{"id":2219,"date":"2007-07-27T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T10:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2007-07-27T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T10:53:34","slug":"2007-7-27-bbc-radio-documentary-on-us-1930s-coup-plot-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"BBC radio documentary on US 1930s coup plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/history\/document\/document.shtml\">BBC Radio Four documentary<\/a> on a coup by wealthy Americans to overthrow Roosevelt in the 1930s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse &#38; George Bush&#8217;s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some (occasionally forced) parallels with the current situation in American &#8212; the role of the uber-wealthy and the New Gilded Age, Cheney&#8217;s powerful and shadowy vice-presidency, etc.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/history\/document\/document.shtml\">BBC Radio Four documentary<\/a> on a coup by wealthy Americans to overthrow Roosevelt in the 1930s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse &#38; George Bush&#8217;s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some (occasionally forced) parallels with the current situation in American &#8212; the role of the uber-wealthy and the New Gilded Age, Cheney&#8217;s powerful and shadowy vice-presidency, etc.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}