{"id":18432,"date":"2013-02-26T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=18432"},"modified":"2013-02-26T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T17:15:47","slug":"kazakhstan-a-human-rights-disaster-hosts-iran-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/kazakhstan-a-human-rights-disaster-hosts-iran-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan, a human rights disaster, hosts Iran Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Ruff and I have written extensively about Kazakhstan and about the typical hypocrisy at-play in the kleptocratic country. We published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/7128:the-kazakhstan-massacre-killing-hope-to-benefit-us-geopolitical-interests\">article in the aftermath of the Zhanaozen Massacre about the U.S. imperial Great Game being played in Kazakhstan<\/a> and Central Asia at-large, then followed that up with an article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/uranium-double-standard-us-kazakhstan-and-iran-1334236438\">nuclear double-standards, juxtaposing how the U.S. treats Iran vs. how it treats Kazakhstan<\/a>. Kazakhstan, as we pointed out, provides 30-percent+ of the world&#8217;s supply of uranium fuel stock.<\/p>\n<p>Next came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2012\/12\/13\/the-world-bank-brings-nazarbayev-university-to-kazakhstan\/\">our<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2012\/12\/14\/the-world-bank-and-higher-education-in-kazakhstan\/\">three-part<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2012\/12\/18\/the-men-behind-the-curtain-at-nazarbayev-world-bank-university\/\">series<\/a> on the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;knowledge bank&#8221; agenda in Kazakhstan, bringing Nazarbayev University, named after its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/node\/62715\">President-for-Life<\/a>,&#8221; to Astana.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Allen was on\u00a0<em>The Real News Network\u00a0<\/em>to chat about the nuclear summit dog-and-pony show and why it&#8217;s being hosted in Kazakhstan. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_3GYUNyGbO0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Ruff and I have written extensively about Kazakhstan and about the typical hypocrisy at-play in the kleptocratic country. We published an article in the aftermath of the Zhanaozen Massacre about the U.S. imperial Great Game being played in Kazakhstan and Central Asia at-large, then followed that up with an article about the nuclear double-standards, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18439,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432\/revisions\/18439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18432"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}