{"id":36936,"date":"2020-06-01T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T13:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=36936"},"modified":"2020-06-01T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T13:34:19","slug":"whats-nato-up-to-these-days-provoking-russia-draining-healthcare-budgets-and-protecting-its-own-from-covid-counterpunch-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/01\/whats-nato-up-to-these-days-provoking-russia-draining-healthcare-budgets-and-protecting-its-own-from-covid-counterpunch-org\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s NATO Up to These Days? Provoking Russia, Draining Healthcare Budgets and Protecting Its Own from COVID &#8211; CounterPunch.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/05\/29\/whats-nato-up-to-these-days-provoking-russia-draining-healthcare-budgets-and-protecting-its-own-from-covid\/?fbclid=IwAR3X8WKF2FriJYaatqLINH_zwdGVZDGgzoJMWiS69iFjr4_UVhowbAR3es8\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/29064669_10103276551436648_664243829859612353_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In November 2019, as experts warned that a novel coronavirus was likely to develop in the near-future, NATO boasted that its European Allies, including the UK, as well as Canada, were boosting their military budgets by an average of 4.6 percent, or an additional $130bn since 2016. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The implication is that this increase in military spending is at the expense of healthcare, which is being privatized worldwide. More<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/05\/29\/whats-nato-up-to-these-days-provoking-russia-draining-healthcare-budgets-and-protecting-its-own-from-covid\/\">What\u2019s NATO Up to These Days? Provoking Russia, Draining Healthcare Budgets and Protecting Its Own from COVID &#8211; CounterPunch.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2019, as experts warned that a novel coronavirus was likely to develop in the near-future, NATO boasted that its European Allies, including the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,2,6,16],"tags":[200,318,94,157],"class_list":["post-36936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowar","category-health","category-poets-sailors-news","category-politics","category-reportages","tag-nowar","tag-militarism","tag-nato","tag-russia","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}