{"id":4318,"date":"2012-08-22T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:50:18","slug":"tom-engelhardt-how-did-the-us-president-become-the-assassin-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"Tom Engelhardt: How did the US President Become the Assassin-in-Chief?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/\">The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TfWjQyTOiNA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Assassination has always been a tool of the American state, but before the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; it was not something our leaders bragged about. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/\">TomDispatch.com<\/a>&#8216;s Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse explain in their new book, <em>Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050<\/em>, President Obama has gone beyond his predecessors, even beyond George W. Bush, and consolidated his power to the point of becoming the Assassin-in-Chief. Whether the American people are in favor of this type of warfare has never been asked, leaving the decision of who lives and who dies squarely with the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Max Rivlin-Nadler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Nation Assassination has always been a tool of the American state, but before the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; it was not something our leaders bragged about. As TomDispatch.com&#8216;s Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse explain in their new book, Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050, President Obama has gone beyond his predecessors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[1478,5,1479,1477,1480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}