Pacifica's Peace Watch
Monday, December 23, 2002
Today's Stories:
Rumsfeld says troops are mobilizing
8000 pages missing from Iraq Dossier
Commentary about the Real Omissions in Iraq’s Dossier
Turkey’s Plans to Invade Iraq
Gulf War illness still haunts veterans as Gulf War II begins
Anti-war rally in Baltimore
Weekend Statewide Rally in Ohio
Veteran anti-war activist Tom Hayden speaks about the tasks
of the peace movement
Breakfast of Champions
The audio of today's show is posted at http://www.radio4all.net/
Story: Rumsfeld says troops are mobilizing
In his final press conference of the year, War Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld announced at the Pentagon today that the US
is continuing to actively train Iraqi opposition forces for
what he described as a post-Saddam Iraq. He also announced
that the Dept. of Defense is mobilizing National Guard and
Reserve troops in the event of war and refused to commit the
United States to allowing UN inspectors to leave the country
before the start of an attack on Iraq.
Tape: War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
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Story: 8000 pages missing from Iraq Dossier
While the U.S. pushes for answers from Iraq over what it
perceives as omissions or gaps in the Iraqi report submitted
to the U-N Security Council, others are equally concerned
about conspicuous omissions in the document after it left
U.S. hands. It was a much abbreviated report with 8-thousand
pages deleted before it was handed over to the ten non-permanent
members of the Security Council. Many of those countries on
the short end of the stick are furious over the treatment.
Syria stormed out of the U-N session last week and Norway
says it’s been treated like a ‘second class country’
while Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted it was-- in his
words-- ‘unfortunate’ that the U.S. was allowed
to have the only complete dossier for editing.
Tape: Phyllis Bennis, a fellow with the Institute for Policy
Studies in Washington
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Story: Commentary about the Real Omissions in Iraq’s
Dossier
Tape: Ralph Schoenman and Maya Shone of WBAI’s "Taking
Aim"
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Story: Turkey’s Plans to Invade Iraq
Peacewatch has learned the Turkish Army has plans to invade
and occupy a large part of Northern Iraq as part of a possible
US War to oust Saddam Hussein.
Tape: Peacewatch reporter Aaron Glantz in Ankara
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Story: Gulf War illness still haunts veterans as
Gulf War II begins
As the U.S. government prepares to send hundreds of thousands
of troops into war in Iraq, the fight continues for justice
and fair compensation for the veterans suffering from their
service in the last Gulf War.
Tape: Peacewatch correspondent Melinda Tuhus examines the
price Gulf vets are paying and what the future holds in the
first of a two part series.
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Story: Anti-war rally in Baltimore
In Baltimore Maryland, the Radical Anti-Imperialist Network,
Yellow Springs ARA and Bold Print Media Collective sponsored
a rally at the Harborplace mall taking against consumerism
and war on the largest Christmas shopping weekend of the year
highlighting the cost of the war.
Tape: Report from Ryme Katkhouda,
Peacewatch correspondent at Pacifica station WPFW in DC
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Story: Weekend Statewide Rally in Ohio
More than 500 people gathered over the weekend in Cleveland,
Ohio on a very chilly day for a peace rally and march . It
was the second major anti-war demonstration in Cleveland since
the passage of President Bush's war resolution, and some believe
it signals a growing movement for peace in the Midwest.
Tape: report from Peacewatch correspondent Evan Davis
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Story: Veteran anti-war activist Tom Hayden speaks
about the tasks of the peace movement
As the anti-war movement struggles to stop another war against
Iraq, veteran anti-war activist Tom Hayden spoke recently
to members of Southern California Americans For Democratic
Action. He addressed how the movement can break through the
media blockade on voices for peace, and what questions need
to be asked
Tape: Tom Hayden, former head of Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) and member of the Chicago Seven, prepared by
Peacewatch producers Armando Gudiño and Dan Pavlish
at Pacifica station KPFK
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Story: Breakfast of Champions
Gulf Wars-- both old and new-- are the subject of a new,
multimedia exhibit first created a decade ago by Brooklyn
artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese. The sculpture, titled
"Breakfast of Champions," consists of a breakfast
table upon which there is a thick, Gulf War edition of the
NY Times along with the coffee, toast and a checkerboard tablecloth.
But instead of a front page photo, the Times has a TV monitor,
saturated with the sounds and images of the Gulf War as presented
by corporate media.
Peacewatch’s Robert Knight travelled to Ligorano and
Reese's studio in the post-industrial artistic community of
Williamsburg, Brooklyn for a taste of the "Breakfast
of Champions" exhibit
Tape: Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano, curators of http://www.PureProductsUSA.com,
an internet gallery of political art.
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