{"id":13079,"date":"2010-04-05T05:54:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2010-04-05T05:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:54:05","slug":"paul-craig-roberts-truth-has-fallen-and-taken-liberty-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13079","title":{"rendered":"Paul Craig Roberts: Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, 24 March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.<\/p>\n<p>Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded \u201canti-American,\u201d \u201canti-semite\u201d or \u201cconspiracy theorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Truth is an inconvenience for government and for the interest groups whose campaign contributions control government. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/roberts03242010.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, 24 March 2010 There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13079\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3oX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13083,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions\/13083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}