{"id":36502,"date":"2020-12-12T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36502"},"modified":"2020-12-12T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:14:22","slug":"on-the-twin-plagues-of-us-militarism-and-empire-a-conversation-with-danny-sjursen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/12\/on-the-twin-plagues-of-us-militarism-and-empire-a-conversation-with-danny-sjursen\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Twin Plagues of US Militarism and Empire: A Conversation With Danny Sjursen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest appearance on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwbL0zUQFa5rLGH6IkE8P5g\">Facts on the Ground<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;On the twin plagues of U.S. militarism and empire: A conversation with Danny Sjursen:\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out a really solid discussion with Misty and Jesse that runs from cultural militarism, to armed forces insularity, to pageantry patriotism, to the incoming Biden bunch national security squad.  We even throw in a dash of the \u201cnostalgic\u201d \u2014 talking  \u201cBe All You Can Be\u201d 1980s Army commercials, George Carlin, Kurt Vonnegut, and what we can learn from the American volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BaPRiPQnHWM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest appearance on &#8220;Facts on the Ground,&#8221; &#8220;On the twin plagues of U.S. militarism and empire: A conversation with Danny Sjursen:\u201d Check out a really solid discussion with Misty and Jesse that runs from cultural militarism, to armed forces insularity, to pageantry patriotism, to the incoming Biden bunch national security squad. We even throw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"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-36502","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\/36502","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\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36506,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502\/revisions\/36506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36502"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}