In her Oct. 14 article “We’re Being Pushed Toward Nuclear War on a Fiction: Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix,” available on her website caitlinjohnstone.com (and reprinted on Oct. 15 on Consortium News), Australian journalist Caitlin Johnstone issues a powerful call for people to dare to act, to stand up to the warmongers who are driving the world “toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who’s just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom and won’t stop invading and conquering until he’s stopped by force.”
She charges, the news media are lying and not “telling people about the western aggressions which led to this war. They’re not telling people the U.S. is keeping this war [in Ukraine] going with the stated goal of weakening Russia and is rejecting peace talks and refusing to push for peace.” To participate in the madness of the fictional account of reality and the drive to war “is indefensible. It is indefensibly immoral to foist a fiction version of events upon a trusting populace in order to manufacture consent for more and more aggressive acts of brinkmanship with a nuclear superpower. These people are depraved.”
Johnstone uses to good effect the intervention made against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by LaRouche movement organizers José Vega and Kynan Thistlethwaite, to prove her point that “warmongers don’t really like being called warmongers when they support a U.S. proxy war that was deliberately provoked by the U.S. and is being sustained by the funding and facilitation of the U.S.” As a matter of fact, she says, those warmongers “get very upset when you point out that they are doing this, and when people’s opposition to their warmongering is described as `anti-war.’”
