{"id":2620,"date":"2009-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/obama%e2%80%99s-privatization-of-american-wars\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:08:00","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-privatization-of-american-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/07\/obama%e2%80%99s-privatization-of-american-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"OBAMA\u2019S PRIVATIZATION OF AMERICAN WARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>If you thought the end of American intervention in foreign wars was nearing, think again. President Obama has been replacing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with private contractors&mdash;some 250,000 are currently deployed overseas&mdash;including Black Water (operating under another alias.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contractors are not subject to the same guidelines as our soldiers, and thus, have not been held accountable for the misdeeds they have afflicted upon civilian populations in the past.<\/p>\n<p>4:35-Min Video<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-6665-Liberal-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d15-Private-contractors-replacing-troops-in-Iraq-Afghanistan\" ><br \/>CLICK TO VIEW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the end of American intervention in foreign wars was nearing, think again. President Obama has been replacing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with private contractors&mdash;some 250,000 are currently deployed overseas&mdash;including Black Water (operating under another alias.) Contractors are not subject to the same guidelines as our soldiers, and thus, have not been [&hellip;]<\/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-2620","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\/2620","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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}