{"id":8036,"date":"2010-11-17T17:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2010-11-17T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:41:35","slug":"tomgram-nick-turse-off-base-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8036","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Nick Turse, Off-Base America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175321\/tomgram:_nick_turse,_off-base_america__\/\">http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175321\/tomgram:_nick_turse,_off-base_america__\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Tomgram: Nick Turse, Off-Base America<\/h2>\n<div>Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/authors\/nickturse\/\">Nick Turse<\/a> at  3:30pm, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">November 16, 2010.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Last year, it was Kuwait, Qatar, and Iraq.\u00a0 This year,  it\u2019s Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.\u00a0  Next year, it could easily be Afghanistan, Pakistan, Diego Garcia,  Bahrain, and Turkey.\u00a0 Or of course they could choose to play in Japan  (with a special stop\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/blog\/175214\/tomgram:_john_feffer,_can_japan_say_no_to_washington\/\" target=\"_blank\">in Okinawa<\/a>),  South Korea, Colombia, and for a little sun and surf, the Bahamas.\u00a0 And  while they\u2019re at it, the same way bands used to love playing the  Palladium, they could make a triumphal return to Guantanamo Bay to bring  a little cheer back into American lives, just as they did in 2005.\u00a0 Or  they could break out their new camouflage-colored b-ball (which on  recent tours sometimes replaces their iconic red, white, and blue one),  and as they\u2019ve done in the past, slam dunk their way onto U.S. aircraft  carriers on duty in places like the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175321\/tomgram:_nick_turse,_off-base_america__\/\">READ FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175321\/tomgram:_nick_turse,_off-base_america__\/ Tomgram: Nick Turse, Off-Base America Posted by Nick Turse at 3:30pm, November 16, 2010. Last year, it was Kuwait, Qatar, and Iraq.\u00a0 This year, it\u2019s Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.\u00a0 Next year, it could easily be Afghanistan, Pakistan, Diego Garcia, Bahrain, and Turkey.\u00a0 Or of course they could choose to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tomgram: Nick Turse, Off-Base America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8039,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}