{"id":14322,"date":"2013-09-01T12:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2013-09-01T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T16:04:55","slug":"chris-hedges-on-obama-decision-to-attack-syria-and-give-congress-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/01\/chris-hedges-on-obama-decision-to-attack-syria-and-give-congress-a-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges on Obama Decision to Attack Syria and &#8220;Give Congress a Voice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network<\/em> has a conversation between Chris Hedges and Paul Jay headlined <a title=\"The Real News Network video\" href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=10656\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chris Hedges on Obama Decision to Attack Syria and &#8220;Give Congress a Voice&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RSm_0pSEACk?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>One thing to note is the mention of the story in my recent post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/30\/exclusive-syrians-in-ghouta-claim-saudi-supplied-rebels-behind-chemical-attack\/\" title=\"Previous Post\" target=\"_blank\">EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack<\/a><\/strong>.  Paul Jay acknowledges the credentials of the reporter who reported this story.<\/p>\n<p>The one part that this interview did not acknowledge was the issue of building a pipeline in Syria to give access to the European market to Saudi Arabia in competition with Russia.  Arms sales may be a big part, but oil may be bigger. See my previous post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/01\/syria-intervention-plan-fueled-by-oil-interests-not-chemical-weapon-concern\/\" title=\"Previous Post\" target=\"_blank\">Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like my scouring the web for news is a day ahead of <em>The Real News Network<\/em>, perhaps the oil issue will be coming soon to <em>The Real News Network<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has a conversation between Chris Hedges and Paul Jay headlined Chris Hedges on Obama Decision to Attack Syria and &#8220;Give Congress a Voice&#8221;. One thing to note is the mention of the story in my recent post EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack. Paul Jay acknowledges the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14323,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions\/14323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}