{"id":289362,"date":"2017-01-10T05:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/future-crimes\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T05:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:40:03","slug":"future-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/future-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_88729\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88729\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/11\/7811014076_c7f95c0e98_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Marc Nozell | CC BY 2.0\" width=\"510\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/11\/7811014076_c7f95c0e98_z.jpg 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/11\/7811014076_c7f95c0e98_z-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Photo by Marc Nozell | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\u201cPrecrime Analytical Wing: Contains the precognitives and the machinery needed to hear and analyze their predictions of future crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philip K. Dick, Minority Report<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro\u2019s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen\u2019s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to \u201corder\u201d than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intellectuals are the dominant group\u2019s \u2018deputies,\u2019 exercising the subaltern functions of social hegemony and political government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gramsci<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a jaw dropping but not unexpected article at\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0this week. It was actually part of a series of pieces at that paper that have sought to manufacture a legacy for Obama, the outgoing president, since his actual legacy is one of imperialist foreign policy, CIA support of jihadists, right wing coups, and most acutely, perhaps, a massive subverting of free speech and civil liberties. What Robert Parry has called a \u2018war on dissent\u2019.\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0piece took the form of asking novelists, public intellectuals {sic} and TV hacks what they perceived to be Obama\u2019s legacy \u2014 and even the use of that word,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/01\/09\/future-crimes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Marc Nozell | CC BY 2.0 \u201cPrecrime Analytical Wing: Contains the precognitives and the machinery needed to hear and analyze their predictions of future crimes.\u201d Philip K. Dick, Minority Report \u201cI must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached 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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289362","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=289362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}