{"id":15965,"date":"2011-09-02T08:51:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15965"},"modified":"2011-09-02T08:51:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:51:41","slug":"william-blum-libya-and-the-world-we-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15965","title":{"rendered":"William Blum: Libya and the world we live in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 1st, 2011<br \/>\nby William Blum<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.killinghope.org\/\">www.killinghope.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Libya and the world we live in<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why are you attacking us? Why are you killing our children? Why are you destroying our infrastructure?&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>\u2013 Television address by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, April 30, 2011<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few hours later NATO hit a target in Tripoli, killing Gaddafi&#8217;s 29-year-old son Saif al-Arab, three of Gaddafi&#8217;s grandchildren, all under twelve years of age, and several friends and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>In his TV address, Gaddafi had appealed to the NATO nations for a cease-fire and negotiations after six weeks of bombings and cruise missile attacks against his country.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s see if we can derive some understanding of the complex Libyan turmoil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killinghope.org\/bblum6\/aer97.html\"><strong>Click here to continue reading this report by William Blum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1st, 2011 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Libya and the world we live in &#8220;Why are you attacking us? Why are you killing our children? Why are you destroying our infrastructure?&#8221; \u2013 Television address by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, April &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-49v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15969,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15965\/revisions\/15969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}