{"id":16490,"date":"2011-12-12T17:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16490"},"modified":"2011-12-12T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T23:24:13","slug":"james-petras-the-washington-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%9cmoderate-islam%e2%80%9d-alliance-containing-rebellion-defending-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16490","title":{"rendered":"James Petras: The Washington \u2013 \u201cModerate Islam\u201d Alliance: Containing Rebellion Defending Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James Petras<br \/>\n12 December 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dynamic of democratic, nationalist and class struggles throughout the Moslem world has set in motion a new constellation of alliances between the imperial West (US and European Union) and Islamist parties, leaders and regimes, dubbed \u201cmoderate\u201d by US officials, propagandists and academics.<\/p>\n<p>This essay analyzes the <em>changing contemporary context<\/em> of imperial domination, especially the demise of longstanding client regimes. It then examines the previous significant ties between western imperial powers and Islamist movements and regimes and the basis of \u2018historical collaboration\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/?p=1884\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;The Washington \u2013 \u201cModerate Islam\u201d Alliance: Containing Rebellion Defending Empire&#8221; by James Petras<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Petras 12 December 2011 The dynamic of democratic, nationalist and class struggles throughout the Moslem world has set in motion a new constellation of alliances between the imperial West (US and European Union) and Islamist parties, leaders and regimes, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16490\">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-16490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4hY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16490","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=16490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16492,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16490\/revisions\/16492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}