{"id":182327,"date":"2015-10-18T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/18\/and-this-guy-got-a-nobel-peace-prize\/"},"modified":"2015-10-18T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:24:00","slug":"and-this-guy-got-a-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/18\/and-this-guy-got-a-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"And this Guy Got a Nobel Peace Prize?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NS7BjNG961g?rel=0\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Every time we get a new bit of information about Obama&#8217;s drone policies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/10\/one-story-shows-how-insane-u-s-drone-policy-is.html\">it just gets worse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock, you know that U.S. drone policy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/10\/whistleblower-90-of-drone-fatalities-are-civilians.html\">is insane<\/a>. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But one story told by the main drone whistleblowing reporter \u2013 Jeremy Scahill \u2013 shows just how insane it really is. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Specifically, Scahill explained today that Americans target TALL people in Afghanistan and other countries \u2026 assuming that tall men must be Arabs or \u201cforeign fighters.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In one instance, the U.S. targeted for drone assassination a man who they thought was unusually tall.  In reality, he was a normal-size man \u2026 who happened to be surrounded by children. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notwithstanding some domestic accomplishments, such as his half assed healthcare reform, Obama&#8217;s true legacy will be his immoral and counterproductive drone war.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s embrace of the contemptible and disasterous historical legacy of the Dulles brothers is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time we get a new bit of information about Obama&#8217;s drone policies, it just gets worse: Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock, you know that U.S. drone policy is insane. But one story told by the main drone whistleblowing reporter \u2013 Jeremy Scahill \u2013 shows just how insane it really is. Specifically, Scahill &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1032,969,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182327"}],"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=182327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}