{"id":2076,"date":"2015-02-08T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2015-02-08T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:53:11","slug":"corporate-armies-and-democracy-lets-talk-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/corporate-armies-and-democracy-lets-talk-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Armies and Democracy: Let&#8217;s Talk About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Join the National\u00a0Lawyers\u00a0Guild for the second installment of\u00a0our ongoing series, &#8220;Friday Films for Thought.&#8221; \u00a0Meet us in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Room 325 at 2:30 on Friday the 13th<\/span>\u00a0for a thoughtful movie and inclusive discussion.\u00a0This week, we will be watching a documentary called &#8220;Iraq for Sale,&#8221; which documents the privatization of the United States\u00a0military during the Iraq war. \u00a0There will be\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">free popcorn!<\/span>\u00a0See plot synopsis below for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Iraq for Sale (2006): \u00a0Gone are the days when the United States military was a completely self-reliant organization. \u00a0Instead, our armed services rely on Private Military Firms (PMFs) for an alarming number of crucial tasks including base-building, equipment maintenance, communications, protection of important individuals, and even the\u00a0supply chain and preparation of food\u00a0for the troops.\u00a0\u00a0Our discussion afterward will focus on why PMFs have become so prominent, the strategic and fiscal costs associated with PMFs, as well as\u00a0an exploration of any benefits they may bring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For additional information, please e-mail John Vaught at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:JAVaught@memphis.edu\">JAVaught@memphis.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the National\u00a0Lawyers\u00a0Guild for the second installment of\u00a0our ongoing series, &#8220;Friday Films for Thought.&#8221; \u00a0Meet us in\u00a0Room 325 at 2:30 on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natl-lawyers-guild","category-stud-orgs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}