{"id":336277,"date":"2017-11-23T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T13:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/discussing-trump-abroad\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T13:54:32","slug":"discussing-trump-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/discussing-trump-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing Trump Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96481\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/17309137_1407178922673776_2243993350628412555_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"453\"  \/><br \/>My work takes me to countries all over the world.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not just work.\u00a0 Since Trump\u2019s ascendancy the need on my part for a kind of psychological decompression, every couple of months or so, outside the US has become almost imperative.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been an academic mercenary in the US since 1987, that is, someone in the immensely fortunate position of being able to work here legally without becoming citizen.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been given some grief for taking this position, but still believe it\u2019s possible to contribute to the American \u201cknowledge economy\u201d while being a non-citizen who pays all his taxes (unlike so-and-so, beginning with the current US president, and in the country of my citizenship, the queen of England, the latter according to disclosures made recently in the Paradise Papers).\u00a0 What is it that they say about the fish rotting from the head first?<\/p>\n<p>The possession of citizenship, more often than not a matter of convenience for the 1% who can in many cases afford to buy multiple passports \u2014 Paul Manafort, the lobbyist who was Orange Swindler\u2019s campaign manager, and now facing criminal charges, owns 3 passports\u2013 \u00a0is certainly not coextensive with being someone who works and pays their taxes!<\/p>\n<p>Going abroad, however, whether it be in Malaysia or Greece or wherever, confronts the person living in America with the inevitable questions about Trumplandia.\u00a0 Foreigners, at least those who are curious, are bewildered by Trumplandia, and its master of ceremonies,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/11\/23\/discussing-trump-abroad\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work takes me to countries all over the world.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not just work.\u00a0 Since Trump\u2019s ascendancy the need on my part for a kind of psychological decompression, every couple of months or so, outside the US has become almost imperative. I\u2019ve been an academic mercenary in the US since 1987, that is, someone [&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-336277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}