{"id":475454,"date":"2010-03-26T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.wombles.org.uk:\/\/fc73b51b717c96f0d5e8212b013a5491"},"modified":"2010-03-26T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:41:42","slug":"afghan-war-fuels-opium-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475454","title":{"rendered":"Afghan war fuels opium boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from greenleft, 25 March 2010: &#8220;It was common during the opening of the Iraq war to see slogans proclaiming \u201cNo blood for oil!\u201d The cover story for the war \u2014 Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein\u2019s links with Al Qaeda and his weapons of mass destruction \u2014 were obvious mass deceptions, hiding a far less palatable imperial agenda. The truth was that Iraq was a major producer of oil and, in our age, oil is the most strategic resource of all&#8230; Why then, are there no slogans saying \u201cNo blood for opium\u201d?&#8221;&nbsp;<span class='read-more'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wombles.org.uk\/article2010035948.php\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from greenleft, 25 March 2010: &#8220;It was common during the opening of the Iraq war to see slogans proclaiming \u201cNo blood for oil!\u201d The cover story for the war \u2014 Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein\u2019s links with Al Qaeda and his weapons of mass destruction \u2014 were obvious mass deceptions, hiding a far less palatable imperial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}