{"id":185260,"date":"2011-08-21T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/21\/it-looks-like-gaddafi-is-out\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T01:29:00","slug":"it-looks-like-gaddafi-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/21\/it-looks-like-gaddafi-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"It Looks Like Gaddafi is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/aug\/22\/libyan-rebels-push-into-tripoli\">will be in a matter of hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to NPR, and they were hoping that the rebels would not go medieval on former Gaddafi loyalists, but that is a pipe dream.<\/p>\n<p>They have no credibility, because they were installed largely as the result of direct military action by NATO, which requires the widespread application of violence against any potential opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, because they are effectively clients of <strike>big oil and finance<\/strike> NATO, they will have to aggressively implement &#8220;free market reforms&#8221;, which means the end of their publicly financed healthcare and education systems, as well as signing sweetheart deals with big oil, which will not be supported by the general populace.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good that Gaddafi is gone, but because he was removed through what was essentially a colonial intervention, the new regime will for the foreseeable future be a colonial administration, which may in the long run prove worse for the average Libyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or will be in a matter of hours. I was listening to NPR, and they were hoping that the rebels would not go medieval on former Gaddafi loyalists, but that is a pipe dream. They have no credibility, because they were installed largely as the result of direct military action by NATO, which requires the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,981,970,1135,986,1043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-war","category-corruption","category-energy","category-middle-east","category-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}