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Today on Flashpoints:
Radical Author and Anti-Imperialist Chalmers Johnson talks
about US Imperialism and Empire-Building; and as the US Continues
to Deploy Depleted Uranium We Present this Encore Interview
with DU Expert Doug Rokke
5:01 PM PST
Empire! As the US accelerates towards control of global resources
and navigating the future of the world, Chalmers Johnson,
author of the hard-hitting national best-seller Blowback,
turns his attention to US militarism and empire-building.
In The Sorrows of Empire - Militarism, Secrecy and the End
of the Republic, Johnson maps America's expanding empire of
military bases and the vast web of services that support them.
Chalmers Johnson is President of the Japan
Policy Research Institute and professor emeritus of the
University of California in San Diego. Dennis discusses the
astonishing extent and costs of US military deployment worldwide.
For more on the costs of Empire see skyhen.org
and thirdworldtraveler.com
5:32 PM PST
Musical Break
5:33 PM PST
Update on Depleted Uranium and Troops Health: Doug Rokke,
Army Reserve Major, joins Dennis to continue discussion in
the ongoing investigation of the negative impacts of depleted
uranuium being used on the battlefield by US troops currently
in Iraq and Afghanistan. Doug Rokke started his military career
in 1967 in Vietnam, and was later tasked in 1990 as a theater
health physicist with the 3rd US Army Medical Command's Nuclear,
Biological and Chemical Warfare Special Operations and Teaching
Team. He was then reassigned to help supervise the cleanup
of depleted uranium after the first Gulf War. For more information:
Traprockpeace,
National Gulf War Resource
Center, Centers
for Disease Control (search for Gulf
War diseases and Feb,
1999 conference), Campaign
Against Depleted Uranium, Dallas
Environmental Health Center, Uranium
Medical Research Center
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