{"id":3552,"date":"2007-05-14T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/tony-benn\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T23:45:04","slug":"tony-benn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/tony-benn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former British MP Tony Benn discusses the departure of Tony Blair, what a liar he is, the antiwar movement and whether it&#8217;s a good idea to prosecute leaders or follow the peace and reconciliation commissions model of getting justice for war criminals and Blair&#8217;s likely successor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/aw051107tonybenn.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textlarger\">He was a Cabinet minister in the Wilson and                Callaghan governments from 1964 &#8211; 79, as Minister of Technology,                Secretary of State for both Industry and Energy and President of                the Council of European Energy ministers in 1977.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textlarger\">An elected member of the National Executive                Committee of the Labour party from 1959 &#8211; 1994, he was Chairman                of the Party in 1971\/2.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the Transport and General                Workers Union and the National Union of Journalists, and an honorary                member of the National Union of Mineworkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Iconic British MP on recrimination vs. reconciliation?<\/em><\/strong>: How do we deal with war criminals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/3552","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}