{"id":41726,"date":"2014-10-21T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41726"},"modified":"2014-10-21T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:20:42","slug":"daily-news-flash-with-robert-jensen-on-turkeys-about-face-on-isis-war-unicefs-grim-report-on-violent-deaths-of-children-and-getting-perspective-on-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/10\/21\/daily-news-flash-with-robert-jensen-on-turkeys-about-face-on-isis-war-unicefs-grim-report-on-violent-deaths-of-children-and-getting-perspective-on-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash with Robert Jensen on Turkey&#8217;s About-Face on ISIS War, UNICEF&#8217;s Grim Report on Violent Deaths of Children, and Getting Perspective on Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141021NewsflashJensen\/2014_10_21_newsflash_jensen.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Robert Jensen <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/dailynewsflash.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Uprising\u2019s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines:<\/p>\n<p>After days of recalcitrance, Turkey has finally decided to allow Kurdish fighters from Iraq to cut through the nation and come to the aid of Syrian Kurds in the border town of Kobani. Turkey&#8217;s government, which has a long history of tensions with Kurdish militias like the PKK, has announced its about-face in joining the fight against Islamic State rebels after the US dropped equipment and supplies to Kobani&#8217;s Kurds. The US has apparently honed its  bombing campaign to better stave off advances by ISIS. And ISIS does seem to have pulled back from Kobani in the face of determined resistance by Kurdish fighters. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/10\/21\/244139_after-us-airdrop-turkey-agrees.html?sp=\/99\/117\/&#038;rh=1\">Click here<\/a> for a McClatchy article, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/10\/20\/in-the-battle-for-kobani-isis-falls-back-but-for-how-long.html\">here <\/a>for a Daily Beast article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNICEF this morning released a disturbing new report documenting violence against children worldwide. A child between the age of 0 and 19 dies every five minutes around the world. But the report&#8217;s main finding is that the vast majority of violence-related child deaths \u2013 75% &#8211; occur as a result of interpersonal interactions, rather than in war zones. Of course, those children who do die in war zones are also victims of horrific circumstances, such as the hundreds of Palestinian children killed in Gaza during Israel&#8217;s 50 day war this summer. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/10\/20\/marco-rubio-ebola_n_6018360.html\">Click here<\/a> for a Huffington Post article and <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/a8bd89bcd5d04a62861f91b7d45cb2ae\/who-nigerias-ebola-outbreak-officially-over\">here <\/a>for an Associated Press article about the story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And finally, in the battle against the Ebola virus, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that the World Health Organization has just declared Nigeria to be free from the disease, proving that well-coordinated quick action is what it takes. The bad news is that the tiny handful of cases of Ebola in the US are being used to fuel anti-immigrant backlash here at home. Florida Senator Marco Rubio announced this week that he was proposing a bill to ban travel visas for people from those African nations where Ebola cases have been documented. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/commondreams.org\/news\/2014\/10\/21\/violence-against-children-global-epidemic-unicef\">Click here<\/a> for a Commondreams article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uprising\u2019s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: After days of recalcitrance, Turkey has finally decided to allow Kurdish fighters from Iraq to cut through the nation and come to the aid of Syrian Kurds in the border town of [&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-41726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41726","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=41726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41729,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41726\/revisions\/41729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}