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Netanyahu at the UN
This week on CounterSpin: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress about what the New York Times called the “Iranian nuclear threat” was controversial before it happened, because Republicans arranged it without White House sanction. But are media asking the fundamental questions about what Netanyahu actually said? We’ll talk to reporter Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept about that.
Also on the show: After Cleveland police officers killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice on a playground last November, they told a series of lies: that Rice grabbed an air pistol and put it in his waistband as they arrived, that they ordered him to put his hands up three times and he refused, that he pulled out the pistol before they shot him. But we only know these are lies because someone videotaped the incident. Is it any wonder, then, that the right of citizens to film police is resisted vehemently by some in law enforcement, and embraced vehemently by those concerned about police abuses? We’ll talk about that with Carlos Miller, founder and publisher of the project Photography Is Not A Crime.
LINKS:
–“Benjamin Netanyahu’s Long History of Crying Wolf About Iran’s Nuclear Weapons,” by Murtaza Hussain (Intercept, 3/2/15)
What is more dangerous, Netanyahu talking about Iran’s nuclear program, or Iran building it. Iran is spending so much more money than would make sense if the program was about energy. Iran has been deceitful in hiding, and hardening and putting these facilities underground.
Nuclear weapons are not for Iran, they are for the preservation of a toxic extreme religious regime that oppresses its people, and supports terrorism, and is making inroads throughout the area because they are spending money that should rightly go to the Iranian people.
If Netanyahu’s claims were so baseless I think we would have heard about it in the news, especially the news that seems to come from the far left. Somehow the undemocratic, despotic countries of the Middle East have convinced many Liberal causes to take up their cause as a victim.
As a lifelong Liberal, I find this whole idea that the Palestinians are somehow Liberal, or a Liberal cause to be very disturbing, and factually absurd, and yet so many Liberals I know seem to soak up this idea without thinking because it comes from Liberal sources they had trusted for a long time. I have to think much of this is money filtering from somewhere in the oil rich nations that can be more focused and directed because of their greater familiarity with the West and the US.
Nothing will ever convince me that it is a Liberal cause that Iran get nuclear weapons to protect itself from the evil West. This is a construct that is a thin as paper when you poke it a time or two.
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As to the shooting of the boy in the playground, that was despicable. I saw the video, the car drove up so fast that is probably scared the kid into not hearing and processing what the police said, and the cops immediated began blasting that kid. I compare this to the Michael Brown case which I think was justified, and I believe we have to demand that police be looked at more closely and face prosecution for shootings like this one. Those police should have been prosecuted, if they are not already.
Murtaza Hussain:
http://www.honestreporting.ca/hrc-prompts-correction-in-globeandmail-com/13522
What does a kid with a realistic looking gun have to do with photography of the police? Nothing. Too bad Carlos Miller wouldn’t take on the story of San Diego Hatbor Police harassing a Jewish photographer. Bias in the media and with the media watchdogs. Thanks for not helping Carlos….
Do the people commenting on these shows even listen to them?