{"id":5200,"date":"2016-07-12T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2016-07-12T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:21:57","slug":"nato-pursues-unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"NATO PURSUES THE UNTHINKABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Robert Parry at Consortium News <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/07\/11\/nato-reaffirms-its-bogus-russia-narrative\/\">departs<\/a> from the lockstep geopolitical narrative of our ever-more war hungry neo cons and the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media that toadies to them. Not content with the catastrophes they sowed in the Middle East, they now drool over a war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>And if confirmation were needed, Michael Klare in The Nation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-united-states-and-nato-are-preparing-for-a-major-war-with-russia\/\">examines<\/a> the &#8220;new and dangerous strategic outlook in Washington.\u00a0Whereas previously the strategic focus had been on terrorism and counterinsurgency, it has now shifted to conventional warfare among the major powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Robert Parry at Consortium News departs from the lockstep geopolitical narrative of our ever-more war hungry neo cons and the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media that toadies to them. Not content with the catastrophes they sowed in the Middle East, they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5200\">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-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","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=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}