Friday News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-08-05/friday-news-roundup-hour-2
Visitors step on a doormat featuring a picture of Moammar Gadhafi outside the Libyan Embassy in London
(Akira Suemori/AP)
A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories: The trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak began in Cairo; the U.N. Security Council condemned the Syrian government's crackdown on protestors; and the European Central Bank tried to prevent the debt crisis from engulfing Italy and Spain.
Guests
James Kitfield
senior correspondent, National Journal.
Elise Labott
senior State Department producer for CNN.
Abderrahim Foukara
Washington bureau chief of Al Jazeera Arabic.
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Are you aware that the areas in Syria that are having the protests, etc. are and has been a hotbed of right wing islamist.
The Egyptian people have set the bar for justice and accountability for their leaders who have committed crimes... high. Will US and UK citizens take note? Tony Blair, Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Condi "mushroom cloud" Rice, Douglas Feith get in line
Do any of your guest think Americans will be taking notes? Any action to hold their own war criminals accountable? Know you folks will not be talking about the comparisons
Too bad Americans are not taking notes from the Egyptian people. Holding their leaders who have committed crimes against humanity accountable.
Would be more than symbolic if the American people were to demand that Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz, Rice, Feith, Rumsfeld etc were held accountable for their crimes against humanity.
Would be quite "symbolic" to witness Cheney in a cage of justice.
I am appalled at the NATO actions taken in Libya- are we to accept that NATO (US) sanctions murder?? This leader is a very very bad guy and I believe that this mission has gone rogue- only this time it is not with a small minority of soldiers, it is with strong powers that seem intent on assasination!!
I am so ashamed.
And it now turns out that we are probably in bed with some other bad guys in Libya - well done, really well done.
I am an american by choice(citizen) and a Venezuelan by origin; I wanted to share with you that in my native country of Venezuela President Chavez came to power in a similar situation we had recently here; with a minority of the population voting(30% of population voted at the time and he barely got enough votes to become president). We all now know how that ended. I think sometimes Americans either forget or don't know the reason people in countries as China do not argue about political issues is because there is no 'freedom of speech' and news are censured by the goverment(as is the case of Venezuela where TV and Radio stations that don't agree with Mr Chavez get shut down on a regular basis)
What a delight Mr. Abderrahim Foukara is. Please bring him back for future panels.
Hungry unemployed protesting unrepresentative government causing unrest and death.
Oh wait this is the international post...
I was listening to this in the car. Did James Kitfield really say that America would be better with a dictatorship like China than as a democracy? If someone in his position would say we would be better of with a Nazi government they would be run out of the business. Why is it okay to openly support a leftist dictatorship?
How could Americans not feel disenchanted when we hear corporations are continuing to cut personnel, we cannot refinance our homes that are underwater, we cannot find jobs, yet, billions of dollars are spent on these elections.
I wish someone would spend billions of dollars to protect and finance more jobs than those few held by elected officials !
At the end of the day, all Americans do matter.
What a delight Abderrahim Foukara is to listen to. Diane, please include him in future news round ups...and, interestingly, I think it would be great to have him on the domestic news hour panel....to get an interenational perspective on the US domestic news.
We often hear the domestic panel talk of international issues, how about the other way around?
Again, please bring back Mr. Foukara as often as possible.
He is a breath of fresh air.