{"id":23686,"date":"2013-02-09T20:08:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=51ea3265c2114c929ad8be1d80eb118a"},"modified":"2013-02-09T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:08:15","slug":"clearing-the-fog-with-ray-mcgovern-and-bill-blum-on-obamas-second-term-his-appointments-and-us-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2013\/02\/09\/clearing-the-fog-with-ray-mcgovern-and-bill-blum-on-obamas-second-term-his-appointments-and-us-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the FOG with Ray McGovern and Bill Blum on Obama\u2019s Second Term, his Appointments and US Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ray McGovern and Bill Blum discuss President Obama\u2019s second term and his appointments to Secretaries of State and Defense and head of the CIA in the broader context of US foreign policy and imperialism. We speak about John Brennan\u2019s involvement in extraordinary rendition, torture and drone attacks as well as the weekly Tuesday \u2018Kill List\u201d that he presents to President Obama. We speak about the influence of the military-industrial complex on US expansion into Asia and Africa and the influence of AIPAC on policies on the Middle East. See\u00a0<a class=\"mx-link\" href=\"http:\/\/clearingthefogradio.org\/ray-mcgovern-and-bill-blum-on-obamas-second-term-his-appointments-and-us-empire\/\" rel=\"nofollow external\"  style=\"outline: 0px; text-decoration: initial; cursor: pointer; color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\">http:\/\/clearingthefogradio.org\/ray-mc...<\/a>\u00a0for more information including links to the guests articles and essays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/clearing-the-fog-with-ray-mc-govern-and-bill-blum-on-obama-s-second-term-his-appointments-and-us-empire\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray McGovern and Bill Blum discuss President Obama\u2019s second term and his appointments to Secretaries of State and Defense and head of the CIA in the broader context of US foreign policy and imperialism. We speak about John Brennan\u2019s involvement in extr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686"}],"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\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23687,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions\/23687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}