{"id":255959,"date":"2016-07-14T21:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-disinformation-feeds-the-war-machine\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T21:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T21:56:47","slug":"how-disinformation-feeds-the-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/how-disinformation-feeds-the-war-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"How Disinformation Feeds The\u00a0War\u00a0Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-27361\" readability=\"54.286567164179\">\n<div id=\"outer\" readability=\"8.1981132075472\">\n<p class=\"title\">How Disinformation Feeds The\u00a0War\u00a0Machine<\/p>\n<p> &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tDaniel McAdams, &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tJuly 14, 2016\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\" readability=\"35.011135857461\">\n<p>According to recent polls by both Pew and Gallup, when Americans understand the actual level of US military spending they by a large margin back a decrease. That is why we hear the constant refrain of politicians screeching about the need to \u201crebuild\u201d the military and to spend a trillion dollars updating our nuclear weapons program. The media plays its part as well, broadcasting endless segments meant to ratchet up the fear factor. The \u201cthink tanks\u201d funded by the military-industrial complex come out with papers laying out the case for US global domination. The US national security state is maintained through fear and propaganda, just like in the Soviet Union. Are we headed for a similar collapse? More today in the Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k0OQmnmIRB8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center> &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/center>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<a name=\"respond\" id=\"respond\"><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/Iwpa8W-Kw3E\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Disinformation Feeds The\u00a0War\u00a0Machine &#13; Daniel McAdams, &#13; July 14, 2016 According to recent polls by both Pew and Gallup, when Americans understand the actual level of US military spending they by a large margin back a decrease. That is why we hear the constant refrain of politicians screeching about the need to \u201crebuild\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255959","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=255959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}