Friday News Roundup - International
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-03-08/friday-news-roundup-international
North Korea raises threats over new U.N. sanctions. International support grows for Syrian rebels. Venezuelans mourn the death of President Hugo Chavez. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
James Kitfield
senior correspondent for National Journal.
Susan Glasser
editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine.
Abderrahim Foukara
Washington bureau chief of Al Jazeera Arabic.
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John Kerry can't say what many of us already know.
The aim is to make Syria an NRA paradise.
What better way to telegraph the consequences of uprising to the American public than to parade this strangulation in major media? A wide spectrum of US citizens are fed up and seeking ways to resist. For capitalist elites civil war here would be just another chapter in the shock doctrine of profiteering from atrocity and displacement. By off-shoring and gating private reserves the Oligarchy has ascended to a cloud city lifestyle.
The Chinese armada is being built to protect the Politburo, and esteemed billionaire guests, from proletarian wrath. White House tours have ended because "Who cares whether the powerless masses covet and admire us. They are but meat (buttmeat, when horsemeat runs short).
A discerning critic might wonder why, if a US citizen at home can legally be droned, they why not Bashar al-Assad?
Somehow I think nee-Time Warner would hesitate in disconnecting his cable, because he's a "player."
So what does the oldest civil rights organization in the United States, the NRA, have to do with Syria?
The NRA has been bought by arms manufacturers and dealers in the same way our Government has been bought by Oligarchs. It was never a civil rights club but a slave chasing organization. It has a history of usurping and intimidation rather than empowerment of the oppressed. Now it is pure profiteering, won't even support screenings on all transactions.
Syria is a market for arms. That's all it is to the greedy.
But on those of us resisting here, the Owners use it as a preview.
Only a nut or a fetishist would expect to resist the US national security state successfully with small arms. They will McVeigh you. Gun toters will be used to mow down us peaceful protesters, and that's the only reason wealthy people promote such stupidity. The Second Amendment taken out of context and in isolation could as easily guarantee your right to short, hairy, muscular appendages with claws as to assault rifles with long clips. Zealots pimp the Constitution like preachers do the Bible.
Enjoy your welfare if you can find any because your mind seems difficult to free.
Pancake Rankin wrote: "The NRA has been bought by arms manufacturers and dealers in the same way our Government has been bought by Oligarchs"
Proof please? How do the 4.5 million dues paying NRA members figure in to your equation?
The other day the Rehm show aired another program on Syria but the lack of diversity of the panelist were astounding. All three on the same page. And very few callers allowed through who might challenge the lack of diversity of opinion about Syria, Iran and other foreign policy issues that came up during that hour.
Please have your guest discuss what former Bush administration officials and middle east analyst Flynt and HIllary Mann Leverett, Professor Juan Cole and former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit Micheal Scheuer have all stated. That 50% of Syrians support Assad. That the Syrian Rebels are more than likely Al Qeada affiliates. That the US and others funding for these Syrian Rebels who know one really knows who they are actually has fueled the killing of Syrians and the refugee issue.
And would the Rehm team please have the Leveretts, Scheuer and Professor Cole on so those who listen can hear some well informed views on these critical issue instead of those who agree on talking points
"Michael Scheuer" love this guy!
kathleen: I agree with your suggestions about panelists, but you have persisted for a long time without a response. I don't mean to lump you with me, but might I suggest you communicate with DRShow and WAMU via other channels because this is also an internal issue. You might find out who is really in charge, and what the parameters of choice are. DRShow seems more and more to me to be a one-winged bird.
The flight is nearly as curvy as @On Point. National competition means concission and narrowing of message are emphasized more and more in order not to offend those who matter, and not to put any ideas in our disimagined heads. The 21st is shaping up to be more of a White Rose century than a Black Swan one. I have been censored and may soon lose access, so please know how dearly I've admired your posts. Your medical reporting was exceptional.
Please have your guest address issues that Former Bush administration officials and middle east analyst Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett, Professor Juan Cole and former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit have written about at their websites:
1. 50% of Syrians support Assad
2. No one knows who these Syrian rebels are. Schuer has said that more than likely Al Qeada affiliates. That the funding the Us is providing actually fuels the killing of Syrians and the refugee issue.
3. That this strategy will more than likely come back to bite the Obama administration in the behind like Benghazi
Pancake do you actually believe that I have not done so for years. Go public and hammer when there is no movement. Attempts to at least embarrass them a bit and not just here
my prediction is that OBL's brother in law will just somehow provide the Obama administration and Israel something they want about Iran that he just somehow has access to. Some curveball kind of false intelligence just happens to come up at a public New York Trial.
Otherwise he would have been sent to Gitmo. There is no way they would have allowed a public trial unless they have all ready determined the outcome.
I really believe this is more than likely the case
f or w: As an advocate (possibly paid) of the NRA I believe the onus is on you to prove its worth. I have no interest in such a sham that must resort to discount gunshow tickets to maintain membership rolls. (it's more desperate than ACORN became) The 1977 coup date is a dead giveaway.
Many are tearing up their cards in shame, like myself, my uncles, and Michael Moore. The new NRA represents wealthy interests and baits neo-Confederates to promote violence and hatred.
Next you'll be claiming the KKK is all about heritage and history.
We are just three honking horns in a sea of honking horns.
Do you admire me too Pancake?
The only surviving triceritops? I don't admire horniness.
NRA membership has grown by 500,000 in the last couple of months. Do you really need to ask how and why?
Can it get any more absurd Diane just said " 1 million Syrian refugees, 70,ooo dead" What a hypocrite she is. Have you ever heard Diane and her team repeat the numbers of Iraqi dead, the Iraqi refugees that the US is responsible for. What a filthy hypocrisy the Rehm team is part of. One show after another about Syria with very one sided panelist pointing out over and over again month after month how many Syrians have been killed, how many refugees there are (which of course is absolutely horrific) but the Rehm show has rolled over that massively huge pile of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi who are dead, injured and over a MILLION displaced that the US is responsible for. Does not get any more hypocritical. Shameful absolutely shameful
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OBL's b-n-l, Man, that's like blaming Billy Carter for the hostage rescue fiasco. All "intelligence" is Argoed (Affleck) now.
At Moyers&Co. we would have already been banned for our chatter. You don't even have to torture anymore, just digitally animate the words you want in the puppet's mouth. "Yes, we brainwashed Marvin Bush into activating the built-in explosives at WTC," or any other "patently false" statements. Plato's Cave is no longer subterranean. (SubTehranian) Maybe we are incriminating ourselves even as we write.
Look, DRShow can't be rebuked for accurately relaying press releases. They have no real means to verify because their spectrum of expertise in constantly narrowing. Are you asking people to risk their jobs in the interest of educating the public? I think I smell William Bennett.... no, he's at the track. And he took the McGuffey with him. Hope he don't lose it.
f or w: Pinocchio had a similar problem with his horn. Get real.
freedom. To have such a position..the guy has to know so much. His views are fascinating. He has said the Syrian rebels are definitely Al Qeada. Diane Rehm and team will not be having him on any time soon if ever. To off the Obama administrations messaging. The panelist that they choose line up on the OBama administrations page, The Rehm show has become even more narrow in their scope than ever before. Screener too Has to be from AEI
Scheuers website Non intervention a must read
diane rehm i enjoy your program, i have listened to your program everyday,
i am very dissapointed that you have spread this slander lie of chavez having amassed 2 billion dollars,
i was expecting more journalistic integrity
the source of this allegation is
http://www.cjiausa.org/
a front organization run entirely by Jerry Brewer
http://www.lunchinars.ca/author/jerry-brewer/
now if you follow his trajectory you can read through all the slander and misinformation that this man has written over the years, and its extremely transparent that he has an agenda
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/15278/did-hugo-chavez-have-a...
how could this be taken seriously?
i would expect this to come from fox news and univision but not NPR
if this is true then it wont be so far fetched to also believe maduros claims that u.s had poisoned chavez since no one is being accounted for journalistic integrity
Kian-e: Thanks for the heads-up on the two-billion dollars story et al. Cancer inducement is not so far-fetched. There were brain cancer epidemics among notables at the end of the Nixon and Reagan Administrations. Bill Casey was one of those, died 1987. Notice how Fidel also got colon cancer, so maybe we should expect some other NeoLiberal opponents running South American democracies to get it too.
Is that "curveball" kathleen mentioned the same curveball that tricked W and Cheney into the Iraq invasion debacle??
Thanks Kian for setting that straight. I am a longtime Diane Rehm supporter - but I don't think her overall coverage of Chavez could be described as anything other than shameful and unbalanced. Tom Gjelten, James Kitfield and Moises Naim are simply rabid anti-Chavez haters - and there was no one to counter them on either show, with the exception of a couple of callers.