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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. (source: Molly Ivins)
I Was Shot While Escorting Jenin's School Children, weekend news by ISM member, Caoimhe Butterly
Friday, Nov 22, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein:  introduction: award winning London Independent journalist, Robert Fisk, in studio.. live report from Kevin Pina in Haiti, about the protests today in support of president Aristide.
-00:48 Dennis: London Independent reporter Robert Fisk..  his reports from Lebanon, Afghanistan, Middle East are crucial.. about his book, Pity The Nation... Dennis: a high level UN worker was killed in Jenin.. Fisk: when I hear the word *crossfire* I grab for my pen..  Mohammed Aldura was said to be killed in a *crossfire*.. over and over again, *crossfire* is synonymous for 'the Israelis shot someone but are not responsible'.. Palestinians are never said to have shot someone in a *crossfire*.. the occupied territories now called *disputed* territories.. Dennis: US press not even waiting for the Israeli investigation, they're saying *crossfire* for sure.. Fisk: Israeli investigations usually don't happen.. Dennis: an Iraqi Kurd arrested with 22 pounds of explosives in Afghanistan.. Fisk: ever since a press conference last.. US fighting Al-Qauda 'remnants'.. 'remnants' everywhere.. Karsai under fire by 'remnants'.. when the Russians came into Afghanistan in 1980, a Russian general said they were fighting 'remnants' of the muhjahadeen.. Dennis: about the word 'alledged', used in the US fly-by missile attack in Yemen.. Fisk: the intelligence services lie to us.. why is it when they release Afghans from Guantanamo, one of them turns out to be 100 years old, so senile he can not make a complete sentence (link2), but held for 11 months, what is going on there?.. secret this.. secret that.. unknown this.. unknown that.. we are expected to replace critical reasoning with blind faith in political pronouncements.. the most powerful force in journalism could be American media, but they are neutered.. Dennis: about the missile assassination in Yemen.. killed 6 'alledged terrorists'.. Fisk: the Israelis have been doing the same thing for years.. a whole new set of rules.. disengagement and immorality.. walked past lawmakers and journalists with no challenge whatsoever..  Amira Hass (link2) and I were talking.. she said: 'JOURNALISM IS ABOUT MONITORING THE CENTERS OF POWER'.. but now Western media has become 'functionaries' of government.. American journalists love to be close to power.. Dennis: Aljazeera TV released an audio tape purported to have been made by bin Laden.. Fisk: it was his voice.. I made a couple calls, confirmed 100% it was him.. he recorded into a tape recorder.. then the tape taken by someone else to a telephone.. played to another tape recorder.. bin Laden never touched a telephone or a tape recorder.. the significance of what he said: he always talks to Arabs.. chilling.. Britain at the top of the new hit list.. he knows that there is a huge crisis going on about Iraq.. Arab world in white hot turmoil.. he didn't mention Saddam, he has no sympathy for Saddam.. now suddenly the Bush administration confronted with bin Laden again.. Condi Rice's contorted speech, trying to hold the war together.. I won't say what I fear for Britain.. Fisk: Saddam and bin Laden would like to kill each other.. of all the Arab regimes he would like to overthrow, Saddam's regime is one of the first he would like to strike down.. AFTER SADDAM INVADED KUWAIT, BIN LADEN WENT TO THE SAUDIS AND SAID 'LET ME LIBERATE KUWAIT', BUT THE SAUDI'S SAID 'NO, WE'LL STICK WITH THE US'.. INFURIATED BIN LADEN.. Dennis: speculation about the true US motives in the Middle East.. Fisk: Tony Blair issued a 50 page dossier on Iraqi *weapons of mass destruction*.. only 16 pages talk about that, and each paragraph is laced with 'if's, 'maybe's, 'possibly's.. I don't think it is about weapons of mass destruction.. but is it about using gas?.. in 1983 Saddam used gas on Iran, afterwards Reagan sent Donald Rumsfeld to shake Saddam's hand.. if this is about human rights abuses, then why didn't the US say anything then?.. that leaves black gold, untapped giant reserves of oil.. about Israel.. Iraq is an unique Arab state.. the only one with oil and water.. Dennis: you live now in Lebanon.. a killing there of a missionary yesterday.. Fisk: a growing pattern of attacking Westerners.. anybody who wants to preach in Sidon, a strict Muslim city.. as a prostelizing Christian, a dangerous task.. in the prevailing sentiment, hightened feelings of resentment towards the West..  Dennis: your book, Pity The Nation, it's about the suffering of Lebanon and the attack on Sabra and Chatila (link2).. Fisk: Israelis agreed they would not enter East Beruit.. upon the murder of the president the Israelis broke those rules and sent their proxies into the camps, the so-called 'Christian' Phalangists.. they killed hundreds of civilians in the camps, I witnessed 600 myself.. to their great credit, the Israelis carried out an investigation, after hundreds of thousands protested in Israel.. also 1,100 male survivors of the camps were taken by the Phalangists to a sports stadium were they were interrogated by Israeli Shin Bet and Mossad.. many women pleaded with Israeli officers.. we have film of that.. indentified the women.. the women never saw their men again.. none of the 1,100 men ever seen again.. the Israelis handed the men back to the Phalangists.. shot into a mass grave.. we have identified one responsible Israeli officer.. Dennis: Sharon called the 'butcher of Sabra and Chatila'.. Fisk: the Kahane inquiry said he was responsible.. on the night before the massacre started.. Sharon made a statement, said the Palestinians had killed the president, which was not actually true..  inflamed the Phalangists.. Dennis: how did you become a journalist?.. Fisk: the truth.. when I was 12 years old I watched Alfred Hitchcock's film, Foreign Correspondent.. and I said this is the job for me, and never looked back.. and that my father was a second lieutenant in the WWI.. and that the borders of Ireland, and the Middle East were created by my fathers generation after that war, and have been burning ever since..
-31:47 music break
-33:00 Dennis: large demonstrations today in Port-Au-Prince in support of Aristide.. now w independent filmmaker, special Flashpoints correspondent, Kevin Pina, in Port-au-Prince.. Kevin: by 6AM the entire capitol was paralyzed.. people I spoke to, very angry at American foreign policy.. mad that former military officers.. want Aristide to be allowed to fulfill his term.. lot of people mentioning Venezuela today.. drawing parallels.. Dennis: the US spent many decades destabilizing democracy in Haiti.. Kevin: a few weeks ago, a vicious lie that the government was going to nationalize.. prices risen 40% in the last three weeks alone.. people are suffering.. you cannot believe.. two days ago, a town where the 'Convergence' has a lot of influence.. men entered four different high and schools and said the government was raising examination fees.. led the students in a march, to the police station and fired on the police, drawing fire back that injured 10 students.. now w Elena Sixto of the 10th Department.. Elena: they keep using lies, lies, lies.. a popular elected president.. last month they try everything to overthrow the government.. Aristide try everything he can to work peacefully with everyone.. opposition taking money to cause headaches for Haiti.. Lavalas supporters are tired of.. there is free speech in Haiti today, you can say anything about the government.. not like 20 years ago.. now they talking about Miami.. people looking for jobs.. economic refugees.. no political problem in Haiti.. the economic problems due to the embargo.. we are all children of God.. a superpower doing that to us, that is really unfair.. about the plight of refugees.. we are good loving people.. why the INS discriminate against us, because of racism?.. because we are poor?.. LET HAITI LIVE!..
Kevin: the disinformation campaign last month made things so much worse.. could be widespread hunger, people could start starving.. about the US history of overthrowing, destabilizing democratic movements in Latin America.. US foreign policy has always had good relationships with the elites in these countries.. democratic movments bypass those elites.. Dennis: why is the US government so frightened of Aristide?.. Elena: when a popular president tries to educate the poor.. improve their lot peacefully.. if Aristide was a dictator the money would flow.. Duvalier got money from US to oppress people.. Aristide a peaceful person.. Kevin: a new militancy in Lavalas?.. its always been there.. they have done everything they could to play by the rules of the OAS and the US.. everytime the US makes a rule, Lavalas does everything they can to accomodate it.. but it does not seem to matter, seems that the only thing the US wants is Aristide out.. today we saw the patience of Lavalas ending.. people say even if it means starving..
-54:04 Robert Fisk speaks on War and Peace 7:30 tonight, 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
-55:00 Dennis Bernstein: wrapup
-55:40 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Thursday November 21, 2002 - 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..
Wednesday November 20, 2002 - Largest oil spill in history off the coast of Spain, Greenpeace says we tried to warn them.. drug-running 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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The following inspirational piece by new paradigm author, Marianne Williamson, excerpted from her book, "A Return to Love" and quoted by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural address: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light--not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves--who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous ?
Actually, who are you--not to be ?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small-- doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
We are liberated from our own fear; our presence automatically liberates others.
"The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots" ...Walt Whitman
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
'The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account.' Walter Lippmann
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