There are hints that reliable imperial pawn Llosa is being cultivated as the new Latin American "elder statesman" who will be entrusted with whipping errant colleagues into line, Stephen Karganovic writes. | Not content with conning the gullible natives in Ecuador to elect its favoured candidate to the Presidency (assuming the vote was honest and Dominion had nothing to do with counting it) the empire is now focusing its resources to undermine, and if possible politically destroy, the recently elected government of Pedro Castillo in Peru. | The insistence of native peoples on acquiring a semblance of political in…<\/span><\/p>\njz 2021-10-07 23:55 | 19:55 EST | 15 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Norman Solomon (2021-10-07). Stop Calling the Military Budget a 'Defense' Budget. counterpunch.org<\/a> It's bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a "defense" budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets of the nation's warfare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codepink.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}