Aug 01 2013

Daily News Flash for August 1, 2013

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Uprising’s Friday guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent journalist and regular contributor to AlterNet, Truthout and The Guardian, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and The Indypendent, analyzes today’s news headlines:

After weeks of speculation as to where NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden may end up, he is reported to have finally be allowed to leave a Moscow airport and enter Russia on a temporary 1 year asylum. Edward Snowden’s attorney has called him “the most wanted man on the planet.” The news of his asylum comes at the same time as Snowden’s leak has prompted a major investigation and hearings at the Congressional level, with many members of both major parties appalled at the extent of government spying under President Obama.

Presidential elections in Zimbabwe yesterday resulted in long-time dictator Robert Mugabe once more declaring a land-slide victory over his rival Morgan Tsvangirai. The 89 year old Mugabe had vowed to step down if he lost. Tsvangirai denounced the elections as a farce, and in fact, international monitors were not allowed into the country and media are recording a number of voting irregularities. Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has not announced a final vote count to prove its victory.

A rally in support of the imprisoned progressive attorney Lynne Stewart is being held in San Francisco today. Stewart is serving a ten year jail sentence for the supposed crime of making public a press release in 2003 by a terrorism suspect who was her client. Her request for compassionate release on the grounds of a cancer recurrence was denied previously. This week her lawyer has re-filed the request on the grounds that she only has 18 months to live.

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