Foreign Policy

Amira Hass: Thoughts about Suicide Bombers and their Families

Amira Hass is the only Jewish Israeli correspondent on Palestinian affairs living among the people she reports on. As guest of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley she received a standing ovation and gave this moving, compassionate and critical talk.
Amira Hass was born in Israel to Holocaust survivors. She is the author of: Reporting from Ramallah – An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land and Drinking the Sea at Gaza.
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Behzad Yaghmaian: The Secret World of Refugees

This is a moving, highly personal account by an exiled Iranian in search of the stories of migrants. He found an Afghan boy who lost his family in US bombing, a young girl trying to survive in New York, or men waiting to stow away on a ship in a Greek harbor. Yaghmaian is a professor of economics and the author of “Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and New Movements for Rights”. He is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch < http://www.counterpunch.org >
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Greg Palast: Who Won the War on Iraq?

The Carlyle Group, Lockheed Martin, Choice Point or more?
The author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy answered that question at his April 03 stop in Berkeley. Palast has a huge audience in Europe. He can’t get his work shown or printed in the mass media in the US where he was born.
He was introduced by Jello Biafra.
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Kathy Kelly/ Rania Masri End the Sanctions on Iraq

Professor Edward Said said recently that  “For almost a full decade an inhuman campaign of sanctions – the most complete ever in recorded history – has destroyed Iraq as a modern state …All this has been done by the US and UK misusing United Nations resolutions against innocent civilians..” Kathy Kelly has visited Iraq over a dozen times since 1995, documenting the deaths of children caused by sanctions. In the spirit of Martin Luther King and Gandhi she and her organization, Voices in the Wilderness, are in open defiance to the State Department – not intimidated by the threat of 12 years in prison for each visit.  Rania Masri, is the co-ordinator of the Iraqi Action Coalition. (May 2000)
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Hans von Sponeck: Lift the Sanctions on Iraq

Over 6,000 Iraqis die every month as a result of trade sanctions and the ongoing US/British military attacks. Hans von Sponeck resigned in protest from his United Nations position as Assistant Secretary General and Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq that he held from 1998-2000. He now travels internationally, speaking in churches and schools, appealing for compassion and understanding of the plight of an innocent population. On the ground, in Baghdad, he observed first hand schools without windows and books, and children dying of preventable diseases. Many illnesses are caused by contaminated water since treatment plants were systematically destroyed by US bombing. (recorded 2000)
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Rania Masri on Iraq, the US Global Empire, and plans to redraw the borders in the Middle East

Future US plans for all of the Middle East may include the so-called “population transfer” of  Palestinians from occupied Palestine into Jordan, the division of Iraq  into three separate countries, or the creation of a Hashemite kingdom of  Iraq and Jordan. Rania Masri refers to the recently discovered text of  the Project for the New American Century, commissioned in September 2000 by  Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wulfowitz and others. see http://cryptome.org/rad.htm
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Side B: Alexander Cockburn: The Israeli lobby and the fate of Palestine
On May 2, 2002, barely two weeks after what has become widely described in the international press as a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp at Jenin, the US congress [ . . . ]

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STOP the War on Iraq – Let Iraq LIVE! Ramsey Clark’s Appeal for Peace

This is a moving and eloquent appeal for peace by the former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
Few people know Iraq as well as Ramsey Clark. While the bombs fell on Iraq in 1991 he traveled 2000 miles by car. He returns to Iraq every year to see the effect of the sanctions and weekly US/UK bombings. He visits hospitals and devastated neighborhoods. He now travels across the US to warn us of the consequences of beginning yet another war on Iraq, both for the poor and tortured people of that country and for us, for our own safety and for our souls.
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Robert Fisk on the Armenian Holocaust

In commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the events of April 1915
This moving talk begins with the account of Fisk walking the killing fields and still finding reminders of an event that has been hidden from public consciousness for too long. His talk is based on research on location and conversations with Armenian elders in senior homes in Beirut. Fisk spoke before the Armenian National Committee in San Francisco in March 2001.
This talk on the Armenian Holocaust – and he explains why he chose that term – also generated much criticism from those who want silence to shroud these events forever.
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