{"id":491895,"date":"2022-01-31T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=232680"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:00:08","slug":"u-s-politicians-spend-their-time-papering-over-the-social-problems-caused-by-profit-driven-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/31\/u-s-politicians-spend-their-time-papering-over-the-social-problems-caused-by-profit-driven-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Politicians Spend Their Time Papering Over the Social Problems Caused by Profit-Driven Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The declines of U.S. capitalism and of its imperial position provoke fear among its mainstream politicians. Their response, in large part, has been to deny that any such decline is happening. These politicians do this partly by acting as though the U.S. remains in the globally dominant position it occupied in the second half of the 20th century. Thus, to maintain this illusion, they start wars in the Middle East, maintain military bases in dozens of countries, intervene in other countries at will and describe the U.S. as the global guarantor of peace, security, and democracy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/31\/u-s-politicians-spend-their-time-papering-over-the-social-problems-caused-by-profit-driven-capitalism\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/31\/u-s-politicians-spend-their-time-papering-over-the-social-problems-caused-by-profit-driven-capitalism\/\">U.S. Politicians Spend Their Time Papering Over the Social Problems Caused by Profit-Driven Capitalism<\/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\/2022\/01\/31\/u-s-politicians-spend-their-time-papering-over-the-social-problems-caused-by-profit-driven-capitalism\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The declines of U.S. capitalism and of its imperial position provoke fear among its mainstream politicians. Their response, in large part, has been to deny that any such decline is happening. These politicians do this partly by acting as though the U.S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"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\/491895"}],"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\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493352,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491895\/revisions\/493352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}