{"id":27967,"date":"2017-11-14T20:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T01:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27967"},"modified":"2017-11-14T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T01:22:35","slug":"dennis-kucinich-discusses-the-permanent-government-behind-us-foreign-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27967","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Kucinich Discusses the \u2018Permanent Government\u2019 behind US Foreign Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a title=\"Dennis Kucinich Discusses the \u2018Permanent Government\u2019 behind US Foreign Intervention\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/peace-and-prosperity\/2017\/november\/13\/dennis-kucinich-discusses-the-permanent-government-behind-us-foreign-intervention\/\">Dennis Kucinich Discusses the \u2018Permanent Government\u2019 behind US Foreign Intervention<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"uBlogsy_post_body\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/media\/119540\/kucinich2.jpg?width=300&amp;height=177\" alt=\"undefined\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with host Wilmer Leon at the Inside the Issues show, former presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) discussed how what Kucinich terms the \u201cpermanent government\u201d has worked to ensure the United States continues pursuing destructive foreign interventions and to keep America \u201cat the precipice of a much wider war\u201d irrespective of who is president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an unbroken line going back over the last 30 years where American presidents have continued to proceed with an interventionism that has been counterproductive,\u201d states Kucinich. This \u201ccontinued commitment to a failed foreign policy of interventionism, of unilateralism, of first strike,\u201d Kucinich continues, \u201cimperils America,\u201d \u201cdoes not make us safer,\u201d \u201cseparates us from the world community,\u201d \u201chas people looking to extract vengeance on Americans,\u201d and \u201chas made the world a more dangerous place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saying we need to look beyond the personalities of the succession of US presidents from George W. Bush to Barack Obama to Donald Trump, Kucinich recommends we \u201clook at the foreign policy establishment of the United States of America\u201d that, he explains, includes people in the State Department who have a neoconservative ideology, in the Pentagon who are dedicated to the military-industrial complex, and in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who can \u201cconjure conflicts\u201d and \u201ctry to justify the further involvement of the military and the State Department.\u201d This, Kucinich says, \u201cis the permanent government, which we see reflected through Democrat and Republican administrations, no matter whether they are so-called conservative or liberal or populist; it\u2019s all the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While this \u201cpermanent government\u201d push for US intervention overseas has produced many harmful consequences, some of which Kucinich discusses in the interview, it also, he argues, produces the additional danger that it \u201ckeeps us at the precipice of a much wider war.\u201d<\/section>\n<section>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Kucinich Discusses the \u2018Permanent Government\u2019 behind US Foreign Intervention In a recent interview with host Wilmer Leon at the Inside the Issues show, former presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) discussed how what Kucinich terms the \u201cpermanent government\u201d has worked to ensure the United States continues pursuing destructive [&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":[16409,14512,17017,15396,17016,17018],"class_list":["post-27967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-adam-dick","tag-dennis-kucinich","tag-permanent-government","tag-ron-paul-institute","tag-us-foreign-intervention","tag-wilmer-leon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967","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=27967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27968,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967\/revisions\/27968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}