{"id":172130,"date":"2015-08-11T19:37:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=172130"},"modified":"2015-08-11T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:37:31","slug":"us-remains-enormous-threat-world-peace-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-remains-enormous-threat-world-peace-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"US remains enormous threat to world peace: Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States continues to pose a massive threat to global peace through its nuclear weapons stockpile and its support of nuclear-armed Israel, an anti-war activist says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNuclear weapons are disgusting weapons that have been found illegal by the International Court of Justice in the 1990s,\u201d said David Cronin, a contributing editor for The Electronic Intifada, an online publication which covers the Palestinian issue from a Palestinian perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s only one country in the world that has used nuclear weapons and that happens to be the same country that Mr. [former US senator Joe] Lieberman hails, in other words the United States,\u201d Cronin said in an interview with Press TV Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been 70 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed and the United States remains an enormous threat to world peace, it has retained its nuclear arsenal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cronin said it is not surprising that Lieberman has accepted to lead an active anti-Iran advocacy organization that is against the nuclear agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/08\/11\/424300\/US-nuclear-arms-enormous-threat-world-peace\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States continues to pose a massive threat to global peace through its nuclear weapons stockpile and its support of nuclear-armed Israel, an anti-war activist says. \u201cNuclear weapons are disgusting weapons that have been found illegal by the International Court of Justice in the 1990s,\u201d said David Cronin, a contributing editor for The Electronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172130","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=172130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}