{"id":219,"date":"2014-12-27T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T11:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=219"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:33:09","slug":"us-using-isis-to-rebrand-war-on-terror-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-using-isis-to-rebrand-war-on-terror-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"US using ISIS to &#8216;rebrand war on terror&#8217;: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong>A political commentator has said that the United States has rebranded its so-called war on terror in the name of fighting the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthony Hall, professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, told Press TV on Saturday that fact is \u201cthe people who are fighting ISIL are also creating ISIL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are being presented with constant stream of propaganda &#8212; hate Islam, hate the Arab world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said the real perpetrator of the 9\/11 attacks was Israel that was guiding different US agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil we get to the roots of the big fraud, the big lie, the base of this whole so-called global war on terror and its now being rebranded, we\u2019re in dire straits,\u201d the professor said.<\/p>\n<p>The US and its allies have been conducting airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>They say they are carrying out the airstrikes against the Takfiris in both countries in order to curb their advances in the region.<\/p>\n<p>However, the air raids have so far failed to halt the insurgents\u2019 military gains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2014\/12\/27\/392031\/us-using-isil-to-rebrand-war-on-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV &#8211; SB\/AGB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political commentator has said that the United States has rebranded its so-called war on terror in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1,125],"tags":[4,14,26,13,11,7],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-israel","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ISIS-US-Airstrikes.jpg?fit=627%2C355&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-3x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}