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 American Pastor Arrested and Beaten in Israeli Prison: US Embassy refuses to contact him, read full report.. this is a followup to the large peaceful West Bank protest Thursday Nov 19, 2002, reported on by Huwaida Affaf on Flashpoints Wednesday Nov 13 and (with photos) Monday Nov 18
Monday, Nov 25, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Israeli soldiers assassinate a UN worker, and harrass others.. why the media attack on the Saudis now?.. E.U. accuses R.J. Reynolds of money laundering
-00:57 Robert Knight and the Knight Report..  Robert: Bush says weapons  inspections won't matter.. Blix oversees the arrival of 18 weapons inspectors and 20 tons of computers in Baghdad.. Pentagon's Richard Perle says even a clean bill of health won't protect Iraq from US attack.. South Korean protestors throw gasoline bombs in response to not-guilty verdicts in a US military court, in the murder of two Korean children.. US currency banned in North Korea.. in occupied Palestine, 15 Palestinians wounded and one killed.. scores arrested in Bethlehem, other towns attacked.. in Austria, right wing loses big in election.. Bush signs bill to protect Americans from the Bill of Rights.. Tom Ridge to head Homeland Security..
-06:25 Dennis: the UN says Israel had no reason to kill Hook.. now w Justin Huggler of the London Independent.. Justin: the Israeli army moved into a building in Jenin where they believed a militant was hiding.. near to another building where Iain Hook was working  in Jenin to rebuild the over 100 houses leveled by bulldozers in April.. Hook wanted to evacuate his staff, called the Israelis, called the head office of UNRWA in Jerusalem.. without success.. he walked into the open and was shot.. the first reports says he was 'caught in a crossfire'.. now Israel says he was targeted by an Israeli soldier.. the UN denies that militants were firing from Hook's compound, says Israeli claims are 'not credible'.. Dennis: he called the Israelis several times?.. Justin: the compound was clearly marked,  everyone knew what was going on there.. the Israelis claim young men were firing out at them, UN firmly denies.. Israel claims that the cell phone Hook was holding looked like a grenade.. the head of UNRWA shot at in Gaza.. Dennis: Allegra Pacheco works with UNRWA.. received an early morning visit last weekend.. Israel took her Palestinian husband away.. Justin: UNRWA has been under attack from pro-Israeli lobby groups.. a lot of criticism in the states.. the UK demanded a full investigation from Israel.. a great deal of anger from the UN.. outrage.. unhappy with the version of events put out by Israel.. the West Bank has become a difficult place in which to work.. an 8 year old boy shot dead (link2) today in Nablus.. a lot of civilians being killed..
-16:42 Dennis: the Israelis assassinated Hook.. and went after several other UN workers last weekend..  Allegra Pacheco taken at gunpoint with her husband.. now w Georgina Reeves (sp?) who was in Allegra's apartment.. Reeves: we went to bed late.. knew another invasion of Bethlehem was in the works.. our apartment building was surrounded.. loudspeakers demanding we all come out or be shot.. I am British citizen.. Allegra is a UN official.. they made her husband strip in front of everyone.. they leaned on Allegra's UN car as a prop.. made them to sit outside two hours in the freezing cold.. took the men to the side and started questioning them.. they searched the building.. illegal to search UN residences.. Allegra went in and found her phone was missing.. demanded it back.. a soldier produced it from his pocket.. they took her husband, disregarding everything we were saying to them.. then they drove off with him.. Dennis: trying to say, 'Get out of this country'?.. Reeves: they have no respect for anyone or any regulations.. Dennis: leaning on the UN car like a slap in the face.. Reeves: they said they were looking for a certain person, he wasn't in the building, so they just took a relative.. 50 people held in Bethelem in similar situation.. it is against international law to arrest someone because he is a relative and basically hold him as a hostage.. tanks driving along the main road, every 50 years or so, would stop and fire a tank shell at random.. people are sitting in their homes terrified.. the house next door, and a young man taken out, and the family can not understand why.. everyone is terrified.. Allegra's husband is being held nearby.. Israelis told Allegra he was questioned on Saturday.. she decided to risk her life, drove to the checkpoint.. with her UN jacket and blue helmet.. walked through with her hands in the air.. made it to the prison.. talked to her husband.. he said he has *not* been questioned.. one person will say one thing, another person will say another.. very frightening that anyone can be taken for any reason or no reason.. Israel does not have to provide any evidence.. Israel claims it is a democracy but I don't see anything particularly democratic about this..
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Dennis: US officials saying that Saudis may be complicit in 9/11.. now w  As'ad AbuKhalil, professor of Political Science at CSU Stanislaus and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, CAL Berkeley.. As'ad: the article in Newsweek.. the timing is suspicious.. the administration has known about this check for some time.. the princess wrote a check to two students in San Diego and then it was passed along to someone else.. the US government has not been critical of the royal family.. Bush says US and Saudi have special ties..  As'ad: I cannot see any shared values between the US and SA.. except maybe misogyny, anti-Semitism.. the US doesn't come to this with clean hands.. US operates in the Middle East under the *Karsai rule*.. (explains).. the King of Jordan gets 400 million dollars in US aid.. the Saudis in a bind.. they are upsetting their own people and upsetting the US too.. the King of Jordan engaged in repression.. the Saudi's would like to present their own 'Karsai' to the US.. Dennis: about your latest book, House of Bush, House of Saud.. As'ad: US and SA a harmonious marriage for 16 years.. (explains).. how can the US keep talking about democracy and human rights, when the US supports one of the most repressive regimes in the world?.. Dennis: just heard that missile attacks on two bases in SA, what is happening.. As'ad: rising Anti-American sentiment.. burning of a MacDonald's restaurant and (lists about a dozen more attacks in the region).. why? US support for Israel against the Palestinians, US support for repressive Arab regimes, US war on terrorism
-39:40 music break
-40:10 Dennis: now The Real Deal Column with Catherine Austine Fitts.. Dennis: the European Union (EU) accusing R.J. Reynolds (RJR), tobacco giant, of laundering money for Saddam Hussein,  the Russian mafia, Colombian drug lords, others... now on the line w Catherine Austine Fitts, partner at Dillon Reed, former Assistant Secretary at HUD under Reagon.. Fitts: the EU has laid out a 2nd lawsuit.. they alledge two decades of money laundering for terrorists, narcotics trafficers, and other organized crime figures.. outlaws give money to brokers, the brokers give the money to RJR, and RJR ships cigarettes to the outlaws to sell for great profit (laundering the money in the process).. Russian mafia money ties with the Bank of New York.. 1990's money laundering scandal.. reinvested money in New York real estate.. more info: www.scoop.co.nz .. I was a partner at Dillon Reed.. we represented RJR.. a group of bidders leveraged buyout of RJR.. when it was happening.. we were watching bid price go to the stratosphere.. couldn't believe it, something wrong.. I sat down and read this complaint, now I realize what they were paying for.. more than tobacco.. a global money laundering network.. Dennis: the EU suing RJR, what might US officials know about this?.. Fitts: my hypotheis, the US is the global money laundering leader.. 1.5 trillion dollars.. at that size of business, the leading banks and political figures have to be aware.. I think that the suit is just the EU and US bickering over control of global money laundering.. the board of RJR.. people from the fast food restaurant business.. from banks.. EU accusing RJR of laundering money for Saddam Hussein, and terrorists.. like Dick Cheney and Haliburton sales to Iraq.. It wouldn't surprise me.. Dennis: why would a large corporation like RJR, selling legal dope, making huge profits, why would they want to get involved with money laundering?..
Fitts: my guess is.. a significant portion of their profits actually comes from organized crime.. Fitts: Dennis, you are one of the top investigative reporters on the planet, it is a pleasure to be associated with you..
-55:14 Dennis Bernstein: wrapup
-55:49 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Friday November 22, 2002 - interview with 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.
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 Evens, 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.
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.
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