{"id":21293,"date":"2013-08-30T02:48:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T10:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=21293"},"modified":"2013-08-31T05:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:20:12","slug":"the-international-community-is-shrinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/the-international-community-is-shrinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;International Community&#8221; is shrinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>As per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chomsky.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Noam Chomsky<\/a>, now that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/08\/29\/parliament-revolts-brits-to-stay-out-of-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.K. is no longer supporting military action against Syria<\/a>, &quot;<i>The International Community<\/i>&quot; is down to three countries: <b>U.S.<\/b>, <b>France<\/b>, and <b>Turkey<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Prof. Chomsky pointed out that the U.S. defines &quot;<i>International Community<\/i>&quot; (or &quot;<i>Global Community<\/i>&quot;) as only including countries that agree with the U.S. power structure. Since those ~187 other countries of the world don&#8217;t agree to materially support a military strike on Syria, they are no longer included in the &#8220;International Community.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per Prof. Noam Chomsky, now that the U.K. is no longer supporting military action against Syria, &quot;The International Community&quot; is down to three countries: U.S., France, and Turkey. Prof. Chomsky pointed out that the U.S. defines &quot;International Community&quot; (or &quot;Global Community&quot;) as only including countries that agree with the U.S. power structure. Since those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,95,164,167,3,19,44,9,51],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empire","category-intervention","category-liberal-interventionism","category-military-industrial-complex","category-news","category-propaganda","category-syria","category-war-crimes","category-wmd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21293"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21334,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21293\/revisions\/21334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21293"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}