Interview w/ MP Thomas Mulcair

Canadian Government and security services have been implicated in knowingly transferring detainees and prisoners in Afghanistan to torture.

This paints the stigma of war crime guilt on all Canadians.

We spoke to MP Thomas Mulcair from Outremont to discuss how Canada can show the world Canada’s attitude towards war crimes and rectify Canada’s international reputation.

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April 9th FMA Runsheet

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7-8am05 show preview and greetings

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10 ads/promos

-thank you to Dusty’s montroyal/parc for providing the breakfast

15 Weather

20 Community Listings
 

25 More to Life Than Hummus w/ chef Ali Hassan

something for the vegans this week:

recipe for Chick Peas and Lentils – 4min23sec

30 Discussion About Recycling in Montreal

Michael Werbowski, Craig Sauve, Tariq Jeeroburkhan et al. will discuss the expanded commitment to recycling in the city of Montreal .

40 Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve

 
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview

8-9am

00 Democracy Now! headlines

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10

Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation

Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – April 9, 2010

-To follow up on the story we reported on the program last week
regarding the NATO assault and killings of a wedding party in Pakita
Province, Afghanistan on Febuary 12, 2010. The story was uncovered by
the London Times and not only exposed the NATO killings of Afghani
civilians, but also how NATO had knowingly lied to cover up its
actions. Original investigations by the London Times “suggested that
NATO’s claims were either willfully false or, at best, misleading.” 

-Further verifications by Afghani investigators as reported this week
by the London Times have also indicated that "US special forces
soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody
aftermath of (the) botched night raid, then washed the wounds with
alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened"

-The Times also reported that "NATO admitted responsibility for all the deaths
for the first time on (Sunday night)."

-Just to give you, the listener, some insight as to how the North
American meanstream media coverage of the events in Afghanistan attempt
to manipulate your understanding of what is going on and alter your
preceptions of the truth, compare the investigative journalism of the
London Times with the CNN coverage of the same event on February 12,
2010 that reported the deaths of the 3 civilian women and 2 Afghani
government officials were "honour killings" and insinuated that it was
the families of the victims themselves or even the taliban who were
responsible.

-Granted, the CNN report did appear only hours after the incident
occured, but this misinformation is STILL posted on the CNN website two
months later. 

-It becomes clearer and clearer as the misinformation in the
meanstream media is exposed that these media outlets are no longer
reliable sources for credible information about the situation in
Afghanistan. 

-We hope you, the listener, accepted our challenge last week, and
analyzed how the meanstream media covered Afghani President Hamid
Karzai's sarcastic remarks that he was considering joining the taliban.
These comments, made off the cuff and taken out of context by every
meanstream media outlet from Yellowknife to Key West, were used to
demonize the Afghani government and as an excuse not to report on the
cause of the frustration that led Karzai to make such a remark. The
continued killing of Afghani civilians by NATO and foreign coalition
forces has actually rendered the taliban a viable alternative for
Afghani civilians to safeguard the welfare of Afghani people. That is
the legacy of what 8 years of NATO and foreign occupation has done to
the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan.

-Thousands marched in the streets of Germany this past week to protest
against the invasion and continued occupation of Afghanistan. There
were 30 organized rallies at locations across the country to call for
an immediate and complete troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Over 1000
people marched in Munich and about 2000 more people marched in
different towns and cities across Germany. The protest movement, which
is celebrating 50 years of Easter demonstrations this year, is also
calling for a world free of nuclear weapons and an end to German arms
exports. This demonstrates the point that we have made clearly on the
FMA over the past weeks that there is an undeniable link between the
opposition to the "imperialism" and empire the countries occupying
Afghanistan seek to maintain and the global movement of the true
international community towards prioritizing people and humanity over
war and conquest. 

-In the United States, there have been protests and marches that have
not stopped opposing the occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan. In
late March, there was a protest, against the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, that began with a noon rally in Lafayette Park across the
street from the White House and followed with a march.

Brian Becker, national coordinator of the antiwar ANSWER Coalition,
which called for the demonstration, said: "There is growing a body of
sentiment in the country . . . that opposes the expanding war in
Afghanistan, the continued occupation of Afghanistan, the continued
occupation of Iraq."

Maggie Pondolfino, a representative of Military Families Speak Out,
said: "I'm the proud mother of an active-duty infantry soldier. . . .
We love and support our troops. And it is because we do that we will
vocally show our opposition whenever our government sends them to
ill-advised, immoral, unwinnable wars."

-Here in Canada, we will continue our look at how this government is
handling the accusations and stigma of war crimes guilt that hangs over
the head of every Canadian because of the actions of this government
and its security forces.
 

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/19-7

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7087637.ece

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/12/afghanistan.bodies/index.html

http://www.rebelnews.org/politics/europe/203899-german-easter-rallies-decry-afghanistan-killings

15 Interview w/ MP Thomas Mulcair - What the Afghani Detainee Documents Show 

1/ What have you learned from studying the released government documents?

2/ Will Canadians get a full public inquiry into the Afghan Detainee Situation?

25  Michael Werbowski Presents

Discussion of situation in Kyrgyzstan -

1.update for the listeners the latest situation regarding the stability of the community
2.What does this mean for the US and their ocupation of Afghanistan which depends on Kyrgyzstan as a Northern supply post?

35 Weather  

40 Interview w/ Composer Anatoly Orlovsky in-studio

 

My friend, the contemporary composer Anatoly Orlovsky, 43, will have two piano concerts in Place Des Arts small concert hall in late April, 2010.

He was born in the Ukraine and has been composing here since 1989.

His iconoclast music is in the tradition of Shostakovitch and in tune with Canada’s and Russia’s northern nature.

He is now composing for himself  – and a score for the Quebecois cellist Claude Lamothe, as part of  the same concert.

50 Bike Report w/ Tom

55 Community Listings

55 Fusion Opal – outro- plug website www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com

00 jazz amuck w/ John B.

 

Municipal headlines so far:
-recycling containers, which is the best?
-a short commentary on Vision Montréal breaking party finance laws.
-Analysis of “Operation Hammer” // Charest-gov’t anti-corruption task force (Roche Construction)

00 Fusion Opal – theme intro