Friday News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-11-18/friday-news-roundup-hour-2
The eurozone crisis claimed another victim this week – as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was forced to resign, his replacement, dubbed “Super Mario”, promised to make tough reforms; pressure mounted on the embattled Syrian President as the King of Jordan called on him to step down; President Obama made his first trip “down under” to Australia, announcing an increased U.S. presence in the Asia Pacific; and Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he wanted to continue the country’s partnership with the U.S., but only on his terms. Diane will discuss the week's top international news stories with Mark Landler of The New York Times, Elise Labott of CNN and Mark Mardell of the BBC.
Guests
Mark Landler
White House correspondent, The New York Times.
Elise Labott
senior State Department producer for CNN.
Mark Mardell
BBC North America editor.
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Nice to have OPUS who can travel with out fear of indictment for war crimes... opening Burma as Nixon China???
European crisis- not a crime- as good white collar business(right think)
VERY profitable... and good for 'corrections'. US military service record 'corrected'. US fathers as well in 'different' 'accendental' fire during process of safing US(NOT saving- safing- trading responsibility and liberty for perception of safety).
Though peeking at how well austerity has primed the job creators in Europe(they had 'head start' remember?)... is that still the plan for JAN 2013 ??? (and now understand Mayan legend 2012 world ends- Super- super- Congress was still 'safing' US in ex camera committee and busy raising funds for 2016)...
This week on Tuesday Israeli forces demolished four homes west of Jericho in the central West Bank. Palestinian security officials said over 30 army vehicles and 100 soldiers deployed in the Ein al-Duyuk al-Tahta area early Tuesday morning and declared a closed military zone, before bulldozers started demolishing homes. This all took place in the illegally occupied territories.
Why is it we hear little no nothing about Israel's illegal immoral activities on the Diane Rehm show and throughout the MSM?
This past Monday seven Palestinian Freedom Riders inspired by the Freedom riders in the US during the Civil rights Movement were arrested by Israeli police after they attempted to ride on segregated Israeli public transportation which daily take illegal Israeli settlers from inside the occupied West Bank to occupied East Jerusalem on Israeli only buses.
May of us watched this action live on Live Stream
This action clearly demonstrated the injustices and dispossesion that Palestinians face every day.
Why is it that we saw little to no coverage about this in the MSM including the Diane Rehm show
The most recent IAEA report having to do with Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program has been seriously ripped up by former Bush administration officials (they quit the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq because they disagreed with the invasion) and former CIA analyst Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. They state that many of the claims in the report were directly from Israeli and US sources and are fromuncorroborated sources. They go onto say that the former head of the IAEA El Baradei refused to include these claims due to the inability to solidly confirm these shaky claims.
The highly qualified Leveretts state "But the report—arguably the most anticipated document of its kind since the NPT was first advanced in 1968—does not in any way demonstrate that Iran is “developing a nuclear weapon”. Rather, it once again affirms, as the IAEA has for decades, Iran’s “non-diversion” of nuclear material. In other words, even if the Islamic Republic wanted to build nuclear weapons (and Tehran continues to deny, at the highest levels of authority, that it wishes to do so) it does not have the weapons-grade material essential to the task."
http://www.raceforiran.com/
Can your guest discuss this push by the Israeli lobby and Israel for a military intervention against Iran based on such shaky claims ?
Panelists equate democracy and America as though what is taking place in various parts of the world is an enigma. We maintain Guantanamo and send dissidents to foreign prisons to be interrogated and tortured and imprison soldiers who whistle-blow violations to the U.S. Constitution to which they take an oath to defend and protect. Something of a Paradox is it not?
This week on "Real News" former IAEA weapons inspector Robert Kelly said that there was little to nothing new in the recently released IAEA report on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. He goes on to state that many of the new claims are unsubstantiated. Yet we hear little to nothing about the serious questions by experts about the validity of the new report
Will you please have former weapons inspector Robert Kelly on your program?
November 15, 2011
Former IAEA Inspector: Misleading Iran Report Proves Nothing
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...
kathleen: Let me test your hypothesis.
1. While Israeli administrations exhibit racist traits against Islamic groups and Arabs I doubt this is their motivation for war with Iran. Racism is a tool of land grab rather than of regional conflict.
2. If they know what you say about Iranian nuclear technology is true they do not fear aggression from Iran.
3. So does the leadership of Israel hope to secure expanded support and funding from the USA by serving as an attack dog?
4. Do they expect to be rewarded for the increased control over Iranian oil?
And so will they also attack oil infrastructure along with nuclear installations?
Considering these points one also becomes curious about the aim of draconian sanctions sought by the USA against Iran. Are these sanctions intended as softening up for invasion or as leverage for a takeover of Iranian oil by Chevron and Exxon (maybe ultragreen BP?)?
The USA is not prepared to occupy Iran. Only an insane clique would consider that after our fiascoes in Iraq and Af/Pak. If our Oligarchy did invade Iran we would certainly become a domestic police state then. Our people would not accept it as a Big Game because ticket costs would crush households. But maybe Oligarchs don't care?
Pink: Bashful Barry may be subject to similar travel limitations as Bushites once he leaves office. UN Commissioner William J. Clinton rarely visits his protectorate of Haiti anymore. Look for a report on this by Chelsea (NBC).
Well, maybe you'll have to wait ten years for a report by Malia on Fox.
(austerity breeds nepotism?)
I agree with Kathleen. Perhaps in his second term (which recognises the irresistible Jewish lobby in the USA) President Obama will tell Netanyahu he cannot expect Israel military expeditions or illegal occupation to be underwritten by the USA both in political and logistic terms in the future. That will precipitate meaningful negotiations that no amount of persuasion by Blair and the Quartet will ever achieve.
And why is it Kathleen never discusses the acts of terrorism and violations of International Law (to say nothing of decency or morality) conducted by Palestinians and their supporters? Why no mention of the rockets Hamas repeatedly shells on Israel from Gaza? Why no mention of Israeli families murdered in their sleep, of buses being bombed, of wedding banquets being slaughtered?
You know, madam, your tirades would be slightly more credible if there was even an attempt at being even handed about it. One does not have to ignore Palestinian crimes in order to oppose the settlements.
Oh, and as for Iran, would that Kathleen (and others) apply a little skepticism to its assertions, and not just indulge their cynicism for its critics.
patrick newman on November 18, 2011 @ 1:17 pm wrote: “Perhaps in his second term (which recognises the irresistible Jewish lobby in the USA). . . .”
Didn’t you mean to say the “Pro-Zionist” or the “Pro- Israel” lobby?
Careful, sir, your Anti-Semitism is showing.