{"id":173222,"date":"2020-12-07T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=173222"},"modified":"2020-11-21T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:03:50","slug":"why-the-military-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/12\/why-the-military-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Military Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>17 Nov 2020 &#8211; <\/em>Lt. Col. Danny Davis was a hero on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.\u00a0Our\u00a0army hero then became a whistleblowing legend by exposing the chronic monumental lies the military has told and continues to peddle about achieving victory in those convulsed and splintered nations. The costs of the military\u2019s prevarications have been steep: trillions of dollars squandered on fool\u2019s errands; the killing, maiming or displacement of millions; and the awakening of hatreds or revenge against the United States that make all citizens potential targets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eSwUDlzn4uQ&amp;feature=youtu.be<br \/>\n<em>The Committee for the Republic is a citizen-based, non-partisan, nonprofit organization founded in 2003. The Committee sponsors speakers monthly on challenges to the American Republic, including the military-industrial complex, too-big-to-fail banks and U.S. competitiveness. For questions or requests email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:james@committeefortherepublic.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James@<wbr><\/wbr>committeefortherepublic.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Nov 2020 &#8211; Lt. Col. Danny Davis was a hero and then became a whistleblowing legend by exposing the lies the military has told and continues to peddle. The costs have been steep: trillions of dollars squandered on fool\u2019s errands; the killing, maiming or displacement of millions; and the awakening of hatreds or revenge against the United States that make all citizens potential targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[229,867,1161,1188,120,267,1126,260,487,1050,504,950,291,1105,780,769,91,86,109,287,95,70,126,118,492,172,921,75],"class_list":["post-173222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-activism","tag-anglo-america","tag-arms-industry","tag-arms-race","tag-conflict","tag-geopolitics","tag-hegemony","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-imperialism","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-military","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-military-intervention","tag-military-supremacy","tag-nato","tag-occupation","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war","tag-war-on-terror","tag-west","tag-whistleblowing","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173222","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=173222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}