{"id":11265,"date":"2019-03-07T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=11265"},"modified":"2019-03-07T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:39:32","slug":"how-to-hide-an-empire-daniel-immerwahr-on-the-history-of-the-greater-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/how-to-hide-an-empire-daniel-immerwahr-on-the-history-of-the-greater-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow to Hide an Empire\u201d: Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2019\/3\/5\/how_to_hide_an_empire_daniel\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>March 5, 2019 (DemocracyNow.org)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.\u201d That\u2019s the title of a new book examining a part of the U.S. that is often overlooked: the nation\u2019s overseas territories from Puerto Rico to Guam, former territories like the Philippines, and its hundreds of military bases scattered across the globe. We speak with the book\u2019s author, Daniel Immerwahr, who writes, \u201cAt various times, the inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured and experimented on. What they haven\u2019t been, by and large, is seen.\u201d Immerwahr is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 5, 2019 (DemocracyNow.org) \u201cHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.\u201d That\u2019s the title of a new book examining a part of the U.S. that is often overlooked: the nation\u2019s overseas territories from Puerto Rico to Guam, former territories like the Philippines, and its hundreds&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/how-to-hide-an-empire-daniel-immerwahr-on-the-history-of-the-greater-united-states\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11266,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions\/11266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}