{"id":1717,"date":"2011-12-11T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:20:23","slug":"right-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"Right on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The closing paragraphs of today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/blog\/175478\/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_1%25_election\/\">Tom Dispatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s clear enough &#8212; or should be by now &#8212; that the electoral process has been occupied by the 1%; which means that what you hear in this &#8220;campaign&#8221; is largely refracted versions of their praise, their condemnation, their slurs, their views, their needs, their fears, and their wishes.  They are making money off, and electing a president via, you.  Which means that you &#8212; that all of us &#8212; are occupied, too.<\/p>\n<p>So stop calling this an &#8220;election.&#8221;  Whatever it is, we need a new name for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this just in via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2011\/12\/iran-has-us-surrounded-all-right.html\">Juan Cole<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran has US Surrounded, All Right<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/images\/2011\/12\/usbasesme.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closing paragraphs of today&#8217;s Tom Dispatch: It\u2019s clear enough &#8212; or should be by now &#8212; that the electoral process has been occupied by the 1%; which means that what you hear in this &#8220;campaign&#8221; is largely refracted versions of their praise, their condemnation, their slurs, their views, their needs, their fears, and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argybargy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}