{"id":37834,"date":"2013-09-19T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37834"},"modified":"2013-09-19T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:03:00","slug":"daily-news-flash-with-arun-gupta-on-bashar-al-assad-and-john-mccain-irans-nuclear-program-and-a-new-study-on-gun-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/19\/daily-news-flash-with-arun-gupta-on-bashar-al-assad-and-john-mccain-irans-nuclear-program-and-a-new-study-on-gun-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash with Arun Gupta on Bashar Al Assad and John McCain, Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program, and a New Study on Gun Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130919Uprising\/2013_09_19_newsflash_gupta.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130919Uprising\/2013_09_19_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 guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent Journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian, In These Times, The Progressive, and Truthout, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and the Indypendent, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: <\/p>\n<p>Syrian President Bashar Al Assad says he will turn over his weapons for international oversight even as he maintains he was not responsible for the deadly Sarin gas attack on August 21st. An exclusive interview on Fox News with President Assad revealed a still-defiant leader who brushed aside the thousands of deaths of Syrians at the hands of his security forces and blamed rebel groups for the August 21st attack. Meanwhile, Senator John McCain pushed back against Russia\u2019s pro-Syria President Vladimir Putin, publishing an op-ed on the Russian news Pravda. McCain did not hold back, saying Putin ruled \u201cby corruption, repression and violence.\u201d <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/09\/19\/defiant-assad-claims-government-did-not-use-chem-weapons-vows-to-abide-by\/ \">Click here<\/a> for a Fox News article about Assad&#8217;s interview. <a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/opinion\/19-09-2013\/125705-McCain_for_pravda_ru-0\/\">Click here<\/a> to read Senator John McCain&#8217;s Op-ed in Pravda. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a neighboring region of the world, Iran\u2019s new president Hassan Rouhani, also gave an interview to a Western media outlet &#8211; his first since taking office. He told NBC, \u201cWe have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb and we are not going to do so. We are solely seeking peaceful nuclear technology.\u201d He also condemned war with Syria, and had considerably calmer rhetoric on Israel compared to his predecessor. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/19\/iran-nuclear-weapons-rouhani\">Click here<\/a> to read a Guardian Newspaper article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just days after a mass shooting at the Navy yard in Washington DC that left 13 people including the shooter dead, a new report was released analyzing the correlation between gun laws and gun deaths in various nations. The gun lobby often asserts that guns make a nation safer. But this new study of 27 countries including the US published in the American Journal of Medicine concludes the opposite is true. The authors show an extremely strong correlation that the more guns available in a country, the more gun-related deaths there will be and that mental illness is a negligible factor. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amjmed.com\/webfiles\/images\/journals\/ajm\/AJM12080.pdf\">Click here<\/a> to read the study on guns in the American Journal of Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uprising\u2019s guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent Journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian, In These Times, The Progressive, and Truthout, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and the Indypendent, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad says he will turn over his weapons for international oversight even as he maintains he [&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-37834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37834","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=37834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37848,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37834\/revisions\/37848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}