Archived Shows - October 2004
Friday, October 29, 2004
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Today on Flashpoints: Osama Bin Laden releases a videotape claiming responsibility for the September 11th attacks and warns of more to come; plus, will there be a draft? What is the real status of re-instituting the draft in America; Haiti’s pro-democracy movement under siege. The continuing nightmare with Kevin Pina; and Flashpoints en Español.
01:00 Bin Laden Tape, Bush, the War and the Draft. Dave Lindorff, investigative reporter.
Rahul Mahajan, author, Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond
21:00 Haiti Emergency – part 2. Intro: Kevin Pina, filmmaker and Flashpoints special correspondent.
Flashpoints: You’re listening to Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio. My name is Dennis Bernstein. Today again on Flashpoints we focus on Haiti, where the suffering in the wake of the U.S. supported coup continues to mount and expand. Flashpoints is now reporting on plans for the U.S. installed government to purge thousands, which is happening by the way, of members of LavaLas pro-democracy movement before any so called free and fair elections will take place. Everyday there are arrests, beatings, disappearances, killings, on the part of a force, a coalition force really, of UN forces, death squad activists from the former military and newly constituted police of the puppet government. We are delighted to have Kevin Pina in town for a series of speaking engagements. We will tell you about where he will be. He will be all over the Bay Area. Tonight it is at Seda at Mineta at the Unitarian church there, I’m going to be with him. He’s going to be in Marin. He’s going to be in Palo Alto on Sunday at 2:00.
42:00 Open Line
Thursday, October 28, 2004
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Today on Flashpoints:
A nine year old Palestinian girl shot in her head by Israeli snipers
while she stood on her front porch, we'll speak to our correspondent in
Gaza about the latest attacks and the Sharon disengagement plan; also,
in studio with Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina on the
ongoing purge of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti, plus a live
report from the Haiti protest in San Francisco; a look at the
California three strikes law; and of course, the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report, Robert Knight
[3:49] Intro: live by Dennis
05:00 Haiti Emergency: Kevin Pina, live in studio, and Pierre Labossiere, at protest
[18:00] Intro: live by Dennis
Read Congresswoman Maxine Waters' letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell
Visit the Haiti Action Committee website for more information on events in Haiti
Upcoming events in the San Francisco Bay Area
Email Kevin Pina: kpina@teledyol.net
23:00 Report from Rafah Under Seige: Mohammed Omar, journalist, www.rafahtoday.org
[19:29] Intro: Nora
43:00 Three Strikes: Vinnie Sheraldi, Exec. Director of Justice Policy Institute
[14:33] Intro: Solange
Read another Greg Palast expose - Adventure Capitalism - The Hidden 2001 Plan to Carve-up Iraq
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We continue our reporting on a growing number of US soldiers refusing to go to Iraq or do battle once they get there, we’ll speak to the leader of the movement of military families resisting the war. Former high-level Bush 1 official Catherine Austin Fitts interviews 9-11 researcher Michael Ruppert on his new theories about how Bush administration officials allegedly planned 9/11. The Robert Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report. On todays Knight Report and war summary,
British troops aid and abet a final assault on Fallujah. Bush and
Kerry exchange blows over lost explosives. And Yasser Arafat is
hospitalized in what may or may not be critical condition. Only his
physicians know for sure. Amnesty International today accused the Bush
Administration of being more concerned with subverting International
Law which prohibits torture than with safeguarding human rights in its
War on Terror.
In other news, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, John F. Kennedys daughter issued a statement today:"It is hard for me to listen to President Bush invoking my fathers memory to attack John Kerry. President Kennedy inspired and united the country and so will John Kerry. President Bush is doing just the opposite."
In other news, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, John F. Kennedys daughter issued a statement today:"It is hard for me to listen to President Bush invoking my fathers memory to attack John Kerry. President Kennedy inspired and united the country and so will John Kerry. President Bush is doing just the opposite."
07:00 Soldiers Refuse to Fight in Iraq. Nancy Lessing of Military Families Speak Out.
We continue our coverage of internal resistance within the US military marooned in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yesterday correspondent Dahr Jamil outlined the most recent acts of resistance by the US army platoon soldiers who refused to embark on what they called a suicide mission. Joining us today is Nancy Lessing, a founding member of Military Families Speak Out. Nancy is travelling the country with Michael Moore spending time with soldiers families and soldiers themselves who are refusing to go back. Dennis interviews her on recent developments in this important movement.
21:00 Catherine Austin Fitts
Interviews Michael
Ruppert, publisher of From
The Wilderness, and author of a
new book "Crossing
The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age
of Oil".
Catherine, who has collaborated with Ruppert on and off since 1998,
wrote the forward to his book. Amazon
ratings giving 5 stars, 'A Great Detective Story'.
Ruppert was raised in the Air Force, his father flew interceptors. His first career in the LAPD ended when he turned whistleblower on CIA drug running back in 1976-78. He applies the investigative method of his original carreer to layout a map of understanding of 911. Michael explains his inspection of 911 as a homicide where 'clearing' is necessary for understanding and closure of this historic event. He provides us an 'accurate map to follow the lay of the land' in the chapters: Motive, Means, Opportunity and Empire.
Ruppert was raised in the Air Force, his father flew interceptors. His first career in the LAPD ended when he turned whistleblower on CIA drug running back in 1976-78. He applies the investigative method of his original carreer to layout a map of understanding of 911. Michael explains his inspection of 911 as a homicide where 'clearing' is necessary for understanding and closure of this historic event. He provides us an 'accurate map to follow the lay of the land' in the chapters: Motive, Means, Opportunity and Empire.
Motive: Ruppert cites four seminal publications as preludes to the September 11th attack:
1. 1997
Brzezinski Book: "The
Grand Chessboard - American Primacy And It's
Geostrategic Imperatives",
'Without an attack on the order of Pearl Harbor the American people would not support a military mobilization/deployment necessary to secure control of the Eurasian continent including the Middle East. '
For more info: "A War In The Planning For Four Years", Michael Ruppert November 2001
2.
1995 Pentagon Plans to invade the Middle East and Iraq to seize the oil
fields.'Without an attack on the order of Pearl Harbor the American people would not support a military mobilization/deployment necessary to secure control of the Eurasian continent including the Middle East. '
For more info: "A War In The Planning For Four Years", Michael Ruppert November 2001
3. 2001 PNAC: Project For A New American Century. A long papertrail of motive.
Clearly called for a Pearl Harbor like attack and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
4. 1999 Dick Cheney Speech in London to Intl. Petroleum Confernce acknowledged reality of peak oil.
Then to the National Energy Policy Development Group, the very secrective Energy Task Force which filed all the way to the Supreme Court to keep their records secret.
A
civil suit by Judicial Watch
and the Sierra Club, enabled
constructing a map showing where all the Iraqi, Saudi, UAE oil fields
were and who was involved - that was the discussion. It was not about
'How do we make more money for Enron?', it was 'How do we get into the
Middle East?'. The 'task force' included Haliburton, Chevron, British
Petroleum, Enron, Bechtel, Schlumberger and all the big oil support
companies. Private corporate interest were preparing for dividing up
the stolen gains.
Timing
played a large role in Motive as well. Oil busts in the Caspian Sea
Basin 1999-2000 where twenty out of twenty five well drills turned out
to be dry holes. The first well alone cost $300 million
dollars. Crisis in the financial markets was occurring as a
result of the stock market crash in the Spring of 2001.
The newsletter FTW
issued a warning on 9/9/2001. All indicators were saying we were in
deep trouble.
Catherine cites on 9/10/2001, a reporter nailed Rumsfeld on the $2.3 Trillion missing from the Pentagon. She was convinced this would come out in the Appropriations Committee, nothing could stop this story. Ruppert describes how the US Treasury and Federal Reserve System have used 911 as a pretext...
Catherine cites on 9/10/2001, a reporter nailed Rumsfeld on the $2.3 Trillion missing from the Pentagon. She was convinced this would come out in the Appropriations Committee, nothing could stop this story. Ruppert describes how the US Treasury and Federal Reserve System have used 911 as a pretext...
Motive puts 911 in context of our leadership's need to control strategic resources. Let's go on to Means.
Means: Changes in powers for Cheney and Rumsfeld and dealings with the various warnings coming in.
Planning
for 911 had begun in the Clinton Administration, long before the 2000
elections. Karl Inderfurth Asst. Secretary of South Asian Affairs was
actively protecting the Taliban. The book cites Congressman Rohrabacher
demanding of Karl "Why are you protecting the Taliban, why are you
protecting Bin Laden?" in a House Intl. Relations Committee Hearing.
We had to keep an enemy in play. Ruppert traces the creation of the
legend of the 19 Hijackers as far back as 1999, so we would have people
to hang the hat when the crime occurred. At the end of the book, 7 of
them are still alive (ABC,BBC et al).
Intelligence Services, specifically the Pakastani ISI and the Israeli Mossad who played pivotal roles, in making sure that Hijackers were in the right place at the right time, and kept out of jail. Investigations were systematically thwarted by Dave Frasca, Special Agent, FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit.
We see a long period of construction where a number of things had to change, including fundamentally how the government operated.
(Writeup to be continued)
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
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Today on Flashpoints:
Greg Palast catches the Florida Republicans red-handed trying to
disenfranchise the African-American community in the upcoming vote;
plus, Israeli occupying forces swarm into the Gaza strip, killing
Palestinians with new Hellfire missiles, we'll have an eyewitness
account from on the ground in Rafah; also, an analysis of Sharon's
decision on the Gaza so-called disengagement plan; we'll also feature a
discussion about the growing resistance within the US military in Iraq;
we begin a series which takes a look at violence against women
worldwide; and of course, the Knight Report with Robert Knight.01:00 The Knight Report: Iraq's puppet Prime Minister blames Bush for the deaths of 50 army recruits as rebels today claim the abduction of a dozen more members of the so-called Iraqi National Guard; 78 Muslims suffocate in police hands after a protest against dubious terrorism arrests in Thailand; and the Bush Administration now gives up entirely on the Geneva Conventions in Iraq (Robert Knight)
05:00 Report from Rafah: Mohammed Omar, journalist, webmaster of www.rafahtoday.org, describes Palestinians fleeing their homes tonight as Israeli helicopter gunships and tanks menace Rafah, and the recent shootings of 8 children in a UN school. Also discussed is the recent intense October attacks on refugee camps in the Gaza Strip (Nora)
20:00 Palestine Analysis: Ali Abunimah, electronicintifada.net, shares insight on the Israeli "disengagement" plan for Gaza and concurrent expansion of settlements in the West Bank (Dennis)
For Iraq news also visit electroniciraq.net
28:00 Iraq and US Soldiers: Dahr Jamail, journalist and webmaster of www.dahrjamailiraq.com, discusses the military resistance among US soldiers in Iraq, equipment shortages and refusal to follow orders. Dahr also reveals the propaganda behind the Fallujah attacks. (Nora)
Read Dahr's article on the CommonDreams website.
41:00 Florida
Election Worries: Greg Palast, investigative journalist, with
another shocking revelation of Florida election irregularities -
now revealing Republican plans to disrupt voting in heavily
African-American (and therefore heavily Democratic) Jacksonville
precincts. Also read details in his commentary
The
Republican "Caging List" (Dennis)46:00 Domestic Violence: Andrea Bible, Free Battered Women discusses the Habeas Project recent legislation (SB1385) to allow expert testimony on Battered Women's Syndrome to be recognized retroactively. Nationally one in four women have been the victims of imtimate partner violence, but slowly progress is being made. The Free Battered Women project (FBW) engages in creative solutions to addressing the particular needs of incarcerated survivors of domestic violence as part of the struggle to combat all forms of violence against women. (Solange)
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Monday, October 25, 2004
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: The Iraqi resistance executes 49 Iraqi military recruits while posing as soldiers at a check-point. We’ll have a report from Bagdad and we’ll speak with Asad Abu Khalil about the bloody occupations in Iraq and Palestine. Also, Brazils reality politics in strife-torn Haiti. And of course, the Knight Report.
01:00 The Robert Knight Report
06:00 Report from Baghdad. Dennis introduces Kim Sengupta, Independent of London
Rumsfeld 'ignored Fallujah warnings' as uncovered by the LA Times.
25:00 Music Break - Sparrow - Marcel Khalife
27:00 Palestine and Iraq. As’ad Abu-Khalil, professor, author, angryarab.blogspot.com
38:00 Music Break - Boukman Eksperyans - No More Excuses For The War
40:00 Haiti and Brazilian UN Forces. Larry Birns.
Friday, October 22, 2004
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Today on Flashpoints: Drumbeat coverage of the unfolding events in Haiti, we’ll have a live update from Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince; plus, Kim Sengupta in Baghdad reports on the continued killing of Iraqi children by US forces; and Pratap Chatterjee talks about the ongoing corporate plunder in Iraq.
01:00 Breaking news from Haiti. Kevin Pina, correspondent in Port-au-Prince
11:00 Report from Baghdad. Kim Sengupta, Independent of London
29:00 Iraq, Inc. Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch, author of
Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
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Today on Flashpoints:
We’ll go back to Port-au-Prince, where the ongoing purge of
pro-democracy activists by the US-installed puppet continues to take
its toll; also, Guava: First Bite, Last Breath, an accounting of the
last hours of a thirteen year old Palestinian boy before he was shot by
Israeli occupiers in Gaza; plus, artists respond to the illegal Israeli
apartheid wall, we’ll speak with Eric Drooker and Susan Greene; and the
Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: The Bush administration's disastrous invasion and fiercely resisted occupation of Iraq took still more calamitous turns today - with a mortar attack on the puppet prime minister; British troops bailing out Americans in Baghdad and Fallujah; a New Zealand troop withdrawal; and a belated admission by Central Command that still more US troops are needed to maintain the pretense of order during military elections, and to expropriate the oil of occupied Iraq. (Robert Knight in NY)
06:00 Breaking news from Haiti: Kevin Pina, special correspondent in Port-au-Prince (Dennis)
Visit the website of the Haiti Action Committee for more information, including accounts of the arrest of Father Gerard Jean Juste during which three children were shot by masked Haitian police.
16:00 Guava in Jabalya: First Bite, Last Breath - Sami abu Salem, Electronic Intifada.net The seeds of guava were still between 13-year-old Saber Assaliya's lips when an Israeli tank shot him in the waist. The boy was playing in a nearby orchard at the southern tip of the Jabalia Refugee Camp, in the north of Gaza... (read by Nora)
21:00 Art and
Resistance in Palestine:
Eric Drooker and Susan Greene, Break the Silence Mural Project - breakthesilencearts.orgClick
for a larger picture of the San Francisco mural shown here
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
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Today on
Flashpoints:
We continue our reporting of the
death squad purging of the pro-democracy
movement
in Haiti, we’ll go
live to Haiti for a full report on the US-supported killing fields;
also, an eighty-year old Nazi holocaust survivor stands up to the
Israeli occupiers in the West Bank; plus, Catherine Austin Fitts
interviews Michael Ruppert about his new investigative 9/11 book,
Crossing the Rubicon; and the Knight Report.01:00 Knight Report from New York.
16:00 Holocaust Survivor. ISM Activist Hedy Epstein
06:00 Breaking news from Haiti. Kevin Pina, special correspondent in Port-au-Prince
29:00 Michael Ruppert Interviewed by Catherine Austin Fitts.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Francois Sorel, a national leader of the Lavalas pro-democracy movement, escapes the death squads of Haiti, we'll also have an update with our correspondent Kevin Pina in the field; Israeli occupiers continue to kill Palestinians, demolish houses and steal land in Gaza and the West Bank; we feature Crossing the Rubicon: Michael Ruppert's long-awaited book on the 9/11 coverup; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report, Robert Knight in NY
06:00 Breaking news from Haiti: Francois Sorel, Lavalas leader in hiding, and Kevin Pina, special correspondent in Port-au-Prince (Dennis)
Visit the Haiti Action Network website for more on recent targeting of Lavalas supporters
20:00 Report from Palestine: Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network (Nora)
36:00 Michael Ruppert at NYC 9/11 Commission (Dennis)
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Monday, October 18, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: The pro-Bush commander of the UN peacekeeping team in Haiti collaborates in a bloody purge of members of the Haitian pro-democracy movement, we’ll have a special report from Port-au-Prince. An in-depth interview with Kim Sengupta, Baghdad correspondent for the Independent of London; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report. 30 US soldiers die this week in Iraq. Dozens of Iraqi's die in weekend bombings.
05:00 Breaking news from Haiti.
Kevin Pina, special correspondent in Port-au-Prince / Brian Concannon, attorney
25:00 Report from Iraq. Kim Sengupta, Baghdad correspondent, Independent of London
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Friday, October 15, 2004
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Today on Flashpoints: Haitian death squad activists given the keys to the city of Port-au-Prince as the US-installed government continues to beat, kidnap, arrest and kill members of Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas movement for democracy, we’ll have an update on the arrest of leading pro-democracy activist and Aristide friend Father Gerard Jean Juste; also, an expanded report on the killing in Gaza and the specific impact on children and their families. The Knight Report.
01:00 Breaking news from Haiti. Kevin Pina, reporting from Port-au-Prince
17:00 Slaughters in Iraq and Palestine During Ramadan. Rahul Mahajan, Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, Dilip Hiro, author of Secrets and Lies: Operation "Iraqi Freedom" and After: A Prelude to the Fall of U.S. Power in the Middle East?
35:00 911 in Plane Sight. Documentary film directed by William Lewis.
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Thursday, October 14, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Haitian death squad activists given the keys to the city of Port-au-Prince as the US-installed government continues to beat, kidnap, arrest and kill members of Jean
Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas
movement for democracy, we'll have an update on the arrest of leading
pro-democracy activist and Aristide friend Father Gerard Jean Juste;
also, an expanded report on the killing in Gaza and the specific impact
on children and their families;
and the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Three dozen people die on the eve of Ramadan in Iraq, as US bombers punish the people of Fallujah and resistance fighters hit the United States highest security 'Green Zone' in Baghdad; and in Jerusalem, Muslim pilgrims will see the al-Aqsa shrine after all, despite threatened Israeli restrictions (Robert Knight)
05:00 Breaking news from Haiti: Kevin Pina, special correspondent in Port-au-Prince describes the arrest of popular priest Father Gerard Jean Juste, and the massing of armed former death squad killers in Port au Prince in anticipation of pro-Aristide demonstrations on the 10th anniversary of his return in 1994. The US-installed government has forbidden demonstrations on the October 15th anniversary, and Lavalas supporters fear violence at the hands of former death squad gunmen brought to the capital in the last few days. The stage is set for a bloodbath at the hands of the puppet government under the gaze of the UN peacekeeping forces. Visit the website of the Haiti Action Committee for up-to-date information (Dennis Bernstein)
18:00 Report from Gaza: Laila el-Haddad, correspondent for al-Jazeera and FSRN reports on the horrific targeting of schools, killing of Palestinian children and civilians, ambulances, destruction of homes, and land confiscations by Israeli military forces (Nora Barrows-Friedman)
31:00 Palestinian
Mental Health
Workers: Siham Rashid and Rana Nashashibi, Palestinian
Counseling Center, describe the effect of the world's apathy
towards the daily atrocities faced by Palestinians. Siham and Rana will
also be speaking at the Middle
East Childrens Alliance in Berkeley on Saturday Oct 16 at 4PM-6PM.Call (510) 548-0542 for information.
45:00 Break For KPFA Fund Drive: Dennis Bernstein and Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Childrens Alliance provide more details of the murderous situation and imminent humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip
Wednesday,
October 13, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: A nine-year-old Palestinian girl shot at her classroom desk [yesterday] at a UN school in Gaza dies overnight; we'll speak to a high UN official about Israel's targeting of children at their desks; also, breaking news from Haiti, we'll speak with Lavalas activist and priest Jean Juste as he is arrested by masked gunmen while serving poor children food; plus, Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye reads her compelling and crucial work; and the Knight Report
01:00 The Knight Report (Robert Knight)
05:00 Breaking news from Haiti: Kevin Pina, special correspondent in Port-au-Prince; includes audio of Father Jean Juste's arrest (Dennis Bernstein)
16:00 Report from Gaza: Chris Lordela, deputy director of UNRWA in Gaza (Nora Barrows-Friedman(
27:00 Poetry and Palestine: Naomi Shihab Nye, poet (Dennis intro)
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Click here for an update letter from the Gaza Strip describing the brutality of the Israeli offensive targeting children, civilians, and animals.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Another eleven year old Palestinian girl shot at her school desk in Gaza. We'll have a full report on the continued Israeli slaughter. Plus, another nightmare of a day in Iraq. We'll speak with Kim Sangupta of the Independent of London from Baghdad. A celebration and commentary on Indigenous People's Day. We'll play more excerpts of Greg Palast's riveting new documentary, Bush Family Fortunes. And the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: The Bush Army in Iraq rounds up more than 30 Imams in mosques, and leaves some of them burning; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld begs NATO to intervene in Iraq, saying "Take my strife... please!"; Tony Blair said that he and George Bush invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein just wasn't dying fast enough; and new details emerge on last week's Israeli murder of a 13-year-old school girl (Robert Knight)
07:00 Report from Gaza: Mohammed Ali, in Gaza City describes weapons and brutal "shoot-to-kill" tactics being used in the lastest renewed Israeli genocidal attacks on unarmed Palestinian civilians as the death toll
in Gaza rises to 121
killed in the last three weeks. For more information and to donate to
help the Palestinians under seige in northern Gaza, please visit the Middle East Childrens Alliance
website. Also read the UK Independent article about
last week's murder of a young Palestinian girl. (Nora
Barrows-Friedman)16:00 Report from Baghdad, Kim Sangupta, correspondent with the Independent of London on the ground in Baghdad discusses the attack on the popular Haji Hussein kebab house overnight in Fallujah, open raids on mosques and other US attacks in Iraq. Also discussed is reaction to Donald Rumsfeld's stealth visit to Iraq. (Dennis Bernstein)
31:00 Indigenous People's Day Commentary: Miguel Molina, FP Roving Reporter, provides perspective on the brutal conquest of the Americas by Europeans
35:00 Bush Family Fortunes: more excerpts from the timely new documentary by Greg Palast about the Bush family connections to the Saudi royal family.
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Monday, October 11, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We kick off our series on what really happened on, during and after 9/11. We’ll feature excerpts from a recent, all-day 9/11 citizens commission hearing into the September 11th twin tower attacks; today, we’ll hear a statement from former FBI translator and whistle blower Sybil Edmonds, who has been silenced by the Bush administration, and from controversial author and investigator Michael Ruppert; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Kyle Hence Introduced by Dennis Bernstein
09:00 9/11 Commission. Dennis intros Michael Ruppert and Indira Singh
33:00 Break For KPFA Fund Drive. Hosted by Indira Singh.
Friday, October 8, 2004
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Today on Flashpoints: Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader on the Iraq war, and the importance of having open and free debates: Also True Lies and Battleground, a brand new book and hard hitting documentary on Bush war lies and press failures from the Guerilla News Network.
01:00 Ralph Nader, Independent Party Candidate
10:00 True Lies and Battle Ground. Stephen Marshall and Anthony Lappe, authors of True Lies and
producers of the documentary Battle Ground for Guerrilla News Network, http://www.gnn.tv/
25:00 Battle Ground, a Documentary by The Guerrilla News Network.
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Thursday, October 7, 2004
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Exploitation and abuse of women working in the Maquiladoras just south of the Mexican border. Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties, a brand new documentary on the draconian Patriot Act by the producers of OutFoxed. And the Knight Report
01:00 The Knight Report: Suicide bombings in Israel and Moscow; a dozen beheadings are reported in Iraq; and Turkish commandos kill a dozen Kurds north of the border, as bodies overflow the morgue of Baghdad's Sadr City (Robert Knight)
06:00 Marta Ramos, Maquiladora Worker describes working conditions and worker treatment at a subcontract manufacturing site in the border region of Mexico. This is the second segment in a series. (Solange Echeverria) More information at the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network
15:00 Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties is a documentary by Nonny de la Peña, produced by Robert Greenwald who has brought more than 45 films to audiences around the world and in the last three years has produced and/or directed over 30 hours of television movies and miniseries, a feature film, and a feature documentary. (Intro by Dennis Bernstein)
Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties, is the third in a series of Public Interest Pictures films that follows Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election and Uncovered: The War on Iraq. True to their legacy, Unconstitutional provides the facts and stories that illuminate administration lies, wrongheaded policies, and the real victims of these actions - the American people.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2004
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: A special report from the killing fields of Haiti. Free-trade and slave labor over the southern border. A new anti-Bush Documentary: There’s Something About W that details the Bushes' biggest lies.
01:00 Reports on Haiti. Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina.
12:00 Conditions on the southern border. Ruben Ramos, Maquiladora Worker. 19:00 There Is Something About W ! A Documentary. Intro by Dennis Bernstein.
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Tuesday,
October 5, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Bush Family Fortunes with Greg Palast: How the Bushies fixed an election and started a phony War on Terror to invade Iraq and steal the second richest oil reserves in the world. Also the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Israel gets diplomatic cover at the UN for its invasion of Gaza; the Iraqi resistance is so strong that even ex-military governor Paul Bremer is calling for more American troops; and Iraq's US-installed puppet president says the attack on Samarra was a potential war crime tantamount to collective punishment (Robert Knight)
06:00 Greg Palast: Greg Palast, author of "Best Democracy Money Can Buy", discusses his efforts to highlight voter fraud in Florida, documentation of Bush's preferential military service treatment, and his newest documentary Bush Family Fortunes. Also covered is shocking evidence of tactics planned for erasing black votes in the upcoming national election (Dennis Bernstein)
21:00 Bush Family Fortunes: This new documentary is a followup to The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Listen to excerpts from Greg Palast's well-documented efforts to reveal the motives, secret connections and deceit behind the Bush Administration's politics. Follow the efforts to uncovered the trail of Bush's National Guard service records
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Monday, October 4, 2004
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Today on Flashpoints: Independent Reporter Robert Fisk assesses the Iraq occupation in the context of impending US elections. We’ll also expand the discussion on Iraq and Palestine with Flashpoint's special correspondent Larry Everest and Barbara Lubin from the Middle East Children’s Alliance: and of course the Knight report.
01:00 The Robert Knight Report.
05:00 Reports on Iraq. Robert Fisk of The Independent of London.
16:00 Music Break - The Peace Train – Cat Stevens
21:00 Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda.
Larry Everest, Author of Oil, Power & Empire.
Barbara Lubin, director of Middle East Children's Alliance Intro by Dennis Bernstein.
42:00 Anniversary of the Second Intifada. Guest speaker Dr. Mustafa Barghouti.
Friday, October 1, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Difficulties in providing healthcare in Palestine for victims of Israeli aggression. The California Govenor vetos the Drivers License Bill for the undocumented immigrants. Interview with the selection committee members of the Arab Film Festival. Ed Rosenthal's report on medical marijuana. And Flashpoints en Espanol with Solange Escheverria. All this ahead with hosts Miguel Molina, Nor
a and Solange.01:00 Union of Health Worker Committees in Palestine. Mona Al Farra Deputy Director.
19:00 On Undocumented ImmigrantDriver Licenses. Senator Gil Cedillo.
27:00 Music Break – Misty Rhythms - Tears for Allah
28:00 Arab Film Festival. Festival Committee members, Amir Jaffer and Gaby
Azary.39:00 Ed Rosenthal Reports on Medical Marijuana.
46:00 Flashpoints En Español. Solange Echeverria and Everardo Duran