{"id":4882,"date":"2016-05-02T14:41:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:51:17","slug":"wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4882","title":{"rendered":"WAKE UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Rivers Pitt, writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/26188-the-pleasant-fiction-of-no-boots-on-the-ground\">superbly<\/a> as usual for Truth Out, reminded us eighteen-months ago that President Obama&#8217;s former top counterterrorism adviser, Daniel Benjamin<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;describes the ramped-up depiction of the alleged ISIS threat as a &#8216;farce&#8217; peddled by &#8216;members of the cabinet and top military officers all over the place describing the threat in lurid terms that are not justified.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, beloved members of the arts community, if you wonder how that relates to your nearly-total defunding by the U.S. government, I suggest you don&#8217;t have that much to wonder about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get ready for more folded flags,&#8221; Pitts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/35873-boots-on-the-ground-in-iraq-here-we-go-again\">writes<\/a> today, &#8220;and more economic collapse as our hard-earned tax dollars, and our children and theirs, are fed into the frictionless machine of eternal war.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Rivers Pitt, writing superbly as usual for Truth Out, reminded us eighteen-months ago that President Obama&#8217;s former top counterterrorism adviser, Daniel Benjamin &#8220;describes the ramped-up depiction of the alleged ISIS threat as a &#8216;farce&#8217; peddled by &#8216;members of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4882\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}