{"id":366346,"date":"2018-06-22T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/star-wars-redux-trumps-space-force\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:24:47","slug":"star-wars-redux-trumps-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/star-wars-redux-trumps-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Redux: Trump\u2019s Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_103136\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103136\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/6288532275_dedcd9220f_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/6288532275_dedcd9220f_b.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/6288532275_dedcd9220f_b-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/6288532275_dedcd9220f_b-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If Donald Trump gets his way on formation of a Space Force, the heavens would become a war zone. Inevitably, there would be military conflict in space.<\/p>\n<p>The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 which designates space as the global commons to be used for peaceful purposes\u2014and of which Russia and China, as well as the United States, are parties\u2014and the years of work facilitating the treaty since would be wasted.<\/p>\n<p>If the U.S. goes up into space with weapons,\u00a0Russia and China, and then India and Pakistan and\u00a0other countries, will follow.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover space weaponry,\u00a0as I have detailed through the years in\u00a0my writings and TV programs,\u00a0would\u00a0be\u00a0nuclear-powered\u2014as Reagan\u2019s Star Wars scheme was to\u00a0be with nuclear reactors and plutonium systems on orbiting battle platforms\u00a0providing the power for hypervelocity guns, particle beams and laser weapons.<\/p>\n<p>This is what would be above our heads.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the many\u00a0horrible\u00a0things being done by\u00a0the Trump administration, this\u00a0would\u00a0be\u00a0the\u00a0most terribly destructive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space,\u201d Trump said at a meeting of the National Space Council this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery importantly, I\u2019m hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon,\u201d he went on Monday, \u201cto immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces; that is a big statement. We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/22\/star-wars-redux-trumps-space-force\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 If Donald Trump gets his way on formation of a Space Force, the heavens would become a war zone. Inevitably, there would be military conflict in space. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 which designates space as the global commons to be used for [&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-366346","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\/366346","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=366346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}