{"id":199439,"date":"2007-07-30T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/30\/the-gavel-blog-archive-oversight-hearing-on-us-embassy-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T10:30:00","slug":"the-gavel-blog-archive-oversight-hearing-on-us-embassy-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/30\/the-gavel-blog-archive-oversight-hearing-on-us-embassy-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gavel \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Oversight Hearing on US Embassy in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that there are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/blog\/?p=626\">allegations of forced labor in the construction of the huge US embassy compound in Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is no surprise.  Slavery, or peonage, is what the Bush admin wants for the workforce.  That&#8217;s what the guest worker program is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that there areallegations of forced labor in the construction of the huge US embassy compound in Iraq. This is no surprise. Slavery, or peonage, is what the Bush admin wants for the workforce. That&#8217;s what the guest worker program is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1239,1063,1023,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-impeach","category-iraq","category-labor","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199439"}],"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=199439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}