lashpoints Radio Sept 4: Durban; Iraqi Sanctions; Bush's 'Baby Nuke' scheme

FLASHPOINTS RADIO
produced by Dennis Bernstein

Tuesday, Sept 4, 2001 - Start Audio
-00:00 Noelle Hanrahan w Sasha Evans of the Law Society of Jerusalem in Durban, South Africa at the World Conference Against Racism The Israeli abuse of Palestinians.. blatant human rights violations.. greatest threat to world peace today.. U.S. using the excuse of Israel, to drop out of the conference, and avoid criticism of American racism and discussion of reparations for slavery
-03:30 Noelle Hanrahan w Eric Gustafson of Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPICenter) and Henry Williamson of Voices in the Wilderness: about today\'s bombing of Iraq.. Henry is outside the United Nations in New York City, fasting (30 days so far) in protest of economic sanctions against Iraq.. Madeline Albright admitted half million children had died.. American citizens not even turning their heads.. about Kathy Kelly.. Eric: over a decade of sanctions.. the wealthier people have fled Iraq, 20% of the population.. hundreds of thousands of professionals.. the destruction of civil society.. U.S. contributing to a terrible humanitarian crisis.. Eric a Gulf War veteran: the tour he took with Voices in the Wilderness really opened his eyes..
-16:30 Dennis Bernstein w Professor Thomas J Nagy of George Washington University, author of The Secret Behind the Sanctions How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq\'s Water Supply.. Prof Nagy: I\'ve been very careful with these allegations.. I ran across a DOD \'Gulf Link\' website.. found a document there about \'Iraqi Water Treatment Vulnerabilities\'.. in June I read a paper on this at a conference in Minnesota.. Defense Intelligence Agency, declassified 95-97.. first document, chilling and brutal: (details of intentional genocide, killing of children and civilians) horrible and incriminating documents.. U.S. House Rep Tony Hall pleaded last year with Madeline Albright to end this genocide
-34:30 Professor Nagy: The destruction of the Iraqi water supply was a clear violation of the 4th Geneva Convention.. The documents show clearly
-37:00 Dennis: about the evolution of this story.. How has the media covered this story? Professor Nagy: only the Orlando Sentinel.. Madison Capital Times, National Catholic Reporter, Pravada, The Progressive Magazine.. not the LA Times, the NY Times.. too upsetting to the status quo to discuss ongoing crimes.. Nagy article
-41:20 Dennis Bernstein interview w Alistair Millar, author of It\'s A Bomb, Bush\'s Baby Nuke published in last month\'s Progressive Magazine.. excerpt: The current Bush Administration is studying options for the development and production of a small, low-yield nuclear weapon called an earth-penetrator or bunker-buster, which would burrow into the ground and destroy a deeply buried hideaway of a \"rogue\" leader like Saddam Hussein... But such a bomb would take many more people with it. \'The use of any nuclear weapon capable of destroying a buried target that is otherwise immune to conventional attack will necessarily produce enormous numbers of civilian casualties,\'
-54:00 End today\'s show.. today\'s review by john lionheart

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