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Friday, Dec 6, 2002 - Start Audio 
-xx:xx Leslie Kean: introduction:  interview with attorneys trying to represent prisoners held incommunicado at Guatanamo Bay.. Kathy Kelly and Voices in the Wilderness fined $20,000.. about the hellish uses and dangers of depleted uranium.
-00:00 Leslie Kean: (joined in progress)  interview with two lawyers, Joe Margulies and Kristine Husky, who are trying to represent 16 prisoners held incommunicado at Guatanamo Bay.. (newslink1).. 12 Kuwaitis, 2 Brits and 2 Aussies.. prisoners not charged with any crime.. not allowed to talk to an attorney.. interrogated, tortured, emotionally abused at the whim of the US military.. Kristine: the families of the prisoners at wits end.. Joe about the Alice in Wonderland logic of the US courts.. we are asking the court that there is jurisdiction somewhere.. Kristine: we're willing to take this all the way to the Supreme Court.. Joe this is an unprecedented situtation.. un-uniformed Viet Cong given POW status.. Kristine: we have always followed the rule of law in every war.. Joe the government has the right to interrogate prisoners of war, but not to hold them indefinitely.. Kristine: what goes around comes around.. US soldiers, citizens could be held in the same way by another country.
-09:16 Leslie: Flashpoints listeners have heard from Kathy Kelly for years.. now w Nathan of Voices in the Wilderness.. the latest fine is $20,000.. against Kathy and Voices.. Reverend Mullins and Bert.. fined $10,000.. for delivering medicine to Basra.. US accuses us of going to Iraq *without permission* and delivering medicine without permission.. we're not going to pay the fines.. yesterday a press conference in Chicago.. asking people to join us.. info at VITW.org 773-784-8065
-12:48 music break
-14:32 Dennis: about the use and dangers of depleted uranium (DU) (link3).. now w Doug Rocke, the US's foremost expert on DU.. Doug: I'm a combat veteran of Vietnam and Desert Storm.. a US physician for twenty years.. at the end of the ground war in Iraq, I was put in charge of DU cleanup.. Dennis: you have been made sick by exposure?.. Doug: first we were in charge of disposal of Iraq chemical agents.. the US blew up the known stores of bio and chemical weapons.. blew back on our own troops (details many toxic and hazardous materials).. finally DU.. US fired over 250 tons of DU munitions.. I became ill within 72 hours of beginning to clean up the DU.. toxic heavy metal, radiologic poisoning.. when we blew the munitions, all the alarms went off.. but the alarms were ignored.. the first acknowledged use of DU was by the Israelis in the Sanai in 1973.. in the Gulf War we fired over a million rounds.. each round is 3/4 pound of solid uranium.. warthog aircraft.. a tank round is 10 pounds of solid uranium.. we left 350 tons of DU waste scattered all over the Middle East.. when a DU shell hits a target.. explodes, burns, poisons, kills.. an awesome weapon.. vaporizes too.. uranium dust and gas.. the radius for (70 yards) around a contaminated target.. US military says six inches of dirt must be scraped out for 150 feet around each vehicle.. and all the metal shrapnel must be collected.. children are picking millions of these rounds up and playing with them.. we know our soldiers were picking them up.. about the lack of medical care for US veterans.. Gulf War Syndrome.. but only a handfull of the ill vets have received care.. and none of the Iraqi civilians have ever received help.. Congressman McDermott verified contamination remains.. millions of people affected.. 159,000 US soldiers have received disability benefits.. 15,000 soldiers dead.. *continuous retaliation*.. if you speak up and tell the truth about DU.. you are violating Los Alamos memo says to lie.. DU is too important a weapon.. used in the Balkans.. Vieques, Puerto Rico.. I've been to Vieques, spoke to doctors, the same health problems as I'm having.. the Navy said "NO, you can't clean up the DU here".. the US cannot acknowledge that they have violated law.. willfully.. in Maryland, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, and on and on.. the purpose in war is to kill.. the best weapon to kill is DU.. but the military refuses to deal with the health and enviromental consequences.. they scapegoat the victims too.. call soldiers liars, and malingerers.. my team members very sick, even denied medical care, bleeding on the floor of the VA.. General Schwartzkoff.. assigned me director of the DU cleanup.. but when I reported what I had found.. I became personna non grata.. DU used in Afghanistan.. the Canadians verified it.. the US denies.. Dennis: your phone sounds strange.. are you being surveilled?.. Doug: I have had military officers come up to me and tell me to stop.. my house has been shot into.. my phones just die.. recieve computer viruses from military email.. about Iraq.. this is all about oil.. we know what weapons Saddam has, we gave them to him.. God bless Scott Ritter.. the inspection program is irrelevant, the US is going in.. the Gulf War one the largest friendly fire incidents in history.. the acknowledged casualty rate (VA) of Desert Storm, more than 200,000 US soldiers.. unless you physically remove all the DU dust and metal, it will remain.. makes water and food unusable.. what gives the US the right to take poison and throw into someone's backyard, and do nothing to correct it?.. a crime against God, a crime against humanity.. we knowingly contaminated water and soil.. a report.. the Regal Committee.. Dennis: hundreds of alarms were going off.. a total toxic battlefield.. troops still getting sick.. the US use of DU and the careless destruction of Saddam's biological and chemical weapons.. Dennis: the US getting ready to do it again.. Doug: the US casualty rate in Gulf War One over 200,000 US warriors.. if we do it again, many many more.. nobody can justify the use of DU.. where is that child going to come from, to lead us to peace.. if we poison the youth.. Dennis: are you still a patriot.. Doug: I took an oath to defend the US constitution.. that why I'm working to stop the use of DU.. a military person has an obligation be assure that the orders they are given are just.. about the Declaration of Independence.. sometimes you have to make a committment.. peace begins with me.. DU weapons must be banned.. what if we gave a war and nobody came.. more info: National Gulf War Research Center.. and Trap Rock Peace Center.. the DOD has deleted all our medical research from its website.. the health problems of anyone involved with DU is legendary.. astronomical rates of cancer.
-46:26 Mary Bishop: wrapup a big anti-war protest Tuesday 10th Noon 1301 Clay Street Oakland.. in Houston at Post, Oak, and Westhimer..
-48:49 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Thursday December 5, 2002 - Dennis Bernstein 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
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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