{"id":400599,"date":"2019-03-21T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tulsi-gabbard-comes-to-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:59:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:59:51","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-comes-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tulsi-gabbard-comes-to-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard Comes to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/tulsi-gabbard-comes-to-san-francisco\/tulsiatusf\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90377\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90377\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TulsiAtUSF-e1553093230182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m running for president to be able to bring about this sea change in our foreign policy that is so necessary for us and for the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tulsi Gabbard<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Introduction by Rick Sterling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard visited the San Francisco Bay Area last weekend. The 3 term Congresswoman from Hawaii is 37 years old and ethnically diverse. Remarkably, she has 15 years military experience in the US Army and National Guard as well as substantial political experience. She was elected to the Hawaii State Assembly at age 21.<\/p>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard supports progressive domestic policy issues including criminal justice reform, healthcare-for-all, national and international steps to protect the environment. She has a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kathrynrosefisher\/im-lgbt-here-s-where-the-media-is-wrong-on-tulsi-gabbard-bb0fde008d16\">high approval<\/a> rating on gay issues.<\/p>\n<p>What makes Gabbard really distinctive is her emphasis and approach to US foreign policy. While other candidates largely avoid the subject, Tulsi Gabbard says the issue is \u201ccentral\u201d to all other issues. She says we need to change the policy of \u201cregime change wars\u201d and \u201cnew cold war\u201d with Russia and China. She advocates cooperation instead of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard said \u201cWe are at a greater risk of nuclear catastrophe than ever before in history.\u201d She described the scare of an incoming nuclear missile attack which occurred in Hawaii last year. Even though the alert turned out to be false, the threat is real. \u201cIt should alarm every one of us here that leaders in Washington are either not paying attention, they don\u2019t know, or they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/tulsi-gabbard-comes-to-san-francisco\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m running for president to be able to bring about this sea change in our foreign policy that is so necessary for us and for the world. \u2014 Tulsi Gabbard Introduction by Rick Sterling Tulsi Gabbard visited the San Francisco Bay Area last weekend. The 3 term Congresswoman from Hawaii is 37 years old and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400599","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\/400599","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}