{"id":582,"date":"2015-01-26T22:33:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/?p=582"},"modified":"2015-11-09T17:19:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:19:22","slug":"scott-horton-lords-of-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/scott-horton-lords-of-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Horton &#8212; Lords of Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DemocracyNow! has made <a href=\"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0-horton-secrecy.pdf\">chapter 1<\/a> of Scott Horton&#8217;s book &#8220;Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America&#8217;s Stealth Foreign Policy&#8221; freely available.<\/p>\n<p>A few excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secrecy is highly corrosive to any democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The way a country goes about making vital decisions about its national security is a good sign of whether a country\u2019s claims to be democratic are genuine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In most nominal democracies, the people have no say about whether their nation goes to war or makes peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today Americans know less about what their national security forces are doing than ever before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DemocracyNow! has made chapter 1 of Scott Horton&#8217;s book &#8220;Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America&#8217;s Stealth Foreign Policy&#8221; freely available. A few excerpts: Secrecy is highly corrosive to any democracy. &nbsp; The way a country goes about making vital decisions about its national security is a good sign of whether a country\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3082,"url":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/michael-parenti-conspiracy-and-class-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":582,"position":0},"title":"Michael Parenti - Conspiracy AND class power","date":"August 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"@youtube{, topic = {ruling class, conspiration}, url = {https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jsua0m6GreY}, author = {Michael Parenti}, title = {Conspiracy AND class power}, institution = {Berkeley, CA}, year = {1993}, abstract = {This is an in-depth analysis of the modern state and the exercise of power behind the scenes. The speech is also an\u2026","rel":"nofollow","context":"In \"Politics and Society\"","img":{"src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malemuk.com\/olofee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}