{"id":13012,"date":"2017-01-27T06:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=13012"},"modified":"2017-01-21T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T18:50:19","slug":"obama-the-merchants-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=13012","title":{"rendered":"Obama &#038; The Merchants of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this edition of The Geopolitical Report, we look at Barack Obama\u2019s legacy as a record breaking arms dealer. Obama has enabled Saudi Arabia to wage an illegal war\u00a0in Yemen and has gifted the merchants of death with billions of dollars in new contracts with Taiwan and Vietnam. We also cover the Nye Commission and its\u00a0investigation into the munitions industry after the First World War. Finally, we look at how the new Trump administration has promised to radically expand the US military\u00a0and make the merchants of death billions more in profit from war and death.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cWv9RRe23DA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Join the Newsbud Community<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gbO5ii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gbO5ii\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgYACITCJifnpPg09ECFUG9nAod6WsLlyj4HQ\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gbO5ii<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit our website<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gl9jbd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gl9jbd\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgYACITCJifnpPg09ECFUG9nAod6WsLlyj4HQ\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gl9jbd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Newsbud on Twitter<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/29d5XFD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/29d5XFD\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgYACITCJifnpPg09ECFUG9nAod6WsLlyj4HQ\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/29d5XFD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this edition of The Geopolitical Report, we look at Barack Obama\u2019s legacy as a record breaking arms dealer. Obama has enabled Saudi Arabia to wage an illegal war\u00a0in Yemen and has gifted the merchants of death with billions of dollars in new contracts with Taiwan and Vietnam. We also cover the Nye Commission and its\u00a0investigation into the munitions industry after the First World War. Finally, we look at how the new Trump administration has promised to radically expand the US military\u00a0and make the merchants of death billions more in profit from war and death. Join the Newsbud Community http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gbO5ii Visit our website\u00a0 http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gl9jbd Follow Newsbud on Twitter http:\/\/bit.ly\/29d5XFD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,691,14,683],"tags":[84,1026,1114],"class_list":["post-13012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-middleeast","category-pol","category-activism-usa","tag-feature","tag-newsbud","tag-the-geopolitical-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012","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=13012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13013,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions\/13013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}