{"id":119740,"date":"2018-10-29T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=119740"},"modified":"2018-10-16T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T15:17:47","slug":"a-short-history-of-u-s-meddling-in-foreign-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/10\/a-short-history-of-u-s-meddling-in-foreign-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of U.S. Meddling in Foreign Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mehdi-hasan-1488221651-440x440-e1534255643915.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-116661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mehdi-hasan-1488221651-440x440-e1534255643915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>1 Oct 2018 &#8211; <\/em>Meddling in foreign elections is bad. I think we can all agree on that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And almost everyone \u2014 bar Donald Trump \u2014 seems to believe that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election. So that should be condemned.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the problem, though: U.S. politicians and pundits cannot credibly object to Russian interference in U.S. elections without also acknowledging that the United States doesn\u2019t exactly have clean hands. Or are we expected to believe that Russian hackers were the first people in human history to try and undermine a foreign democracy?<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I examine the ways in which the United States has, in fact, spent the past 70-odd years meddling in elections across the world.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zwbdw7w0FI0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Oct 2018 &#8211; Almost everyone \u2014 bar Donald Trump \u2014 seems to believe that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election. So that should be condemned. In this video, I examine the ways in which the United States has, in fact, spent the past 70-odd years meddling in elections across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119740","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=119740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}