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Tuesday, Nov 26, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Israeli soldiers open fire on a crowd of children.. US right wingers try to destabilize Haiti.. interview with Nat Hentoff about our disappearing civil liberties.
-00:54 Robert Knight and the Knight Report..  Robert: Nigerian fatwa null and void.. government officials backing away from death call for the journalist who wrote that prophet Mohammad would approve of the Miss World contest.. Donald Trump.. heavy gunfire, home demolitions, mass arrests in Gaza today.. and in Bethlehem and Nablus, two more killed.. following the sniper assassination of an 8 year old school boy yesterday.. Patriot missiles to Israel.. and Israel asking for 14 billion dollars more in US taxpayer assistance.. Israeli newspapers reporting that the accused hijacker says he only yelled at the stewardess.. he said the police told me they would 'castrate me if I'd didn't confess so I did'.
-05:51 Dennis: An eight year old boy murdered by an israeli sniper yesterday.. no warning given.. now w eyewitness, Siaf of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).. Siaf: the kids were coming back from school, breaking curfew like they do everyday.. the bullet direct to his heart.. two others in serious condition, one shot in the head.. the military were about 100 meters away.. they saying the students breaking curfew by going to school.. Dennis: did they give any warning?.. Siaf: no, they give their warning by opening fire.. I was on my way, on the other side of the street.. if we see a jeep we start to run.. the two who were seriously injured were 10 years old.. the others shot were 13, 14, 18.. I saw the dead child's brother in the hospital.. Dennis: the Israelis were telling the press that the kids were throwing molotov cocktails.. Siaf: nothing like that.. there are other witnesses.. THIS KID WAS 8 YEARS OLD.. HE WAS CARRYING HIS PACK AND GOING BACK HOME.. WE HAVE BEEN UNDER CURFEW FOR 3 AND A HALF MONTHS.. ALL PEOPLE ARE BREAKING THE CURFEW.. IT IS A RIGHT TO HAVE AN EDUCATION, TO GO TO WORK, TO GET FOOD.. THE SOLDIERS ENFORCE THEIR CURFEW BY OPENING FIRE.. Siaf: the boy was buried already, if they wait the military will stop it.. if this happens anywhere else in the world, everybody talking about it.. but when it happens in Palestine.. I want people to know the truth.. how can a child attack a tank?.. it is not by mistake.. the Israelis don't want the children to go to school, to be educated.. you have the chance to know the truth.. about other children killed.. ISRAEL ALWAYS HAS AN EXCUSE, NEVER TAKES RESPONSIBILITY.. [I.E: THE ICKY VICTIM SYNDROME].. Siaf: nobody safe in this land.. if the media just show in the right way.. Dennis: shocking that the media refuses to report on a story where half a dozen children are shot in cold blood.
-16:45 music break Tracy Chapman
-18:30 Dennis: attackers open fire on pro-Aristide demonstrators.. Haitians fear that the US engaged.. US sends 900 military advisors and assault rifles to the Dominican Republic which shares a common border with Haiti.. now w Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince.. Kevin: a big change in Bush policy, US direly afraid of democratic government spreading throughout the Latin America and Caribean.. [audio glitch].. Haiti opened the door.. now a question of Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina.. Dennis: the US media's line: Aristide stole the presidency.. Kevin: yesterday there were more than 30,000 demonstrators in Port-au-Prince in support of democracy.. [audio glitch].. there is a blackout in the media what is going on in Haiti.. Dennis: when the media refers to Aristide supporters.. they say 'voodoo crowd', 'pour out of the slums'.. Kevin: RUETERS SAYING MARCHERS CHANTING PRO-OSAMA SLOGANS.. I WAS THERE, IT'S A LIE.. TRYING TO SAY ARISTIDE SUPPORTS TERRORISM.. NOT REPORTING YESTERDAY'S BIG DEMONSTRATION.. YOU ARE NOT HEARING THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN HAITI.. Dennis: the US turning the screws.. Kevin: 85% of Haitians voted for Aristide.. about the US aid embargo.. about the disinformation campaign going on.. I can testify.. you're going to hear a lot more from Lavalas.. they will not back down.. Dennis: watch out for Rueters and AP..
-30:00 music break
-30:37 Dennis: Bush's expanding efforts to suppress civil liberties and spy on US citizens and foreign visitors.. now w activist Nat Hentoff, writer for the Village Voice.. abou the USA Patriot Act, Homeland Security, John Poindexter, Total Information Awareness (TIA).. Nat: TIA in the Defence Department.. Poindexter would have been in prison, except for his testimony to Congress.. but the guy in charge is Donald Rumsfeld.. charming, sharp, funny.. but is anybody going to ask him about this?.. this TIA project right out of George Orwell.. even more techinically sinister than Orwell could imagine.. to connect computer databases all over the world, private and government.. they think they can work it out in a couple months.. the most massive accumulation of data in the history of the world.. no notice, no Congressional hearings.. now Russ Feingold, the only senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act, saying this should be stopped.. but it probably won't happen.. the head democrats, Daschle, Gephart, Loserman er.. Lieberman not doing anything.. operation TIPS was stopped by Dick Armey, not the liberal Democrats.. Pat Leahy wrote 'let's get TIPS outta here', to head of committee Loserman er.. Lieberman, who didn't even answer his letter.. It was Armey who stopped it.. Loserman er.. Lieberman positioning himself for a presidential run.. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS LOST ITS SOUL.. USELESS, EXCEPT FOR A FEW, LIKE FEINGOLD.. BUT ONE GOOD THING HAPPENING AROUND THE COUNTRY.. THE BILL OF RIGHTS DEFENCE COMMITTEE.. started in North Hampden.. grassroots stuff, our basic hope, getting little attention in the media.. Dennis: about Hoover's *black bag jobs*.. Nat: now they have a warrant to do just that.. the definition of 'terrorist'.. one definition if you intimidate the government.. like what we're doing right now.. the First Amendment comes in, once people become aware they are being surveilled.. they will censor themselves in public discourse.. the government can go in to churches, email.. inconceivable but it is happening.. because the media is silent.. I doubt most Americans are aware yet.. Dennis: about the meaning of 'alledged'.. the missile attack by the CIA in Yemen on 'alledged terrorists'.. Nat: the most extraordinary thing they have done yet, is holding two Americans in military brigs without any charges, incommunicato, without lawyers, being interrogated, no right to habeus corpus.. if this is approved by the Supreme Court to have detention camps for Americans to be held incommincato for interrogation.. Dennis: about the Reagan era plan, by FEMA, arrest 250,000 people, Oliver North work.. Nat: about the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII.. if they can do this TIA thing, send FBI agents to libraries to find out what books someone is reading, and the librarian cannot tell anyone ever that the FBI was there.. we are dealing with a government totally out of control.. only grassroots will stop this.. but most Americans only vaguely aware that civil liberties exist.. there needs to be a backlash from citizens whose rights are disappearing.. technology, in secret.. at least McCarthy's House UnAmerican Activities Committee.. at least that was public.. this war on terrorism secret.. and they say it will last forever.. a generation coming up will know nothing but suppression of their liberties.. Dennis: why has the press become a stenographer for government?.. Nat: one, the press doesn't know their rights and liberties either.. and two, the access to officials is dependent on being polite, not being antaganistic..
-54:38 Ravishing Rainjita Geesler: wrapup
-55:40 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Monday November 25, 2002 - Israeli soldiers assassinate a UN worker, and harrass others.. why the media attack on the Saudis now?.. E.U. lawsuit accuses R.J. Reynolds of money laundering for drug cartels and Saddam Hussein
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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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