{"id":1284,"date":"2010-06-03T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/06\/03\/mutant-capitalism-v-homeland-security\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:43:05","slug":"mutant-capitalism-v-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/06\/03\/mutant-capitalism-v-homeland-security\/","title":{"rendered":"mutant capitalism v. homeland security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/abtv\/economic-hitmen.html\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n7Fzm1hEiDQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As told by John Perkins, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=nJFFrLX-924C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=perkins+confessions+of+an+economic+hitman&amp;ei=x6IHTNm-EIbEywShnN2fDA&amp;cd=1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Confessions of an Economic Hit Man<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hoodwinked-Economic-Reveals-Financial-Imploded\/dp\/0307589927\">Hoodwinked<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/abtv\/economic-hitmen.html\">Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters<\/a> for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As told by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and Hoodwinked. Thanks to Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691215],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_postpolitics","tag-capitalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-kI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8302,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/06\/23\/cinema-ecology-the-death-of-carbon-capitalism\/","url_meta":{"origin":1284,"position":0},"title":"Cinema, ecology, &amp; the death of carbon capitalism","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Rice University's\u00a0Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences\u00a0(CENHS) has made my Cultures of Energy talk available on their YouTube channel. 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