{"id":1216,"date":"2005-09-12T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/09\/back_to_baghdadonthegulf\/"},"modified":"2005-09-12T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T17:18:54","slug":"back_to_baghdadonthegulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/09\/back_to_baghdadonthegulf.html","title":{"rendered":"BACK TO BAGHDAD-ON-THE-GULF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want some rare insight into the Katrina catastrophe? Check out <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/09\/12\/1426218\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Malik Rahim on the dead body left in the street<\/strong><\/font><\/a> of his New Orleans neighborhood; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/09\/12\/1426224\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Mike Howell on the looting<\/font><\/strong><\/a> he saw by middle- and upper-class whites, the evacuation procedures (or lack thereof) and what he terms &#8220;the seven betrayals&#8221;; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/09\/12\/1426242\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Jeremy Scahill on the Blackwater mercenaries<\/strong><\/font><\/a> hired by the government (denials notwithstanding) to provide security in the French Quarter, as they did in Iraq. You can also read Scahill and Daniela Crespo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/static\/Overkill.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Overkill,&#8221;<\/STRONG><\/font><\/a> about the privatized paramilitary deployment. Then have a look at this picture and caption worth a thousand words:<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PICTURE CAPTION WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/PICTURE%20CAPTION%20WORTH%20A%20THOUSAND%20WORDS.jpg\" width=400 \/><\/center><br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want some rare insight into the Katrina catastrophe? Check out Mike Howell on the looting he saw by middle- and upper-class whites, the evacuation procedures (or lack thereof) and what he terms &#8220;the seven betrayals&#8221;; and &#8220;Overkill,&#8221; about the privatized paramilitary deployment. Then have a look at this picture and caption worth a thousand words: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-jC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}