{"id":24354,"date":"2017-07-03T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24354"},"modified":"2017-07-03T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:53:03","slug":"exclusive-seymour-hersh-dishes-on-new-expose-upending-the-official-story-about-trump-and-syrian-chemical-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/07\/03\/exclusive-seymour-hersh-dishes-on-new-expose-upending-the-official-story-about-trump-and-syrian-chemical-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Seymour Hersh Dishes on New Expos\u00e9 Upending the Official Story About Trump and Syrian Chemical Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alternet<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/grayzone-project\/seymour-hersh-syria-bombshell\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusive: Seymour Hersh Dishes on New Expos\u00e9 Upending the Official Story About Trump and Syrian Chemical Attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Ken Klippenstein:<\/strong> Why is the deconfliction process by which forces in Syria notify each other of air operations to avoid accidents so important?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seymour Hersh:<\/strong> More air force is involved than people think. It\u2019s not only Russian\u2026 Syria\u2019s flying, Russia\u2019s flying, America\u2019s flying\u2026 The Brits fly, the Canadians fly, the Aussies fly. It\u2019s sort of like air [traffic] control at an airport\u2026 We have something called AWACS. It\u2019s a big plane that monitors everything and the Russians and the Syrians will communicate their routes and their packets and where they\u2019re going and what they\u2019re delivering in English to these aircraft, AWACS, which monitor large parts of Syria. So there\u2019s a lot of coordination. That\u2019s what deconfliction is.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems like war is a well planned game among a bunch of civilized imperialists against indigenous people who won&#8217;t build the pipelines the way the imperialists want.  Its just business.  Nothing against the defenseless civilians being killed.  Unfortunate collateral damage, but pipelines got to go where pipelines have to go.  We see this in our own country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the article Exclusive: Seymour Hersh Dishes on New Expos\u00e9 Upending the Official Story About Trump and Syrian Chemical Attacks. Ken Klippenstein: Why is the deconfliction process by which forces in Syria notify each other of air operations to avoid accidents so important? Seymour Hersh: More air force is involved than people think. It\u2019s [&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-24354","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\/24354","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=24354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24355,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24354\/revisions\/24355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}