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-00:00 Leslie Kean: introduction:   interview with distinguished Israeli parlimentarian and peace activist, Uri Avneri.. South Koreans protest US military court verdict absolving two GIs of negligent homicide for crushing two teen age girls under a military vehicle..
-00:45 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: A warmonger presides at a pacifist school, New College.. former US Senator, President Bob Kerrey a member of the Committer for the Liberation of Iraq.. hear audio of his speech supporting military action in general.. and audio of a student debater.. and audio of one of the New School faculty.. April 26, 2001, Kerrey faced student accusations for his execution of 21 South Vietnamese women and children..
-06:45 Dennis: now w Uri Avnery, former Knesset member,  and activist for Gush Shalom.. about yesterday's killing of a 95 year old woman in a taxi.. Uri: no Palestinian can travel without being stopped at checkpoints.. many try to walk or drive around.. every act is justified if you're fighting terrorism.. but this taxi was going away from the checkpoint.. soldier shooting at a distance of a hundred yards.. no way to argue self defence.. taxis are standing there.. the soldier shot into a standing taxi.. the day before in the Gaza Strip, the army destroyed a five story building, because six years ago was involved in a terrorist event.. an old man couldn't leave, the building blown up on his head.. ten families left homeless.. a complete disregard for human rights.. for a regular army to commit these acts much worse.. Dennis: about Uri's colorful history.. a fighter against the British.. about your background?.. Uri: I believe all people have a right to their own country.. I believe we will never have peace in Israel, if the Palestinians are denied their rights.. unfortunately, after we occupied the West Bank and Gaza, many people here unwilling to give back.. we already have 78% of the country, the Palestinians left with only 22%.. the right wing Jewish settlements.. lead to ethnic cleansing.. immoral, and will assure that Israel will never have one day of peace.. Dennis: Netanyahu in favor of Arafat exile.. the fear in the Palestinians community that Israel will use a war on Iraq to purge the Palestinians.. Uri: talk in high political circles just that.. about the Labor Party candidate for prime minister.. in the coming election, a clear alternative offered.. I am optimistic.. the real fight, what is the state of Israel do we want?.. eternal war, ethnic cleansing.. or liberal democratic, at peace with its neighbors.. Dennis: the problem of settlement expansion.. a two state solution now impossible?.. Uri: peace means getting rid of the settlement.. if you want the settlements, you will never have peace.. another result, Israeli society breaking up.. economic crisis, the gap between rich and poor the worst in the world.. Dennis: apartheid and Jim Crow?.. Uri: not an exageration to say we are putting Israel into the same situation.. about settlements and settlement roads, creating an apartheid situation.. this is not the kind of state we had in mind 50 years ago.. Dennis: you wrote a book, Infantile Terrorism.. Uri: Sharon like a king of France, forgotten nothing, remembered nothing.. continuing the war of 1948.. Ersazt Israel.. 4 million Palestinians.. if you want a Jewish state in the whole of Palestine, the only solution is ethnic cleansing.. if anyone believes we will have peace after such a thing, think again.. Dennis: about the attacks in Kenya last week.. horrible.. but how about when Israel dropped a 2000 pound bomb on a crowded apartment building, killing 12 children.. Uri: they are equivilent acts.. and important to note that the attacks in Kenya, not done by Palestinians.. we are not faced with 4 million Palestinians, but now faced with 200 million Arabs, and 1 billion Muslims.. this is a vicious circle, not limited to just Palestinians and Israelis.. the administration of the US must realize supporting Sharon is not a joke, a ploy to gain votes.. this is very serious.. Dennis: about the Jenin investigation that didn't happen.. Uri: I disapprove of what our army has been doing in Jenin, I disapprove of suicide bombings, but most of all, I disapprove of what US the doing supporting the worst elements in Israel.. opinion polls in Israel.. a big lie that the Palestinians do not want peace.. turning the life of the average Palestinian to hell, is not supporting Israel.. is supporting the government of Israel, a completely different thing.. Dennis: about the religious right in the US supporting Israel.. Uri: we know that they are basically anti-Semitic.. preach that all Jews must be gathered into Israel, and converted to Christianity, or be wiped out in a so-called *battle of Armegeddon*.. Uri: US Jews amaze me by making common cause with this kind of people.. are they nuts?.. Dennis: your advice to Bush?.. Uri: what happened on Sept 11 a terrible atrocity, a result of a rage in the Arab world, against the US, for supporting the destruction of the Palestinian people.. IF YOU KILL A 95 YEAR OLD ARAB WOMAN WHO WAS MINDING HER OWN BUSINESS, AND THE ARABS SEE IT ON TV ALL OVER THE WORLD.. A TERRIBLE THING, A GATHERING STORM OF RAGE, THE US WILL SUFFER FOR YEARS.. THE WAY TO STOP TERRORISM IS TO END THIS RAGE.. A SIMPLE HUMAN REACTION.. THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION.. THE WAY TO FIGHT TERRORISM, IS TO ELIMINATE THE RAGE THAT SUPPORTS TERRORISM.. THIS IS HISTORICAL PROVEN.. PEOPLE LIVING IN A STATE OF DESPAIR, THOSE PEOPLE WILL BECOME SUICIDE BOMBERS, TERRORISTS.. TO TURN THIS INTO EMPTY SLOGANS, LIKE "WAR OF CIVILIZATIONS" IS RIDICULOUS.. URI: JEWS HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD FOR 1300 YEARS WITHOUT PERSECUTION.. THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS HISTORICALLY DONE BY CHRISTIANS, LIKE THE TYPE OF CHRISTIANS IN THE US RELIGIOUS RIGHT.. LET'S PUT AN END TO OPPRESSION, PUT AN END TO THE HUMILIATION OF HUMAN PEOPLE.. ALL PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS.
-36:47 music break
-37:21 Leslie: about the turmoil in South Korea over the recent acquittal of two US servicemen over the crushing death of two teenagers with a military vehicle.. now w Professor Katherine Moon of Wellesley College.. Prof. Moon: about this case.. about the history of US military use and abuse of South Korea civilians.. widespread prostitution.. cases of rape and murder.. about the withdraw of US troops.. movement of women and pimps.. tensions between local Koreans and military personnel.
-55:00 Mary Bishop: wrapup action tomorrow to protest Paul Wolfowitz speaking at the Commonwealth Club, 11:30AM to 1PM, protest outside the Mark Hopkins Hotel, California and Mason Strs, SF.. more info 415-821-6545
-56:23 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Wednesday December 4, 2002 - Israeli soldiers kill an 95-year-old Palestinian woman for riding in a cab on a 'Jews Only' road.. Turkey, Israel, and the US hawks.. an HIV positive woman activist, US nurse Joy Lee Sadler, on a hunger strike in an Indonesian jail
Tuesday December 3, 2002 - huge oil slick hits the coast of Spain.. report from protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.. Kathy Kelly's Iraqi Journal.. Sierra Club threatening its Glen Canyon (Southern Utah) chapter for speaking out against Bush's war plans
Monday December 2, 2002 - Africa suffers under Terror, the US War on Terror.. interview with ex-CIA agent, Phillip Agee living in Cuba.. the second wave of a massive oil spill threatens the coast of Spain
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Friday November 29, 2002 - excerpts from a recent speech by award winning British journalist, Robert Fisk, on happenings Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and Palestine
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.
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