{"id":40399,"date":"2018-11-11T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40399"},"modified":"2018-11-11T09:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T14:25:02","slug":"the-best-way-to-honor-war-veterans-is-to-stop-creating-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40399","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way To Honor War Veterans Is To Stop Creating\u00a0Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/11\/11\/the-best-way-to-honor-war-veterans-is-to-stop-creating-them\/\">The Best Way To Honor War Veterans Is To Stop Creating\u00a0Them<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-5540\" class=\"post-5540 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-peace tag-veterans tag-veterans-day tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/medium-5.jpg?fit=720%2C477&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/medium-5.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/medium-5.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/medium-5.jpg?resize=128%2C86&amp;ssl=1 128w\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"477\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>The US will be celebrating Veterans Day tomorrow, and many a striped flag shall be waved. The social currency of esteem will be used to elevate those who have served in the US military, thereby ensuring future generations of recruits to be thrown into the gears of the globe-spanning war machine.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Day is not a holiday to honor the men and women who have dutifully protected their country. The youngest Americans who arguably defended their nation from a real threat to its shores are in their nineties, and soon there won\u2019t be any of them left. Every single person who has served in the US military since the end of the second World War has protected nothing other than the agendas of global hegemony, resource control and war profiteering. They have not been fighting and dying for freedom and democracy, they have been fighting and dying for imperialism, Raytheon profit margins, and crude oil.<\/p>\n<p>I just said something you\u2019re not supposed to say. People have dedicated many years of their lives to the service of the US military; they\u2019ve given their limbs to it, they\u2019ve suffered horrific brain damage for it, they\u2019ve given their very lives to it. Families have been ripped apart by the violence that has been inflicted upon members of the US Armed Forces; you\u2019re not supposed to let them hear you say that their loved one was destroyed because some sociopathic nerds somewhere in Washington decided that it would give America an advantage over potential economic rivals to control a particular stretch of Middle Eastern dirt. But it is true, and if we don\u2019t start acknowledging that truth lives are going to keep getting thrown into the gears of the machine for the power and profit of a few depraved oligarchs. So I\u2019m going to keep saying it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best Way To Honor War Veterans Is To Stop Creating\u00a0Them The US will be celebrating Veterans Day tomorrow, and many a striped flag shall be waved. The social currency of esteem will be used to elevate those who have served in the US military, thereby ensuring future generations of recruits to be thrown into [&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":[5,6],"tags":[17039,862,22911],"class_list":["post-40399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-war","tag-war-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40399","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=40399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40400,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40399\/revisions\/40400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}