{"id":448836,"date":"2021-12-27T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=229535"},"modified":"2021-12-27T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:05:46","slug":"desmond-tutu-opposed-capitalism-israeli-apartheid-and-us-uk-imperialism-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/27\/desmond-tutu-opposed-capitalism-israeli-apartheid-and-us-uk-imperialism-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Tutu Opposed Capitalism, Israeli Apartheid and US\/UK Imperialism, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But as with Martin Luther King, many of the same political leaders commemorating Tutu today would have been unlikely to mention him a day earlier, lest Tutu take the opportunity to speak his mind.\u00a0 This is certainly why he was not invited to commemorate his friend and comrade, Nelson Mandela, at Mandela's funeral eight years ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/27\/desmond-tutu-opposed-capitalism-israeli-apartheid-and-us-uk-imperialism-too\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/27\/desmond-tutu-opposed-capitalism-israeli-apartheid-and-us-uk-imperialism-too\/\">Desmond Tutu Opposed Capitalism, Israeli Apartheid and US\/UK Imperialism, Too<\/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\/12\/27\/desmond-tutu-opposed-capitalism-israeli-apartheid-and-us-uk-imperialism-too\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But as with Martin Luther King, many of the same political leaders commemorating Tutu today would have been unlikely to mention him a day earlier, lest Tutu take the opportunity to speak his mind.\u00a0 This is certainly why he was not invited to commemorat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448836"}],"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\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449258,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448836\/revisions\/449258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}