{"id":53,"date":"2003-07-20T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T03:26:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-20T20:26:46","modified_gmt":"2003-07-21T03:26:46","slug":"your-tax-dollars-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/20\/your-tax-dollars-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Tax Dollars at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/content\/news\/0703\/15arabic.html\" title=\"From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution\">From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>An Arabic-language magazine hitting newsstands in the Middle East this week may be America&#8217;s newest weapon in the war on terrorism, a White House official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Hi magazine, which is subsidized by the U.S. State Department, will be sold in countries across the Middle East &#8212; including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Morocco and Algeria &#8212; for roughly $2 an issue&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials hope the new monthly magazine, targeted toward 18-to-35-year-olds, will dispel misinformation and misconceptions about the United States by focusing on similarities between American and Middle Eastern cultures with articles about lifestyle, technology and health&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the new magazine, [director of the White House Office of Global Communications Tucker] Eskew cited plans for an Arabic television network funded by the U.S. government as critical to communicating America&#8217;s messages to the Middle East.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I have my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/barganier\/ba031703.html\" title=\"doubts about the TV network\">doubts about the TV network<\/a>, but <a href=\"www.himagazine.com\" title=\"Hi magazine\">Hi magazine<\/a> might really work. This month&#8217;s feature on actor Tony Shalhoub is great (or would be if I could read Arabic)&#8211; probably enough to make everyone forget the billions we send to Israel every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An Arabic-language magazine hitting newsstands in the Middle East this week may be America&#8217;s newest weapon in the war on terrorism, a White House official said Monday. Hi magazine, which is subsidized by the U.S. State Department, will be sold in countries across the Middle East &#8212; including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-53","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\/53","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}