{"id":340030,"date":"2021-10-07T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=215907"},"modified":"2021-10-07T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:18:40","slug":"stop-calling-the-military-budget-a-defense-budget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/07\/stop-calling-the-military-budget-a-defense-budget-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Calling the Military Budget a \u2018Defense\u2019 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a \u201cdefense\u201d budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets of the nation\u2019s warfare state are embedded in the political culture of the United States. The  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/07\/stop-calling-the-military-budget-a-defense-budget\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/07\/stop-calling-the-military-budget-a-defense-budget\/\">Stop Calling the Military Budget a \u2018Defense\u2019 Budget<\/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\/2021\/10\/07\/stop-calling-the-military-budget-a-defense-budget\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a \u201cdefense\u201d budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets of the nation\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340030"}],"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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340219,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340030\/revisions\/340219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}