{"id":13046,"date":"2017-02-06T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=13046"},"modified":"2017-02-02T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:40:10","slug":"post-soviet-russia-made-in-the-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=13046","title":{"rendered":"Post-Soviet Russia, Made In The U.S.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The increased aggression towards Russia from US politicians and media is made more clear when taking into account the real history of the post-Soviet period. The hidden story of Boris Yeltsin\u2019s presidency explains how deeply the US government, along with Western capitalist institutions, cheered, shaped and exploited the country after the fall of the Soviet Union, paving the way for the political system they all condemn today.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To uncover just how much the US Empire has interfered in Russia\u2019s political evolution, Abby Martin interviews Mark Ames, an American journalist who spent a decade reporting from Yeltsin\u2019 and Putin\u2019s Russia and witnessed the country\u2019s transformation from an American \u201ccolony\u201d to it\u2019s \u201cnumber one threat.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"https:\/\/videosenglish.telesurtv.net\/video\/638672\/the-empire-files-638672\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgYACITCNK0reTY49ECFd2SnAodAZkBISj4HQ\" data-url=\"https:\/\/videosenglish.telesurtv.net\/video\/638672\/the-empire-files-638672\/\" data-target-new-window=\"True\">https:\/\/videosenglish.telesurtv.net\/v&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7HwvFyMg7A\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increased aggression towards Russia from US politicians and media is made more clear when taking into account the real history of the post-Soviet period. The hidden story of Boris Yeltsin\u2019s presidency explains how deeply the US government, along with Western capitalist institutions, cheered, shaped and exploited the country after the fall of the Soviet Union, paving the way for the political system they all condemn today.\u00a0 To uncover just how much the US Empire has interfered in Russia\u2019s political evolution, Abby Martin interviews Mark Ames, an American journalist who spent a decade reporting from Yeltsin\u2019 and Putin\u2019s Russia and witnessed the country\u2019s transformation from an American \u201ccolony\u201d to it\u2019s \u201cnumber one threat.\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/videosenglish.telesurtv.net\/v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14,687,683],"tags":[951,790,84,1028,141,815,770],"class_list":["post-13046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-pol","category-activism-russia","category-activism-usa","tag-elections","tag-empire-files","tag-feature","tag-ladies-monday","tag-russia","tag-telesur","tag-zsusa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046","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=13046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13047,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions\/13047"}],"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=13046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}