{"id":274731,"date":"2016-10-22T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=274731"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T19:03:26","slug":"brookings-institution-establishment-love-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/brookings-institution-establishment-love-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Brookings Institution & The Establishment Love Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

America\u2019s recent (at least since 2003) penchant for invasions of countries that haven\u2019t invaded us (such as Iraq in 2003, and Libya in 2011) doesn\u2019t come from \u2018the masses\u2019 (the public), but from \u201cthe classes\u201d \u2014 from the billionaires who finance think tanks and other such \u2018charities\u2019, and who own (or otherwise control \u2014 such as via their companies\u2019 advertising budgets) newsmedia. This is an \u201cI\u2019ll-scratch-your-back;-you\u2019ll-scratch-mine\u201d type of world \u2014 a transactional realm \u2014 that\u2019s at the very top of American society.<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 19th, Hillary Clinton\u2019s longtime friend and former Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott, who is now the President of the Brookings Institution, co-authored in The New York Times<\/i>, along with a former Secretary General of NATO, an op-ed titled<\/span> \u201cThe Decline of the West, and How to Stop It\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span>, in which Russia was presented as an enemy of \u2018the West\u2019, and the only references that were made to Russia were these extremely hostile ones: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDonald J. Trump \u2026 derided American allies and hailed an authoritarian leader, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who fears and tries to undermine Western solidarity. \u2026 Mr. Putin has all too successfully stoked the sense of peril and fear of failure in the West. The Kremlin is backing insurgent euroskeptic parties, bullying Russia\u2019s neighbors and trying to undo sanctions imposed after its illegal annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine. Against such subversion, the NATO alliance needs beefing up to help prevent Europe\u2019s political disintegration \u2014 and this must be a major priority for any incoming United States administration.\u201d<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

In reality, Europe is choking with millions of refugees from America\u2019s bombing of Libya and from America\u2019s and its fundamentalist-Sunni allies Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, bombing and supply of jihadists into Syria, all to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, and yet NATO and Brookings are obsessed with Russia\u2019s \u2018subversion\u2019 causing \u201cEurope\u2019s political disintegration,\u201d which has been resulting far more from America\u2019s bombings and support of jihadists<\/span><\/a>, than it does from anything that Russia is doing, or has done. <\/span><\/p>\n

That anti-Russian fear-mongering puff-piece for Hillary Clinton\u2019s Presidential campaign, is The Establishment\u2019s viewpoint, and it is sometimes referred-to as the neoconservative view, but it\u2019s actually one-and-the-same viewpoint, regardless of whether it\u2019s defined according to whom its presenters are, or instead according to their ideology. If you criticize that ideology, they won\u2019t even consider to hire you \u2014 and any such aspiring career will be a no-go in both Washington DC and NYC. A person doesn\u2019t become the head of the Brookings Institution, or the head of NATO, who disagrees with that viewpoint. They equate that viewpoint with \u201cThe West,\u201d and it\u2019s \u201cour side.\u201d Everybody else is \u2018the enemy\u2019, or else inconsequential. Though communism is gone, and the Soviet Union are gone, and its Warsaw Pact military alliance (which was created so as to mirror<\/i> America\u2019s NATO) is gone, the lands that had led the former communist sphere, Russia and China, are still being viewed by The Establishment to be \u2018the enemy\u2019 of \u2018The West\u2019, because otherwise America\u2019s enormous military-contracting firms would need to contract themselves. They are, really, the tail that wags the American dog; they are in control of the U.S. federal government, if one is to judge by those results (those incredibly evil invasions, such as of Iraq, and Libya, and Syria \u2014 those \u2018humanitarian\u2019 invasions of nations that never invaded us). <\/span><\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s public relations operations for the military contracting firms that surround the U.S. Capitol aren\u2019t by for-profit PR firms, so much as they’re by \u2018non-profit\u2019 foundations and think tanks, which present that \u2018non-profit\u2019 cover for their sales-promotion campaigns on behalf of the real beneficiaries: owners and top executives of these gigantic \u2018defense\u2019 contracting corporations, such as Lockheed Martin, and Booz Allen Hamilton. To be in the pay of such firms, and of their top investors, is to be in the pay of The Establishment, and doing its work, for American conquest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the leading propagandists for invading Iraq back in 2002 were\u00a0Kenneth Pollack<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Michael O\u2019Hanlon<\/span><\/a>, both with the Brookings Institution; and both propagandists still are frequently interviewed by American \u2018news\u2019 media as being \u2018experts\u2019 on international relations, when all they ever really<\/i> have been is salesmen for U.S. invasions, such as that 2003 invasion, which destroyed Iraq<\/span><\/a> and cost U.S. taxpayers $3 trillion+<\/span><\/a> or $4.4 trillion<\/span><\/a> \u2014 benefiting only the few beneficiaries and their agents, such as the top executives of these \u2018non-profits,\u2019 which receive a small portion of the take, as servants usually do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More recently, Brookings\u2019s Shadi Hamid headlined on 14 September 2013,\u00a0\u201cThe U.S.-Russian Deal on Syria: A Victory for Assad,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the PR-servant there, Dr. Hamid, argued that “Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is effectively being rewarded for the use of\u00a0chemical weapons, rather than \u2018punished’ as originally planned. \u2026 Assad and his Russian backers played on Obama’s most evident weakness,\u00a0exploiting\u00a0his desire to find a way \u2014 any way \u2014 out of military action. \u00a0\u2026 One might be forgiven for thinking that this was Assad’s plan all along, to use\u00a0chemical weapons as bait, to agree to inspections after using them, and then\u00a0to return to conventional killing.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Three weeks after that Brookings \u2018expert\u2019 had issued it, the great investigative journalist Christof Lehmann, on 7 October 2014, headlined and offered facts to the exact contrary at his nsnbc news site,\u00a0\u201cTop US and Saudi Officials Responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and he opened by summarizing his extensive case: \u201cEvidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint\u00a0Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi\u00a0Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia\u00b4s Interior Ministry.\u201d Then, on 14 January 2014, the MIT professor Theodore Postal and the former U.N. weapons-inspector Richard Lloyd performed\u00a0a detailed analysis of the rocket<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that had delivered the sarin, and found that it had been fired from territory controlled by the anti-Assad rebels, not by Assad\u2019s forces. Then, yet another great investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, bannered in the\u00a0London Review of Books<\/i>, on 17 April 2014,\u00a0\u201cThe Red Line\u00a0and the Rat Line: Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdo\u011fan and the Syrian\u00a0rebels,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and he reported that what had actually stopped Obama from invading Syria was Obama\u2019s embarrassment at British intelligence having discovered that Obama\u2019s case against Assad regarding the gas attack was fake. Obama suddenly needed a face-saving way to cancel his pre-announced American bombing campaign to bring down the Assad government, since he wouldn\u2019t have even the UK as an ally in it:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Obama\u2019s change of mind\u00a0<\/i>[weakening his ardor against Assad]\u00a0had its\u00a0origins at Porton Down, the <\/i>[British] defence laboratory in Wiltshire. British\u00a0intelligence had obtained a sample of the sarin used in the 21 August\u00a0attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn\u2019t match the\u00a0batches known to exist in the Syrian army\u2019s chemical weapons arsenal.\u00a0The message that the case against Syria wouldn\u2019t hold up was quickly\u00a0relayed to the US joint chiefs of staff.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Did Dr. Hamid or any other Brookings \u2018expert\u2019 ever issue a correction and make note of of their earlier falsehoods (which alleged Assad to have been the source of that gas-attack), or did they all instead hide this crucially important reality \u2014 that not only was the rocket fired from rebel territory but its sarin formula was different from that in Syria\u2019s arsenals, and the actual suppliers were the U.S., Sauds, Qataris, and Turks \u2014 did they not correct their prior war-mongering misrepresentations, but instead hide the fact that the Obama allegations had been exposed to have been<\/i>\u00a0 frauds and that Obama himself had been one of the planners behind the sarin gas attack? They hid the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back on 14 June 2013, a Brookings team of Dr. Hamid, with Bruce Riedel, Daniel L. Byman, Michael Doran, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, had headlined, \u201cSyria, the U.S., and Arming the Rebels: Assad\u2019s Use of Chemical Weapons and Obama\u2019s Red Line,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and they alleged that, although \u201cPresident Obama has been extremely reluctant to get involved in Syria,\u201d \u201cRegime change is the only way to end this conflict,\u201d and they applauded the \u201cconfirmation that the Assad regime used chemical weapons in Syria,\u201d but doubted that Obama would bomb Syria hard enough and often enough. None of them ever subsequently acknowledged that, in fact, they had misstated (been suckered by a U.S. government fraud, if even they had believed it), and that Obama actually drove this hoax harder than his Joint Chiefs of Staff had advised him to.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s \u2018experts\u2019: basically Ph.D\u2019d crass \u2018non-profit\u2019 (or at least tax-exempt, regarding Brookings and most of the other PR-fronts) war-mongers \u2014\u00a0 <\/span>stenographers to power, who hide the truth, instead of report the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then, of course, there\u2019s the secretive but proudly profit-making, part of this operation, where the really big money is made, and billionaires become multibillionaires:<\/span><\/p>\n

Public Integrity\u2019s report,\u00a0\u201cInvesting in War:<\/span><\/a>\u00a0The Carlyle Group profits from government and conflict,\u201d observes that, \u201cFrom its founding in 1987, the Carlyle Group has pioneered investing in the defense and national security markets, and through its takeover of companies with billions of dollars in defense contracts became one of the U.S. military\u2019s top vendors.\u201d Carlyle Group is now\u00a0\u201cthe largest private equity firm in the world,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as a result of such things as the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the burgeoning terrorism and military responses to that \u2014 also profitable \u2014 which have followed in its wake. For example, ISIS started in Iraq in 2006, and has been a boon to Carlyle Group, as the U.S. drops bombs to address that problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The military conflicts in Ukraine are also profitable to them, because that\u2019s now yet another place where the U.S. sends weapons and advisors, after Obama\u2019s\u00a0February 2014 coup<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Ukraine turned that country into a U.S.\u00a0satellite<\/span><\/a> against its neighbor Russia \u2014 which it hadn\u2019t previously been \u2014 thus extending the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s control even further.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2003, Dan Briody\u2019s\u00a0expos\u00e9\u00a0The Iron Triangle: Inside the\u00a0Secret World of the Carlyle\u00a0Group<\/i><\/span><\/a>, described how the former Wall Street lawyer and advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, David L. Rubenstein, teamed up briefly with Stephen L. Norris, a senior executive of the Republican firm, Marriott Corporation, to create Carlyle Group, and to bring in as its leader the Republican Frank Carlucci, who had been U.S. President Ronald Reagan\u2019s last Secretary of Defense and who privatized much of the Pentagon\u2019s operation to\u00a0Booze Allen Hamilton<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and other large firms. Carlucci brought in Reagan-Bush friend Fred Malek, and then\u00a0George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush, James Baker, Richard Darman, Fidel Ramos, John Major<\/span><\/a>, and other believers in privatizing government and whose friends included many of the people to whom it became privatized. These people all live by their networking, and by the revolving door between private contractors and \u2018public servants.’ \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u201cAnnual Report 2015\u201d from the Brookings Institution<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0opens with the \u201cCo-Chairs\u2019 Message,\u201d on page 2, which is signed by Brookings’s co-chairmen, David L. Rubenstein and John L. Thornton. Thornton is a former Chairman of Goldman Sachs. Cheng Li is the Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, and he attended\u00a0the super-secretive Bilderberg meetings both in\u00a02012<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a02014<\/span><\/a>, and so might have been Thornton\u2019s agent there. Peter Sutherland, the Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, was also there. The main topic at the 2014 meeting was the war in Ukraine, but other wars were also on the agenda, such as Syria, and so were President Obama\u2019s \u2019trade\u2019 treaties: TPP, TTIP, and TISA. Other luminaries present at those secret discussions were Timothy Geithner, Eric Schmidt, Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Charles Murray, etc., and Europeans such as Christine Lagarde and Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Perhaps some sales were made. In 2013,\u00a0Jeff Bezos and Donald Graham met at the Bilderberg conference<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0two months later, Bezos agreed<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to buy the Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>from Graham. Less than a year after that, Bezos\u2019s Amazon won\u00a0the CIA-NSA cloud computing contract<\/span><\/a>, vital to the U.S. military. Bezos\u2019s most profitable operation has allegedly been that military contract, and the money-losing\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0 is a longstanding supporter of U.S. armed invasions, which require lots of cloud computing. For example: the WP<\/i> was gung-ho for regime-change in Iraq in 2002, as well as, more recently, for bombing Libya, Syria, and the bombing in Ukraine\u2019s civil war after the coup.<\/span><\/p>\n

That Annual Report lists ten donors who gave \u201c$2,000,000 and Above\u201d during the prior year; and one of them was David M. Rubenstein, and another was John L. Thornton. Another was \u201cEmbassy of the State of Qatar,\u201d Qatar being<\/span><\/a> the fundamentalist Sunni chief financial backer of the fundamentalist Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, and also one of the two chief funders of the jihadist groups that are trying to take over the non-sectarian but mainly Shiite-ruled Syrian government. The Thani family that own Qatar want to run a pipeline through Syria, but they can\u2019t do that unless a fundamentalist Sunni government takes over Syria. Also, the U.S. takeover of Ukraine disrupts Russia\u2019s pipelining gas to Europe, which pipelines run mainly through Ukraine. So, Brookings is a major PR agency for that goal of boosting gas-sales by the Thanis, and cutting gas-sales by Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

During February 2015, Brookings issued a report from their team of Ivo Daalder, Michele Flournoy, John Herbst, Jan Lodal, Steven Pifer, James Stavridis, Strobe Talbott, and Charles Wald, titled,\u00a0Preserving Ukraine\u2019s Independence, Resisting Russian Aggression<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and it urged President Obama to increase the supply of U.S. weapons to the civil war in Ukraine. Strobe Talbott is a lifelong hater of Russia and of Russians; so, maybe he actually enjoys this shoddy shilling for mass-killing<\/span><\/a>. But, anyway, their unstated shared assumption is false, that what overthrew Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 was a \u2018democratic revolution\u2019 and no U.S. coup<\/span><\/a> that had been in preparation for a full year inside the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, and inside the U.S. White House<\/span><\/a>. Their basic underlying assumptions about what happened in 2014 in Ukraine and regarding Crimea\u2019s separation from Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, are all lies<\/span><\/a>. So too, then, is the Strobe Talbott statement about Putin\u2019s \u201cbullying Russia\u2019s neighbors and trying to undo sanctions imposed after its illegal annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine.\u201d It\u2019s The Establishment\u2019s view; it\u2019s the neoconservatives\u2019 view; and it is a fraudulent view. (In fact: Putin told the independence fighters in \u201ceastern Ukraine\u201d that Russia rejected their application to become a part of Russia<\/span><\/a>; so, The Establishment\u2019s propaganda that Putin was trying to \u2018conquer\u2019 this region of Ukraine is totally fraudulent, even on that elementary basis.) But some people find it a very profitable view to present.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the aggression was altogether by the U.S. (and some of its allies), and all of the aggression in Ukraine was directed against Russia; so much so, for example, that on 3 February 2015, I headlined \u201cBrookings Wants More Villages Firebombed in Ukraine\u2019s \u2018Anti Terrorist Operation\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/a> Firebombing villages is a rather aggressive action, and The Establishment wanted there to be more of it done than President Obama was willing to do. (After all: Obama had won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. In \u2018The West\u2019, he\u2019s too much<\/i> \u2018a man of peace\u2019 \u2014 too much so for The Establishment, anyway.) Furthermore, some of Obama\u2019s top generals were even more \u201chawkish\u201d than Obama was, and were willing and eager to risk a war against Russia<\/span><\/a>. (America\u2019s NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Philip Breedlove there is quoted as telling Congress that Russia is \u201ca long-term existential threat to the United States and to our European allies.\u201d<\/b>) On the other hand, some of them (such as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey<\/span><\/a>) were terrified at how far this President was willing to go in a direction that they were convinced was likely to provoke Russia into responses that might provoke the U.S. and produce an uncontrollable downward spiral into World War III. (Dempsey\u2019s successor, Joseph Dunford<\/span><\/a>, says, much as NATO\u2019s Breedlove does, \u201cIf you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States, I\u2019d have to point to Russia.\u201d<\/b> Obama is now surrounded with the \u201chawkish\u201d generals that he wants (Dempsey and other \u201cdoves\u201d are gone<\/span><\/a>), though Obama is not quite as \u201chawkish\u201d (otherwise called \u201cneoconservative\u201d) as is his likely successor Hillary Clinton (who <\/span>insists upon there being a \u201cno-fly zone\u201d imposed by the U.S. in Syria<\/span>.) Brookings, like the rest of The Establishment, is with the \u201chawkish\u201d generals, very much against the ones who are \u201cdoves.\u201d Obama views himself to be a \u2018centrist\u2019, but that\u2019s really a farther-right \u2018center\u2019<\/i> than the U.S. has known, perhaps ever. Anyway, The Establishment (and Hillary Clinton) are, indeed, to the right of Obama \u2014 wherever that is (perhaps off the cliff, falling into WW III, in order to avoid the \u201cexistential threat to the United States\u201d<\/b>). (Destroying the world in order to save it \u2014 or at least threatening to do that \u2014 is the \u2018logic\u2019 of their words, but a more strictly pecuniary logic might be the actual and true explanation behind their actions, since The Establishment really does<\/i> control, through their agent-institutions.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Saddam Hussein was friendly toward Russia. Muammar Gaddafi was friendly toward Russia. Bashar al-Assad was and is actually allied with Russia. Iran, and Shiite groups generally, are friendly toward Russia. Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected progressive President of Honduras, who was overthrown in a coup on 28 June 2009 that was supported and empowered by Hillary Clinton<\/span><\/a>, was friendly toward Russia. But now The Establishment is going after Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin himself, whose Russian job-approval rating in even Western-generated polls taken throughout Russia is over 80%. To understand why they are doing this, see my \u201cUnderstanding The Power-Contest Between Aristocracies\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and especially the earlier article I wrote that\u2019s importantly linked-to there, \u201cHow America Double-Crossed Russia and Shamed the West\u201d<\/span><\/a>. In short: All U.S. Presidents after George Herbert Walker Bush\u2019s Presidency have been following through with the operation that was begun by President Bush on the night of 24 February 1990, for the U.S. aristocracy ultimately to conquer Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 18th, NBC News bannered \u201cTeam Clinton Has Spent 70% of Total Ad Money in ’16 Race\u201d<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 22nd, Britain\u2019s Guardian<\/i> headlined \u201cRussian bid for election observers is a stunt, says US state department\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>and reported that, \u201cRussia is welcome to send observers to the US presidential election, even if the requests smack of a propaganda stunt, the state department has said.\u201d If there is to be rigging of the U.S. election, it has already happened. To observe the voting, or the vote-count, won\u2019t expose that rigging (even if some of the vote-counts on paperless electronic voting machines might be switched in some crucial districts). But Putin is no fool: he already knows this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Things are still at the political stage. Only in the subordinate lands (such as Iraq and Syria) is there massive bloodshed yet. And The Establishment has already eliminated most of Russia\u2019s friends and allies. Perhaps the low-hanging fruit has thus already been taken. This is the likely reason why things are now gearing up for the military stage of the conflict between aristocracies: almost every important aristocracy has by now aligned itself with America\u2019s. The expectation seems to be that Hillary Clinton will finish the job, even if some of The Establishment\u2019s vassal-aristocracies will go neutral before WW III starts in earnest. And The Establishment have been betting heavily on her. They know the contestants very well, and prefer her overwhelmingly, even by perhaps the biggest ratio ever in American history, near unanimity \u2014 far more than 70%. After all, she has a much larger proportion of her take coming from donors above $200 than does her opponent. The 30% that\u2019s paying for her opponent\u2019s ads is coming mainly from small donors. The big-dollar donors know what they\u2019re buying; the small-dollar ones generally do not. And at least some of the biggest<\/i>-dollar donors have already purchased super-luxury<\/span><\/a> deep-underground<\/span><\/a> bomb-shelters<\/span><\/a> (nuclear bunkers), an increasingly popular form of \u2018insurance policy\u2019 to enable them to control the world after The War is over.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org America\u2019s recent (at least since 2003) penchant for invasions of countries that haven\u2019t invaded us (such as Iraq in 2003, and Libya in 2011) doesn\u2019t come from \u2018the masses\u2019 (the public), but from \u201cthe classes\u201d \u2014 from the billionaires who finance think tanks and other such \u2018charities\u2019, and who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":274700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[115,30,24313,32,96,535,1023,804,524,754,49,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-274731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-brookings","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-nuclear","15":"tag-politics-2","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-syria","18":"tag-usa-news","19":"tag-warfare","20":"tag-white-house","21":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274731","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}