{"id":2161,"date":"2005-06-13T08:53:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-13T08:53:01","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T15:53:01","slug":"suckling-at-the-breast-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/13\/suckling-at-the-breast-of-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Suckling at the Breast of Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001900.html\">Billmon<\/a>, writing in his brilliant weblong, <i>Whiskey Bar<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;If the symbol of the Roman state was a statue of a she wolf suckling the city&#8217;s founders, Romulus and Remus, then I think America should have one of a sow, suckling every defense contractor, hack politician and PR operative in Washington.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a hair-raising and perceptively-written story about the Pentagon&#8217;s growing budget for strategic information &#8212; or &#8220;psywar&#8221; operations. It is a scary, trenchant look into the bowels of George W. Bush&#8217;s America, and well worth a read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billmon, writing in his brilliant weblong, Whiskey Bar: &#8220;If the symbol of the Roman state was a statue of a she wolf suckling the city&#8217;s founders, Romulus and Remus, then I think America should have one of a sow, suckling every defense contractor, hack politician and PR operative in Washington.&#8221; It&#8217;s a hair-raising and perceptively-written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/2161","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}