{"id":280,"date":"2010-08-06T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/?p=280"},"modified":"2010-08-06T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:22:00","slug":"the-collapse-of-imperial-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2010\/08\/06\/the-collapse-of-imperial-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The collapse of Imperial America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;\"><b>Originally published at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.of2minds.org\/wakeup\/2010\/08\/06\/the-collapse-of-imperial-america\/\">Wake Up<\/a>. Please leave any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.of2minds.org\/wakeup\/2010\/08\/06\/the-collapse-of-imperial-america\/#comments\">comments<\/a> there.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s piece titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/08\/06\/collapse\/index.html\">What collapsing empire looks like<\/a>:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights &#8212; or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State  &#8212; that a very serious problem has arisen, that things have gone seriously awry, that imperial collapse, by definition, is an imminent inevitability?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: \"The collapse of Imperial America\", url: \"http:\/\/www.of2minds.org\/wakeup\/2010\/08\/06\/the-collapse-of-imperial-america\/\" });<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published at Wake Up. Please leave any comments there. From Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s piece titled &#8220;What collapsing empire looks like:&#8221; Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights &#8212; or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2010\/08\/06\/the-collapse-of-imperial-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The collapse of Imperial America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,55],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}