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India/Pakistan: Mourning This Time
As India and Pakistan face each other in a grave confrontation, the mainstream US media continues to be largely inattentive to, and uninformed about, the serious situation in the subcontinent....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2002 10:45am PDT
Bush is Irrelevant and Must Go
In a major policy shift, I have decided that George W. Bush is irrelevant and must be replaced as leader of the United States. Every week, an American somewhere murders, rapes, or brutalizes a foreigner. I hold the president personally responsible for every such attack....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2002 10:18am PDT
Flawed peace plan reflects U.S. illusions
Monday's long-awaited speech by U.S. President George W. Bush was to set the pace for the Palestinians and Israelis to step back from the vicious and bloody cycle of violence that has gripped them for nearly two years. Instead, Bush and his administration have publicly adopted the Israeli agenda of battering the Palestinians into submission....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2002 10:12am PDT
Gujarat government leaves Muslims to rot in relief camps
More than three months after they were targeted following the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra, thousands of Muslims in Gujarat continue to remain in relief camps because they have nowhere to go or fear for their lives if they return to their homes....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2002 9:53am PDT
Half a century occupation of Kashmir
It has been over a half a century since the most part of Kashmir has been subjected to violence and persecutions only for its religious convictions. Muslims of Kashmir want only one thing - acknowledging by India their right to freedom of will and independence on the land of their ancestors, where their children could grow in peace and quiet....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2002 9:37am PDT
Flashpoints June 27: CNN caves to Israel; ICC hit by US; WorldCom sucks
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Thursday, June 27, 2002
-Robert Knight and the Knight Report News Summary (5 min)
-CNN moves under the control of Ariel Sharon (13 min)
-International Criminal Court due to start July 4, attacked by US (12 min)
-Arthur Anderson leads the WorldCom scandal w Russell Mokibber, of Corporate Crime Reporter, and investigative reported Lucy Komisar (26 min)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2002 10:14pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/28/02 ¡Listen Globally!
A 30 minute review of international news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast-13.5MB & quick/streaming-3.4MB. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. China, Spain. Germany, Russia, and Cuba...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2002 9:32pm PDT
A day in the life of a Palestinian-American's extended Familt and more!
Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman living in the besieged Palestinian City of Al-Bireh in the West He is co-author of HOMELAND: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians (1994)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2002 5:13pm PDT
Flashpoints June 26: film 'Massacre in Masar'; AI's McAntee; go ANSWER June 28/9
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Wednesday, June 26, 2002
-Robert Knight and the Knight Report News Summary (5 min)
-Was the US military complicit in Afghan war crimes against captured Taliban prisoners? Interview with fillmaker Jamie Doran, whose latest work, "Massacre at Masar" is kicing up a storm in Europe; also Andrew McAntee of Amnesty International (32 min)
- Nationwide protests June 28 and in DC June 29 against FBI abuses. (16 min)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2002 12:17pm PDT
PROTECT FREE SPEECH AND OUR RIGHT TO INFORMATION
PROTECT FREE SPEECH AND OUR RIGHT TO INFORMATION:
FILMMAKER PATWARDHAN'S "WAR AND PEACE"...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2002 10:34am PDT
Ottawa Snake March (video/quicktime 12.9MB)
Brief footage from the Ottawa Snake March against the G-8 in Ottawa...
Posted: Wed, Jun 26, 2002 12:24pm PDT
Flashpoints Monday June 24: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti; Robet FIsk
Flashpoints Monday June 24:
- Bernstein interview with Dr. Mustafa Barghout in Ramallah (15 min);
- British journalist, Middle East Affairs, Robet FIsk (31 min) June 20 speech exceprts...
Posted: Tue, Jun 25, 2002 11:54am PDT
Palestians Are Mostly Children
Palestinian Children Suffer And Are Terrified
By The Israeli Occupation Troops....
Posted: Tue, Jun 25, 2002 2:24am PDT
Week's Best Flashpoints Radio: reports from Jenin marketplace; Robert Fisk, more
Highlights of KPFA Flashpoints Radio June 17-21, 2002
- Friday Jun 21: report from ISM member Rick Rawley at the Jenin central marketlplace where hundreds of women and children shoppers were attacked by Isreali tanks; report from Dr. at Jenin Hospital
-Thursday June 20: interview on the Israeli -Palestinian crisis with the award winning British journalist and commentator, Robert Fisk.
- Monday June 17: remembering activist poet June Jordan who died June 14
- much more goto http://flashpoi...
Posted: Sun, Jun 23, 2002 9:21pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 6/21/02 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- Broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download/ streaming (3.3MB).
Free to rebroadcast upon notification. With times and freqs for listening at home. Netherlands, Spain, China, Russia, and Cuba...
Posted: Thu, Jun 20, 2002 9:37pm PDT
How the Corporate Media Giants Help Bush Wag the Dog
The Corporate Media giants like Viacom are using their monopolistic resources to help Bush fabricate "national trends" where none may otherwise ever have existed...
Posted: Thu, Jun 20, 2002 10:44am PDT
New anti-authoritarian anti-war network
New email list for anti-authoritarians against war...
Posted: Wed, Jun 19, 2002 9:22am PDT
The Mossad and 9/11
A full ten months before Mossad started to sound its own warnings against bin-Laden, senior officials in both the FBI and CIA saw them as "blowing smoke" to divert attention from Mossad's own activities in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Jun 19, 2002 12:16am PDT
american fined for bringing medicines to Iraq
Mr. Sacks traveled to Iraq with a delegation of four from the Chicago-based group Voices in the Wilderness. In December 1998, the Treasury's OFAC threatened the entire group with fines totaling $163,000. However, this is the first time an actual fine has been imposed, and only on Mr. Sacks....
Posted: Fri, Jun 14, 2002 7:30am PDT