{"id":11746,"date":"2016-05-31T06:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T10:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11746"},"modified":"2016-05-30T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T14:52:25","slug":"the-empire-files-part-1-100-years-of-us-troops-as-lab-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11746","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Files: Part 1 &#8211; 100 Years Of US Troops As Lab Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: &#8220;Support the troops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This pledge is hammered into the American psyche at every turn. But there is a hidden, dark history that shows that the politicians are in fact no friend to service members&#8211;but their greatest enemy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Part I of this two-part episode, Abby Martin documents experimentation on US troops, from race-based chemical agent tests to nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wPiYx4pQjNk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW \/\/ @EmpireFiles \/\/ @AbbyMartin \/\/ @telesurenglish<\/p>\n<p>LIKE \/\/<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=bMRJV5mkMarO8gTLtovQDg\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original music by Anahedron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: &#8220;Support the troops.&#8221; This pledge is hammered into the American psyche at every turn. But there is a hidden, dark history that shows that the politicians are in fact no friend to service members&#8211;but their greatest enemy.\u00a0 In Part I of this two-part episode, Abby Martin documents experimentation on US troops, from race-based chemical agent tests to nuclear weapons. FOLLOW \/\/ @EmpireFiles \/\/ @AbbyMartin \/\/ @telesurenglish LIKE \/\/\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles Original music by Anahedron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,683],"tags":[790,84,815,965],"class_list":["post-11746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-usa","tag-empire-files","tag-feature","tag-telesur","tag-us-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11747,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746\/revisions\/11747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}