{"id":439,"date":"2026-04-22T18:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/?p=439"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:48:02","slug":"manufacturing-consent-through-repetition-rhetoric-and-selective-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/manufacturing-consent-through-repetition-rhetoric-and-selective-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Consent Through Repetition, Rhetoric, and Selective Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting how the narrative about the official reason for US preemptively striking Iran is changing day by day. But there are only so many possible answers on a multiple-choice test.<\/p>\n<p>First, we were told that Iran was an imminent nuclear threat, after being told they weren&#8217;t any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we were told we needed to back Israel&#8217;s hand, again due to the nuclear threat.<\/p>\n<p>Then, for a couple days, we were being fed the lie that this was, by design, a humanitarian war to liberate 90 million miserable Iranians from the yoke of a tyrannical regime.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re being told two things. The coke fiend Rubio is saying we needed to strike because our troops were in imminent danger. And Mr. FOX News Pere Hegseth is saying that they were building their nuclear arsenal behind the defenses of conventional weapons, legal by international law.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a saying&#8211;throw crap at the wall until something sticks. This is exactly what we are witnessing in this mad scramble to establish some sort of official justification for an illegal and deliberate imperial war, another one initiated by the West.<\/p>\n<p>In multiple choice tests, we are told to default to answer C if unsure as to the answer. The American Public, and the court of international public opinion, will not accept this, nor will we accept the final possible answer of &#8220;All of the above&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Truth2Power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting how the narrative about the official reason for US preemptively striking Iran is changing day by day. But there are only so many possible answers on a multiple-choice test. First, we were told that Iran was an imminent nuclear threat, after being told they weren&#8217;t any longer. Then, we were told we needed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}