{"id":1129780,"date":"2023-07-12T05:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=288816"},"modified":"2023-07-12T05:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:50:40","slug":"americas-war-for-oil-and-the-great-mesopotamian-dustbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/12\/americas-war-for-oil-and-the-great-mesopotamian-dustbowl\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it. In early April 2003, as American forces sought to wrap up their conquest of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and take strongholds to its north, the Marine Corps formed \u201cTask Force Tripoli.\u201d It was commanded by General John F. Kelly  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/12\/americas-war-for-oil-and-the-great-mesopotamian-dustbowl\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/12\/americas-war-for-oil-and-the-great-mesopotamian-dustbowl\/\">America&#8217;s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it. In early April 2003, as American forces sought to wrap up their conquest of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and take strongholds to its north, the Marine Corps formed \u201cTask Forc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139256,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129780\/revisions\/1139256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}