Flashpoints Radio 9/19: IAC; Chossudovsky; UC's Daily Cal sucks; INS attorney

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Wednesday, Sept 19, 2001 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: w Robert Knight, with the Knight News Report from New York City.. Robert: news update.. now w Sarah Flounders of the International Action Center.. Sarah is skeptical of the U.S. ability to pinpoint the problem.. Sarah: if the U.S. is looking to destroy the force responsible for the attack, the CIA is the force that created the entire situation in Afghanistan.. starting in 1988, the U.S. put billions and billions of dollars.. terrible suffering due to CIA.. snuffed out the possibility of a progressive government.. created the Taliban.. why the United States is hated throughout the region.. Osama Bin Laden last seen riding a horse into the sunset of Afghanistan
-06:20 Dennis Bernstein w Michel Chossudovsky (link2), Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, and founder of the Centre for Research on Globalisation (Centre de Recherche sur la Mondialisation), author of \'Globalization of Poverty\', and \'Who is Osama Bin Laden\'.. Professor Chossudovsky: Osama Bin Laden recruited by the CIA.. in the context of the Soviet-Afghan war.. the CIA operating in the background.. the Pakistani ISI (intelligence agency).. the mujahadeen trained in U.S. camps in Pakistan.. what is the relationship of Osama Bin Laden to the CIA after the Soviets withdrew.. (there is) evidence that the relationship has not ended.. from the Black Sea to Central Asia.. Afghanistan provides 2/3 of U.S. heroin trade.. if the U.S. goes into Afghanistan.. the attack is a pretext.. a war of conquest.. to establish a U.S. sphere of influence in the region.. Afghanistan borders on four nuclear powers, Russia, China, India, Pakistan.. of course the U.S. has been keeping tabs on Osama Bin Laden.. the U.S. has infiltrated his organization.. the U.S. brought in the mujahadeen to fight in Bosnia.. the Islamic jihad is really working for Uncle Sam.. the CIA is harboring Osama Bin Laden, or it has in the past.. there should be debate on this.. if the pretext is fabricated.. that should be brought out before we enter into a war against Afghanistan.. (discussion)
-20:40 Dennis Bernstein: w Miriam and Jose who are protesting a racist cartoon which appeared in the Daily Cal yesterday.. about the David Horowitz screed published by the Daily Cal during black history month.. Miriam: yesterday I decided to wear the head covering, wear my traditional dress.. I was given the finger.. people would honk.. Barbara Lubin hosted a protest at the Berkeley Bart yesterday evening.. harrassed even there.. someone pulled on her cloth.. Dennis: news of more hate crimes across the country.. Jose: students occupied the sixth floor, the Daily Cal offices.. police officer came in at 3:30am said we would be arrested.. Jose: 18 of us stayed.. nobody was hurt.. about vigilantes.. these ads by the Daily Cal like a hate crime, we need to hold them accountable.. Dennis: clearly a racist cartoon.. I spoke to my mom in New York.. her bus driver was an hour late.. he was shaking.. trucks pulled up and people smashed his windows.. because of the media.. now here at the Daily Cal.. ACTION ALERT: Call the Daily Cal at 510-548-8300, ask them why they print this kind of filth.. a gathering of kindred spirits, tomorrow noon at Sproul Plaza
-33:00 Noelle Hanrahan w David Cole, Immigration attorney, author of Terrorism and the Constitution, and another man about hate crimes and deportation issues.. Attorney Cole: the increase in power wanted by John Ashcroft.. a tremendous chilling effect on immigrants.. to reinforce the anti-immigrant bias the government decries.. in Los Angeles 14 years ago the government tried to deport lawful Palestinians.. trial continues.. the Arab and Muslim communities targeted, because the perpetrators of 911 are suspected to have Arab or Muslim ties.
-46:20 Noelle Hanrahan: judge allows Pacifica reactionaries to pack the board.. now w Sherrie Gendleman, Toman Moran.. Sherrie: I don\'t want to say devestating, but severe.. I am sad Dick Gregory has chosen to associate with the board.. more court in January.. Tomas: a surreal meeting, we could only talk when the chair turned on our microphones.. not the way to proceed to a resolution of this crisis.. very disconcerting.. (lists the board members now).. 11 out of 16 members from Washington DC.. Utrice Leid now promoted to program director, potentially Amy Goodman\'s boss.. Democracy Now! (link2) (link3) only broadcast on KPFA.. at this critical time, broadcasting.. don\'t remain disheartened.. miracles have been happening for us.. Sherrie: we need your support, need your money.. see SavePacifica.org
-54:00 End today\'s show.. today\'s review by john lionheart

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Tuesday, Sept 18, 2001 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: Flashpoints disassociates from the Pacifica Network News headlines presented on KPFA at the beginning of this show (usually not repeated on this website).. now w Robert Knight with the Knight News Report in New York.. secret federal grand jury to consider.. Ashcroft wants wire tap authority expanded.. internet investigations broadened.. \'the old days of the MaCarthy era..\' a week before the WTC/Pentagon attacks, the FBI raided and closed 500 Islamic, Arab, and other MidEast websites.. ????
-05:00 Bush talks.. \"wanted, dead or alive\"..
-05:30 music break..
-06:50 Dennis: Bush said we\'re in a \"crusade\".. tomorrow the murky world of Pakistani intelligence.. looking at the impact of the tough talking Bush.. the Council on Islamic Relations reports 210 attacks in the U.S. since last Tuesday.. about a Sikh killed in Arizona, a Pakistani shopkeeper killed in Dallas
-09:30 now w Pakistani victim\'s brother-in-law, Mr Sahid Ganni:(sp?) this is what happened.. he wore jeans, didn\'t have a beard.. $2000 in the register, open.. not a robbery at all.. being investigated as a hate crime by the FBI.. it was a hate crime.. this should end.. brother-in-law had a wife and four daughers.. Mr Ganni: in my opinion, the responsibility lies with the mass media.. for writing \"muslim\" with the description.. the media is responsible.. if the media had just written \'Osama Bin Laden\', not attaching \"muslim\" to the name.. after Oklahoma did they describe Timothy McVeigh as a \"Christian Fundamentalist\"? no.
-19:20 Dennis: reads from a press release from a New Jersey politician, in support of Mr. Ganni.. also a third man, a Coptic Christian who had immigrated from Egypt, killed because he was thought to be a Muslim
-20:40 Dennis w Robin Clark, who was stabbed in San Francisco by racists.. Robin from his hospital bed, Robin: one said to me, you are a f**king Arab asshole, you are a n****r loving so and so.. another stabbed me from behind.. like they wanted to hurt someone that night.. we were just the unlucky ones.. i was operated on for three hours.. my stomach, intestines were punctured.. Dennis: how were they dressed? Robin: very nicely.. nice trousers.. I never expected this.. no one in the group (5-6 young men and 4-5 young women) tried to stop them or said anything.. three people hit me.. they were all white, in their early 20\'s..
-26:30 Dennis: we\'re doing a 3 hour special Saturday Morning, on KPFA..
-27:25 Dennis: now we\'re going live to a march and demonstration in downtown Berkeley.. Barbara Lubin: of the Middle East Childrens Alliance (speaking)
-33:00 Noelle Hanrahan interview w Jeff Cohen of FAIR and Norman Solomon of FAIR and Media Beat.. Cohen:..the lunacy of some of these statements not being pointed out.. e.g. Ann Colter, a columnist in Mort Zuckerman\'s New York Daily News: \'We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.\' Solomon: they\'re not allowing any debate.. what the punditry advocates, in the last few days.. in many ways, the mirror image of the terrorists.. if there was any debate.. if the U.S. listens to these Krauthammers, and Bill O\'Reillys, our children will have many new Bin Ladens and terrorist networks to deal with in 10-20 years.. like a snake with its tail in its mouth.. the government\'s pronouncements regurgitated as wisdom by the media.. CNN: the war will be fought with \'unprecedented secrecy\'.. Solomon: that statement is ominous.. when the Gulf War ended, 15 key newspaper editors wrote: \'Pentagon wielded almost total control over the media information\'.. how could they be *more* restrictive.. Cohen: the level of macho, testosterone flowing around the networks.. recent history not discussed in any meaningful way.. the last time the U.S. responded to terrorism, in the Sudan.. Clinton bombed Sudan\'s only vaccine factory.. in a matter of weeks, it because obvious that the factory had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden, or with weapons.. killed 1000\'s of people.. I wrote a column, nobody would run it.. the $40 million dollars George Bush just handed to the Taliban.. the CIA connection to Osama Bin Laden.. 90% of the American people don\'t have access to this information.. it is appalling how little information being transmitted to the people.. Solomon: Dan Rather on David Letterman, utterly clueless.. more soldier than journalist.. Rather: \'George Bush is the president, wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where.\' Solomon: an Astounding Statement for an aledgedly independent journalist to make.. Cohen: the logical results of all the plans being sketched out.. instead as serving as stenographers for the powerful.. an epidemic of fear in the newsrooms of America.. P.R. flackery for the warmakers..
-47:40 music break
-48:20 Noelle Hanrahan w Andrea Buffer, executive director of Media Alliance: what you can do.. when you see/hear inaccuracy in the Media.. call the people who book the guests.. tell them we want real discussion of the issues..

• NBC 202-885-4259
  
• ABC 212-456-4040
  
• CBS 212-975-3691

Andrea: they need new voices.. suggest Howard Zinn, Robert Fisk.. ask them when they have had an Afghani voice on.. 25th Media-Alliance birthday, convergence center 934 Brannon SF Sat 5-10pm
-55:39 End today\'s show.. today\'s review by john lionheart

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