{"id":16969,"date":"2012-07-06T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16969"},"modified":"2012-07-06T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:21:50","slug":"stephen-gowans-syrias-uprising-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16969","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Gowans: Syria\u2019s Uprising in Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Stephen Gowans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the unrest in Syria, \u201cthe government has said that while some protesters have legitimate grievances, the uprising is driven by militant Islamists with foreign backing.\u201d [1] This hardly squares with the view of Western state officials and media commentators who say that an authoritarian regime is killing its people and violently suppressing a largely peaceful movement for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s right?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gowans.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/10\/syrias-uprising-in-context\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Syria\u2019s Uprising in Context&#8221; by Stephen Gowans<\/a> <em>via<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/navid.nasr1\">Navid Nasr<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Gowans Since the beginning of the unrest in Syria, \u201cthe government has said that while some protesters have legitimate grievances, the uprising is driven by militant Islamists with foreign backing.\u201d [1] This hardly squares with the view of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16969\">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-16969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4pH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969","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=16969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16973,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969\/revisions\/16973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}