{"id":1117706,"date":"2023-07-04T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=b3bbb8a88961e22156b02613df67f195"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:42:13","slug":"as-we-celebrate-independence-the-us-stifles-freedom-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/04\/as-we-celebrate-independence-the-us-stifles-freedom-around-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"As We Celebrate Independence, the US Stifles Freedom Around the Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As fireworks boom and politicians solemnize Independence Day, the United States betrays the freedom of people around the world. The 4th of July is a strange spectacle: In Washington, D.C., patriots wave American flags at a parade even as the U.S. approves Morocco&rsquo;s occupation of the Western Sahara, helping to crush the Sahrawi people&rsquo;s hope for independence. Take your pick: Rwanda to Bahrain...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/as-we-celebrate-independence-the-us-stifles-freedom-around-the-globe\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/as-we-celebrate-independence-the-us-stifles-freedom-around-the-globe\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has been a major force of violent repression globally that stamps out people\u2019s hopes for freedom and justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,1086,11833,27607,273,4711,5733,6155,38034],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117707,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117706\/revisions\/1117707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}