{"id":140112,"date":"2014-10-03T17:41:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=140112"},"modified":"2014-10-03T17:41:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:41:37","slug":"obamas-orwellian-war-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/obamas-orwellian-war-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Orwellian War in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As Vice President Joe Biden warns it will take a &#8220;hell of a long fight&#8221; for the United States to stop militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, we speak to Jeremy Scahill, author of the book, &#8220;Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.&#8221; We talk about how the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 that helped create the threat now posed by the Islamic State. We also discuss the role of Baathist forces in <span class=\"caps\">ISIS<\/span>, Obama\u2019s targeting of journalists, and the trial of four former Blackwater operatives involved in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad\u2019s Nisoor Square.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-140112-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/publish.dvlabs.com\/democracynow\/ipod\/dn2014-1003.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/publish.dvlabs.com\/democracynow\/ipod\/dn2014-1003.mp4\">http:\/\/publish.dvlabs.com\/democracynow\/ipod\/dn2014-1003.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Vice President Joe Biden warns it will take a &#8220;hell of a long fight&#8221; for the United States to stop militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, we speak to Jeremy Scahill, author of the book, &#8220;Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.&#8221; We talk about how the U.S. invasion of Iraq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}