{"id":366017,"date":"2010-02-24T09:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23237"},"modified":"2010-02-24T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:10:52","slug":"world-government-alex-jones-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/366017","title":{"rendered":"World Government, Alex Jones and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Gideon Rachman credits <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23239\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/alex-toned.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Jones\" width=\"270\" height=\"250\" \/>Alex Jones with his success (sort of), in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/rachmanblog\/2010\/02\/world-government-alex-jones-and-me\/\">Financial Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To this day, the most successful article I have ever written was a column called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7a03e5b6-c541-11dd-b516-000077b07658.html\">And now for a world government<\/a>\u201c. By successful, I don\u2019t mean that it was a particularly good article &#8211; this is \u201csuccess\u201d defined in terms of internet hits.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed the other day that if I type my name into Google, one of the first popular searches suggested is \u201cGideon Rachman world government\u201d which yields over 40,000 results. Gideon Rachman and new world order produces 844,000 results. Slightly weirdly, another popular search seems to be \u201cGideon Rachman, Jewish\u201d, which produces over 15,000 hits.<\/p>\n<p>The common thread, I think, is that my world government piece was picked up by the loony right in America&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Gideon Rachman credits Alex Jones with his success (sort of), in the Financial Times: To this day, the most successful article I have ever written was a column called \u201cAnd now for a world government\u201c. By successful, I don\u2019t mean that it was a particularly good article &#8211; this is \u201csuccess\u201d defined in terms [&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-366017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366017","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=366017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}