{"id":320821,"date":"2017-08-08T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-may-use-mercenaries-to-escalate-prolong-afghan-war-activist\/"},"modified":"2017-08-08T19:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:28:33","slug":"us-may-use-mercenaries-to-escalate-prolong-afghan-war-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-may-use-mercenaries-to-escalate-prolong-afghan-war-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"US may use mercenaries to escalate, prolong Afghan war: Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US may use mercenaries to escalate and prolong the conflict in Afghanistan while concealing its involvement in this \u201cevil plan,\u201d an American anti-war activist and journalist in Maine says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis current talk of essentially fully privatizing the war in Afghanistan is escalation by disguise; the idea is to try to hide it from the American people so they won\u2019t even know that they\u2019re going to war,\u201d said Bruce Gagnon, the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons &amp; Nuclear Power in Space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis idea of privatization of war is a way to ensure endless war with less formal US military troops on the ground, less formal US military troops being killed; instead using mercenaries to do the fighting and dying,\u201d Gagnon told Press TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The names of these mercenaries \u201cwill be lost forever in the dark undercurrents of this evil plan for endless war,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>US military contractor Erik Prince has advised the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/08\/08\/531146\/US-AfghanistanBlackwaterBruce-Gagnon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US may use mercenaries to escalate and prolong the conflict in Afghanistan while concealing its involvement in this \u201cevil plan,\u201d an American anti-war activist and journalist in Maine says. \u201cThis current talk of essentially fully privatizing the war in Afghanistan is escalation by disguise; the idea is to try to hide it from 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-320821","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\/320821","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=320821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}