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Flashpoints Radio Oct 4: On the roots of terror & is there racism in California?
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, Thursday October 4, 2001
-Open letter to Bush published in Rolling Stone Magazine by Dr. Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld: (24 min)
-Interview w multiracial Forestville couple visited by FBI after neighbors 'turned them in' for having a guest from Bolivia (20 min)
-Pacifica Watch segment with Sherrie Gendleman and Pete Bramson (10 min)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 8:16pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 10/5/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. Broadcast quality (13.7MB) and quick/streaming (3.5MB) Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Times and freqs for listening at home. Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Cuba, China....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 7:09pm PDT
US Seeks to Silence Arab TV Channel
BBC ONLINE: Washington has asked Qatar to rein in the influential and editorially independent Arabic al-Jazeera television station, which gives airtime to anti-American opinions. ( for background info on Al Jazeera TV, check link posted below the BBC news clip - CIMC)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 6:52pm PDT
The Agony of the Left
Forced to choose between the West and the Taliban, some have trouble deciding.
One of the most telling things I have seen since the Sept. 11 massacre was an early "peace movement" e-mail. It listed three major demands: stop the war; stop racism; stop ethnic scapegoating. A liberal friend had appended a sardonic comment to the bottom. "Any chance we could come out against terrorism as well?"...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 6:13pm PDT
INTERWIEW TO MASSUD (september 2000) and more pictures from Afghanistan
Afghanistan...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 3:25pm PDT
Anthrax Confirmed in Florida
A Florida hospital has confirmed the discovery of a patient infected with the deadly anthrax bacteria - a naturally occuring bacteria popular in biological warfare....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 2:54pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio Oct 3: Tariq Ali, Sunera Thobani, Peter Dale Scott, Sandip Roy
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, October 3, 2001
-Tariq Ali, editor of Verso Press, Kashmir crisis (15 min)
-Dr. Sunera Thobani speech at Women's Resistance Conference in Ottawa trashed by Canadian officials (10 min)
-Dr. Peter Dale Scott, author of Cocaine Politics (9 min)
-Journalist Sandip Roy, and Human Rights Watch (10 min)
-Dan Coughlin with a Pacifica Update.. (7 min)
(audio link in full story text below)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 2:45pm PDT
Fake Terror - The Road To Dictatorship
The Oldest Trick In The Book...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 1:59pm PDT
Trading on Tragedy, by Mark Weisbrot
An essay on the Bush Administration's new push for Fast Track authority...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 1:09pm PDT
Defending the Rights of the People (2 photos)
2 photos and text......
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 11:54am PDT
Cancer Tour Oct.3rd in SF
The Cancer Tour October 3rd in downtown San Francisco included stops at PG&E, Bechtel, Chevron and the PR-firm, Solem & Associates. Speakers pictured here were Marie Harrison, Barbara Brenner, Judy Brady and Medea Benjamin; and, that's Ed Rippey covering it for KPFA. Several QuickTime movies will be up next week at http://fog.ccsfbay.org/~wcarpent...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 11:37am PDT
urgent action re Trade Agreements
urgent action re Fast Track trade agreements...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 9:40am PDT
Can the New York Times Count/Quote Anti-War Protesters?
new york times digs in on the pro-war propaganda front...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 8:44am PDT
New Terrorism Law Used Against ELF
here it comes. material support to terrorists. are you a terrorist?...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 8:35am PDT
Ebola-style virus sweeps Afghan border
The largest outbreak in history of a highly contagious disease that causes patients to bleed to
death from every orifice was confirmed yesterday on Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan.
we have the story on solcomhouse-
http://www.solcomhouse.com/bioterror.htm...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 8:05am PDT
Puzzling Evidence - a commentary
If Washington wants everyone to get in line for the “War against Terrorism” why not give people the information they need to make an intelligent decision?...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 6:51am PDT