{"id":1179,"date":"2002-09-19T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-19T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2002-09-19T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-19T19:18:00","slug":"georgia-pipeline-breaks-ground-us-troop-deployments-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/09\/19\/15\/18\/georgia-pipeline-breaks-ground-us-troop-deployments-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Pipeline Breaks Ground, US Troop Deployments Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note that a new transcaucasus <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Oil\/Officials%20break%20ground%20on%20Baku-Ceyhan%20pipeline,%20which%20Washington%20hails%20for%20increasing%20energy%20security.html\">pipeline project runs through Georgia<\/A>. How convenient it is, then, that US troops deployed there several months ago. <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Oil\/Georgia%20Is%20Only%20the%20Beginning.html\">Regional commentators<\/a> are already flagging an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/georgia2.html\">increasing US involvement in the region<\/A>. I noted as much <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2002_02_24_WeekArchive.php#10196493\">last February<\/A>, and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/leupp0529.html\">wasn&#8217;t the only one<\/a>. It seems <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Oil\/Georgia%20and%20the%20War%20on%20Terrorism.html\">Georgia is the very model of a modern corporatist State<\/a>, and its nationalistic fervour ensures it&#8217;s aligning its energy production infrastructure with the US, instead of the Russians. They are even threatening to <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Oil\/Officials%20break%20ground%20on%20Baku-Ceyhan%20pipeline,%20which%20Washington%20hails%20for%20increasing%20energy%20security.html\">bomb this latest pipeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note that a new transcaucasus pipeline project runs through Georgia. How convenient it is, then, that US troops deployed there several months ago. Regional commentators are already flagging an increasing US involvement in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}