{"id":9403,"date":"2016-02-04T06:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2016-01-24T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:57:00","slug":"unraveling-the-syria-war-chessboard-empire-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=9403","title":{"rendered":"Unraveling The Syria War Chessboard &#8211; Empire Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Syria is an unparalleled crisis. Having gone far beyond an internal political struggle, the war is marked by a complex array of forces that the U.S. Empire hopes to command: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To simplify this web of enemies and friends in the regional war, Abby Martin interviews Dr. Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of several books including \u201cThe Poorer Nations&#8221;, &#8220;A People\u2019s History of the Third World\u201d and &#8220;Arab Spring, Libyan Winter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8x-rMRZcdo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch teleSUR&#8217;s The Empire Files every Friday.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW \/\/ @EmpireFiles \/\/ @AbbyMartin \/\/ @VijayPrashad \/\/ @telesurenglish<\/p>\n<p>LIKE \/\/<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music by Fluorescent Grey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Syria is an unparalleled crisis. Having gone far beyond an internal political struggle, the war is marked by a complex array of forces that the U.S. Empire hopes to command: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and more.\u00a0 To simplify this web of enemies and friends in the regional war, Abby Martin interviews Dr. Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of several books including \u201cThe Poorer Nations&#8221;, &#8220;A People\u2019s History of the Third World\u201d and &#8220;Arab Spring, Libyan Winter&#8221;. Watch teleSUR&#8217;s The Empire Files every Friday. FOLLOW \/\/ @EmpireFiles \/\/ @AbbyMartin \/\/ @VijayPrashad \/\/ @telesurenglish LIKE \/\/\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles Music by Fluorescent Grey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,691],"tags":[799,790,815],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-middleeast","tag-abby-martin","tag-empire-files","tag-telesur"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}