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Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction:  Venezuela update, bankers and oilmen against Hugo Chavez and the poor.. Condi Rice as provost at Stanford undermined affirmative action.. more about John Poindexter, architect of the Total Information Awareness program
-00:47  Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: populist Hugo Chavez today more successful in resisting regime change than unpopulist Trent Lott.. Bush, embarrassed, pays lip service to democracy in Venezuela after Chavez says Bush wants Venezuela to violate its own constitution.. OAS supports Chavez.. 16 members of US Congress urge Bush not to recognize a coup.. Venezuelan General Montoya urges citizens to support democracy.. oil production up to 80%.. strike still costing Venezuela $40 million a day.. right wing media outlets losing ad money because of their own strike.. segregationist wing of the Republican Party nearing regime change.. 2/3 of Americans say Lott should quit the Senate.. last night Lott's Black Entertainment TV claim: 'I am for affirmative action'.. a ludicrous assertion.. Mississippi governor ready to appoint Democrat Espy as replacement Senator.
-05:07 Dennis: Venezuelan update.. a top down lockout.. now w Gregory Wilpert, journalist in Caracus, writer for Znet.. Greg: no strike, people going to work as usual.. except in some upper middle class neighborhood, where some stores are closed in the afternoon.. and some banks open only three hours a day.. huge lines.. people upset.. and some supermarkets open only a few hours.. Dennis: about the oil lockout.. Greg: they are the ones causing all the problems here.. especially the tanker captains blocking the ports.. fuel supplies disrupted.. factories affected.. the workers are not participating.. Dennis: this driven by the right wing?.. Greg: the media in cahoots.. a very narrow perspective.. constantly characterizing the government as pro-Castro totalitarian.. keeps on repeating it, repeating it.. a distorted view, many people fall for it.. Dennis: in a surprise, the OAS supporting Chavez.. Greg: the OAS resolution a bit wishy washy.. an ambiguous statement, watered down by the US.. but Chavez has promised to regain control of the oil industry.. in a speech, said he has been opposed in seven elections by the same group.. if he succeeds.. could be a tremendous turnaround.. the state oil company has a budget as large as the Venezualan government.. has been giving smaller and smaller share of profits to the state.. could be a historic defeat for the opposition.. many engineers willing to work for the government.. but looks like the opposition will not give up..
-14:49 music break
-15:15 Dennis: about John Poindexter and his new office.. now w John Turley of George Washington Law School.. John: an Orwellian concept.. brainchild of DARPA of the Defence Department.. putting together a massive computer system, to track every transaction by every US citizen.. to look for a signal that would make the citizen suspect.. cuts deeply into our system and our privacy.. a project that would have been considered abusive fantasy a couple years ago.. Poindexter the architect.. convicted of five felony counts lying to Congress, etc.. in Iran-Contra.. selling arms to Iran, using the money to arm Contras in Nicaruaga.. astonishing, the White House asked how on earth could you approve Poindexter.. Bush said he thinks Poindexter has 'served his nation well'.. Dennis: Poindexter worked closely with George Bush the First.. John: Poindexter has always wanted this program.. people like Poindexter have problems with our nation's basic concepts.. unbelievable that Congress has not enacted legislation to stop it.. the first step approved by Congress.. DARPA will further develop the database.. when a citizen is fingered by this database, they are then handed over to agents with little supervision.. we have reached the constitutional Rubicon.. everyone expected Poindexter would not be seen again.. to have him emerge again, unimaginable.. convicted of obstructing Congress.. almost funny, if it wasn't so serious.. this system would give the government.. every petty despot in history has wanted something like this.. Dennis: about the 'enemy combatant' program.. John: the concept can be traced loosely back to WWII.. Ashcroft says he has the authority to unilaterally declare citizens as 'enemy combatants', to deny them access to attorneys, and hold them indefinitely.. something that has become a signature of this administration.. our constitution fundamentally organized on the balance of the three branches of government.. unprecedented.. Dennis: about the missile attack on 'alledged' suspects in Yemen.. allowable to kill 'alledged' people.. John: often mistaken.. about the pilot in England accused of being the mastermind of 9/11.. an English judge looked at the evidence, saw that it was all untrue.. but under the enemy combatant policy, the US government could have had him killed.. Dennis: drone planes going to be used for surveillance in the US?.. John: our civil liberties never have been dependent on the US government.. putting aside people like Poindexter, most people in government trying to do the right thing.. Dennis: what is the most troubling possibility of TIA?.. John: if citizens do not force government to stop DARPA, stop TIA, we will lose the opportunity.. people have to call up their representatives and demand hearings.. I talked to some people on the hill, but most are terrified of being seen as soft on terrorism.. they need their constituents to demand hearings, legislation.. if we lose our rights to DARPA we only have ourselves to blame.
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-37:00 Dennis: a recent Newsweek puff piece portrays Condi Rice as 'living proof of the triumph of the civil rights movement'.. but Rice.. now w Professor Linda Mayberry (sp?) formerly from Stanford Law School.. Prof: about Rice as provost at Stanford.. open season on women and minorities.. she proceeded to dismantle affirmative action programs at Stanford.. about a hunger strike by Latino students.. she made changes in the cirruculum.. had been an essential part of student life.. available information.. African Americans never more than 2.5% of the faculty.. significantly less than the national average of 5%.. the number of women 18%, also significantly less than the national average.. she was the chief academic officer, in respect to hiring.. the term 'affirmative action' has been misused.. minorities and women just want to be treated equally.. about tenure.. the labor department thought our allegations serious enough for investigation.. disparities in the numbers.. a result of bias?.. investigation still ongoing, but stalled by Bush's election.. came to a halt, actually.. actions speak louder than words.. our fate at Stanford did not improve under Rice.. about the 'W stands for Women' tour during the 2000 election.. I found it difficult her representing herself as a representative of women.. included Barbara Bush.. the administration used her.. symbolic role.. during the disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida.. and now with Trent Lott.. empty symbolic gestures.
-55:00 Marvelous Mary Bishop: wrapup
-55:40 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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NEWS FLASH: 10PM Dec 16: from Narco News:
America Reborn: 32 Nations Back Venezuela!
One hour and some minutes ago, the Organization of American States (OAS), for the first time in the organization's history, rejected a major United States initiative. The OAS backed, by a vote of 32-0 with two countries not counted, a resolution to support the continuance of the democratically elected government of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
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Monday December 16, 2002 - Haitians protest US policy in NYC and Port-a-Prince.. Narco News update on the dwindling *strike* in Caracus.. interview with the publisher of the only African American newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi, on Trent Lott..
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Friday December 13, 2002 - US ready to use landmines on Iraq again, and threatens use of nuclear weapons.. Canadian activists ready to decend on the US to conduct weapons inspections.. Kathy Kelly Iraq Journal, with Norman Solomon and Sean Penn.. who is Eliot Abrams?..
Thursday December 12, 2002 - East Bay rep Barbara Lee says Trent Lott should step down.. a New York man just released after serving 17 years for a crime he didn't commit.. Marin County votes a moratorium on the death penaly..
Wednesday December 11, 2002 - Cross burning a protected activity?.. Narco News on Venezuelan general strike: 'revolt of the spoiled brats'.. Oil still spilling, killing.. Houston protests, memorial..
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.
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
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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.
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