{"id":325897,"date":"2017-09-13T18:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-has-become-more-an-oligarchy-than-a-democracy-jimmy-carter\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T18:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:37:42","slug":"us-has-become-more-an-oligarchy-than-a-democracy-jimmy-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-has-become-more-an-oligarchy-than-a-democracy-jimmy-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"US has become more an &#039;oligarchy than a democracy\u2019: Jimmy Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Former US President Jimmy Carter has warned that money in politics has made the United States more like an \u201coligarchy than a democracy\u201d and described President Donald Trump\u2019s foreign and domestic policies as a failure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the 39th president offered a damning indictment of US foreign policy and domestic affairs and was particularly critical of the nation&#8217;s direction under Trump\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keep the peace, promote human rights and tell the truth,\u201d Carter advised Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Carter said the US should engage directly with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and discuss a peace treaty to replace the ceasefire that ended the Korean War in 1953.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would send my top person to Pyongyang immediately, if I didn&#8217;t go myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Carter further said that North Koreans want a treaty that guarantees the US will not attack unless North Korea attacks the US or an ally, particularly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/13\/535039\/Former-US-President-Jimmy-Carter-to-Trump-Tell-the-truth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US President Jimmy Carter has warned that money in politics has made the United States more like an \u201coligarchy than a democracy\u201d and described President Donald Trump\u2019s foreign and domestic policies as a failure. Speaking on Tuesday at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the 39th president offered a damning indictment of US foreign [&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-325897","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\/325897","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=325897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}