{"id":6226,"date":"2011-06-11T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2011-06-11T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:22:21","slug":"in-a-pure-coincidence-gaddafi-impeded-u-s-oil-interests-before-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/06\/11\/in-a-pure-coincidence-gaddafi-impeded-u-s-oil-interests-before-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"In A Pure Coincidence, Gaddafi Impeded U.S. Oil Interests Before The War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Salon<\/em> article In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oil interests before the war<\/strong><\/a>, Glenn Greenwald ties this coincidence to several factors.<\/p>\n

But now, in a pure coincidence, there is hope on the horizon for these Western oil companies, thanks to the war<\/span> profoundly humanitarian action being waged by the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner and his nation’s closest Western allies<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The reason — the only reason — we know about any of this is because WikiLeaks (and, allegedly, Bradley Manning) disclosed to the world the diplomatic cables which detail these conflicts.<\/p>\n

…
\nIs there anything easier to understand than why U.S. Government officials are so eager to punish WikiLeaks and deter future transparency projects of this sort?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article makes reference to an article in The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0 Conflict in Libya: U.S. oil companies sit on sidelines as Gaddafi maintains hold<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

As I have asked in previous posts, “Is there some higher power than the President of The United States. that makes President Obama behave this way?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Salon article In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oil interests before the war, Glenn Greenwald ties this coincidence to several factors. But now, in a pure coincidence, there is hope on the horizon for these Western oil companies, thanks to the war profoundly humanitarian action being waged by the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize […]<\/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-6226","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\/6226","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=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6228,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}