{"id":306072,"date":"2010-02-09T16:57:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21894"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:57:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:57:25","slug":"stop-the-green-tech-coup-military-industry-of-the-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306072","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Green Tech Coup, Military Industry of the Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/stop-green-tech-coup-military-industry-offensive56753\">Truthout<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Environmental NGO&#8217;s have been uncritically thumping the green tech funding plank and they&#8217;re generating funding that could be harder to hold onto than a fistful of sand in the Iraqi oilfields.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a coup underway in the environmental movement. But the golpistas (coup makers) aren&#8217;t exactly the usual suspects. They&#8217;re not the consumer product manufacturers who co-opt our messaging and repackage the same old junk with green labels. The culprits are members of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). War profiteers are charging, guns drawn, into the green tech sector and eyebrows should be raised. This is a hold-up!<\/p>\n<p>The new gospel of &#8220;greening&#8221; the armed forces is drawing public money that makes domestic infrastructure handouts look like pennies in a fountain. &#8220;Green jobs&#8221; means something else entirely to these folks.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Truthout: Environmental NGO&#8217;s have been uncritically thumping the green tech funding plank and they&#8217;re generating funding that could be harder to hold onto than a fistful of sand in the Iraqi oilfields. There&#8217;s a coup underway in the environmental movement. But the golpistas (coup makers) aren&#8217;t exactly the usual suspects. They&#8217;re not the consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}