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Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002 -  Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: John Pilger, new film on the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine.
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Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: UN Security Council five permanent members met today.. no agreement.. Kofi Annan said war is avoidable.. full S.C. meeting maybe next week.. Syria says doubts that US can get nine votes.. Bush losing support with US conservatives.. American Conservative Magazine.. angry French minister derides Ivory Coast actions.. Moscow theatre occupied by Chechen rebels.. hold hostages.. Chechen rebel website: http://www.kazkaz.org.. Washington Post says CIA now placing operatives in FBI offices.
-05:45 Dennis: leading documentarian John Pilger churning out books and videos about US and Western military polcies.. his documentaries include: Palestine Is Still The Issue, New Rulers Of The World, Paying The Price, South Africa: Apartheid Did Not Die.. author of many books, including The New Rulers of the World.. now w John Pilger.. Dennis: you've been critical of Australia.. Pilger: Australia has been deeply involved in Indonesia in a negative way.. about East Timor.. killing of a third of the population..  the terrible atrocity in Bali (link2).. however the Aussie government has supported the Indonesian military.. responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.. the Indonesian military has used its fundamentalist Islamic groups for its own ends.. the Indonesian army has been terrorizing its own population.. Australia has always played an obsequious role for the US.. shooting at tribesmen in Afghanistan.. supporting the US war on Iraq.. creating ill feeling and a lot of enemies.. Dennis: about your new documentary, Palestine Is Still The Issue.. same name as a film you made 25 years ago.. the difference?.. Pilger: the Palestinians have fought back, and the resistance has intensified..  Desmond Tutu recently compared the Palestinian situation with apartheid in South Africa.. apartheid being institutionalized.. the suffering of Palestinians almost impossible to describe.. most young men in and out of prisons.. a horrific situation.. ignored by most of the US media.. but not the rest of the world.. a tragedy for Israel, corrupting.. the mentality of a paranoid seige society.. bad for the health of any nation.. worse still of course for the Pals.. Dennis: the ambassador to Israel from Great Britain said the occupied territories are the largest detention camp in the world.. [also said Gaza Strip and West Bank reduced to giant concentration camps, Israel is hunting down innocent people in the streets].. Dennis: your new video featuring Fatima?.. Pilger: this is a very typical Palestinian woman.. she was having her second baby, went into labor in the middle of the night.. could see the hospital from their house.. stopped at a checkpoint.. the soldiers wouldn't let them through, they pleaded and begged.. had to have the baby in the car.. difficulties in delivery.. and the husband beaten.. they set out on foot around the checkpoint to get to the hospital.. the baby died.. case after case.. the International Red Cross criticizing the Israeli military in the strongest terms.. shooting at ambulances.. Dennis: you're under attack by Israeli groups.. Pilger: I knew what I was letting myself in for.. but we've had a blizzard of orchestrated hate email.. most from NY.. Orwellian.. the film is actually restrained, most interviews with Israelis.. but it breaks down stereotypes.. breaks down myths, 'truth telling' in my view.. nothing like telling the truth to raise ire.. I've been encouraged.. perhaps they are losing their grip now, things are changing.. Dennis: what do they say to you? they tell me Hitler killed the wrong Jews.. they want to cut my throat.. Pilger: I get similar filth.. about a remarkable historian in Israel.. not the Zionist tales we've heard across the years.. in organized Jewry there are a lot of decent people but who have grown up with myths.. I've spent all my life fighting for human rights.. at the end of the film, I say there has no been no greater.. than the Holocaust.. the same sensitivity has to be extended to the Palestinians.. no longer can we accept the propaganda of these extremist lobby groups.. we have a Jewish chairman, Michael Green, made a fool of himself [scroll down 2/3].. he panicked when the film went to air.. gave an interview, said the film was full of inaccuracies, but never named one (and can never name one, as there are none).. everyone else stood by it, but he handed a juicy propaganda plum to.. (the pro-Israeli lobby).. shows the power of the extremists.. he felt the lash of the pro-Israeli lobby.. terribly important for journalist and broadcasters to start standing up this lobby.. Dennis: stenographers for the Pentagon?.. Pilger: journalists are there to keep the record straight.. the public doesn't have the time.. our job.. we're there to push back facades.. to say, "you're being told one thing, the truth is something else".. no more important.. about Martha Gelhorn (sp?).. author of Views from The Ground.. said, journalist can see thing from looking down, or looking up through the eyes of humanity.. about the new book, The New Rulers of the World.. traces the history of Indonesia.. 60's bloodbath, to WTO calling Indonesia a model pupil.. strip away some of the myths of the so-called US war on terror.. Jimmy Carter signed a secret order, setting up the worlds biggest terror group (link2) (CounterPunch), the mujahadeen.. tell suspressed history.. like Zinn's A People's History of the World.
-30:00 Dennis: reported in the Israeli press: US House rep from Bay Area, Tom Lantos said to Knesset head, 'you won't have anymore problem with Saddam, we'll be rid of the bastard soon, we'll install a pro-Western dictator who'll be good for us and you'.. a protest going on now at Lantos' office.. KPFA PLEDGEBREAK.. stand up for free speech, stand up for listener sponsored radio.. make a donation today.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. premiums: John Pilger's book and doumentary video, and also video copies of the documentaries, Winning the War, Losing the Peace, Hidden Wars of Desert Storm,  The Pinochet Case, Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and, of course, the ever popular scappy hard hitting investigative radio fight back free speech lovin one Flashpoints ballcap.
-49:50 Dennis: a poem about a girl in occupied Palestine that stopped talking because of the noise of the war.. titled. Pre-Occupied in Gaza.. so much noise in the war zone, she has given up speech.. sign language.. won't betray her location.. so many explosions, she scares herself eating crunchy cereal.. she hides in the cellar.. for days at time.. yesterday coming home from the bakery, a sniper shoots the bread out of her hands, shoots her hands out of her hands.. Dennis: now they are not allowing Palestinians to pick their olives.. but they are allowing the Jewish settlers to go steal the olives.. now Pals not allowed to drill for water on their own land, but the settlers using infinitely more Palestinian water.. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!.. KPFA PLEDGEBREAK.. stand up for free speech, stand up for listener sponsored radio.. make a donation today.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. premiums: John Pilger's book and doumentary video, the joy of truth telling, more
-62:57 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
 Tribute From A Distant Stranger: Palestinian's Obit Raises 'Controversy' - On a recent Friday evening, while quietly embroidering on the porch of her Nablus home, 60-year-old Palestinian activist Shaden Abu Hijleh was intentionally murdered by an Israeli soldier at close range. Her daughter prayed that reports of her mother's death would not be summarized in a single digit by the press. "I kept on screaming - I hope she's not just another number," Lana Abu Hijleh recalls. (read more) (obit) (E.Intifada)
Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: depleted uranium, Ramsey Clark on US as renegade state.
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Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: anti-French protest in the Ivory Coast.. and Christians protest execution of Muslims.. France and Russia say the new improved US proposed UN resolution still falls short.. Sharon tells NY Times he would 'respond' to an Iraq attack on Israel.. in the illegally occupied territories, Israel tells Palestinians they can not have anymore well water, water is for settlers only.. Palestinian harvesters not allowed to pick their own olives.. Israel ready to demand 10 billion more dollars from the USA if it wants Israel to behave.. bomb explodes in Bogato, Colombia
-05:45 Dennis: growing peace movement becoming more vocal and effective.. now w former US attorney Ramsey Clark, author of The Fire This Time.. Ramsey: USA THE GREATEST THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND STABILITY ACROSS THE GLOBE.. NOBODY ABLE TO WITHSTAND OUR POWER.. WE CAN DESTROY ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WITHOUT STEPPING FOOT ON IT.. about the Treaty of Westfalia.. now the declaration of war on terrorism.. US CLAIMING IT CAN ATTACK ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.. THE FIRST STRIKE IDEA, THE END TO ALL LAW.. a William O. Douglas quote.. a Himmler quote: shoot first, ask questions later.. strike first.. it's hard to believe Israel could highen its violent assault on Palestinians, but they did (after 911).. ISRAEL COMMITTING OUTRIGHT MURDER OF PEOPLE.. SMASHING INTO TOWNS WITH TANKS.. India saying Pakistan harboring terrorists, and ready to go.. not only aggression abroad.. the Patriot Act, intense violation of human rights.. EXTREME AND DELIBERATE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS..  WE TAKE PEOPLE FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, AND DON'T EVEN SAY WHO IT IS OR WHY.. THE END OF LAW, BY A GOVERNMENT THAT THINKS IT IS OMNIPOTENT.. THAT INTENDS TOTAL DOMINATION AND EXPLOITATION.. Dennis: you went to Iraq?.. Ramsey: met the Minister Of Health.. he wants to restore the health delivery system.. a Kurdish man.. very knowledgable.. he says the death rate continues to rise.. the pharmacies were empty in the early 90's.. 40-50 people waiting outside for prescriptions.. now the shelves about half full.. medicine and food distributed equally.. you never hear a complaint.. here in WWII you'd hear complaining about people cheating on sugar, cheating on meat.. the doctors very creative to rebuild dialysis machines, incubators.. still an extremely hard time for them.. people shopping.. about food vendors.. Dennis: the US in a collaboration now, using a model like Jenin, for Baghdad.. Ramsey: I'm foolishly optimistic.. WE CAN STOP THIS THING.. its absolutely crazy to look for war.. even now there is war all over the world.. war on Iraq is a Pandora's box.. I don't know how we will recover in the eyes of the poor around the world, in the eyes of the Arabs around the world.. surely if we attack Iraq, Afghanistan will crack open.. we need to maintain utmost pressure on India and Pakistan.. now nothing to inhibit us from working for peace, in the Cold War it was hard.. Event: don't forget October 26, we need major demonstrations in SF and DC..
-20:16 Dennis: about the toxins released during the Gulf War, including depleted uranium.. now w more excerpts from The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, narrated by actor  John Hurt, uses documents never before seen on television, and interviews with prominent figures such as General Norman Schwarzkopf, former Attorney General  Ramsey Clark and former UN Iraq Program Director Dennis Halliday, chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, among others, to answer these and other questions.. now w more audio EXCERPTS: about the extreme toxicity of depleted uranium.. health research suppressed by the Pentagon.. no warning disseminated to soldiers on the ground.. even though the Pentagon knew about the risks involved.. "I've seen photos of Beduoins digging out metal from destroyed tanks and taking it to sell for salvage..".. Doctor: in 1988, 34 patients died of cancer, in 1928, 428 patients died of cancer including an eleven year old with ovarian cancer.. malformed babies are born at the rate of one or two a day.. the Pentagon has good reason to deny the toxicity.. now w US Army Major in charge of the cleanup of Desert Storm, the foremost expert on DU in the country, Doug Rocke: this is about two things, liability and cleanup.. veteran Hector Glass: the army spent two years denying my condition.. Paul Sullivan: the use of DU by the US military one more chapter in the sad history.. Dennis: I spent six years researching 'Gulf War Syndrome'.. we obtained documents proving that the US not only know what was going to happen to veterans.. but they let vets go collect souveneirs from tanks.. I interviewed everyone.. the even the US ambassador to Kuwait's wife gave birth to a malformed baby..
-33:00 Dennis: KPFA PLEDGEBREAK (end audio).. stand up for free speech, stand up for listener sponsored radio.. make a donation today.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. premiums: video copy of the documentary, Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, or a copy of Ramsey Clark's book 'The Fire This Time', or the Flashpoints interview with Ramsey Clark.
-38:30 Dennis: now w Dick Becker of the International Action Center.. Dick: get this book to support KPFA, and to read this incredible eyewitness account of what the real cost of the war was.. a criminal war, planned ahead of time.. just like the war this time, a war of conquest, a war for oil.. those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.. Dennis: KPFA PLEDGEBREAK.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732 stand up now and support free speech radio.. Dick: a war of recolonization.. even the Iraqi National Congress told they won't have a role.. a US military dictatorship first.. US talking about increasing by four times Iraqi oil production.. the administration underestimates the growing oppostion.. MAJOR EVENT: SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 WILL SEE THE LARGEST ANTI-WAR PROTESTS IN THE US IN MANY YEARS.. BARBARA LEE HEADING THE BILL, ALSO JOHN BURTON, GLOBAL EXCHANGE, NOT IN OUR NAME, 11AM JUSTIN HERMAN PLAZA, THE EMBARCADERO.. WE NEED TO SHOW THAT THE OPPOSTION IS NOT JUST OUTSIDE THE US.. BUSH INTENDS TO CARRY OUT THIS WAR, THE ONLY FORCE IN THE WORLD THAT CAN STOP IT IS YOU AND ME.. MARCH TO CIVIC CENTER.. WE WANT TO FILL MARKET STREET, FILL THE CIVIC CENTER.. more info: InternationalAnswer.org the main organizer for the October 26 march.. Dick: Ramsey has presented a human face of the US to the people of the world.. Dennis: KPFA PLEDGEBREAK .. make a pledge today, get the
interview with Ramsey Clark.. get Ramsey Clark's book, The Fire This Time.. get the documentary,
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, and, of course, the ever popular scappy hard hitting investigative radio fight back free speech lovin Flashpoints ballcap.
-61:29 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
 NY Times excuses Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians as *Jewish Settlers' Zeal* - "The last families living here left on Friday, broken by... a year of steadily mounting violence by Jewish settlers living in neighboring outposts on the
hills. The gunfire, stone-throwing, physical assaults and
vandalism had become unbearable..." (read more)
Monday, Oct 21, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: US continues to backtrack on Iraq war.. about Winning the War, Losing the Peace, a new documentary about the misery and poverty in post-war Afghanistan.
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Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Bush backtracks on Iraq.. French forces create buffer zone in the Ivory Coast.. 56 Muslims shot dead by Ivorians.. confusion in the two Koreas.. North Korea tells US to drop his hostility.. Russia's atomic energy minister opines.. 94 agreement.. a trial balloon from the White House.. Powell: 'If you can get the inspectors back in.. you can disarm this regime (without removing Saddam)'.. Bush finally echoes
-06:30 Dennis: about the ongoing push for war.. now w Phyllis Bennis, a fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis, forward by Noam Chomsky.. Event: Phyllis Bennis speaking at New College 777 Valencia in SF tonight at 7PM, also tomorrw at the First Presbyterian Church Palo Alto, info: 650-326-8837.. Phyllis: the last 48 hours a slight shift in US pronouncements.. the question of regime change being possible without regime change.. taken together, maybe Bush looking at taking a step back from war.. the question of Iraq (probably not) and North Korea (probably yes) having nuclear weapons, then why is Iraq the first target for Bush?.. confusion in US foreign policy.. Dennis: and bear in mind, ISRAEL HAS HUNDREDS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS.. Phyllis: THE ISRAELI ARSENAL THE MOST DESTABILIZING FORCE IN THE REGION.. chemical and biological the *poor mans' nuclear weapons*.. 80% of Middle Eastern weaponry comes from the US.. very small countries armed to the teeth.. about the overarming of an entire region.. IF WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT DISARMING IRAQ.. WE SHOULD BE DEMANDING IMPLETATION OF ALL OF ARTICLE 14 OF UNSC RESOLUTION 687.. WHICH CALLS NOT ONLY FOR DISARMING IRAQ, FOR SANCTIONS ON IRAQ, BUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMPLETE MIDDLE EAST DISARMAMENT INCLUDING ISRAEL.. Dennis: why is France fighting the US resolution?.. Phyllis: the military people at the Pentagon (as distinguished from the US civilian gung-ho leaders, ie the *Chicken Hawks*, (Saul Landau column) (Anti-War.com) (Counter Punch) (BuzzFlash) those draft-dodging comfort-seeking let the poor *colored* kids fight the wars we start, we're just too-big too-important too-white guys with too-many millions invested on Wall Street to put our own lives in danger, ie Perle, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bush, et al.) the military saying this new war could be a complete disaster.. about France and Russia, both have longstanding oil contracts with Iraq.. Iraq the second, maybe the first, largest resource of oil in the world.. the US bribing countries with Iraqi oil spoils to support its UN resolution.. Dennis: Israel calling the shots, and the US following along?.. Israel to be given 3 days notice.. Phyllis: A VERY DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENT.. THE REGION IS AT AN ABSOLUTE BOIL, BECAUSE OF WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS.. Aljazeera running 'all occupation, all the time'.. like here where we watched the World Trade Center disaster 24/7 for days afterward.. on Aljazeera, every day, showing expulsion of people from their homes, the merciless shooting of civilians, and so on.. in the Middle East, they have been seeing that 24/7 for two years.. in case of a war on Iraq, Sharon will massively escalate attacks on the Palestinians.. ANOTHER GRAVE DANGER UNDER DISCUSSION IN ISRAEL RIGHT NOW, THE POLICY OF *TRANFER*, IE ETHNIC CLEANSING.. pushing the Palestinians onto Jordan.. about the horrific attack today.. if another attack like that happens, the Israeli response could be at a whole new level.. could pull the US even more directly in.. end Palestinian hopes forever.. Dennis: before the Gulf War, 2/3 of Kuwaitis were Palestinians.. they were brutally expelled..
-24:20 Dennis: about Winning the peace, Losing the Peace, a new documentary on Afghanistan.. now audio excerpts.. (no review this segment)
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Dennis: KPFA PLEDGEBREAK (end audio).. stand up for free speech, stand up for listener sponsored radio.. make a donation today.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. premiums: video copies of the documentaries, Winning the War, Losing the Peace, Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, The Pinochet Case, Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and, of course, the ever popular scappy hard hitting investigative radio fight back free speech lovin one size phitz all *Union Made* Flashpoints ballcap.
-32:28 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
 Activists Head to West Bank to Support Palestinians During Olive Harvest - Kate Rafael leaves for the West Bank this weekend, joining about 120 foreigners who plan to help the Palestinians during the olive harvest amid reports that Israeli settlers have harassed and attacked the olive-pickers.. The Jewish woman from Berkeley, Calif., calls Israel's occupation "brutal" and believes she has a "personal responsibility to take an active role in helping bring justice and peace." (read more)
Friday, Oct 18, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00  Dennis Bernstein: more excerpts from the documentary, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm;.. Barbara Lubin back from Iraq and Occupied Palestine.
-00:45 Dennis: the Bush adminstration continues its full court press in the UN for war on Iraq.. Sharon happily returns to Israel.. this seize the oil policy could lead to the deaths of many people, and the use of nuclear weapons.. Ten years after Saddam Hussein launched his troops against Kuwait, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, a self funded digital video-expose, explores some of the more controversial questions of the war. Were all diplomatic means really utilized to try and resolve the issue peacefully? What are the facts behind "Gulf War Syndrome"? And, what are the alternative purposes behind the embargo against Iraq that still persists? The result of two years of investigating, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, narrated by actor John Hurt, uses documents never before seen on television, and interviews with prominent figures such as General Norman Schwarzkopf, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and former UN Iraq Program Director Dennis Halliday, chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, among others, to answer these and other questions.. now w audio EXCERPTS: (no further review this segment)
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Dennis: Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Childrens Alliance just back from Iraq and Palestine.. Barbara: one of the other things you are not going to hear.. the Israeli army is now going door to door in Ramallah taking a tally of everyone who lives there.. people fear its the start of the *transfer*.. the kids in school, eight and nine year old girls, said to us, please tell the Americans not to kill us.. it is unconsciousable for the US to consider killing anymore Iraqis.. I'm donating $500 right now, and I don't even want a video.. this is important folks.. donate right now, call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. I stopped in Washington DC.. met Barbara Lee and Cynthia McKinney.. what is the connection?.. Sharon was in DC, got spanked on the hand by Bush.. Dennis: he got the green light.. Barbara: we have come through an unbelievable 3 years here with Pacifica.. we should get to a million dollars.. please donate today.. Dennis: Sharon in Washington, Bush saying Israel 'can defend itself'.. Israel has 200 nuclear weapons, where are the inspectors.. Barbara: come out Saturday Oct 26, be at Justin Herman Plaza (in SF) at 10AM.. come out, come out.. without KPFA we won't know what is happening in the world.. Dennis: does anybody on the face of this earth believe this is about fighting for democracy?.. the amount of lying in the US media makes it difficult.. the amount of lying is sometimes too much.. Barbara: please donate, do it right now.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. Dennis: we're in Fresno tomorrow.. KFCF banquet.. more info 559-233-2221?.. Barbara: KPFA is like our family, we squabble, but we have to support our family, be there no matter what.. who knows what the future is going to mean for any of us.. with the people in Washington trying to shut everybody up.. Dennis: Ariel Sharon is going to use the attack on Iraq, for whatever final solution he has in mind.. Netanyahu is disappointed that he didn't use the Teannimen Square cover to purge the Palestinians.. unbelievable.. Barbara: Dennis, I remember the day I met you in Boonville, with Judy Bari.. a meeting of the lunatics.. on the eve of the Gulf War.. look at all the organizing going on know.. WE WANT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AT JUSTIN HERMAN PLAZA OCT 26 11AM.. WITHOUT KPFA WE ARE CLUELESS.. Dennis: please call now, help your alternative radio station, help yourself.. Barbara: we are so lucky to have this station, this program.. we've come through hard time, we have bills to pay, but Pacifica is moving back here.. all on account of you.. thanks.. put us over the top tonight.. whatever you can afford.. please call us, we need you.. thanks to the volunteers taking the phone calls.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. premiums: video copies of the documentaries, Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, The Pinochet Case, Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and, of course, the ever popular scappy hard hitting investigative radio fight back free speech lovin one size fitz all *Union Made* Flashpoints ballcap.
-59:00 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
 Eight Palestinians, Mostly Children, Women Killed in Israeli Attack - It was the same gruesome sight - dead and wounded scattered about an impoverished neighborhood in the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah.. as always, the majority of the victims were women and children.
Thursday, Oct 17, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein:
documentary: excerpts from the documentary, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.. protests planned this Friday over the ongoing medical abuses of California prisoners.
-00:58 Dennis: California Prison Focus demanding investigations into recent deaths of AIDS patients.. Friday protests planned.. now w Judy Greenspan of California Prison Focus.. Judy: a doctor recently took all men at Corcoran State Prison off pain medication.. no quality of care.. no HIV treatment offered..  we're just seeing people dying.. about a man, Elmer Brown, who last week died alone in his cell at Corcoran.. this Friday is National Prison Reform Unity Day.. more shootings (by guards of prisoners) at Corcoran State Prison than all the other prisons in the country.. a warden put a stop to the shootings, but
the medical abuses continue.. we're demonstrating at Corcoran Friday and other prisons throughout the state.. its legacy of brutality (Fresno Bee).. we're demanding immediate release of all eligible lifers..
-07:40 Judy: we're leaving the bay area this Friday, October 19 at 10AM from MacArthur Bart Station, and another location, the Safeway at Church and Market, SF.. please bring a car if you can, drinking water, lunch, etc.. more info: 510-665-1935
-09:00 Dennis: Ten years after Saddam Hussein launched his troops against Kuwait, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, a self funded digital video-expose, explores some of the more controversial questions of the war. Were all diplomatic means really utilized to try and resolve the issue peacefully? What are the facts behind "Gulf War Syndrome"? And, what are the alternative purposes behind the embargo against Iraq that still persists? The result of two years of investigating, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, narrated by actor John Hurt, uses documents never before seen on television, and interviews with prominent figures such as General Norman Schwarzkopf, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and former UN Iraq Program Director Dennis Halliday, chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, among others, to answer these and other questions.. now w audio EXCERPTS: (no further review this segment)
-27:58 Dennis: KPFA PLEDGEBREAK.. stand up for free speech, stand up for listener sponsored radio.. make a donation today.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. premiums: video copies of the documentaries, Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, The Pinochet Case, Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and, of course, the ever popular scappy hard hitting investigative radio fight back free speech lovin one size fitz all *Union Made* Flashpoints ballcap.
-32:28 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00  Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Fisk on Bali bombing, war on Iraq.. a new documentary on the Pinochet arrest.. interview with producers of Unprecedented: 2000 Presidential Election documentary.
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Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Debate on Iraq begins today in the UN Security Council.. Iraq denies weapons of mass destruction.. non-aligned nations push for weapons inspections.. (audio of UN debate).. France and Russia oppose US plan.. Sharon meets Bush in DC.. Dubya says.. Israel threatens Lebanon over water use.. Ivory Coast update.
-06:30 Dennis: drumbeat for war continues.. now w award winning British journalist, Robert Fisk.. Robert: It feels safe in Beruit, but I'm sure it's not.. about the bombing in Bali.. Iraq has nothing to do with Bali, or Afghanistan.. I think it was done by Al-Quada, an offshoot of Al-Quada (was it?).. they would have known that most of the victims would be Australian.. Australia the first to support Bush's new war.. young innocent civilians are the target, and they were meant to be.. but no claim of responsibility.. Dennis: the US to put a military commander in charge of Iraq?.. Robert: they no doubt could.. victors are always praised in this part of the world.. but afterwards.. Iraq would break apart in civil war.. the Hussein family would be hanged.. anarchy, drug barons, civil war.. what is America really doing?.. to remake the map of the Middle East.. Dennis: Israel a partner in this war.. Sharon says they are ready to strike.. Robert: The Nation magazine.. naming the Israeli lobby group members in the US administration.. no difference in language and intent.. WHY IS IT NECESSARY FOR US TO FOLLOW ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST?.. WHY NOT FOLLOW A POLICY OF JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?.. WHY CONSTANTLY PUSH FORWARD ISRAEL'S POLICIES?.. THE US IS NOT A STATE OF ISRAEL.. BUSH IS NOW THE VOICE OF ARIEL SHARON.. SHARON THE VOICE OF BUSH.. US SHOULD BE AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.. Bush demanding democracy in Iran.. its elections are at least fair.. the Iranian president at least won a majority of the votes.. unlike Bush.. why are we talking like this?.. IN THE US ADMINISTRATION SO MANY PERSONALITIES LOCKING INTO THE ISRAELI VIEWPOINT.. I AM TIRED OF ALL ARAB DICTATORS, INCLUDING ARAFAT.. GO BACK TO PRESIDENT WILSON, HIS FAMOUS 14 POINTS.. THE AMERICANS HAVE NEVER FOLLOWED UP ON THE WILSON POINTS, THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.. WENT TO ITS DOOM BECAUSE THE MAJOR POWERS.. DISREGARDED IT.. LIKE BUSH THREATENS TO DO TO THE UN NOW.. WE WILL BRING ON OURSELVES A NEW WORLD WAR.. WE COULD CREATE A WORLD BASED ON HONESTY, FAIRNESS, AND DECENCY.. AN UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICA, BUT THEY ARE NOT DOING IT.. A GREAT, GREAT TRAGEDY FOR AMERICA AND FOR THE WORLD.
-20:50 Dennis: great new documentary, Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election, about the Florida stealing of the US 2000 election.. now w producers, Richard Perez, and Joan Sekler.. no review this segment.. Event: screening tonight 9:30PM at SF State, Laurel Heights Conference Center, 3333 California Str.
-30:35 Dennis: Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet flew to London, had tea with Margaret Thatcher, and was then arrested.. a great embarrasment.. a new documentary, The Pinochet Case.. (audio) about the Pinochet coup against Allende, did away with all democratic institutions.. dictatorship for 17 years.. Catholic Church gathered archives of the murdered and dissapeared.. Spanish law permitted Spanish courts to indict any perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity..
-37:30 Dennis: KPFA PLEDGEBREAK.. stand up for free speech, stand up for listener sponsored radio.. make a donation today.. call 510-848-5732 or 800-439-5732.. premiums: video copies of the documentaries, The Pinochet Case, Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and, of course, the ever popular scappy hard-hitting investigative radio fight back free speech lovin Flashpoints ballcap.
-51:27 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Monday October 21, 2002 - US continues to backtrack on Iraq war.. about Winning the War, Losing the Peace, a new documentary about the misery and poverty in post-war Afghanistan.
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Friday October 18, 2002 - more excerpts from the documentary, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.. conversation w Barbara Lubin back from Iraq and occupied Palestine.. Action Alert for October 26
Thursday October 17, 2002 - excerpts from the documentary, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.. protests planned this Friday over the ongoing medical abuses of California prisoners.
Wednesday October 16, 2002 - Robert Fisk on the Bali bombing, war on Iraq.. a new documentary on the Pinochet arrest.. interview with the producers of Unprecedented: 2000 Presidential Election
Tuesday October 15, 2002 - excerpts from an excellent new documentary on the stealing of the US 2000 presidential election.. US reveals secret testing of chemical warfare agents on unsuspecting US citizens.. Vieques update
Monday October 14, 2002 - excerpts from an excellent new documentary on the stealing of the US 2000 presidential election.. US reveals secret testing of chemical warfare agents on unsuspecting US citizens.. Vieques update
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Friday October 11, 2002 - Marwan Bishara on the perils facing the Middle East.. Starhawk leads protests at the SF Federal Building and Diane Fein$tein's office.. more excerpts from The Trials of Henry Kissinger (part 2) Thursday October 10, 2002 - about a great new documentary, The Trials of Henry Kissinger (part 1) Wednesday October 9, 2002 - Ramsey Clark, just back from Iraq.. Greg Palast on Hugo Chavez.. Oklahoma bombing victim, Bud Clark, speaks out on the death penalty.. 250 SF garment workers win lawsuit for unpaid wages Tuesday October 8, 2002 - The Case Against War, w Professor Stephen Zunes.. South African anti-apartheid veterans target Israel.. Bush invokes Taft Hartley against West Coast ILWU Monday October 7, 2002 - Israeli missile strike kills 14 Palestinian civilians including four children.. interviews with Netta Jorgesen in Gaza.. International Solidarity Member, Adam Shapiro.. Professor of Political Science, As'ad Abu-Khalil
* * * * * * * * * * * *Friday October 4, 2002 - interview w authors of the new book, 'Freedom'.. Oakland police scandal.. Queer prison activists.. about the 'Forum on Peace' workshop and 'Not In Our Name' demonstrations this weekend.
Thursday October 3, 2002 - Conversation with a man who spent four years on Oklahoma death row for a crime he didn't commit.. Activists ready for FTAA summit in Ecuador this coming Halloween
Wednesday October 2, 2002 - an hour with M. J. Akbar, Indian newspaperman, and author of The Shade of Swords; Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity.
Tuesday October 1, 2002 - 18 people die in Kashmir during elections.. interview w Dr. Angana Chatterji.. Norman Solomon: delegation to Iraq returns; Congressman Dennis Kucinich speech in Berkeley two weeks ago.
Monday September 30, 2002 - 350,000 march in London.. *National Security Strategy*.. rightwing *Campus Watch* website targets US academics.
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The following inspirational piece by new paradigm author, Marianne Williamson, excerpted from her book, "A Return to Love" and quoted by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural address: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light--not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves--who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous ?
Actually, who are you--not to be ?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small-- doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
We are liberated from our own fear; our presence automatically liberates others.
"The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots" ...Walt Whitman
My heart rouses
thinking to bring you news
of something that concerns you
and concerns many men. Look at
what passes for the new.
You will not find it there
but in despised poems.
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack of what is found there.
-- William Carlos Williams
'The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account.' Walter Lippmann
" Love them all. Por favor mantengan las víctimas de la tragedia en sus corazons. Amor a todos. Please keep the victims of the world's tragedies in your hearts. ", from all of us at Flashpoints.net
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