{"id":1630,"date":"2010-06-11T22:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T22:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2014-07-21T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T20:09:45","slug":"%e2%80%9cbeautiful-and-moving-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-all-americans-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBeautiful and moving&#8230; should be a wake-up call for all Americans.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chalmers Johnson, Prof. Emeritus of Political Science, UC San  Diego, and Author of the <em>Blowback<\/em> Trilogy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This very beautiful and moving film deals with some &#8220;hidden history&#8221; about American imperialism. Nor is it only history, since the U.S. government is about to inflict a still greater military base expansion on Guam, which its ecology cannot possibly sustain. It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve seen such an impressive documentary &#8211; <em>The Insular Empire<\/em> should be a wake-up call for all Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalmers Johnson, Prof. Emeritus of Political Science, UC San Diego, and Author of the Blowback Trilogy: &#8220;This very beautiful and moving film deals with some &#8220;hidden history&#8221; about American imperialism. Nor is it only history, since the U.S. government is about to inflict a still greater military base expansion on Guam, which its ecology cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}