{"id":2642,"date":"2014-12-08T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2014-12-08T07:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:46:01","slug":"greers-twilights-last-gleaming-sees-end-of-empire-transition-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"Greer&#8217;s &#8216;Twilight&#8217;s Last Gleaming&#8217; sees end of empire \u2014 Transition Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2014\/12\/star-spangled-collapse\/\">Greer&#8217;s &#8216;Twilight&#8217;s Last Gleaming&#8217; sees end of empire \u2014 Transition Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem 0px;\">Apparently, people who write titles for politico-military thrillers about nuclear brinksmanship find the language of\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">The Star Spangled Banner<\/em>\u00a0just too good to resist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem 0px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; color: #27a3d1; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Twilight's Last Gleaming film\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076845\/\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Twilight\u2019s Last Gleaming<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is a 1977 drama starring Burt Lancaster as a renegade air force general who takes over a nuclear missile silo and threatens to start World War III unless the president, played by Charles Durning, releases a document to the public demonstrating the U.S. government\u2019s bad faith in conducting the recently ended Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem 0px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; color: #27a3d1; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"By Dawn's Early Light\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099197\/\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">By Dawn\u2019s Early Light<\/em><\/a>, a made-for-TV film from 1990, spins a similarly Strangelovian tale, where the president played by Martin Landau tries to get control of the military from renegade officers seeking a pre-emptive strike against a late-Cold War Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem 0px;\">And earlier this year novelist Greg Dinallo published\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; color: #27a3d1; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rockets' Red Glare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KLOY29K\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00KLOY29K&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=transitionvoice-20&amp;linkId=DGMS2GXIIZECY444\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Rockets\u2019 Red Glare<\/em><\/a>, a techno-thriller that imagined a connection between the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and a potential nuclear war at sea in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; color: #27a3d1; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1782200355\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1782200355&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=transitionvoice-20&amp;linkId=B6KFAXJGY572NTJE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25673\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: -0.4rem; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Twilights-Last-Gleaming-cover-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Twilight's Last Gleaming cover\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem 0px;\">Now, we can add to the list another\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; color: #27a3d1; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Twilight's Last Gleaming by John Michael Greer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1782200355\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1782200355&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=transitionvoice-20&amp;linkId=B6KFAXJGY572NTJE\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Twilight\u2019s Last Gleaming<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 this one a new novel of America\u2019s decline and fall by John Michael Greer.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;\">&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2014\/12\/star-spangled-collapse\/#sthash.APjU6po4.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greer&#8217;s &#8216;Twilight&#8217;s Last Gleaming&#8217; sees end of empire \u2014 Transition Voice. Apparently, people who write titles for politico-military thrillers about nuclear brinksmanship find the language of\u00a0The Star Spangled Banner\u00a0just too good to resist. Twilight\u2019s Last Gleaming\u00a0is a 1977 drama starring Burt Lancaster as a renegade air force general who takes over a nuclear missile silo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1760,1758,1759],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-book-review","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-twilights-last-gleaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}