{"id":29841,"date":"2018-01-18T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29841"},"modified":"2018-01-18T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:22:39","slug":"rep-gabbard-speaks-truth-to-power-about-the-real-reason-korea-has-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29841","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Gabbard Speaks Truth to Power About the Real Reason Korea Has Nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/18\/rep-gabbard-speaks-truth-to-power-about-the-real-reason-korea-has-nukes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rep. Gabbard Speaks Truth to Power About the Real Reason Korea Has Nukes<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99090\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-6.01.22-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-6.01.22-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-6.01.22-PM-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-6.01.22-PM-768x505.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by AFGE | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We already knew that Tulsi Gabbard was courageous, when the Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii resigned from her position as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee in disgust during the primary season in 2016, declaring publicly what we now know to have been true \u2014 that the DNC was manipulating the primaries to favor Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders \u2014 was courageous. Now as basically the only member of Congress with the guts to call out the US as the cause of our current knife-edge threat of a nuclear war, she\u2019s demonstrated her courage again.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard,\u00a0<span class=\"print-footnote\">[1]<\/span>interviewed on ABC News, declared unambiguously that the reason that North Korea has worked so diligently to develop nuclear weapons and missiles capable of delivering them to the US is that the United States over several decades and under a number of presidents, has had a policy of \u201cregime change,\u201d and a history of violently attempting to overthrow governments that it doesn\u2019t like. As she put it in an interview over the weekend with ABC news host George Stephanopolos, \u201cOur country\u2019s history of regime-change wars has led countries like North Korea to develop and hold on to these nuclear weapons because they see it as their only deterrent against regime change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Gabbard, who has been calling for the US to negotiate directly \u201cand without pre-conditions\u201d with North Korea to resolve the crisis, says the US also needs to recognize the reality that North Korea already has nuclear weapons and is not going to give them up unless it feels secure from US attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Gabbard Speaks Truth to Power About the Real Reason Korea Has Nukes Photo by AFGE | CC BY 2.0 We already knew that Tulsi Gabbard was courageous, when the Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii resigned from her position as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee in disgust during the primary season in 2016, declaring [&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":[7264,5493,11643,17978,2006,581,2583,10392,1796,862],"class_list":["post-29841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-abc","tag-counterpunch","tag-dave-lindorff","tag-george-stephanopolos","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-tulsi-gabbard","tag-us-congress","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841","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=29841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29842,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions\/29842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}