{"id":36940,"date":"2013-08-01T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36940"},"modified":"2013-08-01T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:13:50","slug":"daily-news-flash-for-august-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/01\/daily-news-flash-for-august-1-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash for August 1, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130801NewsflashGupta\/2013_08_01_newsflash_gupta.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130801NewsflashGupta\/2013_08_01_2013.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/dailynewsflash.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Uprising\u2019s 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\u2019s news headlines: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/snowden-leaves-moscow-airport-to-live-in-russia\/2013\/08\/01\/2f2d1aba-faa9-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html\">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\u2019s attorney has called him \u201cthe most wanted man on the planet.\u201d The news of his asylum comes at the same time as Snowden\u2019s 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.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/01\/us-zimbabwe-election-idUSBRE96T14B20130801\">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\u2019s Zanu PF party has not announced a final vote count to prove its victory. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakewyliepilot.com\/2013\/07\/30\/2000026\/ex-lawyer-in-terror-case-asks.html\">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. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uprising\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36955,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940\/revisions\/36955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}