{"id":54471,"date":"2025-08-07T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54471"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:32:44","slug":"creative-chaos-inside-the-cias-covert-war-to-topple-the-syrian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/creative-chaos-inside-the-cias-covert-war-to-topple-the-syrian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA&#8217;s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the publication of the Libertarian Institute&#8217;s 17th book, the long-promised, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FLKPF8K1?crid=137BKK96FDA7M&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bVhrll_H8c8ibZl3lFKRfQ.gwVuMwSyN32zg8CWsg73NQNZzqwCEh6VvVUqo6zNsT0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=creative+chaos+van+wagenen&amp;qid=1754614721&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C641&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=scotthortonshow-20&amp;linkId=02917a15a670a8549b66784793315e29&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\"><strong><em>Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA&#8217;s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by the great <a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/author\/wvanwagenen\/\">William Van Wagenen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA&#039;s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_RUfzp1QdHWhJ6M&#038;asin=B0FLKPF8K1&#038;tag=scotthortonshow-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the publication of the Libertarian Institute&#8217;s 17th book, the long-promised, Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA&#8217;s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government, by the great William Van Wagenen. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_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":[1259],"class_list":["post-54471","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\/54471","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54475,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54471\/revisions\/54475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54471"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}