{"id":34535,"date":"2020-01-09T07:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=34535"},"modified":"2020-01-09T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:41:31","slug":"lawrence-wilkerson-on-trumps-iran-aggression-same-neocon-lies-new-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/lawrence-wilkerson-on-trumps-iran-aggression-same-neocon-lies-new-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Wilkerson on Trump&#8217;s Iran Aggression: Same Neocon Lies, New Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <em>Pushback with Aaron Mat&eacute;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As millions of Iranians mourn the US murder of Qassem Soleimani, ex-Bush administration official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuses the parallels between Bush&#8217;s war on Iraq and Trump&#8217;s campaign against Iran; the history of US shunning diplomacy with Tehran; and how an addiction to war drives US foreign policy. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Guest: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell. Currently a distinguished professor at the College of William and Mary.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GVWmmVhS0uc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Support Pushback at Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/aaronmate\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/aaronmate<\/a><br \/>\nPushback on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pushbackshow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/pushbackshow<\/a><br \/>\nAaron Mat\u00e9 on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjmate\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjmate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Pushback with Aaron Mat&eacute; As millions of Iranians mourn the US murder of Qassem Soleimani, ex-Bush administration official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuses the parallels between Bush&#8217;s war on Iraq and Trump&#8217;s campaign against Iran; the history of US shunning diplomacy with Tehran; and how an addiction to war drives US foreign policy. Today&#8217;s Guest: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"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-34535","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\/34535","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\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34537,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34535\/revisions\/34537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34535"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}