{"id":3515,"date":"2019-03-06T23:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2020-03-20T01:45:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:45:30","slug":"brief-lesson-in-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2019-03-06\/brief-lesson-in-power\/","title":{"rendered":"A very brief lesson in how power works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the left wants to talk about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How we change our societies to make them fairer, more transparent and more caring.<\/li>\n<li>How we tackle impending climate catastrophe through some kind of Green New Deal.<\/li>\n<li>How we conduct a truly ethical foreign policy that doesn&#8217;t give powerful western states the right to invade weaker states, or steal their resources.<\/li>\n<li>How we end the influence of the military-industrial complex in fuelling endless wars in which millions are killed or made homeless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What the left ends up talking about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whether the UK&#8217;s Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is a secret anti-semite.<\/li>\n<li>Whether Julian Assange of Wikileaks is a rapist or a bail fugitive.<\/li>\n<li>Whether Bernie Sanders is a misogynist.<\/li>\n<li>Whether Venezuela&#8217;s Nicolas Maduro is an evil dictator trying to starve his people to keep himself in power.<\/li>\n<li>Whether Vladimir Putin of Russia is a fiendish puppet-master controlling the west.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s how power works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the left wants to talk about: How we change our societies to make them fairer, more transparent and more caring. How we tackle impending climate catastrophe through some kind of Green New Deal. How we conduct a truly ethical foreign policy that doesn&#8217;t give powerful western states the right to invade weaker states, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":{"0":"post-3515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-left-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}