{"id":679020,"date":"2022-05-31T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=244916"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:46:08","slug":"restore-our-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/31\/restore-our-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Restore Our Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>s predictable as thunder following lightning, former CIA director William Gates recently declared that Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and China\u2019s increasing assertiveness demonstrate the need for the U.S. government to remain an ever-growing, more powerful national-security state. Gates\u2019s declaration appeared in an op-ed in the March 3, 2022, issue of the Washington Post. He also  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/31\/restore-our-republic\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/31\/restore-our-republic\/\">Restore Our Republic<\/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\/05\/31\/restore-our-republic\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>s predictable as thunder following lightning, former CIA director William Gates recently declared that Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and China\u2019s increasing assertiveness demonstrate the need for the U.S. government to remain an ever-growing, more powerf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"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\/679020"}],"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\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679021,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679020\/revisions\/679021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}