{"id":262628,"date":"2016-08-19T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T12:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hillary-and-the-war-party\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:04:25","slug":"hillary-and-the-war-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/hillary-and-the-war-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary and the War Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_85953\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-85953 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_399470212-1.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_399470212 (1)\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_399470212-1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_399470212-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-940660p1.html?cr=00&amp;pl=edit-00\">a katz<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/editorial?cr=00&amp;pl=edit-00\">Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>You haven\u2019t heard much from the Democrats lately about foreign policy or global agendas \u2013 indeed virtually nothing at the Philadelphia convention and little worthy of mention along the campaign trail. Hillary Clinton\u2019s many liberal (and sadly, progressive) supporters routinely steer away from anything related to foreign policy, talk, talk, talking instead about the candidate\u2019s \u201cexperience\u201d, with obligatory nods toward her enlightened social programs.\u00a0\u00a0 There is only the ritual demonization of that fearsome dictator, Vladimir Putin, reputedly on the verge of invading some hapless European country.\u00a0\u00a0 Even Bernie Sanders\u2019 sorry endorsement of his erstwhile enemy, not long ago denounced as a tool of Wall Street, had nothing to say about global issues.\u00a0\u00a0 But no one should be fooled: a Clinton presidency, which seems more likely by the day, can be expected to stoke a resurgent U.S. imperialism, bringing new cycles of militarism and war. The silence is illusory: Clintonites, now as before, are truly obsessed with international politics.<\/p>\n<p>A triumphant Hillary, more \u201crational\u201d and \u201csavvy\u201d than the looney and unpredictable Donald Trump, could well have a freer path to emboldened superpower moves not only in Europe but the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Pacific. While the candidate has not revealed much lately, she is on record as vowing to \u201cstand up\u201d to Russia and China, face off against Russian \u201caggression\u201d,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/08\/19\/hillary-and-the-war-party\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a katz\u00a0|\u00a0Shutterstock.com You haven\u2019t heard much from the Democrats lately about foreign policy or global agendas \u2013 indeed virtually nothing at the Philadelphia convention and little worthy of mention along the campaign trail. Hillary Clinton\u2019s many liberal (and sadly, progressive) supporters routinely steer away from anything related to foreign policy, talk, talk, talking instead about [&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-262628","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\/262628","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=262628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}