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Fri Dec 13 & Sat Dec 14 - Dennis Bernstein & Dan Coughlin Speak on Journalism and War; more info
NEW: Uruguay Reveals US Plot For Coup In 72 Hours
Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction:
cross burning a protected activity?.. Narco News on Venezuelan general strike: 'revolt of the spoiled brats'.. Oil still spilling, killing.. Houston protests, memorial.
VenezuelaNS IGNORE RICH MANS STRIKE
-00:55  Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: so-called *general srike* in Venezuela..  oil tanker joins strike.. sabatage.. CIA funded.. North Korean ship seized by US, released today.. missiles to Yemen.. in Djibuti.. Bush says he now has unstrained use of US nuclear weapons.. in Iraq, inspectors inspect.. how US got the uncut copy of the Iraq report.. US purloined the report.. Trent Lott backing off support for Thurmond's 1948 presidential run.
-05:37 Dennis: in November.. the oil tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain.. sunken, single hulled.. now w Nick Jenkins of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.. Nick: oil patches coming ashore all up and down the west coast.. 30,000 tons of dirty crude.. the worse kind of oil.. 15,000 birds wiped out.. a lot of grim news.. about IFAW's wildlife rescue operation.. one beautiful island totally engulfed by oil.. phenominal effort by volunteers.. hundreds of miles, some of it shear cliff.. winds blowing more oil to shore.. depressing to think just how long this will have an impact.. scientists predict shellfish may be obliterated.. in an area where shellfishing employs 13,000 people.. for maybe a decade..  about the birds affected.. of the 11 nesting pairs of shoewater (sp?) birds, 7 dead already.. 1 bird cleaned and to be released.. will ship 50 birds to Portugal.. Dennis: the Spanish government reporting the situation worse.. soldiers working on cleanup.. the ship still leaking though.. Nick: this is really bad.. and this spill not contained to a specific location.. spread over a tremendous area.. and more oil spilling everyday.. losing 180 tons of oil everyday.. that could go on for months.. up to a decade.. frightening that one single wreck could cause so much damage..
-16:30 music break
-17:44 Dennis: in Venezuela in recent days a growing resistance to the biased right wing media and the *general strike* (also see: Rich Mans Strike).. now w Al Giordano of Narco News..  in the past 36 hours momentum has turned against the coup plotters.. the people taking to the streets every night.. the problem is the oil oligarchy.. Venezuela the 5th largest oil producer in the world.. US's largest importer.. Hugo Chazez has led four straight election victories.. Venezuela has the healthiest democracy.. 4 TV chains, owned by the upper class.. Venezuela used to be a regualar *two party* system.. on Friday a man opened fire on anti-Chavez opponents.. like before the last military coup in April, snipers opened fire on a crowd killing 18.. president for a day Carmona released them..  the shooter said an opposition general was the one who hired him.. the crooked TV stations doctored a video.. the last straw for the Venezuelan people.. protesting outside the TV stations.. the media still putting out an atmosphere of intimidation.. the US media parroting these lies.. very clear to them that they are lying.. last night a pots and pans banging protest by pro-Chavez folk.. tonight too.. last night two bangers shot dead at close range.. where is that lying phoney journalist, Phil Gunson?.. the US Embassy down here will not talk to me.. because I am an independent journalist.. they will only talk to those reporters who lick their boots.. a clear tradeoff of access in exchange for lies.. about Reuters and other mass media.. you wonder how some of these people can sleep at night.. also class hatred by the rich against the poor.. that the poor would elect their own government, terrifies the rich.. Dennis: Otto Reich a roving ambassador.. Al: but now he's missing.. he messed up the April coup attempt.. he messed up the Colombia situation.. Brazil and Ecuador.. Lucio Gutierrez.. Lula (link2)..  suddenly Simon Bolivar's dream of a united South America seems possible.. a lot of US money gone into the coup.. (link1) (link2).. and the complete distortion by the US State Department.. a travel advisory.. there is not a hatred of Americans in Venezuela.. Dennis: prognosis?.. Al: the goal may just be low intensity warfare.. keep Chavez so busy defending himself, that he can't make progress.. a big land reform law (Land Law) to take effect.. the owning class upset.. a Hydrocarbons Law, giving the people more of a share of the oil profits.. (OxfordEnergy.org) (industry site).. the April coup overturned.. an article on Narco News, showing how Venezuela's share of oil profits has gone from 80% in the 1970's to 15% now.. this is not a strike, it is a lockout by management.. the gangsters running the oil companies will be removed.. then the final battle, with the corporate controlled dishonest mass media itself.
-35:56 music break
-36:26 Dennis: is cross burning a form of free speech?.. or a illegal form of intimidation?.. now w King Califani (sp?) ex-director of the Virginia NAACP.. King: the Virginia court ruled that cross burning on someone else's yard was protected speech.. case on its way to the Supreme Court..  the family was tramautized.. they have moved away.. if you burn a cross on your property, that may be your right.. but if you come onto someone else's property, that's trespassing and a hate crime.. we've been bombarded with the so-called, The World Church of the Creator (about).. Virginia has a history, the first place where enslavement was codified.. cross burning sends a signal that blacks, jews, other minorities not wanted.. people of good will need to change these laws.. we have seen some progress here.. but some still fighting the civil war here.. a new government.. .. about Trent Lott's statement supporting Strom Thurmond's segregationist campaign for president.. about his non apology.. he's not fit to lead.. and if he stays, we'll know we have a klansman at the helm of the US Senate.
-47:47 music break
-48:14 Monica Lopez: United For Peace called on local groups yesterday to come out in celebration of International Human Rights Day..  in Houston, outside FAO Schwartz, protestors waved signs saying drop toys not bombs.. (audio from a comedy sketch of a US run in with Santa Claus over a no fly zone).. now w Dave Atwood, activist.. Dave: the toys US planning for Iraq.. bombs, cluster bombs, that's the present the US is planning to send the children of Iraq.. now w a Salvadoan refugee.. you can do and say whatever you want, until you experience what war is really like.. a Houston's Rofco (sp?) Chapel.. (audio of a memorial in memory of Philip Berrigan, for the millions of innocent citizens killed or disappeared in Colombia, Iraq, Rwanda, Indonesia and other places in the world, with the theme "NEVER AGAIN"..)
-55:04 Mary Bishop: wrapup
-55:41 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Tuesday December 10, 2002 - Right wing Venezuelan media called to task.. resistance grows to US troops in the Philippines.. about Trent Lott's support for segregationist policies.
Monday December 9, 2002 - Civil rights activists call for Trent Lott's resignation over Strom Thurmond slur.. popular elected Haitian and Venezuelan presidents may be forced out of office by US commercial interests..
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Friday December 6, 2002 - Leslie Kean interview with attorneys trying to represent prisoners held incommunicado at Guatanamo Bay.. Kathy Kelly and Voices in the Wilderness fined $20,000 for aiding Iraqis.. Gulf War cleanup expert Major Doug Rocke speaks out about the hellish uses and dangers of depleted uranium.
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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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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