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Monday, Nov 4, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: John MacArthur publisher of Harpers Mag: how US House incumbent from San Mateo, Democrat Tom Lantos leads the propaganda machine against Iraq.. hear from Lantos's opponent, Maad Abu-Ghazalah.. Greg Palast on tomorrow's rigged election in Florida
-00:50 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Palestinian suicide bombing outside Tel Aviv kills 2 and wounds 12, assassination of 8 Palestinians including a mentally disabled 18 year old, Sharon survives no-confidence vote, appoints more hawks, Netanyahu rising from the ashes.. Amnesty International says war crimes were committed by Israel: torture, wanton destruction of homes, using civilians as human shields, disproportionate use of force, blocking medical care, bulldozing houses with residents inside.. Perez says Amnesty tries to create a better world.. Jenin commander appointed defence minister.. Israeli budget favors settlers over Israelis
-05:42 Dennis: Bush continues to lie about Iraq.. now w John (Rick) MacArthur, publisher of Harpers Magazine and author of Second Front, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War.. Rick: while the first Gulf War was being debated, and on behalf of the PR firm, Hill and Knowlton, Tom Lantos brought a young woman to a House hearing.. Rick: the famous baby incubator atrocity that never happened.. she testified tearfully that she had witnessed 15 babies pulled off incubators in Kuwaiti City and killed.. it never happened.. she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassabor.. now in Cincinnati, Bush said Saddam's opponents have been decapitated in Iraq, children tortured in front of their parents.. not corroborated by any known source.. by the time you straighten out the half-truths.. like the Iraqi diplomati who alledgedly met with Mohammed Atta.. not true, but ask most Americans, they've heard it and believe it.. about the false statement by Bush and Blair, that Saddam is six months away from having nuclear weapons.. Bush and Blair taking little pieces of stories from the early 90's and cobbling them together to make a new lie.. a pattern of deception.. not yet a baby incubator atrocity story, but.. Dennis: about those baby incubators.. how could a congressional hearing be hijacked like that?.. Rick: the media is lazy, the basic rules aren't followed.. she was supposedly a 15 year old girl, whose real name couldn't be told to protect her family in Iraq.. Tom Lantos is emboldened by our lazy media.. stenographers for the Pentagon.. Lantos organized this, after Hill and Knowlton came to him with this, he knew the true identity of the girl.. with help from John Porter, his Republican collegue.. the Human Rights Caucus office was housed in Hill and Knowlton.. Hill and Knowlton even answered their phones for them.. Hill and Knowlton were also representing human rights abusers, Turkey and Indonesia.. a horrible con game that Lantos was running.. all about money.. Dennis: I thought it was a crime to lie to Congress?.. Rick: because it wasn't before a formal committee, it was a caucus.. did the same thing at the UN Security Council.. BROUGHT FORWARD ACTORS POSING AS PEOPLE.. NOW, WHILE THE FACTS ARE DIFFERENT, THE STYLE IS THE SAME.. OLD BUSH KEPT HILL AND KNOWLTON AT ARMS LENGTH, BUT NOW PR FIRMS MOVED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.. Carl Rove the account manager.. arrogantly.. already they have gotten away with the nuclear threat canard, the meeting with Atta.. they are winning the game.. more info: the Providence Journal
-20:15 Dennis: now w Tom Lantos's opponent this election, Maad Abu-Ghazalah (pronounced Maúd), a Libertarian party candidate (link2).. Lantos wants to go to war, what's your response?.. Maad: Lantos was on C-Span night and day.. compared Saddam to Hitler.. says going to war with Iraq will save millions of lives.. but the analogy is backwards, Iraq is not talking about invading anyone, the US is.. we are not in danger of invasion from Iraq.. Lantos just wants war.. [said we'll replace Saddam with a friendly dictator].. My stand is that war should be the last result.. Dennis: he doesn't talk about Palestine.. you are a Palestinian American running for Congress.. Maad: I want to be as objective as possible.. at a debate.. Lantos blamed the Palestinians.. I said we should never be looking at the problem, but what is a just solution.. then try to implement it.. what is the just solution.. Dennis: what are the dangers of Lantos's pro-war stance.. Maad: I don't see the upside of his policy for Israel.. while Israel was commtting war crimes, Lantos was quoted as saying 'let Israel finish the job'.. THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION.. ISRAEL HAS ALIENATED VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE WORLD.. NOW TALKING ABOUT ETHNIC CLEANSING.. THERE MAY STILL BE TIME TO INTEGRATE.. Dennis: the money needed to run for Congress makes it almost impossible for challengers to succeed.. Maad: when I started getting attention.. the SF Chronicle has blocked out the whole race.. our debate was front page news in three San Mateo newspapers.. Dennis: a global war of terror against the poor people of the world.. at home civil liberties undermined.. Lantos supports this.. Maad: this is where I started my campaign.. the Patriot Act attacks the very basis of our country.. the way this is sold, Muslims, Arabs demonized.. everybody lets it slide.. everyone has to be diligent.. about why I chose to run.. if you don't stand up for your rights you're gonna lose them.. a woman at the fair, asked me where I was born, (Palestine), told me go back to Palestine.. one amazing point, the debate was phenomenal, we thrashed the guy.. it was obvious who won the debate, whether it was me or Maloney, it sure wasn't Lantos.. on Tuesday, the machine will kick in, but for that one moment we had a hundred people cheering wildly..
-37:30 Dennis: Jeb Bush in trouble tomorrow, what would happen if the 100,000 disenfranchised black votes could vote tomorrow.. now w British investigative reporter, Greg Palast: Greg: the bad news is.. before the 2000 election Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush knocked off 91,000 black voters.. Harris agreed to put them back on, but not until after tomorrows election.. my mouth is open at my own story!.. finally the NY Times and LA Times ran the story, and they don't do the simplest followup.. those voters still not allowed to vote, and it's racial.. the Florida voter files, look like South Africa voter files.. the Civil Rights Commission just issued a report that this is happening all over America.. 2% to 10% of all votes across America are not counted.. mostly in black precincts.. the vote theft is getting more sophisticated.. using computers.. Democrats and Republicans becoming expert at technical fraud.. Dennis: I did investigations of church burnings.. local officials used church burnings as excuses to.. Greg: really sad, the NAACP, People For The American Way, and other orgs, sent Ashcroft a note about Florida, yet Ashcroft sending FBI monitors to polling places to scare voters away.. the new form of racism is accelerating.. Dennis: check out Salon.com.. not just Jeb running, but Katherine Harris.. she has a new book out on ethics.. Greg: Harris has called me twisted and maniacal, didn't say I was wrong.. problem is we have people counting the vote, running for office.. MLK III livid and sick about the so-called MLK Voting Act.. GW Bush just signed an act, that Florida-izes the entire USA.. the Demos and Republicans agree to shut out third parties from voting.. Dennis: Gore was silent, Jesse Jackson didn't make it until too late.. Greg: Bill McBride was asked about this.. but the Democrats don't want to be seen as 'the black party' or protecting felons.. People For The American Way saying, 'VOTE ANYWAY, DEMAND PROVISIONAL BALLOTS, VOTE, THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY WON'T STAY STRONG UNLESS YOU FIGHT FOR IT'..
-52:35 Dennis: about Norm Coleman, Paul Wellstone's (now Mondale's) Republican opponent.. he was the Norm Coleman I worked with on the strike committee at Hofstra University.. hair down to his waist, does he still hate Richard Nixon?.. graduated with honors from University of Iowa Law School.. does he know that GW was not legally elected?.. he used to be a radical.. if he wins.. Dennis: hey Norm, great to be with you in the old days, hope you have a pittance of that old memory left.
-55:57 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart

Friday November 1, 2002 - about the US's deadly discrimination against Haitian immigrants.. interview w Leonard Peltier's daughter, Marquita.. Jewish settler violence at an all time high as Palestinian farmers try to harvest their olives

Thursday October 31, 2002 - FTAA protests start today in Ecuador.. Death row in Illinois.. Arab Film Festival starts in Berkeley, SF, and San Jose

Wednesday October 30, 2002 - Jewish settlers kidnap and torture Odnan Ahmed, a Palestinian olive picker.. interview w Tariq Ali on the US 'War On Terror' in the Middle East and Latin America.. National workers strike in Colombia

Tuesday October 29, 2002 - death toll from the storming of the Russian theater continues to rise, about the gas agent used.. implications for bio/chem warfare treaties.. arrests, violence increase against Palestinian civilians..

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