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Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: CIA roadside air-sniper missile killings in Yemen, interviews with Phyllis Bennis, Francis Boyle, Marjorie Cohn.. and John Junkerman, director of Power and Terror, a new film about Noam Chomsky
-00:40 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: negotiations continue at the UN on Iraq resolution.. China chairs Security Council debate tonight, US wants Iraq declared in breech.. to open door to US attack, challenged by France, China, and Russia.. new election in Israel within ninety days.. Sharon appoints Netanyahu Foreign Minister.. crisis: Sharon's budget favors settlements over Israelis.. while 27% of Israeli kids live in poverty.. Ivory Coast update
-04:12 Dennis: CIA missile strike in Yemen.. an extraordinary action, may change the nature of international law as we know it.. now w Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies.. Phyllis: a major escalation.. like what Israel has been doing.. a drone pilotless aircraft fired a missile at a car, killing six occupants.. one of whom *may have been* an Al-Quada operative.. AN EXECUTION WITHOUT TRIAL.. BASED ON RUMSFELD'S NOTION THAT 'THE WORLD IS OUR BATTLEFIELD'.. NO LONGER ANY BORDERS, NATIONAL BOUNDARIES.. SAYING THE US CAN ATTACK AND KILL ANYONE, ANYWHERE, FOR ANY REASON.. in this case for an attack on a US military vessel, not a terrorist attack (no civilians were attacked or killed).. Yemen a poor country, not of international importance.. instead of providing Yemen with the kind of resources to police their own territory, the US sends a pilotless drone and assassinates *suspects*.. assassinations now called 'acts of war', the victims called *enemy combatants* who have no rights, and we (the US government) can kill anyone it wants to.. as many people as they want, anytime they want, for whatever reason they want.. a significant escalation.. is going to antagonize public sentiment in Yemen.. Dennis: a hellfire laser guided missile strike.. the *Israelization* of US foreign policy.. Phyllis: this has become a hallmark of the *IOF* (Israeli Occupation Forces).. RATHER THAN ARREST THEM, WE'LL JUST GO IN AND KILL THEM, AND IF INNOCENT CIVILIANS EVEN CHILDREN ARE KILLED, SO WHAT?.. THIS WILL JUST INCREASE THE SENSE OF DISEMPOWERMENT AND ANGER IN THE THIRD WORLD AND INCREASE SUPPORT FOR TERRORISTS.. this is new.. you didn't see this in Vietnam.. 9/11 was not an 'act of war', it was a 'crime against humanity'.. US abandoning even the pretext of international law.. Dennis: NPR says *alledged terrorists*.. Phyllis: right, this is the assassination of a *suspect*.. as word of this leaks out, as this footage plays on Arab TV.. the outrage in the Arab world is only going to grow.. they have been watching Israel do this to the Palestinians.. this attack is from a pilotless drone.. THIS IS GOING TO CREATE ENORMOUS ANTAGONISM.. ANYONE IN WASHINGTON WHO THINKS THAT THIS IS GOING TO HELP THE US WAR ON TERRORISM, IS CRAZY.. the Arab governments under increasing pressure, now murder on the road.. we have probably lost the advantage.. Dennis: Sharon said that after the US gets through with Iraq it should go after Iran.. Phyllis: Sharon may feel that with US expanding its war into Yemen, that Iran is inevitably next.. the degree of lawlessness emanating from DC.. saying any murder we do is ok because we are the good guys.. a very, very dangerous development
-20:50 music break
-22:15 Dennis: about more about the attack in Yemen, and the implications for international law.. now w Prof. Francis Boyle of Illinois University School of Law, author of The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Could the US War on Terrorism Go Nuclear? and attorney Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law and executive VP of the National Lawyers Guild.. Francis: the climate in the US.. now the government and the mainstream media prepared to tolerate assassinations by the CIA.. after the Church Committee.. assassinations prohibited.. Marjorie: it is brazen on behalf of the CIA, but I bet they were ok'ed by Bush.. in direct violation of the UN charter.. Dennis: NPR used the phrase 'alledged terrorist'.. like a suspect before a crime.. what does that mean?.. Francis: even the NY Times conceeded.. assuming these six people are actually suspects in the bombing of the Cole, but we don't know that.. an attack in another sovereign state.. what Amnesty International likes to call *extrajudicial executions*.. THE CIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN ASSASSINATING PEOPLE.. NOW THEY'RE OPEN, PUBLIC, AND BRAZEN.. THEY HAVE BECOME NOTHING MORE THAN A HIT SQUAD.. Dennis: how do we know who [else] was in the car, someone's mother, a hitchhiker, children?.. Marjorie: the car was completely destroyed, there is no way to tell who was in the car.. any relatives of the murdered could sue in civil court.. Dennis: about the future of international law.. Francis: legal nihilism promoted by the Bush administration.. *Bush's Banana Republic*.. THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, AND I'M AFRAID IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE.. IF BUSH INVADES IRAQ, AND 250,000 PEOPLE TAKE TO THE STREET IN THE US, BUSH COULD DECLARE MARTIAL LAW.. Ollie North drew up plans.. if peaceful protests were big enough.. Dennis: US might invoke plan 'Rex 84' (ratical.org).. Marjorie: the US Supreme Court will not stop Bush.. the US House was manipulated into approving an attack on Iraq.. all three branches of government.. Ashcroft.. holding people incommunicado.. like in a fascist country.. the Iraqi no fly zones not sanctioned by the UN.. 200,000 PEOPLE HAVE PROTESTED IN DC, AND 100,000 IN SF.. IF WE ATTACK IRAQ I THINK THOSE NUMBERS ARE GOING TO GROW.. THAT'S OUR ONLY CHANCE TO STOP THIS MOVE TOWARD WAR, AND UNPARRELLED FASCISM AT HOME IS PEOPLE IN THE STREET.. Dennis: what is to stop any other country from saying Sharon is responsible for the Sabra and Chatila massacres and just go and assassinate him?.. Francis: that's right, this opens the door for things like that.. like Russia threatening to invade Georgia.. India attacking Pakistan.. THE US WAS THE PRIME FORCE BEHIND THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND OTHER CIVILIZED TREATIES.. NOW THE US SAYING THE SUPREME LAW IS THE RULE OF THE STRONG.. that's what we'll see with local powers, like Britain, Russia, India.. Dennis: we are in an extended lawless state, war all the time, against whoever we want to make war against.. Marjorie: under the rule of self defence.. Yemen has not attacked the US.. no evidence that any of those people riding in that car attacked the US.. unabashed, and sends the message to Russia and India and the rest of the world it is ok to attack your neighbors.. Francis: YOU WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE NUREMBERG TRIALS TO SEE THE SAME ARGUMENTS MADE (AS THE NAZIS DID).. Congressman McDermott called for a million people to take to the streets.. we are poised here on this threatened war against Iraq.. establishing a world wide empire and repression here at home..
-39:40 music break
-41:44 Dennis: Power and Terror (hollywood.com review), a new film about Noam Chomsky, by John Junkerman.. produced by Tetsujiro Yamagami.. John: I live in Tokyo, at 9/11 I felt helpless.. then Chomsky's book 9/11 came out, a shaft of light.. we felt that Chomsky's perspective was important.. the film produced in Japan.. the NY Times did not review the book.. but paid it a left-handed compliment.. Chomsky called the most important intellectual alive.. Dennis: he is hardly ever heard on US media.. but popular in Europe and Canada.. John: he is neither complex or off the wall.. straight moral statements, difficult to argue with.. this film.. makes his ideas clear.. has a great deal of charm, but not a firey speaker.. called boring by many.. a very busy man.. took four months for an interview.. last March he gave a number of talks in the Bay Area.. comprise the core of our film.. Screenings: Wednesday Nov 6 7:30PM Sprangenberg Theatre, 780 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, Tickets: $10, proceeds to benefit Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.. more info 650-326-8837.. AND Friday Nov 8, 7:30PM, First Congregational Church, 2345 Chaning Way, Berkeley, info: Middle East Childrens Alliance or call 510-548-0542.. and a run at the Castro Theater in SF starting Jan 28.. John: the most surprising thing in making the film, Chomsky is an incredibly straight forward man.. his is focused and 'there', incredibly generous with his time.. he believes ordinary people change the world.. not him.. they're who he works for.. he's a voice of conscience.. CHOMSKY'S MOST CENTRAL CONTRIBUTION, IS TO KEEP US AWARE OF MORALITY.. HE SAYS THE WAY TO STOP TERRORISM, IS TO STOP PARTICIPATING IN IT.. GOES BACK TO THE GOLDEN RULE, TO FUNDAMENTAL MORAL PRINCIPLES.. unless American foreign policy is based on moral priciples.. people are really inspired by the film.. an optomistic perspective.. in Japan a young journalist asked me, about strong Anti-Americanism feeling growing in Japan, wouldn't this film help stop that?.. very encouraging to foreigners that America has a man like Chomsky.. he calls himself an anarchist, in that he believes decision-making ought to be democratized to the full extent possible.. he is controversial, puts things in stark terms.. it's unpardonable that his perspective.. is not part of the American dialogue.. Dennis: telling the truth has become a radical act.. thanks for making this film
-54:00 Marvelous Mary Bishop: wrapup
-54:43 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart

Monday November 4, 2002 - John MacArthur publisher of Harpers Magazine: how 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

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