course he hadn’t; it is mainstream media’s job to distort public
narratives in favor of the war-hungry plutocratic class which owns the
media outlets. But I’ve actually been noticing a lot of antiwar activism
lately which, while often far from the spotlight of mass media
attention, has given me much hope for the future.
It is true there
was a noticeable lull in vocal demonstrations against military violence
since George W Bush left office, largely due to mainstream US partisan
dynamics. Mainstream liberals supported Obama, so they avoided bringing
attention to his continuation of Bush’s policies of mass murder, while
mainstream conservatives ignored the Obama administration’s violence
since they focused on attacking him as a weakling and a terrorist
sympathizer, and of course had no ground to stand on for any criticisms
of warmongering after supporting eight years of Bush. Some antiwar
activism did happen in the US during that time, but not much.
And,
bizarrely, we’ve seen a mutation of this trend continue well into the
Trump administration, with mainstream liberals herded into holding
demonstrations in support of the empty Russiagate conspiracy theory.
The mass media-endorsed collusion narrative has fed into an anti-Russia
hysteria among Democratic Party loyalists that has been used to
manufacture support for dangerous cold war escalations and an obscenely bloated military budget, while any objection to Trump’s warmongering and advancement of longstanding neoconservative agendas has been intentionally lost in the shuffle......https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/11/14/six-recent-us-antiwar-demonstrations-your-rulers-dont-want-you-talking-about/
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