{"id":38454,"date":"2013-11-21T10:57:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=38454"},"modified":"2013-11-21T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:57:36","slug":"daily-news-flash-with-arun-gupta-on-climate-walkouts-pakistan-drone-strike-and-us-afghan-security-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/11\/21\/daily-news-flash-with-arun-gupta-on-climate-walkouts-pakistan-drone-strike-and-us-afghan-security-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash with Arun Gupta on Climate Walkouts, Pakistan Drone Strike, And US-Afghan Security Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131121Uprising\/2013_11_21_newsflash_gupta.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131121Uprising\/2013_11_21_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>Hundreds of representatives of environmental and development groups walked out of the UN Climate conference called COP 19 in Warsaw, Poland today, protesting the lack of progress on global warming. A member of the World Wildlife Fund who was among those who walked out said, \u201cthe best use of our time is to voluntarily withdraw from the Warsaw climate talks. This will be the first time ever that there has been a mass withdrawal from a COP.\u201d Meanwhile, a Colorado-based group called the Climate Accountability Institute has released a report identifying the 90 companies in the world who produce 2\/3rds of all greenhouse gas emissions. The vast majority of those identified were energy companies including Chevron, Exxon, and BP. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2013\/nov\/21\/mass-walk-out-un-climate-talks-warsaw\">Click here<\/a> for a Guardian newspaper article about the Poland walkout. <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/11\/21\/2977001\/companies-responsible-thirds-greenhouse-gas-emissions\/\">Click here<\/a> for a Think Progress article about the emissions report. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A US drone strike this morning reportedly killed 6 people in Pakistan\u2019s northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The strike was aimed at an Islamic seminary or madrassa and among those suspected to be killed are two members of Pakistan\u2019s Haqqani network. It is rare for a US drone strike to occur outside of the Northwest Frontier Province which is the autonomously ruled tribal area between Pakistan and Afghanistan. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/us-drone-hits-islamic-seminary-in-pakistan\/2013\/11\/21\/c8cd26d6-5285-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html\">Click here<\/a> for a Washington Post article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Afghan elders and powerbrokers gathered in Kabul today for a political assembly known as a Loya Jirga, to hear President Hamid Karzai make his case for why they should support a security pact between Afghanistan and the US. The deal includes assurances from the US that it would no longer  conduct night raids except in circumstances when US citizens were at risk, and that it would respect Afghan sovereignty. Karzai surprised all sides when he stated that any resulting deal should be signed by his successor after next April\u2019s Presidential elections. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/afghan-president-opens-gathering-of-elders-says-he-backs-security-deal-with-us\/2013\/11\/21\/078c1830-5288-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html\">Click here<\/a> for a Washington Post article about the story. <\/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: Hundreds of representatives of environmental and development groups walked out of the UN Climate conference called COP 19 in Warsaw, [&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-38454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38454","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=38454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38468,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38454\/revisions\/38468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}