{"id":911086,"date":"2026-06-07T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/scholar-gilbert-achcar-on-the-u-s-war-against-iran-trumps-old-new-imperial-doctrine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:12:01","slug":"scholar-gilbert-achcar-on-the-u-s-war-against-iran-trumps-old-new-imperial-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/scholar-gilbert-achcar-on-the-u-s-war-against-iran-trumps-old-new-imperial-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholar Gilbert Achcar on the U.S. War Against Iran &#038; Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Old-New Imperial Doctrine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We speak with Lebanese-born academic Gilbert Achcar about the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, U.S. foreign policy under President Trump and more. Achcar says Trump\u2019s military actions in Venezuela and Iran are not as dramatic a departure from U.S. policy as some commentators have suggested, calling it \u201can old-new imperial doctrine.\u201d While the George W&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/4\/30\/iran_war_update\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Maribel Mongold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We speak with Lebanese-born academic Gilbert Achcar about the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, U.S. foreign policy under President Trump and more. Achcar says Trump\u2019s military actions in Venezuela and Iran are not as dramatic a departure from U.S. policy as some commentators have suggested, calling it \u201can old-new imperial doctrine.\u201d While the George W&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":911087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[793,98621,192],"tags":[10708,20052],"class_list":["post-911086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gilbert","category-scholar","category-sports","tag-gilbert","tag-scholar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}