{"id":129943,"date":"2022-11-15T15:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129943"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:36:34","slug":"usas-military-empire-a-visual-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/15\/usas-military-empire-a-visual-database\/","title":{"rendered":"USA\u2019s Military Empire: A Visual Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>worldbeyondwar.org<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military installations around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How&nbsp;was this created and how is it&nbsp;continued?&nbsp;Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most&nbsp;are maintained through collaborations with&nbsp;governments, many of them&nbsp;brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases\u2019 presence. In many cases,&nbsp;human beings&nbsp;were&nbsp;displaced&nbsp;to make room for&nbsp;these military installations, often depriving people of farmland, adding huge amounts of pollution to local water systems and the air, and existing as an unwelcome presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To explore this database,\u00a0 click on map markers or use the dashboard to make selections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/no-bases\/?link_id=4&amp;can_id=c588c13bf8ee9be6d564a34438626810&amp;source=email-wbw-news-action-peace-making-in-a-time-of-endless-war-2&amp;email_referrer=email_1738442&amp;email_subject=wbw-news-action-867-bases-no-justification\">USA&#8217;s Military Empire: A Visual Database &#8211; World BEYOND War<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>worldbeyondwar.org The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military installations around the world. How&nbsp;was this created and how is it&nbsp;continued?&nbsp;Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most&nbsp;are maintained through collaborations with&nbsp;governments, many of them&nbsp;brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}