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Syrian opposition head laments not being Obama Administration’s priority as conflict rages on
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
The President of the Syrian National Coalition expressed his disappointment on Monday that the Obama Administration is not including the country’s opposition in its priorities.
While the current “Administration believes that [Syrian President] Assad will not play any role in the future of Syria,” Hadi al Bahra told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, it is putting far more effort into achieving a nuclear deal with Iran, a close ally of Damascus for decades.
“This Administration, I think, puts much more priority on finalizing its deals on the nuclear program with Iran, and this has number one importance to it, while [the] Syrian people has paid two hundred thousand victims until now, and they see no action from the international community in response to these crimes committed by Assad himself,” al Bahra said.
Amanpour asked the leader of Syria’s moderate opposition when the program to vet, arm and train the country’s moderate rebels, approved by the U.S. Congress in September, was expected to finally get off the ground.
Don’t expect to see breakthroughs in Myanmar in the short term, says U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
As President Barack Obama prepares to visit Myanmar next week for the East Asia and ASEAN Summits, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights and labor said the Administration is not expecting a major leap forward any time soon.
“I don't think we're going to see breakthroughs in the short term. Burma was an opening to a breakthrough and it's one that we always knew would take years to move from its starting point to its finishing point. And we knew the success was not guaranteed and it is still not guaranteed,” Tom Malinowski told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
Myanmar showed some signs of openness and reform in recent years, most notably with the release of the iconic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in late 2010.
Yet fears that reform has stalled and the country’s disgraceful human rights record have put pressure on the international community to intervene.
Journalist facing jail for protecting source assails Obama Administration as ‘the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation’
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
New York Times reporter James Risen, who is facing jail time for refusing to reveal his source for a story, has denounced the Obama Administration as “the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation” in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that aired Thursday.
The current administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers under The Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined.
Risen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author who was the first – alongside colleague Eric Lichtblau - to uncover the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program on Americans, told Amanpour that he is “trying to uphold the traditions of journalism. And that's what I'm going to continue to do.”
The U.S. government is not happy about a chapter in Risen’s 2006 book “State of War” that looks into a CIA operation that aimed to undermine Iran’s nuclear program.
Stand up for heroes
Imagine a world where the head of the armed forces stands up for veterans by belting out show tunes.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour has the story. Click above to watch.
Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari on bringing 'Rosewater' to the screen
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
It all started with a harmless comedy clip on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, in which satirical correspondent Jason Jones met with journalist Maziar Bahari in a Tehran café.
The clip marked the beginning of a partnership that would lead to Stewart’s directing and screenwriting debut. Or maybe that just happened by chance, Stewart told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Wednesday.
"I had always wanted to be in the Directors' Guild. And so I was looking for anything. And the script had come across – it could have been a Martin Lawrence, Will Smith buddy comedy. It really didn't matter to me,” he joked.
“Rosewater” tells the story of Bahari’s months-long-imprisonment in Iran following his coverage of the 2009 presidential election. Stewart told Amanpour that he and Bahari became friends after the journalist was released.
‘I will not have my own Room of Situations,’ Jon Stewart tells CNN
By Henry Hullah, CNN
Good luck trying to get Jon Stewart to tell you what he’s planning for the future.
“You have to tell me what's going to happen in my life,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Wednesday.
As the satirist’s contract with the “The Daily Show” reportedly comes to an end, Amanpour asked what the future holds – will he continue his journey into directing, or will he stick with his job as the world’s chief political satirist?
“I don't view them as separate entities. I view it all as a process. In my mind, this is all chicken. I'm just making chicken. Sometimes I make cutlets, sometimes I make a nice teriyaki, sometimes I just grind it up and feed it to baby birds. But it's still chicken.”
Could one of these "chickens" one day be a role as a serious news anchor?
Hostage to history
Imagine a world where 35 years after the Iran hostage crisis, that infamous day has become an inspiration for writers and filmmakers.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has the story. Click above to watch.
Issues lost in horse race for Senate, two U.S. journalists say
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
As America went to the polls on Tuesday, two U.S. journalists told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that the battle for control of the U.S. senate has dominated this midterm election.
“One of the things I find particularly peculiar about this election is that the degree to which it doesn’t seem to be about anything big apart from winning the senate,” said U.S. correspondent for The Guardian Gary Younge.
Joining in the discussion was Brian Lehrer, host of the Brian Lehrer Show on WYNC radio, who agreed with Younge.“Yes, this is a ‘stop Obama election’, not a ‘get something we really believe in done election’ for the Republicans,” Lehrer said.
U.S. senior envoy for Iraq: every time we've engaged with local forces we’ve succeeded in defeating ISIS
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS has succeeded in defeating the terrorist organization every time it has worked with local forces on the ground, Brett McGurk, the U.S. Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
"What I can say is that every single time we have worked with a local force on the ground and we have coordinated with them with our special forces who are in the field, and we have coordinated with them with our air coalition above, we have succeeded in defeating ISIL, not only defeating ISIL, but actually routing them in some major battles,” he said.
McGurk described the operation against the terrorist group, which has recently seized vast swathes of Iraq and Syria and executed hundreds of religious minorities, as “very much a fight to the death.”
On the eve of U.S. midterms, experts say unrepresentative government remains a major issue
By Madalena Araujo, CNN
As Americans prepared to vote in crucial midterm elections, two experts told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday that despite some improvements the misrepresentation of the electorate remains a major problem in the country.
“Fundamentally, we have a democracy that does not represent America and particularly the face of America is changing,” said Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy and Research at the think-tank DEMOS.
“There's been some progress. It's very slow, though, and it's the same - if you step back - this is research done by the Women's Donor Network - the statistic that really just sticks out to me is that we actually have a third of our population, which is white men, controlling nearly two-thirds of all elected offices in this country, from the county, city all the way up to the national level,” Draut added.
According to the Reflective Democracy campaign, 33% of New York City's population is white, but 51% of the New York City Council is white.
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