{"id":316842,"date":"2017-07-11T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-g20-from-hell\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:55:02","slug":"the-g20-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-g20-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"The G20 From Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_94046\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94046\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-10-at-10.23.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-10-at-10.23.59-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-10-at-10.23.59-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-10-at-10.23.59-PM-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Robert Anders | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A future history of the G20 in Hamburg might start with a question posed by President Donald Trump \u2013 actually his speechwriter \u2013 a few days earlier in Warsaw:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What initially amounted to a juvenile\/reductionist clash of civilizations tirade written by Stephen Miller \u2013 the same one who penned the \u201cAmerican carnage\u201d epic on Trump\u2019s inauguration as well as the original Muslim travel ban \u2013 might actually have found some answers in Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>The G20 as\u00a0a whole was a noxious military dystopia disguised as\u00a0a global summit. \u201cWelcome to\u00a0Hell\u201d and other assorted <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/201707091055373755-germany-g20-protests-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests<\/a>, on\u00a0multiple levels, were sort of\u00a0answering another <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/world\/201707091055379222-united-states-trump-russia-poland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump-in-Warsaw<\/a> question; \u201cDo we have the desire and the courage to\u00a0preserve our civilization in\u00a0the face of\u00a0those who would subvert and destroy it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While leaders worked the cosseted rooms, gossiped, listened to\u00a0the Ode to\u00a0Joy and indulged in\u00a0the proverbial banquet, outside\u00a0there was <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/201707071055348326-g20-public-revolt-expectation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burning and looting<\/a>; a sort of\u00a0vicious, street-level commentary not only about\u00a0their concept of \u201ccivilization\u201d but\u00a0also about\u00a0Trump-in-Warsaw conveniently forgetting to\u00a0say that it\u2019s US and NATO\u2019s \u201cpolicies\u201d which end up\u00a0generating the terror blowback that threaten \u201ccivilization\u201d, \u201cour values\u201d and our \u201cwill to\u00a0survive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It will get worse. Starting next year, a Bundeswehr\/NATO joint production, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/07\/11\/the-g20-from-hell\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Robert Anders | CC BY 2.0 A future history of the G20 in Hamburg might start with a question posed by President Donald Trump \u2013 actually his speechwriter \u2013 a few days earlier in Warsaw: \u201cThe fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.\u201d What initially amounted [&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-316842","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\/316842","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=316842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}