Friday News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-06-10/friday-news-roundup-hour-2
The U.S. intensified airstrikes in Yemen. The extent of the war there, had largely been kept secret. The U.N.’s highest human rights official called on Syria’s government to halt assaults against its own people. The U.N. said more than 1100 people have been killed since March. Many Syrians have fled into nearby Turkey. In Iraq, U.S. troops experienced the deadliest single attack in two years. And German authorities said bean sprouts were to blame for an E. coli outbreak that killed at least 29 people. A panel of journalists discuss the top international stories of the week.
Guests
David Sanger
chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times.
Courtney Kube
national security producer for NBC News.
Richard McGregor
Washington bureau chief, The Financial Times.
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Nice to see an AK47 strapped across the chest of a freedom fighter after ousting a corrupt dictator. I doubt that it gives Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or the Obama administration any pause in supporting the United Nations efforts for arms control. Arms control only gives more power for existing governments to suppress their people and to shoot them down if they should dare rise up against them. Much easier to crush dissent when it's unarmed. Kind of like what they are doing here at home, damn that second amendment. Just my opinion as part of the militia, a not so free citizen of the United States.
During a recent a march in support of Israel Israeli youth screamed violent and ruthless statements about Arabs. Such as "kill the Arabs" "burn their villages" "slaughter Arabs" and Israeli soldiers and police officers did nothing to interrupt these violent statements
White Shirts in Jerusalem cry ‘Butcher the Arabs’
by Phil Weiss and Annie on June 3, 2011
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/white-shirts-in-jerusalem-cry-butcher-the-...
During those same protest a young American Jewish man Lucas Koerner was peacefully protesting Israel's occupation. He was aggressively and brutally arrested by Israeli police for shouting "not in my name"
A young American Jew describes being arrested for standing in opposition to the Jerusalem Day parade
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/a-young-american-jew-describes-being-arres...
Can you please have your guest discuss these brutal and violent arrest that Palestinians have had to deal with for decades for peaceful protesting against the Israeli occupation.
Hope Diane and team are brave enough to have Lucas Koerner on your program.
Come on Rehm team open your eyes and your air waves. Go to those links watch for your selves
Lets see Diane you have mentioned Syria, Iraq, E coli, when it comes to international issues. But seldom do you ever mention the ongoing expansion of Israeli illegal settlements. Palestinian protest against the occupation. What you mention about international affairs sure seems to shrinking. Your program used to be one of the mainstream outlets where some of the facts on the ground in the Israeli Palestinian conflict could get through. Are you folks being pressured to shut down that opening on your program by Camera or other I lobby organizations or intimidation groups?
Can your guest please discuss the ever expanding illegal Israeli settlements and illegal housing in E Jerusalem and how this impedes any negotiations.
David or Richard just mentioned the hypocrisy having to do with sending in international help to people protesting and rebelling in Libya but not in Syria. Are you capable of applying those same standards to those protesting against the Israeli occupation?
Let's see so far the international discussion on the Diane Rehm show has included Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey nothing about Palestinian protesters, expansion of illegal settlements. Not a whisper. Bet we will go the whole hour without these critical issues coming up.
Oops Diane just mentioned Yemen to add to that collection.
But one the most critical issues that people in that part of the world are pissed off about has not come up on the international discussion.
One of your commentators suggested that roads built in Afghanistan by the West are sustainable because they will not require much money for upkeep. I disagree. Having spent a year in northern Afghanistan (2005), having seen the thin layers of asphalt being put down on these roads by foreign contractors and watching some of these roads being washed away during the spring floods, I would argue that even these roads will require regular (and very costly) upkeep by the Afghan government.
In 2004 the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab conducted a solar/wind mapping of Afghanistan, which showed that country's abundant renewable energy resources.
It saddens me to see that we will be leaving the Afghans with an infrastructure that is not energy efficient and that will depend primarily for its energy on diesel fuel generators and electricity imported from former Soviet Republics on its northern borders.
Patricia McArdle
Arlington, Virginia
Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired
Author, Farishta (a novel inspired by the year I spent in Afghanistan)
I'm sorry, but this business about Rape and Viagra in Libya sounds an awful lot like Iraqi troops taking Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and bayoneting them in hospitals - remember that tidbit from 1990? The real issue against Khadaffi, if your guests were honest, is (was) his desire to Unify Africa under one currency backed by gold. The US and the EU cannot tolerate this and Khadaffi's fate was sealed when he started moving in this direction...
WP Muhammad
Desert Storm Veteran
US ARMY (ret)
Cuba's state-sponsored shortwave propaganda/anti-American broadcast "Radio Havana" has been reporting about Obama's "secret war in Yemen" for well over a year now. I've listened to RH for laughs for years, so it's sorry day indeed when a notorious icon of Communist propaganda scoops every major American newspaper, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, and NPR.
I am a huge fan, your show, your books and your good works...However, You let one of your guests today in the closing minutes of the show to link, violence, racism and the Tea Party to the Gifford's tragic attack. This is clearly not true, the alleged perpetrator was a lone, troubled young man with issues NOT related to the Tea Party movement. I generally appreciate your fair and balanced (apologies to Fox News)...more like the Christian Science Monitor..however, every once in a while the liberal leanings of your team sneak past..and that comment stuck in my craw all day..and when I returned home a re-listened...it truly made me angry because you let it go by with a simple "MMMM".