{"id":53153,"date":"2025-05-21T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=53153"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:04:18","slug":"ron-paul-asks-is-the-golden-dome-just-another-massive-military-boondoggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/21\/ron-paul-asks-is-the-golden-dome-just-another-massive-military-boondoggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul asks Is the &#8216;Golden Dome&#8217; Just Another Massive Military Boondoggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/c\/RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Trump announced yesterday that plans have been adopted to construct a &#8220;Golden Dome&#8221; to protect the United States from missile attack. It is sold as a completion of President Reagan&#8217;s ill-fated (but very profitable) &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; program. Already a down payment &#8220;supplemental&#8221; appropriation of $150 billion is being prepared. Also today: Is Israel preparing a strike on Iran without US participation?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlnXhZEv5Zc?si=v7erOlYz4EX9F-Zm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump announced yesterday that plans have been adopted to construct a &#8220;Golden Dome&#8221; to protect the United States from missile attack. It is sold as a completion of President Reagan&#8217;s ill-fated (but very profitable) &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; program. Already a down payment &#8220;supplemental&#8221; appropriation of $150 billion is being [&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":"none","_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":[767],"class_list":["post-53153","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\/53153","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=53153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53159,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53153\/revisions\/53159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=53153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}