{"id":37259,"date":"2013-08-13T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37259"},"modified":"2013-08-13T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T17:24:05","slug":"daily-news-flash-for-august-13-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/13\/daily-news-flash-for-august-13-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash for August 13, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130813NewsflashJensen\/2013_08_13_newsflash_jensen.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130813NewsflashJensen\/2013_08_12_uprising.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 Tuesday guest expert Robert Jensen, author of a number of books and Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-250_162-57598224\/lawsuits-hit-n.c-as-soon-as-voter-id-bill-signed-into-law\/\"><br \/>\nNorth Carolina\u2019s governor signs a sweeping new bill into law, rolling back gains made on voting rights. Within weeks of the Supreme Court decision to gut a major portion of the Voting Rights Act, states like North Carolina decided to restrict voting access. But within hours, a number of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against the state. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-hillary-clinton-20130813,0,6454875.story?track=lat-pick\">One member of government strongly speaking out against the attacks on the Voting Rights Act is former Secretary of State and former First Lady, Hillary Clinton, who in a series of very presidential speeches, has strongly criticized the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling. The LA Times this morning is calling it \u201cher long, slow flirtation with the 2016 presidential campaign.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-23678238\">After threats of peace talks breaking down between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, it is being reported today that Israel has moved a number of Palestinian political prisoners into an Israeli central jail. The release of prisoners was a pre-condition for Palestinians to start the talks. It is not clear if the prisoners will actually be released now or later. Meanwhile, Israel approved 1,200 new illegal settlements, in a move labeled by US Secretary of State John Kerry, as \u201cto some degree expected.\u201d Kerry urged Palestinians to overlook the settlements and allow talks to continue. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uprising\u2019s Tuesday guest expert Robert Jensen, author of a number of books and Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: North Carolina\u2019s governor signs a sweeping new bill into law, rolling back gains made on voting rights. Within weeks of the Supreme Court decision to gut a major [&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-37259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37259","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=37259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37272,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37259\/revisions\/37272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}