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North Korea Warns of New Tests As Nuclear Standoff Intensifies
Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off DN! Debate With
Columbia Student Organizer
Cable News Confidential: FAIR Founder Jeff Cohen on his misadventures
in corporate media
North Korea Warns of New Tests As Nuclear Standoff
Intensifies
North Korea has warned that increased US pressure over its
reported nuclear test would be considered an act of war. We
get analysis from North Korea expert and University of Chicago
professor Bruce Cumings. [includes rush
transcript]
North Korea has warned that increased US pressure over its
reported nuclear test would be considered an act of war and
that it would respond with “physical” measures.
In a statement carried by the state news agency on Wednesday,
the North Korean Foreign Ministry also said North Korea was
“ready for both dialogue and confrontation.”
The move comes as the United Nations Security Council is
due to continue debating a draft resolution of sanctions proposed
by the United States. There is agreement in the Security Council
- including from Russia and China - that North Korea should
face punitive measures. The US wants the sanctions to be brought
under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter, which means they would
be mandatory and ultimately enforceable by military means.
But China, Russia and South Korea have expressed varying degrees
of opposition to such a resolution. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice said Tuesday that the US did not intend to invade or
attack North Korea, but she warned the North’s leaders
that they now risked sanctions “unlike anything that
they have faced before.”
Meanwhile in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
Liu Jianchao outlined China’s position.
- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao.
China has reportedly cancelled leave for troops along part
of its border with North Korea, and South Korean forces have
been ordered to stay on high alert.
North Korea announced on Monday that is had carried out its
first-ever nuclear test, triggering global condemnation. Japan,
the United States and South Korea are still trying to verify
that the test was genuine. Only Russia has said the evidence
available confirms a nuclear blast actually occurred.
- Bruce Cumings. Professor at the University of Chicago.
He is the author of several books on North Korea. His latest
are “North Korea: Another Country” and “Inventing
the Axis of Evil.”
Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off DN! Debate
With Columbia Student Organizer
The anti-immigration group the Minuteman Project announced
yesterday that they are seeking to strip Columbia University
of federal funding for what they say are violations of their
civil rights. Last week, student demonstrators disrupted a
speech by Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist who was invited
to the school by the College Republicans. Gilchrist and student
organizer Karina Garcia joins us for a debate that ends when
Gilchrist abruptly pulls the plug.
The anti-immigration group the Minuteman Project announced
yesterday that they are seeking to strip Columbia University
of federal funding for what they say are violations of their
civil rights. Last week, student demonstrators disrupted a
speech by Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist who was invited
to the school by the College Republicans.
Over 20 students stormed the stage after Gilchrist came to
the microphone and two students unfurled a banner reading
“No human being is illegal.” On Friday, Columbia
University President Lee Bollinger issued a statement that
read in part: “The disruption on Wednesday night that
resulted in the termination of an event organized by the Columbia
College Republicans in Lerner Hall represents, in my judgment,
one of the most serious breaches of academic faith that can
occur in a university such as ours.”
Bollinger has vowed to launch an investigation into the student’s
actions. But at a press conference on Monday, the students
claim that they were assaulted. They point to a video taken
by a reporter from Univision. They say it depicts a member
of the Minutemen kicking a student in the head.
- Jim Gilchrist. Founder of the Minuteman Project and co-author
of the book “Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s
Borders.”
- Karina Garcia. Political Chair of the Chicano Caucus
at Columbia University. Karina is a senior there.
We asked a representative from Columbia to join us as well
but they declined our invitation.
Cable News Confidential: FAIR Founder Jeff Cohen
on his misadventures in corporate media
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) founder, media
critic and pundit Jeff Cohen has written a new book. Cohen
dissects the cable news channels and finds serious failures
in how they cover the most urgent issues of the day. He joins
us in our firehouse studio.
A new study by the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting criticizes PBS”s flagship news program,
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The study found that NewsHour
interviewed many more male sources than female and that people
of color made up only 15 percent of U.S. sources. FAIR also
found that on the issue of Iraq, Newshour interviewed five
times as many guests who advocated staying the course over
withdrawing troops.
Well in his new book - "Cable News Confidential: My
Misadventures in Corporate Media,” media critic Jeff
Cohen dissects the cable news channels and also finds serious
failures in covering the most urgent issues of the day. Jeff
is the founder of FAIR and has been a co-host of CNN"s
Crossfire, a weekly panelist on Fox News Watch, and a daily
commentator on MSNBC. He joins me in the firehouse studio.
- Jeff Cohen. Founder of the Media Watchdog group Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting. Jeff has been a co-host of CNN"s
Crossfire, a weekly panelist on Fox News Watch, and a daily
commentator on MSNBC. He is the author of the new book "Cable
News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media."
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