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Today on Flashpoints:
A CIA inspector testifies before Congress. But can he be trusted
to tell the truth about Iraq? We'll ask former UN Chief weapons
inspector Scott Ritter about the real story behind David Kay;
Also, we honor Israeli whistle-blower and poet Mordechai Vanunu
with a poetry reading of his work and thework of Rainer Maria
Rilke;
The Flashpoints Team on the Road with the Immigrant Workers
Freedom Ride
5:01 PM PST
Scott Ritter Former UN Chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter
talks with Dennis about the seriousness the crime of outing
a CIA agent as a breach of security for apparent political
self-interest. Also discussed are the exaggeration of evidence
of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the background and
role of David Kay in the months prior to the Iraq invasion,
their implications for his testimony before Congress and the
absurdity of Kay's story. Scott shares the thinking behind
the title of his book Frontier Justice, Weapons of Mass Destruction
and the Bushwacking of America, and offers perspecitve into
the dissatifaction of US military personnel in Iraq.
5:16 PM PST
Poetry of Morechai Vanunu and Rainer Maria Rilke: Readings
by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
In 1985, working as a technician in an Israeli nuclear facility,
Mordechai Vanunu documented what was going on and revealed
his information to the London Sunday Times. Before its publication
he was abducted by Isreali agents and returned to Israel where
he has spent the past 18 years in prison for espionage and
treason. Nora Barrows-Friedman introduces a poetry reading
by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy at a benefit for Vanunu reading
his poem "I Am Your Spy" as well as works from Rilke's
Book of Hours and their recently completed translation of
Selections from the Sonnets to Orpheus, drawing parallels
between the spirit of the two poets as "voices of consciouness"
for their times.
5:38 PM PST
IWFR Report from Philadelphia & DC: Miguel Molina, Flashpoints
Roving Producer
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