{"id":35359,"date":"2020-06-20T06:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35359"},"modified":"2020-06-20T06:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T14:40:40","slug":"crippling-new-sanctions-punish-syrian-civilians-for-us-defeat-in-proxy-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/20\/crippling-new-sanctions-punish-syrian-civilians-for-us-defeat-in-proxy-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Crippling New Sanctions Punish Syrian Civilians for US Defeat in Proxy War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2020\/06\/18\/crippling-new-sanctions-punish-syrian-civilians-for-us-defeat-in-proxy-war\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Syrians, sanctions on reconstruction and on oil and gas are likely to be felt most acutely,\u201d the <em>Washington Post<\/em> reports. \u201cThe Caesar Act will probably limit the government\u2019s ability to procure oil, further hurting the already low quality of life.\u201d The new sanctions follow earlier coercive measures that had already hurt Syrian civilians, compounding the destruction of a lengthy proxy war fueled and funded by the US and its allies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest:<\/strong> Elijah Magnier, veteran war correspondent who has covered the Middle East for more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDu4vX2AKM4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Mat\u00e9 is a journalist and producer. He hosts <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/category\/pushback\/\">Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9<\/a><\/em> on The Grayzone. He is also is contributor to <em>The Nation<\/em> magazine and former host\/producer for The Real News and Democracy Now!. Aaron has also presented and produced for Vice, AJ+, and Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Grayzone: \u201cFor Syrians, sanctions on reconstruction and on oil and gas are likely to be felt most acutely,\u201d the Washington Post reports. \u201cThe Caesar Act will probably limit the government\u2019s ability to procure oil, further hurting the already low quality of life.\u201d The new sanctions follow earlier coercive measures that had already hurt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"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-35359","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":"As Syria tries to recover from a nearly decade-long war, the US has imposed crippling new sanctions under the Caesar Act that target reconstruction."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359","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\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35363,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359\/revisions\/35363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}