{"id":37312,"date":"2020-06-16T00:54:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T22:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=37312"},"modified":"2020-06-16T00:54:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T22:54:01","slug":"how-the-saudis-the-qataris-and-the-emiratis-took-washington-counterpunch-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/16\/how-the-saudis-the-qataris-and-the-emiratis-took-washington-counterpunch-org\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington &#8211; CounterPunch.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/06\/11\/how-the-saudis-the-qataris-and-the-emiratis-took-washington\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-7.19.46-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>It was a bare-knuckle brawl of the first order. It took place in Washington, D.C., and it resulted in a KO. The winners? Lobbyists and the defense industry. The losers? Us. And odds on, you didn\u2019t even know that it happened. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Few Americans did, which is why it\u2019s worth telling the story of how Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari money flooded the nation\u2019s capital and, in the process, American policy went down for the count. More<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/06\/11\/how-the-saudis-the-qataris-and-the-emiratis-took-washington\/\">How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington &#8211; CounterPunch.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bare-knuckle brawl of the first order. It took place in Washington, D.C., and it resulted in a KO. The winners? Lobbyists and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,81,2,6,16],"tags":[337,338,79,32],"class_list":["post-37312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-english","category-poets-sailors-news","category-politics","category-reportages","tag-qataris","tag-saudis","tag-usa","tag-war","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}