{"id":38391,"date":"2020-09-23T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=38391"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:52:04","slug":"conspiracy-panic-counterpunch-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/conspiracy-panic-counterpunch-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Panic &#8211; CounterPunch.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/09\/16\/conspiracy-panic\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dollarnote_siegel_hq.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The most consequential false conspiracy theory of the last twenty years in the United States centered on fabricated accusations raised against the Iraqi state in 2002-3. These claimed that Iraq maintained secret stores of \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d and intended to use them against the West, perhaps imminently.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most versions also insinuated the Saddam regime was involved in some vague manner in perpetrating the 9\/11 attacks together with its sworn enemies, the jihadi movements then doing business as al-Qaeda. That is what the vice-president running the regime, Cheney, repeatedly said. His president, Bush, just repeated the magic words 9\/11-Saddam-9\/11-Saddam-9\/11 for months, until it was taken to be true by enough people to allow a smooth start to the carnage. More<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/09\/16\/conspiracy-panic\/\">Conspiracy Panic &#8211; CounterPunch.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">Le teorie cospirative americane pi\u00f9 significative di sempre furono le Red Scares del 1919-21 e la fine degli anni Quaranta e l&#8217;inizio degli anni Cinquanta. Entrambe hanno incontrato un certo entusiasmo popolare e un ampio consenso basato sulla paura, ma entrambi sono stati avviati e gestiti da elementi statali e aziendali come operazioni psicologiche dall&#8217;alto verso il basso contro il pubblico, specificamente rivolte alla sinistra, agli organizzatori del lavoro, ai giornalisti e agli artisti.<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">, celebrit\u00e0 e insegnanti che hanno mostrato un fervore anticomunista insufficiente.<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">Entrambe le campagne Red Scare sono riuscite a trasformare la societ\u00e0 e la politica americane in una direzione di destra e hanno contribuito a smantellare in parte i movimenti progressisti, di sinistra e onestamente liberali delle rispettive epoche.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most consequential false conspiracy theory of the last twenty years in the United States centered on fabricated accusations raised against the Iraqi state in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,241,81,83,23,2,6,144],"tags":[504,505,506,507,508,148,79],"class_list":["post-38391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowar","category-economy","category-english","category-history","category-mainstream-media","category-poets-sailors-news","category-politics","category-research","tag-9-11","tag-al-qaeda","tag-bush","tag-conspiracy-theory","tag-saddam","tag-uk","tag-usa","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}