{"id":342223,"date":"2018-01-03T16:41:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/liberty-will-prevail-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:41:54","slug":"liberty-will-prevail-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/liberty-will-prevail-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Will Prevail in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Happy New Year! We always approach a new year with anticipation, hope, and also some worries. Last year was one of the strangest political years I have seen in some time. A new Republican president spent his first year pursuing more or less the same foreign policy as his Democratic predecessor and the Democratic Party spent the year looking under every rock in the US for a \u201cRussian connection\u201d or any other reason to see him impeached over it.<\/p>\n<p>The neocon-dominated foreign policy establishment on both the Left and Right were so furious that candidate Trump dared suggest we could get along with our \u201cenemies\u201d overseas that they jumped on the impeachment bandwagon \u2014 even though once he became president Donald Trump filled his Administration with neocons and began dropping bombs.<\/p>\n<p>Like \u201cpeace candidate\u201d Obama, Donald Trump quickly dropped his \u201cget along with others\u201d rhetoric to become just another aggressive, interventionist US president. He slammed missiles into Syria over unproven claims of a chemical attack, he built US military bases on Syrian soil, he dropped the \u201cmother of all bombs\u201d on Afghanistan, he continued helping Saudi Arabia destroy Yemen, he expanded the US military occupation of Africa, he put NATO troops on the border of Russia, did his best to tear up the Iran nuclear agreement and in fact may have just launched a \u201ccolor revolution\u201d on Iran, and continued rattling sabers over China\u2019s presence in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>That tells us quite a bit about what\u2019s wrong with American political life these days. The \u201copposition party\u201d doesn\u2019t really oppose the other party\u2019s policies. They are just angry that other the party is in power. With no real philosophical or policy differences, politics is essentially pointless. It is a game of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/ron-paul\/despite-setbacks-liberty-will-prevail-in-2018\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! We always approach a new year with anticipation, hope, and also some worries. Last year was one of the strangest political years I have seen in some time. A new Republican president spent his first year pursuing more or less the same foreign policy as his Democratic predecessor and the Democratic Party [&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-342223","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\/342223","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=342223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}