{"id":1417,"date":"2013-09-01T23:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2013-09-01T23:30:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:30:46","slug":"syria-intervention-plan-fueled-by-oil-interests-not-chemical-weapon-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/earth-insight\/2013\/aug\/30\/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly\\&quot; style=\\&quot;max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;https:\/\/static-secure.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2013\/8\/27\/1377611434533\/f4585a6d-beb1-4d46-8005-e45bb62a01f7-460x276.jpeg\\&quot; class=\\&quot;thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/earth-insight\/2013\/aug\/30\/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines\\'&gt;Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern&lt;\/a&gt;On 21 August, hundreds - perhaps over a thousand - people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise the spectre of military strikes against Bashir al Assad\\'s forces. The latest episode is merely one more horrific event in a conflict that has increasingly taken on genocidal characteristics.&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;span class=\\&quot;embedly-powered\\&quot; style=\\&quot;float:right;display:block\\&quot;&gt;&lt;a target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/embed.ly?src=anywhere\\&quot; title=\\&quot;Powered by Embedly\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\&quot; alt=\\&quot;Embedly Powered\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;media-attribution\\&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;via &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\\&quot; class=\\&quot;media-attribution-link\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot;&gt;Theguardian&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;'}\">\n<div class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-secure.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2013\/8\/27\/1377611434533\/f4585a6d-beb1-4d46-8005-e45bb62a01f7-460x276.jpeg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" \/><a class='embedly-title' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/earth-insight\/2013\/aug\/30\/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines'>Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern<\/a>On 21 August, hundreds &#8211; perhaps over a thousand &#8211; people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise the spectre of military strikes against Bashir al Assad&#8217;s forces. The latest episode is merely one more horrific event in a conflict that has increasingly taken on genocidal characteristics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attribution\"><span>via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Theguardian<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concernOn 21 August, hundreds &#8211; perhaps over a thousand &#8211; people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=1417\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tranzitioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}