{"id":20305,"date":"2021-10-20T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=20305"},"modified":"2021-10-20T12:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:26:15","slug":"a-reluctant-warrior-an-examination-of-gen-colin-powells-bloody-legacy-from-iraq-to-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/a-reluctant-warrior-an-examination-of-gen-colin-powells-bloody-legacy-from-iraq-to-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reluctant Warrior? An Examination of Gen. Colin Powell\u2019s Bloody Legacy from Iraq to Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2021\/10\/19\/colin_powell_legacy_iraq_latin_america\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OCTOBER 19, 2021 (democracynow.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GUESTS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/appearances\/clarence_lusane\">Clarence Lusane<\/a> author, activist, journalist and professor at Howard University, where he is director of the International Affairs Program and former chair of the Department of Political Science.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/appearances\/roberto_lovato\">Roberto Lovato<\/a> award-winning journalist and author.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>We look at the life and legacy of Colin Powell, who is best known for giving false testimony to the U.N. Security Council in 2003 about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, paving the way for the U.S. invasion and occupation that would kill over 1 million Iraqis. Powell, who was the first Black secretary of state, the first Black and youngest chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black national security adviser, died on Monday due to blood cancer and Parkinson\u2019s disease that left him vulnerable to infection from&nbsp;COVID-19. Tributes poured in from top U.S. leaders in both Republican and Democratic circles on Monday, but in other parts of the world Powell is remembered very differently. We speak with journalist and author Roberto Lovato, and Clarence Lusane, activist, journalist and political science professor at Howard University. Lusane describes Powell as \u201ca complicated political figure who leaves a complicated legacy\u201d whose public image was \u201cin conflict with many of the policies of the party he supported and the administration in which he was involved.\u201d Assessing Powell\u2019s role in U.S. invasions around the world, from Vietnam to Central America, Lovato says \u201che\u2019s made a career out of being a good soldier and supporting U.S. mass murder around the world, but evading the credit for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOBER 19, 2021 (democracynow.org) GUESTS Clarence Lusane author, activist, journalist and professor at Howard University, where he is director of the International Affairs Program and former chair of the Department of Political Science. Roberto Lovato award-winning journalist and author. We look at the life and legacy of Colin Powell, who&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/a-reluctant-warrior-an-examination-of-gen-colin-powells-bloody-legacy-from-iraq-to-latin-america\/\"> 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":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20307,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions\/20307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}