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Thursday, Nov 21, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: a dangerous renaissance of nuclear power around the world.. interview with a new Palestinian film maker, director of Crossing Calandia.. peace activist Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center..
-00:48 Robert Knight and the Knight Report..  Robert: man accused of the Bali bombing arrested on Java.. Bush officials claim to have captured a senior member of Al-Qaeda.. State Deparment warns travelers of reprisals.. in Kuwait City, a police officer shot two US soldiers, and fled to Saudi Arabia.. stick of dynamite hurled in Kanduhar.. heroin futures go through the roof this year under the US man in Afghanistan, Karsai; production soars from 185 tons to 2000 tons.. 19 NATO members backing US proposed rapid response force.. Democratic Party.. Nancy Pelosi.. Daschel says 'I made a decision, it wasn't one I felt good about'..
-06:28 Dennis: I bet you thought the nuclear power industry was on the ropes.. now w Karl Grossman  (link2) (link3) (link4).. author of The Wrong Stuff and Weapons in Space.. professor of journalism at State College of New York.. Karl: it should be on the ropes, it is still dangerous.. in California wind power is proving to be cost effective.. about the nuclear establishment.. about the *nuclear renaissance*.. a piece I wrote on the CorpWatch website.. General Electric.. Mitsubishi.. solar panels that can be attached to skyscrapers..  Rifkin just wrote Hydrogen Economy, a book about hydrogen, the fuel of the future.. biomass touted in a recent article in Christian Science Monitor.. NO NEED FOR NUCLEAR POWER EXCEPT TO ENRICH THOSE COMPANIES INVOLVED.. as part of Bush's new energy plan, to put new nuclear plants on existing sites.. and to extend the old plants' operating licenses 20 years, to 40 or 60 years.. that is happening as we speak..  Dennis: how dangerous is that?.. Karl: I wouldn't want to be running around in a 60 year old car.. about the likelihood of a Chernobyl type disaster in the country.. about the Indian Point plant in New York.. in case of a meltdown 100,000 people could die.. and if you put four or five plants on a site.. cascading events.. if one nuke goes and the others have to abandoned.. it's like bowling..
-18:45 music break
-19:45 Dennis: Sobhi al-Zobaidi is one of a new breed of Palestinian film maker.. Crossing Calandia.. about life in occupied Ramallah.. showing in Houston tonight at Rice Memorial Center Grand Hall..  now w Sobhi: What inspired me to make this film?.. My baby was born May 15 2001, Nakba Day.. transformed my life.. brought a new feeling of hope.. Dennis: given a new dimension.. Sobhi: looking more to the future instead of the past.. about the title, Crossing Calandia.. almost every Palestinian is confined to three kilometers.. our land is puncuated by checkpoints.. Calandia is a notorious checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.. it used to take 15 min, now takes 6 hours.. everybody affected.. a video journal about my life, my wife, my new baby, how we live our lives.. how does the occupation affect me.. literature about Palestine is huge, what is lacking is personal stories.. individual voices..  Dennis: this is when the Church of Nativity is under siege, Ramallah is fully occupied, troops slamming around.. you went to film school at New York Univ.. Sobhi: this has made me more humble.. the way 3 million live in siege, in ghettos, in prison.. not just me.. students could only go to school 20 days.. olive trees uprooted.. a shift in Israeli aggression.. this level of destruction, of dehumanization is something never seen before.. my sister lives nearby, I have not seen her for a year.. when the World Trade Center happened I felt devastated.. felt devastated by Jenin.. Dennis: what is your hope for this film?..  what is your hope for your child?.. Sobhi: I hope she lives in a place where she is respected.. I hope she does not have to live my life.. THE BATTLE IS NOT BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS, BUT BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACTIC VALUES AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN A SUPREMIST RACIST AGENDA.
-31:10 Dennis: now audio excerpts from the film, Crossing Calandia.. Amira Hass: Sharon has 'colonialist disease'.. here I can move around, I don't hide that I am a Jew, no danger, except for the helicopters and the planes.. Another woman: Israelis do not connect the savage suicide bombings in Israel with suicide bombings.. brainwashing.. enables soldiers to act the way they do.. A Man: Ramallah the queen of Palestinian towns.. we have good climate, social positivity.. Choir sings:
-37:20 music break The Price of Oil
-41:55 Dennis: one of the leaders in the current peace movment, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center.. Rabbi Waskow: Shalom, Peace be with You..  the Shalom Center a network of Jews all over the country.. how to seek peace, persue justice, heal the earth.. one of the big concerns the last two years.. study and action.. more info.. Dennis: this is a very difficult time in the world.. US readies to attack Iraq.. horrible situations in Israel and Palestine.. Rabbi Waskow: from 1993 to 1998 it looked as if peace, as if a two state solution were at hand.. but there have come real blockages the last two years.. energies among the Palestinians and the Sharon government that total victory is possible..  A MACABRE COOPERATION BETWEEN HAMAS AND SHARON.. VIOLENCE SO FRIGHTENS AND ENRAGES EACH SIDE.. A SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE.. but now the Labor Party puts forward a peace loving general.. the mayor of Haifa.. candidate for prime minister.. and in the Palestinian community, a growing determination for non-violent protest, to clean up their corrupt leadership.. about people working together to replant olive trees, build houses.. it is clear that we can work together.. Dennis: fear that Sharon would use the war on Iraq to purge Palestinians.. Rabbi Waskow: a dangerous possibility.. but Bush leaning, not much, but leaning on Sharon not to.. about the threat that Saddam if backed into a corner, would use his weapons against Israel.. Dennis: what do you suggest?.. Rabbi Waskow: a call to fast dawn to dusk a series of days.. Christians, Muslims, and Jews.. on Jan 15 (or Jan 20) Martin Luther King's birthday.. a massive effort to address the real suffering of the Iraqi people.. A COLLABORATION BETWEEN SADDAM AND US GOVERNMENT.. make sure the weapons of mass destruction are gotten rid of.. in the entire Middle East.. the great powers are supposed to be getting rid their weapons too..
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Mary Bishop: wrapup.. Robert Fisk speaks on War and Peace 7:30 tomorrow night, Friday Nov 22, 2002; at the First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, in Berkeley.. introduction by Dennis Bernstein.. benefit for the Middle East Childrens Alliance
-55:12 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Wednesday November 20, 2002 - Largest oil spill in history off the coast of Spain, Greenpeace says I told you so.. Colombian general's US visa yanked en route to Israel.. Interview with Alexander Cockburn of Counterpoint, about lefty Christopher Hitchens and his bomb Iraq policy..
Tuesday November 19, 2002 - new NATO 'Find and Strike' force to operate outside international law.. extended wire taps approved by a U.S appeals court.. Homeland Security Act rider protects drug manufacturers from being sued for defective vaccines..
Monday November 18, 2002 - 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..
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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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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light--not our darkness, that most frightens us.
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