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Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: death toll from the storming of the Russian theater continues to rise, about the gas agent used.. arrests, violence spirals upward against Palestinian civilians
-00:50 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: the UN Security Council meeting tonight under pressure from the US.. Ari Fletcher says its 'decision making time'.. Colin Powell says to leaders of Europe, US action does not require a second resolution.. Germany says it does too.. Iran's foreign minister says it will defend itself.. Russia gases its own citizens, threatens harsh reprisals against 'terrorists'.. 101 Russians dead, 418 survivors released from hospital, 245 remaining in medical care, 16 in critical condition.. US Marines sent to Djibouti (map) in the horn of Africa to look for Al-Quada.
-04:45 Dennis: now to Moscow w Fred Weir, writer for the Christian Science Monitor, Canadian radio.. about the blundered Russian hostage rescue.. Fred: what happened inside the theater a great unknown.. about Chechnya.. about the cause of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.. about the blundering of the Russian rescue.. a growing debate in Russia about that.. (Russian Press).. the details of the gas were not made available to their own medical personnel.. not even a specific antidote made available.. Russian special forces went in not even wearing masks.. a very thick mixture of gas.. no immediate care made available.. deliberately and knowingly.. no field hospital a blunder.. the witholding of vital information, a crime..
-24:40 Dennis: more about the storming of the theatrer.. what gas was used on the 800 innocent moviegoers.. Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project.. Edward: initial speculation via the Pentagon.. a type of opiate.. syntanal (sp?).. a heroin type drug, modeled after the opium plant.. but syntanal much more powerful that heroin.. the first time a drug like this being used.. raises many questions about the biological, chemical warfare issues.. Dennis: would they knowingly risk the lives of 800 people.. Edward: governments have convinced themselves that there are safe non-lethal incapacitants.. it appears summary executions were performed.. Dennis: the Pentagon denies they have developed drugs like this.. Edward: that's a lie.. see our website for details.. allegations in the past that these kind of drugs used in combat before.. a dangerous precedent.. no country has come out and condemned this use.. now weaker countries will try and develope these agents.. now w Susan Wright, of the University of Michigan, biological warfare specialist.. Susan: what are the political implications trying to restrain these types of agents.. it lowers the moral and legal barriers.. the slippery use of the term terrorist.. 101 of the hostages died.. not non-lethal.. even tear gas can be lethal.. about the silence.. no country has come forth to question this use.. Russia might be in violation of certain treaties.. Dennis: the US resistant to treaties restraining the use of chemical and biological weapons.. Edward: a major major challenge for the chemical weapons treaties.. we were denied access to the meeting.. denied accreditation.. under the chemical weapons convention, this gas would not be allowed.. it is very clear that the agent used in Moscow, did not have temporary effects, it had lethal effects.. about the inspections allowed under weapons treaties.. the US resists inspections, and thus treaties.. the chemical weapons treaty looks weaker and weaker.. Dennis: how extensive is the US chemical and biological? weapons program?.. Susan: the US has by far and away the largest stockpile and development of biological weapons in the world.. under the US Defence Department.. contract to a private company, Optometrics, based in Michigan.. to develop.. certain agents.. a major no-no.. and in the chemical weapons arena.. a very worrying situation.. Susan: THE US IS GENETICALLY ENGINEERING.. A STRAIN OF ANTHRAX THAT WOULD RESIST ANY KNOWN VACCINE.. I CAN'T THINK OF A MORE WORRYING DEVELOPMENT.. THAT KIND OF WORK SHOULD BE DEFINED AS ILLEGAL.. if the US succeeds in delaying the 5th review conference, that issue will never come to the table.. ironic that US.. denying this legal barrier to biological warfare.. about the CWC.. we need to be operationalizing those provisions now..
-42:00 music break
-42:50 Dennis: occupied Palestine situation getting worse everyday.. shooting of olive pickers.. settler violence is soaring.. home destructions.. house arrests.. now to Ramallah with Sam Bahour, US Palestinian businessman, developer.. Sam: as the world believes that things are calming down as no major events.. not true.. many Palestinians being arrested, held for six month, political prisoners, so-called 'administrative detentions'.. Dennis: 7000 people seized, some of our friends seized?.. Sam: all violation of international law.. Hiphan Hamori (sp?).. a resident of East Jerusalem, on the staff at the YMCA.. four Israeli soldiers entered the Y, went to his desk.. took his hard drive, and took him to the 'Russian Compound' (the main Israeli torture chambers for Palestinian prisoners).. a Israeli lawyer took the case but was never allowed to meet him.. after three days, he was taken before a judge, given a six month detention.. he was working on building a YMCA in Ramallah.. got one million dollars from US aid.. while in his hearing.. Isareli officer said he was being arrested for making trips to Ramllah.. he is not a threat, has no connection to any violence.. while Bush calls for reform, any community activist or reformer is put in prison.. Dennis: when you put one Palestinian in prison, the whole family suffers.. his eight year writes: we love you and miss you a lot.. we need you.. I can't go to karate or piano, as there is no one to drive me.. Sam: this is devastating.. about his three daughters and his wife.. were told yesterday they could visit him.. a three hour drive.. they left early in the morning.. they were terrified.. when they got to the prison, they were told, no we just decided no visit today.. lots of burdens.. Israel systematically trying to break the Palestinian spirit.. they will fail, we will built the YMCA.. Harretz today saying 500 prisoners sleeping on the floor, because Israeli will not provide mattresses.. and torture is permitted.. about Marwan Barghouti on trial.. info: www.freebarghouti.org or write me sbahour@palnet.com.. Dennis: about the threat of *transfer* under cover of a US Iraq war.. Sam: yes, and Israel has adopted the policy of collective punishment.. a policy of transfer by economic strangulation.. to pressure Palestinians to exit Palestine..
-54:20 Mary Bishop: wrapup
-55:04 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart

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Monday, Oct 28, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Flashpoints Special: complete audio John Pilger's electrifying new documentary, Palestine is Still The Issue
-00:38 Dennis: in 1977, British journalist John Pilger made a documentary, Palestine Is Still The Issue, telling how the Palestinians were forced from their homes in 1948 and again in 1967.. now in 2002, he asks why the Palestinians' Right Of Return (HRW) (Uri Avnery) is still denied.. now begin documentary audio: Israeli voices: There is only one way of ending this, it is ending the Occupation.. the Occupation has reduced us to animals.. this is a huge bluff of Israel, that every criticism of its policy is anti-semitism.. Palestinian Woman: the soldiers' mothers should come and see what their sons are doing here..

[partial transcript from Pilger's website]
John Pilger: "Twenty-five years ago, I made a film called Palestine Is Still The Issue. It was about a nation of people - the Palestinians - forced off their land and later subjected to a military occupation by Israel. An occupation condemned by the United Nations and almost every country in the world, including Britain.

But Israel is backed by a very powerful friend, the United States. So in 25 years, if we're to speak of the great injustice here, nothing has changed. What has changed is that the Palestinians have fought back.

Stateless and humiliated for so long, they've risen up against Israel's huge military machine, although they themselves have no arm, no tanks, no American planes and gun ships or missiles.

Some have committed desperate acts of terror, like suicide bombing. But for Palestinians, the overriding, routine terror, day after day, has been the ruthless control of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison. This film is about the Palestinians and a group of courageous Israelis united in the oldest human struggle - to be free."

PAUL WELLSTONE KILLED IN SUSPICIOUS PLANE CRASH, BALANCE OF POWER SHIFTS TO REPUBLICANS.. Wellstone was bitterly opposed by the White House and the large pharmaceutical industry.. no one can help but recall the death of Democratic Senatorial candidate Mel Carahan in 2000.. Locked in a tight senate race against now Attorney General John Ashcroft, Carnahan too was killed in a similar plane crash.. (read more)

Friday, Oct 25, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Venezuelan military plots a new coup.. secret FTAA meetings in Ecuador.. Jeb Bush on the ropes in Florida?.. about tomorrow's anti-war protests in SF and DC..
-00:53 Dennis: insurrection by Venezuelan military against elected populist president, Hugo Chavez; General Gomez demands Chavez's resignation.. now w Greg Palast, author of the The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.. Greg: the majority of the military refused to knuckle under to a few coup plotters.. but a US AP wire report this morning said Chavez *disbanded the constitution*.. Dennis: Washington's involvement?.. Greg: when Chavez was kidnapped in April, the US ambassador ran down and had his picture taken with the guys who kidnapped the president.. about Chavez role as president of OPEC.. "the US can't leave Chavez in power, if they invade Iraq".. Dennis: people should be concerned about Otto Reich? Greg: he was.. illegally supplying aid to the Contras violating US law.. now given power in the Bush administration.. Dennis: Jeb Bush having problems with his re-election in Florida? Greg: the people in Florida aren't buying the weapon of mass distraction, ie the war on Iraq.. they're looking at the economy.. not allowing Jeb to wrap himself in a flag.. polls show Jeb losing.. but Jeb has the means of correcting that problem.. [wry laughter].. Greg: in Salon Magazine next week I'll give more details.. about the thousands of black voters kicked off the rolls in Florida in 2000.. NAACP has sued Katherine Harris.. Harris confessed, said we're sorry, said we'll restore those people.. now the state saying we cannot restore those people until after this election.. 125,000- 150,000 votes.. that could be the difference.. Greg: my money is on an endless round of litigation until after 2004 election..
-11:53 music break
-12:40 Leslie Kean: about the FTAA summit in Ecuador next week.. Ecuadoreans mobilizing for a fight.. beginning next Thursday.. FTAA destructive.. the Seattle of South America.. now w David Solnick (sp?) in studio, and on the phone, Justin Ruben and Kristina Chamorra (sp?) from Ecuador.. Justin: Ecuador has a long history of resistance to neo-liberalism.. kicked out the last two presidents.. FTAA a bigger badder NAFTA.. Leslie: Kristina a 22 year old student from Quito, grew up on a farm in Ecuador.. Kristina: the National Organization for Campezinos.. our campaign is organized and growing.. if the FTAA gets power here, natural resources.. water will be privatized, already started.. farmers can no longer use the water.. cultural.. food programs.. with FTAA this will be lost.. a market oriented activity.. destroy our traditional practices.. make us dependent.. now w David with Action for Global Justice.. David: about Bechtel Corp.. taken over the water.. about their takeover in Cochacabamba, Boliva.. they drastically raised rates, then people rose up.. 100 wounded.. but they won their water system back.. but now Bechtel suing these poor people for 25 million dollars.. Justin: a seamless web, business summit and trade summit.. mixing behind closed doors.. an incredible gulf between them and the people.. all the FTAA negotiations out of the reach of the public.. David: not just a South American issue.. Bechtel privatizing water in California too..
-27:00 David: on Sunday October 27 a Bay Area Social Forum.. (gives details).. at the Women's Building, SF 1-5PM .. workshops.. on October 28 11AM.. protest at Bechtels HQ SF, Beale and Mission.. a non violent direct action.. demand Bechtel drop their lawsuit against Boliva.. more info http://www.StopFTAA.org/sf 415-621-8100 www.Ecuador.indymedia.org..
-30:30 music break It's All About The Price Of Oil
-33:38 Dennis: about the quote by California US House rep, Tom Lantos to the Knesset member.. 'My Dear Collette,.. 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'.. Dennis: clearly he is not talking about democracy.. tens of thousands of protestors expected in SF and DC tomorrow.. authorities in DC doing their best to undermine the protest.. from DC, Ilias Rushwawe (sp?).. and in studio, Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children's Alliance.. both on the steering committee of Answer.. Ilias: a press conference at the Washington Press Club.. we plan to collect ten million signatores.. a planned Peoples Peace Congress on MLK's birthday.. an incredibly upbeat mood in DC.. thousands of buses expected.. a historic moment in the US peace history.. Dennis: the Israelis now not permitting the Pals to pick their own olives.. Ilias: the attack against the Pals, Bush's attack on Iraq.. to remove any hurdle to US dominance in the Middle East.. Palestinians a hurdle.. Iraq a hurdle.. Afghanistan a hurdle.. US civil liberties a hurdle.. now w Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children's Alliance.. Barbara: we all know.. the taking away our basic human liberties.. the role of the US in the world.. WE NEED TO BE OUT IN THE STREETS TOMORROW.. SHOW THAT THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE SAYING NO TO WAR.. a lot of coalitions building.. if we want to have peace in the Middle East.. JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE, THE HEART OF THE ISSUE.. THAT AND OIL.. we can not.. try and find the lowest common denominator, and leave Palestine out.. Barbara: about the horrible conditions killing the people, the children of Palestine.. Ilian: of 1.5 million acres, of the West Bank and Gaza, 750,000 already taken by Israel.. 120,000 olive trees uprooted.. wells banned, houses demolished.. a truly horrendous situation.. 1.5 million Iraqis dead.. Lantos says US will install another dictator.. eliminating the right of people to self-determination, so that US citizens can enjoy the monetary benefits.. info www.VoteNoWar.org.. Barbara: the people of the South Bay have an alternative to Tom Lantos, Maude ^^^^.. Ilias: I want to echo Barbara's support for Maude.. LANTOS' POSITIONS.. FOR WAR AND ISRAEL.. NOT SERVING THE INTERESTS OF THE US, BUT SERVING THE INTERESTS OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT.. Dennis: hard to imagine what would happen if the US attacked Iraq.. Barbara: like in the first Gulf War hundreds of thousands of people murdered.. old people, mothers, fathers.. bridges down.. ANOTHER WAR WILL MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR OUR CHILDREN IN THIS COUNTRY TO EVER LEAVE THIS COUNTRY.. IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY DANGEROUS WORLD FOR ALL OF US.. Dennis: about the treatment of Arab Americans at home, the degredation of all our civil liberties.. Barbara: EVENT: on Nov 8 I'm going to the Arab Film Festival, at 5PM.. film Power and Terror by Noam Chomsky.. info: 510-548-0542
-57:00 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart

Thursday, Oct 24, 2002 - Start Audio

Robert Knight and the Knight Report..

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Monday October 28, 2002 - COMPLETE AUDIO: John Pilger, new film documentary, 'Palestine Is Still The Issue', on the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation

Friday October 25, 2002 - Venezuelan military plots a new coup.. secret FTAA meetings in Ecuador.. Jeb Bush on the ropes in Florida?.. about tomorrow's anti-war protests in SF and DC.

Thursday October 24, 2002 - about the giant anti-war mobilizations this coming Saturday.. more from John Pilger, about his excellent new documentary, Palestine Is Still The Issue.

Wednesday October 23, 2002 - John Pilger, new film documentary, 'Palestine Is Still The Issue', on the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation

Tuesday October 22, 2002 - excerpts from 'The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm' documentary, about depleted uranium.. Ramsey Clark on US as renegade state.. Vieques update

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.

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 Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler, 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

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.

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