{"id":15595,"date":"2011-05-27T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15595"},"modified":"2011-05-27T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:01:53","slug":"david-swanson-u-s-house-backs-forever-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15595","title":{"rendered":"David Swanson: U.S. House Backs Forever War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liveblogging the Vote on Eternal Worldwide War<br \/>\nDavid Swanson<br \/>\n26 May 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives backed eternal worldwide  war and imprisonment powers for all future presidents, but blocked any  ground troops in Libya (except for the ones already there, since the  measure included no consequences for its violation).\u00a0 The House also  unanimously created a new national holiday to celebrate the Iraq and  Afghanistan Wars.\u00a0 It defunded the US Institute for Peace (saving the  cost of 5 hours in Afghanistan).\u00a0 And it required that all suspected  foreign terrorists be tried by the military and not in courts (unless  bullets are put in their heads first).<\/p>\n<p>All in a good day&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the play-by-play:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/warisacrime.org\/content\/us-house-backs-forever-war-liveblogging-vote-eternal-worldwide-war\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;U.S. House Backs Forever War: Liveblogging the Vote on Eternal Worldwide War&#8221; by David Swanson<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liveblogging the Vote on Eternal Worldwide War David Swanson 26 May 2011 On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives backed eternal worldwide war and imprisonment powers for all future presidents, but blocked any ground troops in Libya (except for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15595\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-43x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15596,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions\/15596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}