Friday News Roundup - International
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-06-08/friday-news-roundup-international
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says U.N. monitors were shot at when trying to get to the scene of the latest Syrian massacre. An American drone strike in Pakistan killed al-Qaida's number two in command. Eurozone countries contemplated a rescue of Spain's troubled banks. Matt Frei of the U.K.'s Channel 4 News, Indira Lakshmanan of Bloomberg News and David Sanger of The New York Times join Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Matt Frei
Washington correspondent of the U.K.'s Channel 4 News.
Indira Lakshmanan
senior reporter, Bloomberg News.
David Sanger
chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times; author of the new book, "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power."
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Do we have any idea of how much money from foreign sources is funding our local and federal campaigns? Much discussion is centered around SuperPACs, the Koch brothers, etc., but what about influence from China? Is there a means by which foreign entities can also flush money and therefore influence our elections?
Could you please ask your panel to comment on the situation in Montreal, where student unions have been on strike for 4 months, large-scale popular protests have taken place for 46 consecutive nights, and the provincial government has instituted legislation that violates constitutional rights. While French-language and international media has taken notice, English-language media in North America seems to be ignoring the situation. Why has there not been more coverage of a movement that might gain some ground against the kind of regressive social policy that many North Americans have come to believe is unsustainable.
Thank you,
Sylvia in Michigan
I am wondering why I haven't heard of anyone sponsoring some sort of "congress" of Syrian revolutionaries. What would these people do if Assad leaves Syria? How might these people like to govern themselves? They need a national congress and a constitutional convention. I know I'm just an American, and coming from our history. But it seems the Bosnians worked on a constitution, though they had a terribly broken outcome in their country. Yes, I'm hearing you speak about the military there. Like in Iraq, the military is a stable force, and the new order would certainly want them on board somehow.
Disappointing as Obama has been on closing Gitmo, and the illegal killing of American terrorists overseas, the republicans are downright dangerous. Romney's anti Obama rhetoric is bellicose and if elected could probably commit the US to more militaristic foreign intervention. Charges that Obama is leaking information for political purposes is just fallacious. The republican approach to foreign policy has not changed on bit since Bush II. The middle east would not be in the mess it is today if we had not invaded Iraq. Sometimes a good old fashioned revolution bloody as they are is a better solution to internal problems than foreign intervention of boots on the ground.
Disappointing as Obama has been on closing Gitmo, and the illegal killing of American terrorists overseas, the republicans are downright dangerous. Romney's anti Obama rhetoric is bellicose and if elected could probably commit the US to more militaristic foreign intervention. Charges that Obama is leaking information for political purposes is just fallacious. The republican approach to foreign policy has not changed on bit since Bush II. The middle east would not be in the mess it is today if we had not invaded Iraq. Sometimes a good old fashioned revolution bloody as they are is a better solution to internal problems than foreign intervention of boots on the ground.
How can Mr. Sanger ask us to tolerate that which no member of the media would accept from the government? Essentially, he is saying "Trust Me" on the issue of sources for his story.
Thank you for having this discussion Diane.
Regarding the opinion some people have about a threat to our national security that they think David Sanger's book may have, I think a bigger threat to national security would be our soldiers desecrating dead bodies of those they were fighting against as well as one particular soldier that went and killed several civilians in their sleep. It's these kind of actions that will most anger those we started a war against and be a threat to national security in my opinion.
Hello, I watched a couple of Blackhawk helicopters that I later realized were stealth because of their much more streamlined & glossy grey appearance, flying toward where you'd expect them to be based in the metro area. I'm pretty sure weapons like that are of a recent production. The review of Bin Laden's effects contracted to academia by West Point pointed to the high probability of someone high up in the Pakinstani power structure as probably having known of Bin Laden's presence, and so I wonder why Senator Feinstein should be so upset. Do you really think the President's control of a drone kill list is a bothersome as why we can't get the Pakistani government to be more demonstrative to their own people about the support we give via identifying and taking out threats to their government with our drones?