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-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Iran-Contra criminal John Poindexter, hired by the Pentagon to play big brother.. Mexico's new role as US southern security guard.. Kathy Kelly's Baghdad Journal.. Updates from Gaza and the West Bank
-00:50 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Hans Blix and 2 dozen other experts arrive in Baghdad.. says 'we are seeking to ease the tensions'.. US warplanes bomb northern Iraq, attacking civilian targets.. Iraq says US is escalating attacks.. in US another setback for civil liberties.. North Korea says it is has to have nuclear and other strong weapons to deal with threats from US.. US cuts off winter supplies.. Argentina economy in the toilet.. widespread malnutrition and poverty.. International Monetary Fund wants more social service cutbacks.. in Caracus, protestors clash with police; Chavez warns if the coup plotters are planning another coup, they will be defeated again.. US appeals court lifts restrictions on sharing of information between police and military.. your *Patriot Act* at work.
-05:57 Dennis: the Pentagon busy creating the so-called Information Awareness Office.. John Poindexter appointed to head the new Big Brother agency.. will have unfettered access to.. now w Lawrence Donegan with the London Observer.. Mihir Kshirsagar, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.. Lawrence: a massive database of information to be held in a central place..
From William Safire in the NY Times: "Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you — passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance — and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen."
This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks."
Mihir: they talk about this information in context of the recent sniper cases.. about the video surveillance aspect.. Lawrence: I thought the US had a First Amendment.. the fear of doing something, perfectly legal, but doing something of which Mr. Poindexter doesn't approve.. Dennis: Poindexter is perfect for knowing how terrorists work, he acted as a terrorist.. Lawrence: William Safire called Poindexter a.. Poindexter the type of person should not be in charge of running a whelk(?) store, as we say in Britain.. Mihir: is this an effective idea?.. there is an active movement in Congress to kill this program.. there's a problem, this system reverses the assumption of innocence.. continual surveillence always leads to repression.. no evidence that this kind of system is effective.. Lawrence: this is not playing very well in Britain either.. a letter in today's NY Times.. (quotes).. Mihir: people should contact their Senators and Congresspeople and ask them to kill this program.. more info and action alerts at www.epic.org
-16:48 music break
-18:10 Dennis: Mexico playing a new role in helping the US war on terrorism.. now w  John Ross, poet, journalist, and author of The War Against Oblivion, Zapatista Chronicles, review, order from Cody's Online.. John: Mexican president, Vicente Fox, the first foreign visitor to Bush's White House.. now after 9/11 Mexico has fallen off the map.. no relaxation in immigration as planned, so Mexico joined up in the war on terror.. US installed gamma ray machines to scan all incoming traffic.. the northern border just about locked down.. inside Mexico, the US FBI operating openly in Mexico.. that has never happened before.. the Mexican military participating in war games with US off the coast of Colombia.. participating in US military's *North Command* for the first time.. Mexico transformed into US's security perimeter.. Mexico's historical policy of nonintervention.. now joining the war on Iraq.. Mexico voted yes in the Security Council for Bush's UN resolution on Iraq.. voted for US immunity in the International Criminal Court.. on Dec 8, Iraq has to list its weapons.. the pressure on Mexico will be intense to vote for US desires.. the US has no friends, only interests.. the specter of Rudolph Guliani, the advisor the Mexico City Police Force zero tolerance program they are trying to implement.. Mexico giving up a lot, getting nothing in return.. Dennis: if Mexico resisted, how would the US put the screws to them?.. John: a lot of ways (details)..
Event: John Ross, Nov 20 noon at Hayward State College Library talking about the Mexican revolution.. Thursday at 7PM New College in SF.. talking about the first letter from Subcommande Marcos in a year..
-28:26 Dennis: now w Kathy Kelly's Baghdad Journal.. Kathy: I met three new members of the Iraq Peace Team sponsored by Voices in the Wilderness.. to prevent an attack.. about the terrific disparity between US war machine.. CNN showing renditions of Baghdad.. to be used by soldiers invading.. would give an accurate picture.. confidence and assurance on behalf of the US Defence Department.. compared to the terror and uncertainty felt by real people here.. about the fly overs the US military is taking.. seeking targets.. no such luxury for people here.. digging cisterns to collect rainwater.. may store up benzine and kerosine, but dangerous to have such stored in a home.. in Baghdad now experiencing rises in cancers, like in Basra in the 90's.. the man said my two aunts have cancers.. family doesn't want to talk about it.. people under a lot of stress and strain.. don't want to hear news reports.. where you stand determines what you see.. take a stand to see things from the perspective of people here.. Dennis: the inspectors are in Baghdad.. any hope?.. Kathy: yes, hope to buy more time, at least sixty days.. to give time for the anti-war movement.. Bush saying he'll attack Iraq regardless of result of weapons inspections.. one educated woman here said why take away our small hope?.. we're distributing Joy Gordon's recent article in Harpers.. gives some hope.. we don't want to give false hope though.. about Butterflies Over Baghdad.. Italians wanted to fly in the no-fly zones.. I liked the idea, but it didn't fly.. bold and creative ideas are certainly what's needed.. please consider coming here and joining us.. and begin to build a peace team..
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Followup Nov 15 by Huwaida Arraf re: actions planned Flashpoints Nov 13
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ISRAELI FORCES CARRY OUT VICIOUS ARRESTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND ISRAELI PEACE ACTIVISTS! Peaceful protests attacked - [JAYYOUS, QALQILIA] Nov 14, the Israeli military arrested nine international and one Israeli peace activist after gassing and shooting rounds of live ammunition into a crowd of approximately 200 Palestinian men, women, and children who, accompanied by 30 International volunteers, staged a peaceful protest and sit-in at the site of Israeli destruction of Palestinian agricultural land. Huwaida's indymedia post | her report | her photos
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-40:10 Dennis: now with International Solidarity Movement members, Kristin Shurr in Gaza and Huwaida Arraf on the West Bank.. Kristin: it's been happening several nights, but last night the worst so far.. 35 tanks came in from a settlement.. started indiscriminately shelling.. missiles fired from Apache homicide helicopters.. 1.25 million Palestinians living in a small area, the most crowded on earth.. everytime you shoot from the sky you're going to kill a lot of people.. about the *security fence* being built.. military shelling houses, killing people, bulldozing houses.. day and night.. making hundreds homeless.. about a woman the fourth time displaced from her home.. originally from Tel Aviv area.. 80 years old, a lovely woman.. Israel came after her house, no warning.. she tried to run away, injured.. now living in a tent beside the road.. another woman, they knocked over half her house, she tried to live in it, the house filled with raw sewage, she had no where to go, stayed there.. today they knocked another hole.. they soldiers come not on foot, but in bulldozers and heavily armed vehicles.. many children milling around, nothing to do, covered with flies.. stench of raw sewage everywhere.. under international law all Israeli settlements are illegal.. now to Huwaida: on Friday we gathered on the land..  soldiers attacked at the people, tear gas, shooting at people running away.. arrested ten internationals.. some deported already.. the internationals did nothing but speak out.. we managed to stop the bulldozer work for a day.. now the Israelis come in more heavily, firing tear gas, bulldozing trees.. show the world this is not a security wall, not built on the green line, but comes in 6 kilometers, capturing the prime Palestinian farmland.. they are encircling whole communities with the wall, or an electric fence.. people will have to take long detours, go through humiliating lenghtly checkpoints.. walling in communities, and taking their land and water.. like putting people in a cage, and the occupier who have been attacking them, deciding when they can get in or out.. the media never pays any attention to Gaza.. but here a little media.. we are trying to stop Israel and calling on the world to join us.. Dennis: Israel says how about the attack in Hebron.. Huwaida: the attack was not on worshippers, but on soldiers and security guards.. I don't want to see any bloodshed.. Israel needs to get their soldiers and military settlements out of Palestinian territory.. you can't expect to abuse people in such horrific fashion without resistance.. Kristin: call to any international that will come, please come, and house sit, it helps.. most people feel like this is the end for them.. they feel they have no choice but to resist the occupation until they die.. Palestinians treated as sub-human and not listened to by the press, but sometimes they listen to me.
-55:00 Mary Bishop: wrapup.. Event: a teach-in and rally at lower Sproul Plaza UCB to protest Ehrud Barak's upcoming speech at UCB.. starting 5PM tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002.. more info: UCBStopTheWar@hotmail.com
-55:58 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Friday November 15, 2002 - interview with two American activists in Baghdad.. US military now requiring US high schools to provide students' personal contact information.. interview with the Irish author of Eyewitness Bloody Sunday, about the massacre by British paratroopers, Jan 20, 1972
Thursday November 14, 2002 - Linda Evans, a former woman political prisoner and two Puerto Rican women activists talk about Vieques.. about this weekend's National Conference on Civil Rights at UC Berkeley.. the truth about military use of depleted uranium
Wednesday November 13, 2002 - It's about more than oil, the US and Britain want to redraw the entire map of the Middle East.. Israel continues to steal Palestinian Arab land.. Rainforest Action Network targets CitiGroup.
Tuesday November 12, 2002 - A troubling human rights report says 4 million people could die in a new Iraqi war; are weapons inspections an alternative to war or a prelude to war?.. 2,500 California prisoners in solitary confinement, some go on hunger strike to protest the 'lousiest' lockups in America.
Monday November 11, 2002 - Flashpoints Veterans Day Special: veterans' stories of past wars and how to resist the next one.. devoted today to those who risked their lives.. phone in show with Dennis Bernstein and Barbara Lubin..
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Friday November 8, 2002 - interview with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness in Baghdad.. Diana Buttu, PLO legal advisor.. US groups rally on Monday to demand weapons inspections at Lawrence Livermore Labs in Berkeley.
Thursday November 7, 2002 - 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, interviews with Kurt Biddle and Sylvia T. Wan
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
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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
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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.
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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 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
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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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