{"id":691,"date":"2008-06-20T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=691"},"modified":"2008-06-20T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:29:42","slug":"news-and-analysis-62008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/20\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress acts again as an enabler for Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imperial foreign policies\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/06\/19\/MN9211C17R.DTL\">House Approves $162 Billion War-Spending Bill<\/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile, it also receives scorn from civil libertarians for capitulating on an invasive bill with telecom lobbyists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fingerprints all over it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2008\/06\/19\/telecom\/\">George Bush&#8217;s Latest Powers, Courtesy of the Democratic Congress<\/a> (Salon.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Feingold_Wiretap_deal_no_compromise_its_0619.html\">Feingold: Wiretap Deal &#8216;No Compromise, It&#8217;s Capitulation&#8217;<\/a> (Raw Story)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel continues its saber rattling with Tehran, completing a major simulation of a strike against Iran:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/20\/washington\/20iran.html?ref=world\">U.S. Says Exercise by Israel Seemed Directed at Iran<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indonesia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s local governments increasingly prefer taking their own tack on issues of development, rather than obeying the central government:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/06\/20\/regions-disobey-039unfair039-govt-policies.html\">Regions Disobey &#8216;Unfair&#8217; Govt Policies<\/a> (The Jakarta Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>120,000 Bahraini Shi&#8217;a peacefully hit the streets to voice indignation at a Sunni MP&#8217;s inflammatory remarks toward one of the island&#8217;s top clerics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metimes.com\/Politics\/2008\/06\/19\/bahrain_shiites_protest_mp_insults_to_top_cleric\/afp\/\">Bahrain Shiites Protest MP Insults to Top Cleric<\/a> (AFP\/Middle East Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress acts again as an enabler for Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imperial foreign policies\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 House Approves $162 Billion War-Spending Bill (San Francisco Chronicle) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile, it also receives scorn from civil libertarians for capitulating on an invasive bill with telecom lobbyists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fingerprints all over it: George Bush&#8217;s Latest Powers, Courtesy of the Democratic Congress (Salon.com) Feingold: Wiretap Deal &#8216;No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}