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KPFA Flashpoints July 13, 2001: WBAI, Star Wars, Norman Solomon interview
KPFA Flashpoints Radio July 13, 2001: (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Live from a WBAI nautical protest on the East River (8 min)
- The dangers of Star Wars 2, with Karl Grossman (7 min)
- Interview with Norman Solomon of FAIR and the Institute for Public Accuracy. How to counter the rightward tilt of the US media (39 min)
- Live from a WBAI nautical protest on the East River (8 min)
- The dangers of Star Wars 2, with Karl Grossman (7 min)
- Interview with Norman Solomon of FAIR and the Institute for Public Accuracy. How to counter the rightward tilt of the US media (39 min)
Friday, July 13, 2001 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein:
Live telephone report from Dennis Monahan of the Pacifica Campaign from a nautical action on the East River near WBAI-NY against reactionary Pacifica board member Ken Ford and his National Association of Homebuilders.. NAH cruise party .. Live w Mimi Rosenberg: why are we here protesting NAH? their philosophy of corporate greed over human need.. we will take back our radio station.. Coast Guard approaching.. Monahan: ..surveillance cameras mounted atop the world trade center, the Statue of Liberty..
-07:50 Dennis: interview w Karl Grossman, Professor of Journalism at State University of New York, taking a look at \'Star Wars Two\'. Tomorrow\'s rocket test. Bush insists program will go forward whether the test works or not.. the spin is \'missile defense\', just a thread in a larger pattern.. space based weapons (lasers) to \'dominate the planet below\'.. Bush wants to break the ABM treaty.. profoundly destabilizing.. triggering an arms race in space.. space has been set aside by treaty for peaceful purposes.. Mo info: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space or call 352-337-9274
-14:40 music break
-15:25 Dennis: This is the second anniversary of the takeover and lockout at KPFA.. Violence and Corruption stalk the globe.. Meanwhile.. the mainstream media engaging in a feeding frenzy over one family\'s tragedy, the Chandra Levy disappearance.. What does this have to do with our lives?.. w Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Norman Soloman author of Habits of Highly Deceptive Media.. the fallacy that man bites dog is news.. there is a rapacious media in this country, they have hijacked the public space.. generating this *fog*, instead of news.. 30 million people in the US go to bed hungry every night.. institutional racism like Martin Luther King said.. right in front of us.. if you really address it, you will offend the powers that be.. the rightward drift of the media.. now CNN is being called a leftwing media organization.. unbelievable.. Bill O\'Reilly, a right-wing demogogue, puts Oliver North on TV for (an unreal) show of compassion..
-26:45 Dennis: I once bit a dog, Ginger, my aunt\'s dog.. it didn\'t make the news..
-27:50 Dennis and Norman take listener phone calls: Lauren: the misogony of the media, ignoring the many other women who are murdered, disappear every year.. Norman: the media is not interested in people of color.. Gregory: about Robert Montavi\'s attempt to buy French land turned away.. Norman: globalization.. the most powerful media players.. hooking up.. to market drivel.. they won\'t cover French activist Jose Bove anti-globalization protests.. Dennis: also they won\'t cover war crimes investigations into Henry Kissinger or Ariel Sharon.. Norman: because people like Kissinger are revered by the NY Times.. Mike Barnacle, fired for fabricating a story.. Ariel Sharon feted in the White House.. Orwellian.. certain things are not talked about.. Dennis: the BBC Documentary about Ariel Sharon not mentioned.. Norman: the Middle East coverage by the BBC and Robert Fisk.. Flashpoints MidEast coverage very important
-41:30 music break
-42:30 more listener phone calls: about the dissappearance of farm land.. genetically modified foods.. the privatization of water.. author Maude Barlow.. Dennis: the other side of free trade, global control of water.. Listener: Israeli official musing about the liquidation of the Palestinians.. Norman: this is called ethnic cleansing when the shoe is on the other foot.. Dennis: important protest tomorrow at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, CA on RT 116 west of Guerneville at 2PM.. Jeff in Oakland: Check out Robert Knight\'s Earthwatch radio show about the WBAI surveillance cameras.. Dennis: check Dissonant Voices at 707-545-6458.. Norman: Indymedia on the web.. it is encouraging that people are using new technologies, and are ORGANIZING
-54:00 End today\'s show
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-00:00
-07:50 Dennis: interview w Karl Grossman, Professor of Journalism at State University of New York, taking a look at \'Star Wars Two\'. Tomorrow\'s rocket test. Bush insists program will go forward whether the test works or not.. the spin is \'missile defense\', just a thread in a larger pattern.. space based weapons (lasers) to \'dominate the planet below\'.. Bush wants to break the ABM treaty.. profoundly destabilizing.. triggering an arms race in space.. space has been set aside by treaty for peaceful purposes.. Mo info: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space or call 352-337-9274
-14:40 music break
-15:25 Dennis: This is the second anniversary of the takeover and lockout at KPFA.. Violence and Corruption stalk the globe.. Meanwhile.. the mainstream media engaging in a feeding frenzy over one family\'s tragedy, the Chandra Levy disappearance.. What does this have to do with our lives?.. w Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Norman Soloman author of Habits of Highly Deceptive Media.. the fallacy that man bites dog is news.. there is a rapacious media in this country, they have hijacked the public space.. generating this *fog*, instead of news.. 30 million people in the US go to bed hungry every night.. institutional racism like Martin Luther King said.. right in front of us.. if you really address it, you will offend the powers that be.. the rightward drift of the media.. now CNN is being called a leftwing media organization.. unbelievable.. Bill O\'Reilly, a right-wing demogogue, puts Oliver North on TV for (an unreal) show of compassion..
-26:45 Dennis: I once bit a dog, Ginger, my aunt\'s dog.. it didn\'t make the news..
-27:50 Dennis and Norman take listener phone calls: Lauren: the misogony of the media, ignoring the many other women who are murdered, disappear every year.. Norman: the media is not interested in people of color.. Gregory: about Robert Montavi\'s attempt to buy French land turned away.. Norman: globalization.. the most powerful media players.. hooking up.. to market drivel.. they won\'t cover French activist Jose Bove anti-globalization protests.. Dennis: also they won\'t cover war crimes investigations into Henry Kissinger or Ariel Sharon.. Norman: because people like Kissinger are revered by the NY Times.. Mike Barnacle, fired for fabricating a story.. Ariel Sharon feted in the White House.. Orwellian.. certain things are not talked about.. Dennis: the BBC Documentary about Ariel Sharon not mentioned.. Norman: the Middle East coverage by the BBC and Robert Fisk.. Flashpoints MidEast coverage very important
-41:30 music break
-42:30 more listener phone calls: about the dissappearance of farm land.. genetically modified foods.. the privatization of water.. author Maude Barlow.. Dennis: the other side of free trade, global control of water.. Listener: Israeli official musing about the liquidation of the Palestinians.. Norman: this is called ethnic cleansing when the shoe is on the other foot.. Dennis: important protest tomorrow at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, CA on RT 116 west of Guerneville at 2PM.. Jeff in Oakland: Check out Robert Knight\'s Earthwatch radio show about the WBAI surveillance cameras.. Dennis: check Dissonant Voices at 707-545-6458.. Norman: Indymedia on the web.. it is encouraging that people are using new technologies, and are ORGANIZING
-54:00 End today\'s show
Audio this show (scrollable)
Flashpoints audio archive
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