{"id":277888,"date":"2016-11-08T00:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ron-paul-on-raqqamosul-politicians-fiddle-as-middle-east-burns\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T23:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T22:37:56","slug":"ron-paul-on-raqqamosul-politicians-fiddle-as-middle-east-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/ron-paul-on-raqqamosul-politicians-fiddle-as-middle-east-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Raqqa\/Mosul: Politicians Fiddle As Middle East Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Americans were obsessing about tomorrow\u2019s election, the Obama Administration launched a serious military escalation in Syria. US Special Forces on the ground and jet fighters in the air are deployed in an operation to take Raqqa from ISIS control. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dunford announced over the weekend that the US and Turkey agreed on a long-term plan for \u201cseizing, holding and governing\u201d the Syrian city. Is this the beginning of a US-recognized rival Syrian government, as Benghazi was in Libya? We discuss in today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"u3bOZcETkm0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raqqa\/Mosul: Politicians Fiddle As Middle East Burns\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3bOZcETkm0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Americans were obsessing about tomorrow\u2019s election, the Obama Administration launched a serious military escalation in Syria. US Special Forces on the ground and jet fighters in the air are deployed in an operation to take Raqqa from ISIS control. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dunford announced over the weekend that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277888","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\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}