{"id":2141,"date":"2010-07-04T02:48:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T09:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2010-07-04T02:48:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T09:48:58","slug":"economic-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/04\/economic-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today we celebrate out independence from Britain\u2019s 18th century political imperialism.&#160; Today the US still practices imperialism, but it is more subtle that the empire building of centuries past.&#160; Yesterday I ran across a video clip at Tim\u2019s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timsscaredstiff.com\/?p=557\" target=\"_blank\">Scared Stiff<\/a>, that is the best short study of the transition from national empire building to corporate international imperialism that I have seen.&#160; Thank you, Tim!&#160; This is worth the ten minutes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v6c0MpJMT_4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v6c0MpJMT_4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What say you?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate out independence from Britain\u2019s 18th century political imperialism.&#160; Today the US still practices imperialism, but it is more subtle that the empire building of centuries past.&#160; Yesterday I ran across a video clip at Tim\u2019s blog, Scared Stiff, that is the best short study of the transition from national empire building to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/04\/economic-imperialism\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}