{"id":66,"date":"2013-06-29T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2013-08-10T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:44:57","slug":"black-ops-continue-against-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2013-06-29\/black-ops-continue-against-snowden\/","title":{"rendered":"Black ops continue against Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"

The black ops by Washington to keep our minds off the\u00a0content<\/em>\u00a0of Edward Snowden’s revelations – that the US government and its allies are transforming themselves into a global Big Brother – continues apace.<\/p>\n

We started with stories about Snowden the “high school dropout”, the guy with a lapdancer girlfriend etc. Then we had a raft of articles about whether he was a traitor. Next we were distracted by the endless reports of Snowden the “fugitive”, fleeing from … what, justice? Then we had articles about the “non-journalist” Glenn Greenwald, and the extent to which he had “aided and abetted” Snowden … in what, a crime? And now we have reports that Julian Assange, that “monster egotist”, is “alienating” some in the Ecuadorean government by trying to help Snowden win asylum there.<\/p>\n

These are the issues our governments would prefer we focused on. And yet again, the media is dutifully carrying out its function of trivialising these world-shaking disclosures.<\/p>\n

All through this saga, the media have ensured that our eyes have been directed well away from the ball. The issue is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0our governments’ or our media’s impressions of the personal quirks of Snowden, Greenwald and Assange – though you’d think it was when consuming the “news”. Even the Guardian, which broke this story through Greenwald, has indulged in creating this smokescreen, as the report below illustrates.<\/p>\n

The issue\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0that the powerful elites – the ones that control our politics, media and security industries – are determined to ensure that they cannot be held to account or stopped as they destroy our futures.<\/p>\n

www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/jun\/28\/edward-snowden-ecuador-julian-assange<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The black ops by Washington to keep our minds off the\u00a0content\u00a0of Edward Snowden’s revelations – that the US government and its allies are transforming themselves into a global Big Brother – continues apace. We started with stories about Snowden the “high school dropout”, the guy with a lapdancer girlfriend etc. Then we had a raft […]<\/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":[6,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-66","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-media-criticism","8":"tag-whistleblowers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}