{"id":30400,"date":"2018-02-01T12:38:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=30400"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:38:04","slug":"we-have-1000-bases-in-80-countries-do-you-feel-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/we-have-1000-bases-in-80-countries-do-you-feel-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have 1,000 Bases In 80 Countries. Do&nbsp;You Feel Safer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining some 1,000 US bases overseas \u2013 in every corner of the globe. The rest of the world combined maintains a total of 77 military bases outside of national borders. In this &#8220;we&#8217;re number one.&#8221; But what is the cost? As Professor Robert Pape has extensively researched, it is the sense of being occupied by a foreign power that most motivates potential suicide terrorists. Is a US worldwide military empire really keeping us safe&#8230;or is it just making the military-industrial complex rich? Tune in to today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/76fStEJSMUA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining some 1,000 US bases overseas \u2013 in every corner of the globe. The rest of the world combined maintains a total of 77 military bases outside of national borders. In this &#8220;we&#8217;re number one.&#8221; But what is the cost? As Professor Robert Pape has extensively researched, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-30400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/30400","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30402,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400\/revisions\/30402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30400"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}