{"id":1375,"date":"2003-03-19T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2003-03-19T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T17:28:00","slug":"iraqs-for-profit-marshall-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/19\/13\/28\/iraqs-for-profit-marshall-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s For-Profit Marshall Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She of the Zsa Zsa Gabor accent yet razor-sharp intellect, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/column_lst.cfm?AuthrId=29\">Arianna Huffington<\/a>, has a nice article explaining some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/article.cfm?ItemID=14682\">US companies that are going to suckle at the Iraqi teat<\/a> following a &#8216;successful&#8217; invasion. Apparently, the Bush Gang invoked some obscure emergency powers clause and so none of the reconstruction bids were put out to tender: instead they awarded them with no consultative process to their biggest corporate donors. Another reason for the Brits to realise they are the patsies in this: not a single UK company has yet managed to get its snout into the trough.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_03_16_WeekArchive.php#90939105\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She of the Zsa Zsa Gabor accent yet razor-sharp intellect, Arianna Huffington, has a nice article explaining some of the US companies that are going to suckle at the Iraqi teat following a &#8216;successful&#8217;&#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-1375","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\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}