{"id":180468,"date":"2017-04-11T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/11\/headline-of-the-day-90\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:21:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/11\/headline-of-the-day-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">What Is &#8216;Global Britain&#8217;? A Financier and Arms Merchant to Brutal Dictators<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/apr\/05\/global-britain-brexit-financier-arms-merchant-brutal-dictators\">Nick Dearden<\/a> in an OP\/ED in the <i>Guardian<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a pretty good description of what the UK&#8217;s global footprint these days.<\/p>\n<p>For a very long time, the UK has aggressively moving away from productive work and toward a financialized economy which is little more than a vehicle for parasitism.<\/p>\n<p>It is what is happening to the US as well, but it&#8217;s not moving quite as quickly, if just because our government is less centralized, and because our economy is so much bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is &#8216;Global Britain&#8217;? A Financier and Arms Merchant to Brutal Dictators \u2014Nick Dearden in an OP\/ED in the Guardian This is a pretty good description of what the UK&#8217;s global footprint these days. For a very long time, the UK has aggressively moving away from productive work and toward a financialized economy which is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,456,464,444],"class_list":["post-180468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-finance","tag-good-writing","tag-international-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}