{"id":859,"date":"2012-04-15T01:53:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T01:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:53:24","slug":"2012-04-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-04-15\/","title":{"rendered":"More Militarism and War = More Guns But Little Butter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Michael Eisenscher<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">April 15, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-860\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/027.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/027.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/027-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 85vw, 280px\" \/>Sunday April 15, 2012 Michael Eisenscher will discuss the economic consequences of a militarized foreign policy and economy. He will describe how a decade of militarism and war has contributed to the economic crisis and how continuing to prosecute the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; will prolong and deepen that crisis, while actually undermining national security. He will report on the emerging Bay Area and national movement for &#8220;new priorities&#8221; &#8211; which seeks to redirect revenue from the bloated military budget to create jobs, repair the social safety net, protect the environment and meet a host of other urgent social needs &#8211; and will suggest what is required for a transition to a peace economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/51156712\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/51156712\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-04-15): More Militarism and War = More Guns But Little Butter (Michael Eisenscher)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Eisenscher April 15, 2012 Sunday April 15, 2012 Michael Eisenscher will discuss the economic consequences of a militarized foreign policy and economy. He will describe how a decade of militarism and war has contributed to the economic crisis and how continuing to prosecute the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; will prolong and deepen that crisis, while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-04-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Militarism and War = More Guns But Little Butter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7507,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}