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 Courage Under Fire, by Katie Barlow - When Ian Hook, a British UN volunteer, was shot and killed in Jenin, Caoimhe Butterly, a 23-year-old Irish activist, was also shot but survived... about the footage of her blocking Israeli tanks as they fired over her head, and stories of her standing in the line of fire between soldiers and Palestinian children, as the IDF threatened to "make her a hero".read more
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Friday, Nov 29, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction:  we devote the entire hour to a recent speech by Robert Fisk
-00:46 Dennis:  last Friday award winning journalist spoke at Berkeley's First Congregational Church.. (audio tape) Robert: (Robert makes a great mobile phone confession/joke).. 'LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, SEPT 11, 2001 DID NOT CHANGE THE WORLD'.. this has become one of the outstanding lies the media has been telling.. though it may give George Bush an excuse to change the world [but that should be exposed for the pretext it is].. on Sept 12 of this year, I went to the UN General Assembly to have a look at Mr. Bush.. I saw him say the US has nothing against *the people* of Iraq.. I was very frightened.. (Bush and Bush Senior say that every time they go to war against a country, killing innocent people).. I saw America wants to reshape the map of the Middle East.. last map when Britain and France divided up the spoils of WWI.. if a new Iraq war starts, our TV will use the term, 'war on terrorism'.. after 9/11, vapid, hopeless journalism.. newscasts.. obscured reality and dishonored the dead.. about a journalist Robert saw on TV wearing a Marine Corp helmet.. news colleagues accepting orders from the military.. Hiraldo on TV wearing a pistol, saying he wanted to shoot Osama bin Laden.. not a war on terror, but a war on US enemies, and Israel's enemies as well.. Newsweek headline: Osama the 'evil' one.. now the media invoking divine speech [ENRON GOOD, OSAMA EVIL].. about the thousands of innocent Afghans killed by our bombs.. and when did we first hear about the alledged Iraqi connection to 9/11?.. our journalists were silent.. the NY Times and the Washington Post ran stories recently one day on the supposed links Iraq to Al-Qiada.. I noticed seven stories say the same thing in the first paragraph.. ", officials say." ALL ANONYMOUS SOURCES.. how did target Kabul become target Baghdad?.. when Tony Blair says there 'must be a blood price paid'.. no journalist points out the the blood price will most certainly be paid by others than Tony Blair.. 'blood debt' a common term anymore.. to its credit the Nation Magazine article details the Israeli lobby men now in positions of power in Bush's administration.. about Colin Powell's press converence in Iraqi Kurd country.. the language of journalism has fallen in step with government.. now in all stories about Afghanistan, the US is always hunting 'remnants' of Al-Qiada.. the NY Times article.. US planning a military government in Iraq.. General Tommy Franks to play the roll of General McCarther.. but Japan had an Emperor Hirohito.. Franks will have to play that role too..
- 17:00 Robert: about the sloppy planning for post war Iraq.. about the beating Robert Fisk received from an angry mob in Afghanistan..  Robert gives examples of media distortion of the event, and censorship of news stories about it.. and the 'Why?' question, one of the four pillars of news reporting, but 'Why?' not allowed to be asked anymore, when Western targets are attacked.. especially in the immediate days after 9/11.. about the slander and attacks Fisk received in the mass media, for writing a column stating the reasons given by bin Laden for wanting to attack America ('the Why?').. THE FIRST THING POLICE DO AT A CRIME SCENE IS LOOK FOR A MOTIVE.. BUT WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO LOOK FOR MOTIVE IN THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 9/11.. about Fisk's meeting with bin Laden in Afghanistan after the mujahadeen had beaten back the Russians.. bin Laden wounded six times fighting for the west.. all his camps built by the CIA.. Robert: "he came in, live as a cat".. he said, 'we beat the Russians, I pray that Ahlah will permit us to turn America into a shadow of itself'.. I don't think he climbs to the top of a mountain and pulls out a cell phone, and says 'Plan B'.. but his power is in his words.. about bin Laden's demand, resonates in the Arab World.. without the real abuses suffered by Arabs under their US supported repressive regimes, bin Laden would be just another lonely 'voice in the wilderness'..
-33:30 Robert: about the Gulf War..  tanks burning.. Robert: 'a friend of mine in Iraq developed cancer, then her husband and three other members of the family died of cancer too..' about research Fisk undertook on the toxic damage to Iraq.. (gives many details).. about the discovery of the use and hazards of Depleted Uranium (DU) used in Iraq.. shells with DU are what set the tanks on fire.. about Gulf War Syndrome in Gulf War veterans.. in 1998, vegetables fields near Basra.. Robert: I visited the hospital there.. (slide show of cancer victims, deformed and disabled children with descriptions).. an explosion of child hood cancers.. Robert: you would think that would turn a few heads in the media.. I asked a collegue, 'are you interested in the story'.. his reply, 'Bob, I'm not writing about Iraqi babies'.. about the since proven dangers of DU and about the deletion of DU from the public narrative.. WE ARE PREVENTED FROM KNOWING THE TRUTH.. COVERT STRUGGLES.. WHO IS BEING HELD?.. UNKNOWN.. RUSSION GAS?.. UNKNOWN.. AND THE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN WAR STILL ALLOWED TO GO ON.. .. about oil concessions used to bribe the UN security council members to vote the US way on the Iraqi inspections resolution.. about the great black greasey liquid.. about Richard Perle's recent speech pledging, 'the government of new Iraq will reimburse the US for its liberation.. [and] the evolving democratic government [would support and give generous allowance to].. the heavy investment [that will be] made by US oil companies in developing [Iraq's fantastic latent oil wealth].'. Robert: we were told it was about 'weapons of mass destruction'.. about Tony Blair's 'dossier'.. when Saddam used gas on the Iranians, Reagan sent Donald Rumsfeld to shake his hand..
-56:30 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart.. [and thanks to adam and molly and greg and heather in creating a genial ambiance today]
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Thursday November 28, 2002 - THANKSGIVING SPECIAL: about the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz Island by American Indian tribes, and excerpts from a recent documentary, 'Alcatraz is not an Island'
Wednesday November 27, 2002 - Israeli forces invade Dheisheh with tanks and 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.
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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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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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
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