{"id":19950,"date":"2016-04-14T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19950"},"modified":"2016-04-14T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:19:34","slug":"duping-progressives-into-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19950","title":{"rendered":"Duping Progressives into Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Duping Progressives into Wars<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In a recent\u00a0two-part<\/u><\/a>\u00a0series<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0laid out in detail the pivotal role that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played in President Obama\u2019s decision to join in France and Britain\u2019s 2011 military campaign against long-time Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.\u00a0The Times<\/em>\u00a0articles make the case that Clinton bears a heavy part of the responsibility for the tragic, increasingly chaotic aftermath of that campaign in which Gaddafi was ousted and killed.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0The Times<\/em>\u00a0summaries of the articles put it, Gaddafi\u2019s fall \u201cseemed to vindicate Hillary Clinton. Then militias refused to disarm, neighbors fanned a civil war, and the Islamic State found refuge,\u201d leaving Libya \u201ca failed state and a terrorist haven.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi shortly before he was murdered on Oct. 20, 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While neocons, right-wingers and humanitarian interventionists back in 2011 were seeking regime change in Libya, there was one non-governmental organization that was alone among progressive groups in mobilizing public opinion around the world in support of military action in\u00a0Libya in the form of \u201ca no-fly zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

And this wasn\u2019t just any organization, but the fast-growing, on-line advocacy giant Avaaz.org, which in 2011 had seven million members and today boasts 43.1-million members in 194 countries. As such, the New York City-based Avaaz is, as we noted in a previous\u00a0article<\/u><\/a>, the largest and most influential Internet-based, international advocacy organization on the planet.<\/p>\n

Through its members\u2019 petitions and a full-page ad last June in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, Avaaz has for the last few years been pushing for \u201ca no-fly zone\u201d in Syria, as have assorted neocons and war-hawks in Congress and think-tanks who favor military operations to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duping Progressives into Wars The online advocacy group, Avaaz, has pulled progressives into support of\u00a0U.S. \u201chumanitarian\u201d wars in Libya and Syria by promoting sweet-sounding ideas like \u201cno-fly zones,\u201d as John Hanrahan explains. In a recent\u00a0two-part\u00a0series\u00a0in\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0laid out in detail the pivotal role that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played in President Obama\u2019s decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,1120,1239,446,447,13476,484,13477,1921,584,13475,776,862],"class_list":["post-19950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-john-hanrahan","tag-libya","tag-muammar-gaddafi","tag-new-york-times","tag-obama","tag-progressives","tag-syria","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19951,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19950\/revisions\/19951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}