{"id":152227,"date":"2015-05-19T17:18:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=152227"},"modified":"2015-05-19T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:20:16","slug":"us-can-no-longer-afford-superpower-madsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-can-no-longer-afford-superpower-madsen\/","title":{"rendered":"US can no longer afford to be superpower: Madsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The US cannot afford to be a superpower anymore because its massive military spending is causing the nation\u2019s infrastructure to collapse resulting in the deaths of many more Americans, says investigative journalist Wayne Madsen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Monday when asked about remarks by former congressman Ron Paul who called the new US military spending plan a \u201crecipe for disaster\u201d that would destroy the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext year\u2019s military spending plan keeps the US on track toward destruction of its economy at home while provoking new resentment over US interventionism overseas. It is a recipe for disaster,\u201d Paul wrote in an article published on his website on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly agree with Ron Paul,\u201d Madsen said. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely true that we can no longer afford\u201d this notion of being the world\u2019s \u201csuperpower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere comes with a terrible price to our nation\u2019s collapsing infrastructure, we\u2019re going to see many more train derailments because of aging rail lines and bridges and we\u2019re going to see other infrastructure collapse with many more Americans dying as a result of catastrophic infrastructure failure,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/19\/411740\/US-MILITARY-SPENDING-BUDGET-superpower\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US cannot afford to be a superpower anymore because its massive military spending is causing the nation\u2019s infrastructure to collapse resulting in the deaths of many more Americans, says investigative journalist Wayne Madsen. He made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Monday when asked about remarks by former congressman Ron Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-152227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}