{"id":4855,"date":"2008-11-13T18:33:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2008-11-13T18:33:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T17:33:23","slug":"%e2%80%98war-in-iraq-is-over%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-us-%e2%80%98media%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/%e2%80%98war-in-iraq-is-over%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-us-%e2%80%98media%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018War in Iraq is over\u2019 \u2014 US \u2018media\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The wars in Iraq and Afganistan are now over and President George W. Bush has been indicted on treason charges, according to the New York Times. Sort of.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russiatoday.com\/features\/news\/33196\">RT<\/a> | Citizens of the Big Apple got a big shock when they picked up a &#8216;special edition&#8217; of the newspaper on the streets on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>About 1.2 million spoof copies of the New York Times, dated July 4, 2009, were handed out by the liberal group the \u2018Yes Men\u2019, famous for their practical jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Using an authentic New York Times template, they created a 14-page edition, which they also put online.<\/p>\n<p>The parody newspaper announced the abolition of corporate lobbying, a maximum wage for CEOs and a recall notice for all cars that run on gasoline. It promised Americans national health insurance and resolution of the problems of the economy and global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell if its predictions prove correct but some say that the newspaper came as a vision of what American Democrats would love to see under Barack Obama after he takes power in January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wars in Iraq and Afganistan are now over and President George W. Bush has been indicted on treason charges, according to the New York Times. Sort of. RT | Citizens of the Big Apple got a big shock when they picked up a &#8216;special edition&#8217; of the newspaper on the streets on Wednesday morning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38],"class_list":{"0":"post-4855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media-news","7":"tag-iraq"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","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=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}