Friday News Roundup - International
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-06-22/friday-news-roundup-international
Greek elections usher in a conservative, pro-bailout party and the new prime minister forms a government. European leaders hold a mini-summit on the debt crisis. In Egypt, protesters gather in Tahrir Square as they await delayed presidential election results. The Arab League presses Russia to halt arms shipments to Syria. And talks over Iran's nuclear program stall. A panel of journalists joins guest host Terence Smith for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Abderrahim Foukara
Washington bureau chief of Al Jazeera Arabic.
Stella Dawson
U.S specialist, economics editor, Reuters.
Jonathan Landay
senior national security and intelligence correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers.
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The President seemed about as comfortable with Putin as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Can you say, "He got rolled"?
Nope.
There's one long infomercial on most of daytime talk radio these days tying President Obama & attorney general Holder together at the hip. The national security leak issue is the only one I can't understand isn't handled better. If what I saw is a fairly recent military weapon, two stealth Blackhawks flying toward an area of a lot of special operations basing, doesn't that reduce the concern Senator Feinstein might have over the public's knowledge of the President having control over a drone kill list. West Point's own review points to probable knowledge of the presence in Pakistan of those high up in that country's power structure, but we can't even get the Pakistanis to tell their own people they're getting help with threats to their own country with our use of drones there. Why all the sturm und dram?
Not a good pic of the prez, he does look a bit silly. It looks like Angela Merkel is drilling holes with her eyes in the back of his head. Lets face it, the sensible among this crowd reject Obama's big government spending fixes that he offers.
Well said!
Listening this morning to a lot of opinion and understood weekly roundup to be more about the facts; an overview of the week’s events internationally; and at least the guest lineup is less obvious than usual; though could be much better too.
Why aren't Putin, Cameron or the new French president in the photo?
Mr. Foukara and the rest of the cast proved Leonard's point about environment denial. The fact that little happened at the environment summit is precisely what happened--governments showed that they do not understand the urgency, and the Friday News Roundup showed the press is not doing its role (because it's easier and more comfortable to chat platitudes about Syria, Mubarak, etc, than to present the environmental emergency we are all colluding to ignore.
Abderrahim Foukara dismissed the caller's question re. why the panel had not made so much as fleeting reference to the Rio+20 Conference. Before returning to a previous topic, he uttered something about irresolvable differences among various countries and/or how the conference was not about to live up to its initial expectations. And yet the DR Show is somehow able to devote hours upon hours upon hours of coverage to the failure of the so-called Egyption revolution to deliver on its promise and the discord between the Muslim Brotherhood, the military, and other factions.
Once again, the international hour of the Friday News Roundup can pat itself on the back for its "broad" coverage of world events. Today it spanned all of 2,330 miles, the distance from Cairo to Islamabad... so less than a tenth of the way around the earth, at that narrow latitude. (Pardon me if there was a brief discussion of Greece way over on the north side of the Mediterranean--I tuned in about 5 minutes late). This would be just fine if such coverage was for just this one week, but it's week after week after week that experts are assembled whose only area of expertise or interest seems to be that narrow portion of the planet. What about South America, Indonesia, Australia, Antarctica, Scandinavia, the arctic regions? What about the well-being of ANY of the other 10 million plus species that inhabit this planet?
Does Russia have credibility as bulwark in defense of the Syrian regime? Syria is surrounded by Western allies.
http://theoriginalamed.blogspot.com/2012/06/syrian-stalemate.html