{"id":1023,"date":"2004-06-07T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-07T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T22:43:39","slug":"us-punishes-qatar-for-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/us-punishes-qatar-for-free-press\/","title":{"rendered":"US punishes Qatar for  free press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explananda.com\/archives\/000311.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chris at Explananda<\/a> catches a blatant example of hypocrisy on the part of (surprise!) the Bush Administration.  Apparently they&#8217;re going to use the upcoming G-8 summit to issue a &#8220;sweeping declaration favoring democratic changes in the Middle East. Indeed, they said the declaration had been improved in recent weeks because of the suggestions of several Arab countries,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/06\/international\/middleeast\/06DIPL.html?pagewanted=all&#038;position=\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times.<\/a>  The Bushies even added in a promise to actually do <em>something<\/em> about the Israel\/Palestine conflict, in an effort to pander to angry Arab leaders.  Many Arab governments ( Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, Egypt and Pakistan)declined to attend anyway.  <\/p>\n<p>One Arab country wasn&#8217;t invited &#8211; Qatar.  The reason?  The Americans are punishing them for failing to censor Al Jazeera as they asked.  So, we have the absurd spectacle of the US Government urging &#8220;democratic reforms&#8221; on the Arab world while excluding one Arab country for the crime of tolerating a free press.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explananda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">explananda<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/2004\/06\/other_folks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Abu Aardvark.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris at Explananda catches a blatant example of hypocrisy on the part of (surprise!) the Bush Administration. Apparently they&#8217;re going to use the upcoming G-8 summit to issue a &#8220;sweeping declaration favoring democratic changes in the Middle East. Indeed, they said the declaration had been improved in recent weeks because of the suggestions of several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}