Friday News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-02-25/friday-news-roundup-hour-2
Hundreds of Turkish citizens working in Libya wait to board the Orhan Gazi, one of two ships sent by Turkey to evacuate Turkish nationals trapped in this country, in Benghazi, Libya, early Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Two Turkish ships whisked 3,000 citizens away from the unrest engulfing Libya as Turkey cranked up its largest-ever evacuation on Wednesday, seeking to protect its estimated 25,000 workers in Libya.
AP Photo/Berk Ozkan, Anatolia
Pro-Gadhafi forces step up their attack on Libyan protesters as fears of civil war mount. In Bahrain, demonstrations grow despite concessions by the king. And a U.K. court rules in favor of extraditing Julian Assange to Sweden. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Moises Naim
chief international columnist, El Pais.
Nadia Bilbassy
senior U.S. correspondent, MBC TV -- Middle East Broadcast Centre.
Mark Landler
diplomatic correspondent, The New York Times.
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Yes, let's clawback the wall street bonuses. They used their contractural agreements, and the money to save the wall street firms. Now that we have the facts on the ground. Let's toss out labor, so they can be employed at the whim of anyone in office, the civic leaguers who decide priorities, and if you raise an issue of the recreation facilities for poorer neighborhoods compared to theirs, will ask you if you own your own home, where, and if you don't why they are on you and shunning you in the social hour after the meeting, because you aren't one of them. Renters doon't pay taxes on property? Renter's go poor because landlord's don't upgrade rental property, so its all free to them. They have expenses, and invest in energy savings and green stuff that the poor pay to go out the roof. Keep the comfortable cozy, and the rest of us shivver or sweat in place. And don't drive in their neighborhoods, even if they want to collect your taxes on merchandise. Oh, wall street, property owners. Aren't the working class, those public schoolers, just disgusting. And you going to send your sons to fight, or be a first responder for one of them. Don't want first responders to drive city vehicles home.
I don't think it is a coincidence that this is the first digital generation in the Middle East and thru this medium they can see how incompetent there governments are. They are finally fed up with no basic services that the rest of the world takes for granted.
The freedom movement that was sparked in Tunisia will continue to reshape the Middle East and Africa. This people are fighting for more dignity, they want to be able to choose better leaders who are more accountable to the people. Since the world is ever more connected we have a responsibility as citizens of world to support people who are seeking basic rights. The USA should do more to stop the massacre in Tripoli by the mad killer/dictator Moammar Gaddafi.
With regard to the question whether Qaddafi ends up in Venezuela, I doubt Hugo Chavez wants the negative international PR. I wonder if Hugo's buddy, Sean Penn, has some room at his place?
at timestamp 40:30 - 40:57 of this broadcast, you read out a Facebook question to the guests from a certain Rafael, which asked:
"Given Hugo Chávez is one of the timid voices to defend Khadafi, would this finally bring attention to this dictator wannabe and his destructive agenda towards Venezuela and other South and Central American countries?"
I have to take exception with the choice of broadcasting this. I shall address the choice element momentarily, because I think it was wrong of you to select this particular soundbite "question."
Firstly, I have to say and assert that there is absolutely zero evidence nor reason to actually believe that Hugo Chávez has a destructive agenda toward anything whatsoever. That claim, and that kind of claim, is pure unadulterated propaganda. This opinion is based in utter and absolute personal bias. I want to make that crystal clear.
Secondly, broadcasting this question in the first place, Ms Rehm, is an unacceptable editorial decision to have made. Your role is as a professional journalist. Regardless of what your radio show may appear to span in terms of its content interests, you have always operated within the realm of journalism. You have participated in the propagation and the legitimation of a propaganda, and that is categorically unacceptable.
I am very disappointed. Be it known, then, that you are indeed functioning as a commentator, and that your commentary does in fact carry and come loaded with very questionable biases.
Hugo Chávez makes decisions for his people, and specifically for the people who elected him in an uncontestable legal democratic election. Do not participate in destabilizing open democracy. You have absolutely no business doing that through your show, nor under its auspices.
Hugo Chávez has caused no damage to his country, nor any other country, whatsoever.
Sincerely, and respectfully,
Ricardo H.
Diane:
The next time you host a discussion on the rebellion/revolution/movement/civil war in Libya, please ask your guests to comment on this suggestion.
Do we want our President to continue wringing his hands and playing "Hamlet," or will the United States redeem itself from the last sixty years of dismaying Realpolitik in the Middle East?
While we re-evaluate our general policy toward the Arab world, here’s a practical, immediate project that will give us credibility at least among the idealists.
Help the Libyans liberate themselves, today if not sooner.
Assemble a flotilla of vessels from the NATO countries, accompanied by adequate air support and fire-support naval ships, and transport the rebels from al-Bayda and Banghazi to landing sites from which they can assault Tripoli. A sea assault will avoid the exposed and dangerous trek along the coast through Surt.
Can President Obama be persuaded to act before it’s too late?
Vince Schumacher
Grand Rapids, MI
(Michigan Public Radio)
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Diane:
The next time you host a discussion on the rebellion/revolution/movement/civil war in Libya, please ask your guests to comment on this suggestion.
Do we want our President to continue wringing his hands and playing "Hamlet," or will the United States redeem itself from the last sixty years of dismaying Realpolitik in the Middle East?
While we re-evaluate our general policy toward the Arab world, here’s a practical, immediate project that will give us credibility at least among the idealists.
Help the Libyans liberate themselves, today if not sooner.
Assemble a flotilla of vessels from the NATO countries, accompanied by adequate air support and fire-support naval ships, and transport the rebels from al-Bayda and Banghazi to landing sites from which they can assault Tripoli. A sea assault will avoid the exposed and dangerous trek along the coast through Surt.
Can President Obama be persuaded to act before it’s too late?
Vince Schumacher
Grand Rapids, MI
(Michigan Public Radio)
February 25, 2011 - 1:52 pm"
1)We did that in Iraq.
2)We did that in Afghanistan.
3)It took months to,"Assemble a flotilla of vessels from the NATO countries, accompanied by adequate air support and fire-support naval ships... Etc, Etc,
4)It cost the lives of Hundreds of Thousands of the Liberatees, their Children, their Parents, their Cats, Dogs, Cattle, orchards, Farms their All.
5)"Assemble a flotilla of vessels from the NATO countries, accompanied by adequate air support and fire-support naval ships, and transport the rebels from al-Bayda and Banghazi to landing sites from which they can assault Tripoli."
Sounds like Cuba!!!!
Vinnie, you are one really dumb SOB and like all Repubs, a morally blind and deaf Two-bit Jingo Flag waver.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
If you are going to continue to call this the "international hour", how about covering ALL of the the devestating international events of the week, including the devestation that occurred this week in New Zealand? Instead, you chose to spend your last minute with Oscar picks, and then proclaimed "we've never seen the world in such turmoil, just an extraordinary week." Imagine the turmoil of seeing your husband, wife, or child being pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building. Estimates are as many as 300 of these individual "extraordinary" events may have occurred this week in a city of 400K, but maybe dictators and uprisings are the only thing that make the radar. I've been glued to NPR for coverage of the amazing events occurring throughout the Middle East, but I hope future broadcasts will be truly international.
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