{"id":3094,"date":"2008-09-11T09:46:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2008-09-11T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:46:41","slug":"when-democracy-failed-a-lesson-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/09\/11\/when-democracy-failed-a-lesson-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"When Democracy Failed &#8211; A Lesson in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_09_11_08\/2008_09_11_sprinkle.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_09_11_08\/2008_09_11_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/carolphillips.org\/files\/_hitler_bush2.jpg\" alt=\"hitler-bush\" \/>When the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were hit on September 11th 2001, the fabric of American society changed forever. The consequences of President Bush\u2019s actions both at home and abroad have eerie parallels with the actions of another infamous historical leader. Several years ago, when this program was called The Morning Show, our then producer Christopher Sprinkle narrated a cautionary essay by Thom Hartmann on the program. <\/p>\n<p>Thom Hartmann is a veteran journalist, writer, and radio talk show host. His most recent books are \u201cUnequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights,\u201d \u201cWe The People: A Call to Take Back America,\u201d and \u201cWhat Would Jefferson Do?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Today, in commemoration of the September 11th tragedy, I\u2019d like to re-broadcast Hartmann\u2019s essay entitled, \u201cWhen Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History,\u201d narrated, recorded, and mixed by Christopher Sprinkle. <\/p>\n<p>Read Hartmann&#8217;s essay here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views03\/0316-08.htm\">http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views03\/0316-08.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program When the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were hit on September 11th 2001, the fabric of American society changed forever. The consequences of President Bush\u2019s actions both at home and abroad have eerie parallels with the actions of another infamous historical leader. Several years ago, when this program was called The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}