{"id":38669,"date":"2013-12-09T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=38669"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:12:56","slug":"daily-news-flash-with-arun-gupta-on-tech-companies-open-letter-to-nsa-seymour-hershs-syria-expose-and-maduros-win-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/12\/09\/daily-news-flash-with-arun-gupta-on-tech-companies-open-letter-to-nsa-seymour-hershs-syria-expose-and-maduros-win-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash with Arun Gupta on Tech Companies&#8217; Open Letter to NSA, Seymour Hersh&#8217;s Syria Expos\u00e9, and Maduro&#8217;s Win in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/2013129Uprising\/2013_12_9_newsflash_gupta.mp3\">Listen to this segment<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/2013129Uprising\/2013_12_9_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>The world\u2019s top technology and internet companies have joined forces to send a strong message to the NSA: Reform Government Surveillance. The CEOs of AOL, Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, and others, have signed onto an open letter saying, \u201cit is time for the world\u2019s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance.\u201d They want, among other things, to \u201climit governments\u2019 authority to collect users\u2019 information,\u201d \u201crespect the free flow of information,\u201d and have greater oversight, accountability, and transparency. The letter has been posted on a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com\">www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com<\/a>. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/09\/nsa-surveillance-tech-companies-demand-sweeping-changes-to-us-laws\">Click here<\/a> for a Guardian Newspaper article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seymour Hersh, one of the best known investigative journalists, has just published an expos\u00e9 on the US government\u2019s handling of intelligence leading up to the near-strike on Syria. Hersh says that the Obama Administration \u201cfailed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country\u2019s civil war with access to sarin.\u201d Hersh says that Obama ignored the fact that the Al-Nusra group affiliated with Al Qaeda also had access to sarin, and ultimately, \u201cthe administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.\u201d <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/2013\/12\/08\/seymour-m-hersh\/whose-sarin \">Click here<\/a> for Seymour Hersh&#8217;s article in the London Review of Books. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even though Hugo Chavez is no longer alive, his legacy remains popular with Venezuelan voters, as evidenced by Nicholas Maduro\u2019s win in local elections yesterday. While opposition leader Henrique Capriles claimed victory for his party in urban centers, poorer parts of the country still pledged their votes to the Socialist Party, led by Chavez\u2019s successor, Maduro. Maduro gave a triumphant victory speech saying &#8220;The Venezuelan people have said to the world that the Bolivarian revolution continues stronger than ever.&#8221; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/09\/venezuelas-nicolas-maduro-victory-local-elections \">Click here<\/a> for a Guardian newspaper 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: The world\u2019s top technology and internet companies have joined forces to send a strong message to the NSA: Reform Government [&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-38669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38669","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=38669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38673,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38669\/revisions\/38673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}