{"id":1311731,"date":"2023-11-03T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T15:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9035962"},"modified":"2023-11-03T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T15:53:06","slug":"raed-jarrar-on-biden-saudi-arabia-joe-torres-on-tulsa-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/03\/raed-jarrar-on-biden-saudi-arabia-joe-torres-on-tulsa-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Raed Jarrar on Biden &amp; Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin231103.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin231103.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMxMTAzLm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9035963\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9035963\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\" wp-image-9035963\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/NYT-Biden-Options-350x374.png\" alt=\"NYT: Biden Has \u2018Only Bad Options\u2019 for Bringing Down Oil Prices\" width=\"250\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/NYT-Biden-Options-350x374.png 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/NYT-Biden-Options-600x642.png 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/NYT-Biden-Options-640x685.png 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/NYT-Biden-Options.png 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9035963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>New York Times<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/05\/business\/biden-oil-saudi-arabia.html\">6\/5\/22<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week on <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>: Elite media are fond of saying that the US is resetting its Middle East policy. During the 2020 campaign, the <b>New York Times<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/24\/us\/politics\/biden-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia.html\">explained<\/a>, Joe Biden pledged, if elected, to stop coddling Saudi Arabia, after the brutal murder of prominent dissident and <b>Washington Post<\/b> contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/saudi-pr-pays-off-at-the-atlantic\/\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>. \u201cWe are not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When officials said Biden would visit the kingdom in July of last year and meet with Mohammed bin Salman, understood as the architect of Khashoggi\u2019s murder, a <strong>New York Times<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/05\/business\/biden-oil-saudi-arabia.html\">headline<\/a> explained that Biden had \u201c\u2018only bad options\u2019 for bringing down oil prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We talked at the time with Raed Jarrar, advocacy director at <a href=\"https:\/\/dawnmena.org\/\">DAWN<\/a>, Democracy for the Arab World Now, an organization founded by Khashoggi. We\u2019ll hear that conversation again today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/in-the-middle-east-we-are-hearing-a-new-set-of-excuses-to-justify-the-same-old-policy\/\"><strong>\u2018In the Middle East, We Are Hearing a New Set of Excuses to Justify the Same Old Policy\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_1\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_1\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_1\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_1\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_1\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_1\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin231103Jarrar.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_1\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_1\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_1 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin231103Jarrar.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMxMTAzSmFycmFyLm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[1] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_1, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9027012\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9027012\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9027012\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tulsa-Aftermath-300x200.png\" alt=\"Aftermath of Tulsa Massacre\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tulsa-Aftermath-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tulsa-Aftermath-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tulsa-Aftermath-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tulsa-Aftermath-640x427.png 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tulsa-Aftermath.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9027012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Aftermath of Tulsa Massacre (photo via bswise)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also on the show:\u00a0 \u201cIf you&#8217;re not careful,\u201d Malcolm X famously warned, \u201cthe newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.\u201d This is a problem of long standing, and in June 2021 we explored one case of it\u2014the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma\u2014with author and activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/about\/staff\/joseph-torres\">Joseph Torres<\/a>. We hear that this week as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/tulsa-a-cover-up-happens-because-the-powers-that-be-are-implicated\/\"><strong>Tulsa: \u2018A Cover-Up Happens Because the Powers That Be Are Implicated\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_2\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_2\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_2\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_2\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_2\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_2\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin231103Torres.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_2\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_2\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin231103Torres.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMxMTAzVG9ycmVzLm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[2] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/raed-jarrar-on-biden-saudi-arabia-joe-torres-on-tulsa-massacre\/\">Raed Jarrar on Biden &#038; Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/raed-jarrar-on-biden-saudi-arabia-joe-torres-on-tulsa-massacre\/\">Raed Jarrar on Biden &amp; Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311731"}],"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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311731"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429288,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311731\/revisions\/1429288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}