{"id":294265,"date":"2025-04-28T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=294265"},"modified":"2025-04-28T04:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:08:26","slug":"close-military-bases-not-embassies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/04\/close-military-bases-not-embassies\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Military Bases, Not Embassies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>21 Apr 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0The Trump clowns are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-state-department-overhaul.html\" >planning<\/a> to close U.S. embassies in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Good riddance, right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>They still plan to work on \u201ccoordinated counterterrorism operations\u201d and \u201cstrategic extraction and trade of critical natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also still plan to maintain <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/military-empires?operatingcountry=unitedstates\" >U.S. military bases across the continent<\/a>. They\u2019re shutting down all kinds of offices, but not <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/?s=Africom\" >Africom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/close-military-bases-not-embassies\/\" >TO CONTINUE READING GO TO ORIGINAL &#8211; worldbeyondwar.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><em>_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/David-Swanson-e1513512248299.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/David-Swanson-e1513512248299.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a> David Swanson is the author of <\/em>War Is A Lie<em> and <\/em>Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union<em>. He holds a master&#8217;s degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia and has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for <\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/acorn.org\/\" ><i>ACORN<\/i><\/a><\/span><em>. <\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/davidswanson.org\/\" ><i>http:\/\/davidswanson.org<\/i><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/warisacrime.org\/\" ><i>http:\/\/warisacrime.org<\/i><\/a><\/span><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Apr 2025\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The Trump clowns are planning to close U.S. embassies in Africa. Good riddance, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[249,70],"class_list":["post-294265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294265","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=294265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294266,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294265\/revisions\/294266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}