{"id":373368,"date":"2018-08-14T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turning-space-into-a-war-zone\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:45:09","slug":"turning-space-into-a-war-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turning-space-into-a-war-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Space Into a War Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_104476\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104476 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/trumpvader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/trumpvader.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/trumpvader-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/trumpvader-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/space4peace.org\"><em>Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Trump administration is pushing hard on its scheme to create a Space Force.\u00a0 Last week Vice President Pence, chairman of a newly reconstituted National Space Council, in a speech at the Pentagon declared: \u201cThe time has come to write the next great chapter in the history of our armed forces, to prepare for the next battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pence claimed\u2014falsely: \u201cOur adversaries have transformed space into a warfighting domain already and the United States will not shrink from the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who in June announced he was \u201cdirecting the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces,\u201d following Pence\u2019s address Thursday promptly tweeted: \u201cSpace Force all the way!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, signaling that the Space Force drive will be used politically, the Trump campaign organization sent out an email asking supporters to choose between six Space Force logos that were depicted. \u201cPresident Trump wants a Space Force\u2014a groundbreaking endeavor for the future of America and the final frontier,\u201d wrote Brad Parscale, campaign manager of \u201cDonald J. Trump for President, 2020.\u201d \u201cTo celebrate President Trump\u2019s huge announcement, our campaign will be selling a new line of gear.\u201d He asked backers pick \u201cyour favorite logo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a crucial moment where the public must stand and say \u2018hell no!\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/14\/turning-space-into-a-war-zone\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. The Trump administration is pushing hard on its scheme to create a Space Force.\u00a0 Last week Vice President Pence, chairman of a newly reconstituted National Space Council, in a speech at the Pentagon declared: \u201cThe time has come to write the next great chapter in 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-373368","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\/373368","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=373368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}