{"id":45162,"date":"2019-04-08T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45162"},"modified":"2019-04-08T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:24:47","slug":"the-syrian-american-councils-pressure-campaign-to-censor-one-of-its-major-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45162","title":{"rendered":"The Syrian American Council\u2019s Pressure Campaign to Censor One of Its Major Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/how-a-pro-war-lobby-strong-armed-a-bookstore-into-censoring-one-of-their-biggest-critics\/256991\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/US-Aid_edited.jpg\" alt=\"The Management of Savagery | Max Blumenthal\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/how-a-pro-war-lobby-strong-armed-a-bookstore-into-censoring-one-of-their-biggest-critics\/256991\/\">The Syrian American Council\u2019s Pressure Campaign to Censor One of Its Major Critics\t<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cClearly these regime change lobbyists want to burn my book because it exposes their own cynical tactics.\u201d \u2013 Max Blumenthal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he Syrian American Council and a collection of pro-war lobbyists have led an intimidation campaign aimed at bullying a major Washington-based bookstore, Politics and Prose, into canceling award-winning journalist and author Max Blumenthal\u2019s launch event for his new book&nbsp;<em>The Management of Savagery<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it appears to have worked. Politics and Prose&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliticsProse\/status\/1113523402399256576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that it would \u201cpostpone\u201d the event, citing \u201cconcerns\u201d over the event\u2019s \u201cformat, substance, \u2026 [and] security\u201d in a tweet. In a testament to the ferocity of the harassment campaign against the small chain, the company has pinned the statement to the top of its Twitter page so that anyone visiting it sees immediately that they caved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politics and Prose is the go-to space for D.C. book events. If you are on a book tour and coming to Washington, chances are that Politics and Prose will be hosting your event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, I called the Politics and Prose location that was to host the event for Blumenthal. I was directed to the events department, as nobody in the store itself had authority on such matters. After being put on hold for a few minutes, I was told by an employee, \u201cI spoke to all of my co\u2026 my manager and also our events person and we have no plans for canceling that event. It is going to go on as scheduled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was left out was that the store had already begun making onerous demands of Blumenthal, including requiring him to have an \u201cinterlocutor\u201d on stage, specifically, one who would appease the Syrian American Council. Blumenthal secured Andrew Cockburn, one of the premiere journalists covering U.S. and Middle East politics and a longtime correspondent for\u00a0<em>Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrian American Council\u2019s Pressure Campaign to Censor One of Its Major Critics \u201cClearly these regime change lobbyists want to burn my book because it exposes their own cynical tactics.\u201d \u2013 Max Blumenthal The Syrian American Council and a collection of pro-war lobbyists have led an intimidation campaign aimed at bullying a major Washington-based bookstore, [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[24610,14431,23910,1343,25564,862],"class_list":["post-45162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-alexander-rubinstein","tag-max-blumenthal","tag-mint-press-news","tag-regime-change","tag-syrian-american-council","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45162","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=45162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45163,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45162\/revisions\/45163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}