{"id":381191,"date":"2018-10-16T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-military-industrial-complex-behind-us-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:59:28","slug":"presstv-military-industrial-complex-behind-us-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-military-industrial-complex-behind-us-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;Military-industrial complex behind US foreign policy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>America&#8217;s pro-war foreign policy is basically being\u00a0dictated\u00a0by the corrupt military-industrial complex, according to a former US intelligence officer. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the administration of President Donald Trump, US arms sales skyrocketed with over 33 percent increase in 2018,\u201d former US intelligence officer, US-based Scott Rickard told Press TV on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump actually opened the doors to absolutely allowing all and every arms sales that can be approved,\u201d Rickard noted, warning, \u201cThis is an unfortunate American trend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rickard said that the US military-industrial complex was negotiating more arms sales to foreign countries at present.<\/p>\n<p>He said that \u201cthe arms industry has become a main factor in the US economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of arms sales being negotiated now is in the highest [level] ever registered in the history of the United States,\u201d Rickard said.<\/p>\n<p>He said US arms manufacturers have outdone all other gun manufacturers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/16\/577152\/Interview-US-MilitaryIndustrial-Complex-Arms-Sales-Weapons-Manucaturers-Trump-Scott-Rickard\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s pro-war foreign policy is basically being\u00a0dictated\u00a0by the corrupt military-industrial complex, according to a former US intelligence officer. \u00a0 Under the administration of President Donald Trump, US arms sales skyrocketed with over 33 percent increase in 2018,\u201d former US intelligence officer, US-based Scott Rickard told Press TV on Monday. \u201cTrump actually opened the doors to [&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-381191","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\/381191","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=381191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}