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Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Israeli forces invade Dheisheh with attack dogs.. Allegra Pacheco on the arrest of her husband in Bethlehem.. Peter Cornbluh about Henry Kissinger's appointment to head Bush's 9/11 inquiry.. Interview with Henry (or is it an imposter?) in his own words.
-01:00 Robert Knight and the Knight Report..  Robert: a Knight Report exclusive interview with Republican Senator Charles Grassley, of Iowa,  who is launching an investigation into the Total Information Awareness program.. Senator: I want to know: a) where the DOD gets the authority?.. b) how is it being funded?.. c) the scope of the program?.. d) how was Poindexter appointed?.. e) how is this program coordinating with the FBI and law enforcement?.. f) how are civil liberties to be protected?.. Robert: about the 'Posse Comitatus Act'?.. Senator: an old law, says military not to be involved in law enforcement.. also problem with lack of discussion.. Robert: about the discrepancy between the program's reported budget of 10 million dollars and another report that the budget was a quarter of a billion dollars?.. Senator: yes, that's a significant difference.. we need to know our defence money is being spent on national defence.. I'm petitioning the inspector general.. I'm exercising congressional oversight.. Robert: are you concerned also about Homeland Security?.. Senator: yes, the very same concerns.. Robert: Poindexter not the only shady character seeping back into the halls of power.. today Bush picked Henry Kissinger to head a commission investigating 9/11.
-06:26 Dennis: Friday morning  Allegra Pacheco received a surprise visit.. Allegra: the Israelis were invading Bethlehem.. they came at 4AM and shot in the air.. said we must all come outside.. we were held on the ground at gunpoint for two hours.. my UN car was parked outside.. I told them I was a UN official.. my husband also a UN official.. they searched everyone's apartment.. I'm five months pregnant, I demanded to go inside to the bathroom.. I noticed my phone was missing.. I came out and asked where is my phone.. a soldier produced it from his pocket.. they took my husband for questioning.. because he is a relative of a wanted person.. Dennis: I understand you visited your husband in prison?.. Allegra: we're under strict curfew, a 'shoot to kill' policy.. I took a chance, drove my UN car to the checkpoint, got out with my hands in the air.. allowed to go to the prison.. about our life under curfew.. my husband being held with about 50 other relatives of wanted people.. held as hostages.. this is collective punishment, a violation of international law.. he is ill.. tortured in prior imprisonment.. Dennis: your car was marked with UN ensignia.. are the Israelis trying to purge UN workers out of the occupied territories?.. Allegra: I don't know about that.. but it is very difficult, getting aid into the West Bank.. after all the conventions the Israelis have agreed to honor.. the Israel army as an occupier is obligated to.. Palestinians can not get food, medicine from any other source (than UN and NGOs).. the general promises by the IDF over the last couple months.. now Iain Hook's death, and the search of my home.. I am sick myself, and now in Jerusalem.. Dennis: our hearts go out to you.. Allegra: my case is a weak reflection of the pain and suffering of the Palestinians.. Israel is not held accountable by anyone.. is it surprising to anyone that Palestinians take things into their own hands?
-17:00 Dennis: now w Misun Ziad (sp?) of International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Dheisheh camp.. Misun: since 4AM Friday morning troops in Dheisheh (indymedia report).. they have taken 45 men, not wanted, not militants.. and they went into the mosque and destroyed parts of the mosque.. the people have no food, no fruit here.. not even any  bread for the people.. the streets full of garbage.. just today a woman went into labor and not allowed to go to the hospital.. delivered at home, the baby died.. the tanks drive around and shoot in the middle of the night.. they scream (an arabic phrase) meaning a muslim call to prayer.. after warning anyone on the street will be shot.. a huge insult.. the israelis have taken to using dogs.. barking, chasing children.. soldiers throwing tear gas at the children.. children with swollen eyes.. the children not allowed to go to school for a week now.. Dennis: about the mosque?.. Misun: they came at 4:35 in the morning, during morning prayers.. troops went in, threw everyone out and destroyed things in the Mosque.. they've been going house to house.. writing insults on the walls, destroying things.. stealing.. thankfully they haven't entered the Ibdaa Cultural Center.. I'm staying in Ibdaa hopefully to protect it.. they have stolen phones, stolen gold, stolen money here.. Dennis: you were detained Friday morning with Allegra Pacheco?.. Misun: how I feel about being a disabled American citizen held at gunpoint.. the Israelis think they are above the law.. children not allowed to go outside.. people ill from not being allowed food or water.. Israel taking relatives of wanted people.. collective punishment.. these are the early stages of war crimes.. they don't plan to lift the curfew.. no milk, no fruit, no meat, no bread even.. malnutrition.. no media coverage at all.. Dennis: heavy media coverage of suicide bombings though.. Misun: Ibdaa was working on a play, about a true story, a 14 year old, not doing anything, shot and killed.. all too common.. I'm afraid the soldiers could come in here and kill anyone, and it wouldn't even be reported.. Dennis: are the soldiers close by?.. Misun: I can not see any tanks outside the center tonight.. there were tanks the last two nights.. across the street though, they took over a house and hung the Israeli flag.. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT.. THEY ARE NOT EVEN LETTING INTERNATIONALS LEAVE AND GET SUPPLIES, MEDICINES.. PLEASE WE ARE PLEADING FOR YOUR LISTENERS TO CONTACT SOMEONE, DO SOMETHING.. MAKE ISRAEL LIFT THE CURFEW SO PEOPLE CAN GET FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE.
-27:40 Dennis: continuing the coverage of happenings in Haiti.. now w Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince.. Kevin: it has been pretty quiet.. except for rumors, not true.. people are trying to stay calm.. calls to overthrow the constitutional government coming from many quarters.. the situation made almost unbearable by the US aid embargo.. the US has just committed 20,000 assault rifles to the Dominican Republic.. the US stirring up.. Dennis: the media quoting Otto Reich today.. Kevin: Rueters gets its feed from Radio Metropol.. and yesterday I saw a reporter from Radio Metropol instigating students to throw rocks at pro-Aristide demonstrators.. a demonization built over the last five years.. the US has created the reality they wanted for Haiti.. the acts of destabilization.. Otto Reich used to be the head of an office bullied the press into following.. on Nicagagua.. popular democracies have been springing up all over Latin America.. popular democracies are anethema to the US.. Senator Frank Church must be rolling in his grave.. Dennis: Rueters reporting today that mobs attacking peaceful anti-Aristide demonstrators.. Kevin: the media not showing any pictures of the Lavalas supporters.. if they're going to call for the overthrow of this democratically elected government, they should understand that Lavalas supporters are passionate, and it will get bloody..
-37:10 Dennis: now w Peter Cornbluh, of the Chile Documentation Project in the National Security Archive, writing a book about Henry Kissinger.. about Bush's appointment of Kissinger to his 9/11 investigation.. (no further review this segment)
-49:15 Dennis:  now w Henry Kissinger.. Henry: glad to be on Flashpoints.. on my 400th birthday.. Dennis: you were just appointed to head Bush's 9/11 commission.. what's your aim there?.. Henry: we'll try to whitewash the links between Saudi Arabia and 9/11.. Dennis: but sir, you are charged with getting to the bottom.. Henry: we want to blame Pacifica, they're making the FBI very nervous.. not a whitewash actually, we just want to protect the people from the truth.. important not to scare the public.. Dennis: you are implicated in overthrowing Salvador Allende and the invasion of East Timor.. Henry: thank you for your acolades.. Dennis: you have no qualms about invading East Timor and overthrowing a democratic government?.. Henry: we got rid of 200,000 terrorists.. think of all the planes that *weren't* flown into buildings.. Dennis: Israel occupying Palestine.. Henry: it's important to tell the truth.. we belive Iraq eventually wants to occupy Palestine.. Dennis: is it about oil?.. Henry: not so.. why did we go into Somolia?.. we left Somalia because we didn't find oil.. Henry: I am appointing as my assistant, William Casey.. Dennis: but he's dead!.. Henry: yes, but still a very intelligent man.. his country needs him now..
Dennis: that was the voice of comedian and imposter, Randy Critico
-57:07 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
Give Thanks! And Have A Great Thanksgiving!
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Tuesday November 26, 2002 - 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.
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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It is our light--not our darkness, that most frightens us.
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