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08-29-13 -- Gareth Porter - Joe Corbett - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT)

Gareth Porter (Investigative Journalist; U.S. National Security Policy Historian) on the rush to strike Syria - Joe Corbett (Speaker Coordinator for Libertopia 2013) provides information on the upcoming Libertopia Festival this weekend in San Diego,
Media Type: Audio • Time: 136 Minutes and 0 Secs
Guests: Gareth Porter
Topics: Syria

Hour 1 - 3

Media Type: Audio • Time: 136 Minutes and 0 Secs
Guests: Gareth Porter
Topics: Syria
THERE WILL BE NO VIDEO BROADCAST OR VIDEO ARCHIVE OF THE SHOW TODAY DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE VIDEO COMPUTER - Video will resume Weds. 9/4/2013)
 
Hour 1 -- Gareth Porter (Investigative Journalist; U.S. National Security Policy Historian) on the rush to strike Syria
 
Hour 2 -- Freedom's Phoenix Headline News
 
Hour 3 -- Joe Corbett (Speaker Coordinator for Libertopia 2013) provides information on the upcoming Libertopia Festival this weekend in San Diego, CA

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August 29th, 2013
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Hour 1
Gareth Porter
Investigative Journalist; U.S. National Security Policy Historian on the rush to strike Syria
 
In Rush to Strike Syria, U.S. Tried to Derail U.N. Probe
(Click link above for full story in Inter Press Service New Agency)
 

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 2013 (IPS) - After initially insisting that Syria give United Nations investigators unimpeded access to the site of an alleged nerve gas attack, the administration of President Barack Obama reversed its position on Sunday and tried unsuccessfully to get the U.N. to call off its investigation.

The administration’s reversal, which came within hours of the deal reached between Syria and the U.N., was reported by the Wall Street Journal Monday and effectively confirmed by a State Department spokesperson later that day.

In his press appearance Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry, who intervened with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to call off the investigation, dismissed the U.N. investigation as coming too late to obtain valid evidence on the attack that Syrian opposition sources claimed killed as many 1,300 people.

The sudden reversal and overt hostility toward the U.N. investigation, which coincides with indications that the administration is planning a major military strike against Syria in the coming days, suggests that the administration sees the U.N. as hindering its plans for an attack.

Kerry asserted Monday that he had warned Syrian Foreign Minister Moallem last Thursday that Syria had to give the U.N. team immediate access to the site and stop the shelling there, which he said was “systematically destroying evidence”. He called the Syria-U.N. deal to allow investigators unrestricted access “too late to be credible”.

After the deal was announced on Sunday, however, Kerry pushed Ban in a phone call to call off the investigation completely.

The Wall Street Journal reported the pressure on Ban without mentioning Kerry by name. It said unnamed “U.S. officials” had told the secretary-general that it was “no longer safe for the inspectors to remain in Syria and that their mission was pointless.”

But Ban, who has generally been regarded as a pliable instrument of U.S. policy, refused to withdraw the U.N. team and instead “stood firm on principle”, the Journal reported. He was said to have ordered the U.N. inspectors to “continue their work”.

The Journal said “U.S. officials” also told the secretary-general that the United States “didn’t think the inspectors would be able to collect viable evidence due to the passage of time and damage from subsequent shelling.”


 

Hour 2

Guests: Ernest Hancock
Hour 2
Ernest Hancock
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News

Hour 3

Hour 3
Joe Corbett
Speaker Coordinator this year for Libertopia 2013, Mr. Corbett talks about the upcoming event this weekend in San Diego, CA
 
 
 
 
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