Flashpoints Radio Oct 1: Dennis Kucinich; Dr. Angana Chatterji; Norman Solomon

Tuesday, Oct 1, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Leslie Kean: introduction: 18 people die in Kashmir during elections; delegation to Iraq; US Rep Dennis Kucinich speech in Berkeley two weeks ago
-00:55 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Bush spokeman, Ari Fleicher explicitly advocates the murder of Saddam Hussein.. Colin Powell rejects inspection team 'breakthrough agreement'.. Bush and Blair exposed as liars when they said Iraq 6 months from nukes (audio).
-05:45 Leslie Kean: thousands have died in India and Kashmir in recent months.. now w Dr. Angana Chatterji, native of India, and Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.. Professor Chatterji: many people displaced.. perhaps a UN trusteeship for ten years.. India and Pakistan have to make a serious committment.. Leslie: India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war.. Professor Chatterji: terrorists and state violence.. in Marin County this Sunday, a Forum On Peace, incredible individuals, Americans need to play a role as maintenance of Freedom, active participatory citizenship.. feels like the war on terrorism being pushed to become a war on Islam..
-20:58 Leslie Kean: Iraq.. now w Media Beat's Norman Solomon of FAIR.. just returned from Iraq, part of a delegation.. Norman: the word from Vienna a fairly successful meeting between Iraqis and the UN inspection teams.. the White House does not really want inspections.. the Bush regime hell bent on attacking Iraq with huge military force.. Leslie: sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction.. Norman: upsetting to go from room to room in the hospital and see kids with cancer and getting no treatment because of US imposed sanctions.. a human reality, to 5,000 children dying every month.. we got to Baghdad in mid September.. to establish a face-to-face dialoque.. Nick Rahall of West Virginia went.. also Jim Jennings of Conscience International.. people at the grass roots level have to every legal thing we can think to stop this war.. about the media language used about war... Norman: numbing distancing of human realities.. a huge crime against humanity being planned by the US.. imagine a two thousand pound bomb falling on San Francisco or Oakland or your home town.. really crucial we get in the same place.. fan out.. all news media need to hear from us.. and put pressure on so-called political leaders.. Institute for Public Accuracy.. Event: FORUM ON PEACE: Sunday, October 6, 2002 from 2pm to 6pm at at the Showcase Theater at the Marin Civic Center, San Rafael (20 minutes north of San Francisco), 415-389-0163; tickets: 415-472- more info: www.BiggerThanMe.com
-32:08 Leslie: Dennis Kucinich is a dynamic visionary.. passionate committment to public service.. proposes a US *Department of Peace*.. proposes no weapons in space.. made a speech at Wheeler Auditoriun UC Berkeley campus Sept 15.. now w Congressman Dennis Kucinich: (audio of his talk)
-54:00 Leslie Kean, wrapup..
-54:44 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart

Monday, Sept 30, 2002 - Start Audio

the new "National Security Strategy" adopted by Bush.. of preemtive strikes, report by author David Armstrong author of the story.. David: the plan is for the US to rule the world.. at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, Bush the first, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Powell.. to insure that the US could dominate the world, prevail in any situtation, and not be threatened in any way.. Richard Perl, Paul Wolfowitz.. America's imperial moment.. in 1992 it met with bad reviews, protests around the world.. it was shelved for the 1992 election.. unilateralism.. penchant for pre-emption.. using low yield nuclear weapons.. the best we can hope for, is.. the US sending a clear message to the world that this is US policy from now on, saying, "we decide the targets".. read David's report in Harpers Magazine at your local newsstand and library.. more info www.publicEDcenter.org

Friday, Sept 27, 2002 - Start Audio

Thursday, Sept 26, 2002 - Start Audio
-00:00 Mary Bishop: introduction: encore presentation of an hour long interview with legendary whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, of 'Pentagon Papers' fame
-01:00 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Congress moves closer to a non-declaration of war, allowing Bush to persue military action "as he determines to be necessary and appropriate".. Rumsfeld claims Iraq and Al-Quada conspiracy.. Ivory Coast calls for peacekeepers; French troops evacuate 1000 foreigners.. post Taliban opium production soars from 185 tons last year to 2,700 tons this year (+1,400%).. inside Britain, an anti-dope (ie anti-Tony Blair) rally.. "Bush will hit Iraq like a drunk hits a bottle, to satisfy his thirst for power and oil".
-05:10 Dennis Bernstein: about Daniel Ellsberg (Salon.com), 1960's Marine Corp Commander, Pentagon official, turned whistleblower in 1969 when he released the 'Pentagon Papers'.. about his new biography, 'Secrets'.. Daniel: about current events, Rumsfeld, weapons inspectors.. about the intentions of Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, and Rumsfeld.. to deceive the American people.. Saddam does not have a suicidal urge.. unless faced with death by US action.. that's the way to get him to use any weapons of mass destruction he might have.. if we attack him, he will use all his weapons against Israel or the US.. I (fear) the world will see the use of nuclear weapons before the end of the year.. US wants regime change.. for the oil.. about the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons legitimized.. will greatly increase the threat of global destruction of the human species.. about Ellsberg's new book, 'Secrets'.. about the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.. more about the current situation.. Daniel: when I went to the press with the Pentagon Papers.. the NY Times injoined.. the Washington Post.. the Boston Globe.. all defying the Attorney General.. an amazing rebellion.. now.. we've seen the same kind of courage.. witness Scott Ritter.. and Colleen Ralley (sp?) of the FBI.. Talking to: the people in the government who know we're on a dangerous reckless course.. who have seen in writing, estimates to that result.. PLEASE COME FORWARD.. Dennis: like Nixon needed a special group?.. Daniel: we have real danger in the world.. Saddam launching a weapon against us, is not a real danger.. Congress should demand real assessments.. about nuclear whistleblower, Mordecai Vanunu.. a technical worker in the Israeli nuclear weapons program.. an Israeli.. gradually became convinced that the program could not be justified.. total censorship in Israel.. a total lie that Israel would not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in Israel.. the number of Israel nuclear weapons in the hundreds.. what country in the world have the right to have hundreds of nuclear weapons?.. NOT ONE.. Vanunu was lured out of England by an Israeli agent to Israel, and kidnapped to Israel and imprisoned by a secret trial.. for 17 years.. he is a hero.. Israel's nuclear program increases the possibility that Israel itself will be destroyed by a nuclear weapon..
-53:30 Mary Bishop: wrapup Events: 1) Dennis reads his poetry 7PM Friday, Point Reyes Bookstore; 2) Rally to Stop the War 1PM tomorrow, Friday, Oakland Federal Building, 1301 Clay Street; and 3) Saturday, Sept 28; protest Stop the War on Iraq and Free Palestine, assemble Dolores Park 11AM; at Noon march to Civic Center for a rally.. info 415-861-7444
-54:44 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart