{"id":692180,"date":"2022-06-09T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=245756"},"modified":"2022-06-09T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T08:02:48","slug":"the-arsenal-but-not-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/09\/the-arsenal-but-not-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arsenal, but Not of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America is awash with weapons, and the tragic consequences are before us every day. The world is also awash with weapons, as reported by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute in Sweden, the leading source for data on military spending and the arms trade. SIPRI\u2019s latest report shows that the US remains the world\u2019s leading arsenal.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/09\/the-arsenal-but-not-of-democracy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/09\/the-arsenal-but-not-of-democracy\/\">The Arsenal, but Not of Democracy<\/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\/06\/09\/the-arsenal-but-not-of-democracy\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America is awash with weapons, and the tragic consequences are before us every day. The world is also awash with weapons, as reported by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute in Sweden, the leading source for data on military spending and the arms tra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"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\/692180"}],"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\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692181,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692180\/revisions\/692181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}