{"id":24329,"date":"2017-06-29T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24329"},"modified":"2017-06-29T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:07:24","slug":"qatar-may-be-turning-its-back-on-the-us-dollar-and-we-all-know-what-that-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24329","title":{"rendered":"Qatar May be Turning Its Back on the US Dollar \u2014 and We All Know What That Means"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b> \u2014<\/i> Late last week, Saudi Arabia and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that are involved in attempting to isolate Qatar sent<\/a> the tiny Gulf nation a list of 13 demands. They are insisting that Qatar meet these demands within ten days or face unspecified further action.The list of demands includes Qatar shutting down Al-Jazeera<\/i> and its affiliate stations; shutting down other news outlets that Qatar funds, including Middle East Eye<\/i>; curbing diplomatic ties with Iran and expelling members of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard; terminating the Turkish military presence in Qatar; consenting to monthly audits for the first year following acceptance of the demands, and aligning itself entirely with the other Gulf and Arab countries militarily, politically, socially, and economically \u2013 to name but a few.<\/p>\n

The most ludicrous of the demands is that Qatar must end its interference in sovereign countries\u2019 internal affairs. Qatar does<\/i> interfere in a number of countries, including Libya<\/a>and Syria<\/a>, but as the German Foreign Minister explained<\/a>, this list of demands directly challenges Qatar\u2019s sovereignty. Who is interfering with whose sovereignty, exactly?<\/p>\n

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Unsurprisingly, Qatar has dismissed<\/a> the list of demands as neither reasonable nor actionable. Surely, the Saudi-led anti-Qatar alliance is aware of this. It would be tantamount to asking Great Britain to shut down the BBC<\/i> and expel American troops \u2013 it just wouldn\u2019t happen. All of the world\u2019s major newspapers are complicit<\/a> in running state-sanctioned propaganda, and singling Al-Jazeera<\/i> out is hardly fair or practical.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In that context, Saudi Arabia and its friends have given Qatar a list of demands they cannot conceivably meet and imposed a ten-day deadline to concede or face unspecified further action. Qatar was essentially doomed from the start of this rift, and it\u2019s only just beginning. As Newsweek<\/i> lamented<\/a>, \u201cthe demands are designed to be impossible to comply with.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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Qatar May be Turning Its Back on the US Dollar \u2014 and We All Know What That Means (ANTIMEDIA) \u2014 Late last week, Saudi Arabia and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that are involved in attempting to isolate Qatar sent the tiny Gulf nation a list of 13 demands. They are insisting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,8803,64,14444,4413,1026,701,1510,3217,839],"class_list":["post-24329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-jazeera","tag-antimedia","tag-bbc","tag-darius-shahtahmasebi","tag-great-britain","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sovereignty","tag-uae","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24330,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329\/revisions\/24330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}