{"id":38343,"date":"2020-09-16T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=38343"},"modified":"2020-09-16T13:01:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:01:30","slug":"americas-war-on-terror-is-the-true-cause-of-europes-refugee-crisis-counterpunch-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/americas-war-on-terror-is-the-true-cause-of-europes-refugee-crisis-counterpunch-org\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s War on Terror is the True Cause of Europe&#8217;s Refugee Crisis &#8211; CounterPunch.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/09\/15\/americas-war-on-terror-is-the-true-cause-of-europes-refugee-crisis\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Iraqi_refugee_children_Damascus_Syria.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Desperate refugees crammed into cockle-shell boats landing on the shingle beaches of the south Kent coast are easily portrayed as invaders. Anti-immigrant demonstrators were exploiting such fears last weekend as they blockaded the main highway into Dover Port in order \u201cto protect Britain\u2019s borders\u201d. Meanwhile, the home secretary, Priti Patel, blames the French for not doing enough to stop the flow of refugees across the Channel. More<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/09\/15\/americas-war-on-terror-is-the-true-cause-of-europes-refugee-crisis\/\">America&#8217;s War on Terror is the True Cause of Europe&#8217;s Refugee Crisis &#8211; CounterPunch.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperate refugees crammed into cockle-shell boats landing on the shingle beaches of the south Kent coast are easily portrayed as invaders. Anti-immigrant demonstrators were exploiting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,81,15,83,136,2,6,144],"tags":[200,135,489,402,5,490,401,79],"class_list":["post-38343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowar","category-english","category-health","category-history","category-human-rights","category-poets-sailors-news","category-politics","category-research","tag-nowar","tag-afghanistan","tag-americas-war-on-terror","tag-irak","tag-libia","tag-refugee","tag-syria","tag-usa","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343","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=38343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}