{"id":10407,"date":"2011-02-28T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2019-07-23T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:27:45","slug":"fall-of-empire-end-to-wars-johan-galtung-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/02\/fall-of-empire-end-to-wars-johan-galtung-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall of Empire, End to Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>21 Feb 2011, New York &#8211; <\/em>Some analysts say the US &#8211; bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers &#8211; will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, goes further by predicting the fall of the &#8220;US Empire&#8221;. &#8220;Iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped, certainly not Afghanistan either. The same will happen in Yemen and Somalia and a number of other countries where they now have undercover operations,&#8221; he told RT. Moreover, the sociologist believes what is going to happen in those areas &#8211; for instance, in Afghanistan &#8211; will not even be decided in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OkBtOPvfB_k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Feb 2011, New York &#8211; Some analysts say the US &#8211; bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers &#8211; will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, goes further by predicting the fall of the &#8220;US Empire&#8221;. &#8220;Iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped, certainly not Afghanistan either. The same will happen in Yemen and Somalia and a number of other countries where they now have undercover operations,&#8221; he told RT. Moreover, the sociologist believes what is going to happen in those areas &#8211; for instance, in Afghanistan &#8211; will not even be decided in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}