{"id":26958,"date":"2016-05-02T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=26958"},"modified":"2016-05-02T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:48:18","slug":"green-zone-breached-iraq-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/green-zone-breached-iraq-falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green Zone&#8217; Breached: Iraq Falling Apart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend a militia supporting Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr breached the &#8220;Green Zone&#8221; protecting the Iraqi government and foreign embassies in Baghdad. They are protesting ongoing corruption among Iraq&#8217;s US-backed leaders. Lawmakers fled and a state of emergency was declared. Is this the beginning of the end for post-&#8220;liberation&#8221; Iraq? Join the Ron Paul Liberty Report in its 300th episode to look at Iraq&#8217;s slow-motion collapse:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wM0c01SlfZc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend a militia supporting Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr breached the &#8220;Green Zone&#8221; protecting the Iraqi government and foreign embassies in Baghdad. They are protesting ongoing corruption among Iraq&#8217;s US-backed leaders. Lawmakers fled and a state of emergency was declared. Is this the beginning of the end for post-&#8220;liberation&#8221; Iraq? Join the Ron Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"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-26958","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\/26958","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26960,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions\/26960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26958"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}