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Thursday, Nov 7, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: the world one step closer to war, new UN Resolution almost approved, interview with Dennis Halliday.. in depth look at Indonesia after the Bail bombing
-00:50 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: US getting its way at the UN.. Russia remains non-committal as France capitulates.. US agrees to milder terms.. but US considers itself not bound by the UN anyway.. US avoiding torture inspections in the US.. failing to provide funds or allow inspections.. Ramsey: about my many trips to Iraq.. I've seen cancer wards without medicine.. unprecented tumors caused by depleted uranium.. birthweights below 2.2 kilos.. a malnourished society.. Sanctions one of the greatest crimes against humanity.. you see the victims there, and you can't believe that we going to attack them again.
-05:35 Dennis: French diplomats say they are in agreement now with the US resolution.. now w Dennis Halliday, former assistant Secretary General, and head of the Oil for Peace Program.. Halliday: it does matter what the resolution says, it is too ambiguous.. the US will come out saying we have the trigger.. we'll see crimes committed against humanity.. against the children and people.. about the double standard in the Middle East.. Israel can invade Lebanon with great loss of life.. are we going to attack Israel and every other country in violation of Security Council resolutions?.. I hope not.. Dennis: US attacking Yemen right now.. Halliday: on the priniciple of 'might makes right'.. this is a very dangerous way to more forward.. we've seen Bush rejecting many international laws.. thumbing his nose at the world.. the attack on Iraq will be perceived as an attack on Iraq, on Arabs.. a phyrric victory.. the Arab world will be outraged.. Israel taking a short term view.. peace is what makes sense for Israel.. war is the least viable..
-10:30 music break
-11:44 Dennis: we turn our attention to Indonesia.. US saying Indonesia not doing enought to combat terrorism.. now w Sylvia T Wan, at UC Berkeley, and Kurt Biddle, coordinator of the Indonesian Human Rights Network.. Sylvia: military assistance to Indonesia was cut off because of human rights abuses.. in East Timor, Aceh.. atrocities.. after 9/11, the US saw Indonesia as a place that might provide safe haven for Al-Quada members.. Wolfowitz.. Dennis: now talking about shoring up the Indonesian military.. an act of the Indonesian military.. Kurt: at the huge copper mine, August 31, 2002.. initially blamed on the Free Papau movement.. but things didn't add up.. many people were skeptical.. a suspect the Indonesian military said they arrested after the attack, turned out to have been dead before the attack.. Wolfowitz a smart guy, but his answer to this is more US training.. the Indonesian military was US trained for years and years, led to the Dili massacre.. then in 1999 they wrecked havoc again.. Clinton cut off ties.. Dennis: if the Palestininans had killed two Americans, would Wolfowitz be saying that's a reason to have closer relations with the PLO?.. I doubt it.. Sylvia: the Indonesian military has a long history of using Islamic groups to further their own ends.. in 1965 the killing of Communists, done by young Islamic groups, sponsored by the military.. created militias.. in East Timor.. armed civilians trained by the army, used in East Timor to put down the democracy movement.. labeling democracy movement as secular.. enormous unrest in the name of religion.. killed over 2000 people.. polite to call them 'rogue elements'.. then these militias said we have to further the jihad to protect our brothers in the military.. Dennis: Pilger said the reason they hit that club, is because Australia is supporting the US.. Sylvia: I think that is a big leap, makes more sense to relate it to Aussies working in East Timor.. they frequenty those clubs on holidays.. Dennis: the US using the Bali bombing to get more involved in Indonesia.. C4 explosives used, hard to get.. Sylvia: C4 has been used in Indonesia in a string of bombings.. the military has been directly linked to those bombings.. C4 used by the military and mining companies, made by the Suharto family.. military held as suspects in some of the bombings.. allowed to escape.. many many deserters of the Special Forces.. in the Bali bombing, they could be implicated.. the police say they want to investigate the deserters.. about attacks on the police by the military.. shot at police headquarters, killed police.. the military resents the police.. for investigating human rights abuses.. Dennis: starting with 9/11, US corporate and military trying to seize bombing attacks to their own advantage.. .. Sylvia: some people believe that the US has a stake in.. the whole Islamic movement.. the arrest of the old cleric.. said to be involved in the bombing.. taken by force from the hospital.. a big showdown between the police and his supporters.. no evidence to charge him with.. Suharto the most atrocious.. behind the deaths of a million people.. granted clemency because he is old and sick.. people see this as unjust, as caving in to American demands.. Indonesian pushing through so-called anti-terrorism laws, destroying democratic ideals that took so long to enact.. shoring up the military as a political power.. Dennis: the US has had a very close relationship with the Indonesian military.. Does Green Beret training make the Indonesian military better?.. Kurt: No, they learn *techniques*.. the US brings over.. the IMETP program.. even the Heritage Foundation calls the Indonesian military the most destabilizing force.. Dennis: about Aceh.. natives getting ready to sign an agreement with Indonesia.. Sylvia: I would not call the Aceh.. the people have lost family, schools bombed.. by both.. all peace agreements now in jeopardy.. the military trying to blame the Aceh.. to crack down on ordinary folk working for peace.. one US citizen, a nurse, Joy Lee Sadler, jailed for 50 days.. HIV positive, no medication.. why doesn't Wolfowitz complain.. jailing for minor immigration rules.. Exxon Mobil in charge of huge natural gas fields in Aceh.. military runs a protection racket.. Dennis: like in Plan Colombia.. Kurt: a lawsuit against Exxon by villagers.. for using Indonesian military to commit human rights abuses.. the US State Dept saying if the suit allows to go throught.. Joy Sadler, with a 16 year old son, and Lesley McCulloch,.. stopped at a military checkpoint, hit repeatedly, fondled and kissed.. now in detention for 50 days.. face 5 years in prison.. normally visa violators are deported.. the Indonesian.. asking you to fax or write the Indonesian ambassador in DC.. easy action: go to www.IndonesiaNetwork.org.. hit the *urgent action* button.. the Aceh people suffering too.. Dennis: the US.. old style imperialist policies being backed up by 'war on terror' rational.. what will happen if this continues.. Sylvia: we are going down the wrong path.. the two women maybe the first of the hostages in this war on terror.. the whole issue of poverty not addressed in the wot thing.. Indonesia has lost so many jobs.. when you look at the.. the military able to create the nastiest militias now, the pay pretty good.. if you begin to use the religious.. don't forget the economic terrorists.. prioritize.. if the US would show that they are interested in real democracy, in economic democracy.. you would see a rapid end to all this violence.. Dennis: trying to show liberation movments as terrorists.. Kurt: that's a goal of the Indonesian military.. the military is like the mafia, they extract payments from like Exxon.. they assault company employees.. the military makes 70% from extortion, prostitution, tolls, blackmarket, etc.. more likely the military and the company.. complicit in attacks at Freeport.. Sylvia: terrorism has a lot to do with poverty.. one needs to fight poverty.. not fight people.. definitely don't pay the people most responsible for terror, ie the army.. no closed trials, tribunals.. don't help the army create more atrocities.. WEAPONS DO NOT CREATE SECURITY, WHAT CREATES SECURITY, A POPULATION THAT FEELS SECURE, ECONOMICALLY SECURE, NOT PLUNDERED BY FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.. Kurt: urgent go to the website and click the urgent action button.. we're trying to get a 1000 faxes to the ambassador by this Friday.. Megawati Visits Bush
-55:12 Marvelous Mary Bishop: wrapup
-55:48 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart

Wednesday November 6, 2002 - US war machine sets up a forward fighting base in Dijbuoti.. SEC chief Harvey Pitt resigns under a cloud, about the Corporate Roques Gallery operating in the Bush Administration.. Interviews with Charles Cobb Jr. and Tyson Slocum

Tuesday November 5, 2002 - 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

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