{"id":24243,"date":"2017-04-11T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24243"},"modified":"2017-04-11T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:26:36","slug":"putin-calls-for-u-n-investigation-of-gas-attack-as-g-7-nations-reject-new-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/04\/11\/putin-calls-for-u-n-investigation-of-gas-attack-as-g-7-nations-reject-new-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin calls for U.N. investigation of gas attack as G-7 nations reject new sanctions against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em> has the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-g7-syria-20170411-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Putin calls for U.N. investigation of gas attack as G-7 nations reject new sanctions against Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nInstead of sanctions, the meeting&#8217;s final communique called for an investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to determine who was responsible for the &#8220;war crime.&#8221; The U.S. and Britain say there is little doubt Assad&#8217;s forces are culpable.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps this is a sign that the wall of intimidation that the USA has built is starting to show cracks.  It isn&#8217;t crumbling yet.  We will have to see if the instinct to resort to reason can overcome the money of the oil interests.  I wish there were little doubt that reason would win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has the story Putin calls for U.N. investigation of gas attack as G-7 nations reject new sanctions against Russia. Instead of sanctions, the meeting&#8217;s final communique called for an investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to determine who was responsible for the &#8220;war crime.&#8221; The U.S. and [&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":["post-24243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243","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=24243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24244,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243\/revisions\/24244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}