{"id":1242000,"date":"2023-10-03T05:52:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=296260"},"modified":"2023-10-03T05:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:52:36","slug":"a-new-cold-war-on-an-ever-hotter-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/03\/a-new-cold-war-on-an-ever-hotter-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Cold War on an Ever-Hotter Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me, what planet are we actually on? All these decades later, are we really involved in a \u201csecond\u201d or \u201cnew\u201d Cold War? It\u2019s certainly true that, as late as the 1980s, the superpowers (or so they then liked to think of themselves), the United States and the Soviet Union, were still engaged in just such a Cold War, something that might have seemed almost positive at the time. After all, a \u201chot\u201d one could have involved the use of the planet\u2019s two great nuclear arsenals and the potential obliteration of just about everything. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/03\/a-new-cold-war-on-an-ever-hotter-planet\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/03\/a-new-cold-war-on-an-ever-hotter-planet\/\">A New Cold War on an Ever-Hotter Planet<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/03\/a-new-cold-war-on-an-ever-hotter-planet\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me, what planet are we actually on? All these decades later, are we really involved in a \u201csecond\u201d or \u201cnew\u201d Cold War? It\u2019s certainly true that, as late as the 1980s, the superpowers (or so they then liked to think of themselves), the United States &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,393,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242825,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242000\/revisions\/1242825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}