{"id":4810,"date":"2018-11-13T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:49","slug":"us-imperiums-interview-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/us-imperiums-interview-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the U.S. Empire | Interview with a Former Insider of the U.S. Gov. &#038; Retired Army Colonel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>The State of the U.S. Empire | Interview with a Former Insider of the U.S. Gov. &amp; Retired Army Colonel<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this interview we talk to a retired U.S. retired Army Colonel (31 years) and the former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-2005),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wm.edu\/as\/government\/faculty-directory\/wilkerson_l.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Lawrence Wilkerson<\/a>, about the state of the U.S. Empire, its foreign policy and the ideology and forces that influence it. In addition we talk about various conflicts &amp; crises that include Iran, Syria and climate change.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO:\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The State of the U.S. Empire<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The State of the U.S. Empire | Interview with a Former Insider of the US Gov &amp; Retired Army Colonel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RBW_0wyuzyo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT LAWRENCE WILKERSON<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lawrence-wilkerson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3594 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lawrence-wilkerson-e1504696597569-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Wilkerson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy\u00a0<strong>Lawrence Wilkerson<\/strong>\u2019s last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell\u2019s Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department\u2019s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02). Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired from active service in 1997 as a colonel, and began work as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs in the Honors Program at the George Washington University. He is currently working on a book about the first George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview we talk to a retired U.S. retired Army Colonel (31 years) and the former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-2005), Prof. Lawrence Wilkerson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ehemaliger Insider der US-Regierung &amp; 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