{"id":46590,"date":"2014-08-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=46590"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:42","slug":"the-powers-behind-the-islamic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/08\/the-powers-behind-the-islamic-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Powers behind the Islamic State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>August 24, 2014<\/em> &#8211; Investigative journalist, TRANSCEND member Nafeez Ahmed gives specific examples of how Saudi, Qatari, and American interests have supported the group known as ISIS and what the global community can do now to rein them in.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7FdnMJyiiwg#t=27<br \/>\n<em>Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed isa member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. He is director of the Institute for Policy Research &amp; Development,<\/em> <em>a bestselling author, investigative journalist and international security scholar who writes for <\/em>The Guardian<em> on the geopolitics of environmental, energy and economic crises. He is the author of<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/crisisofcivilization.com\" >A User&#8217;s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It<\/a><em>, and the forthcoming science fiction thriller, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zro.pt\" >Zero Point<\/a><em>. The Sibel Edmonds memoirs, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classifiedwoman.com\/\" >Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story<\/a><em> is available from all good online booksellers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 24, 2014 &#8211; Investigative journalist, TRANSCEND member Nafeez Ahmed gives specific examples of how Saudi, Qatari, and American interests have supported the group known as ISIS and what the global community can do now to rein them in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}