{"id":35754,"date":"2020-08-26T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35754"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:29:04","slug":"us-protects-global-empire-during-pandemic-not-its-own-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/us-protects-global-empire-during-pandemic-not-its-own-population\/","title":{"rendered":"US Protects Global Empire During Pandemic, Not Its Own Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/category\/pushback\/\">Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, discusses the connections between the global US empire and the record US death toll during the coronavirus pandemic. &#8220;We&#8217;re really not doing anything very well or right, and that&#8217;s a consequence in part at least of our fascination with an attempt to maintain and even expand this empire that we&#8217;ve created since 1945,&#8221; Wilkerson says. He also discusses the breakdown of US-Russia talks on expanding a key nuclear weapons treaty, and new revelations about the Bush administration&#8217;s drive to invade Iraq. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0XoTySFXt94\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, discusses the connections between the global US empire and the record US death toll during the coronavirus pandemic. &#8220;We&#8217;re really not doing anything very well or right, and that&#8217;s a consequence in part at least of our fascination with an attempt [&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-35754","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\/35754","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=35754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35759,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35754\/revisions\/35759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35754"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}