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Today on Flashpoints:
Expanding violence in Iraq and the kidnapping of foreigners
as the situation on the ground continues to worsen;
we’ll have two reports from Baghdad; Flashpoints special
correspondent Kevin Pina in studio to report on the ongoing
US-supported massacres in Haiti’s killing fields;
plus the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: Hostages galore in embattled Iraq where
US allies prepare to recall troops and urge their citizens
to leave; an Iraqi mutiny against US attacks in Fallujah;
and British military condemnation and Israeli approval of
US tactics in Iraq
5:07 PM PST
Making Enemies: Independent journalist May-Ying Welsh in Baghdad,
interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, describes the seething anger
and hostility against US troops over the seige of Fallujah,
and inflammatory provocative statements by boorish US military
leaders. Mistakes and misjudgements by US leaders continue
to strengthen opposition to occupation troops, increasingly
viewed as emulating the repressive tactics of Saddam Hussein
5:31 PM PST
Fallujah Fallacies: In Baghdad, Rahul Mahajan, founding member
of the Nowar
Collective, National Board member of Peace
Action, publisher of the Empire
Notes weblog and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US
Power in Iraq and Beyond, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein,
describes his visit to Fallujah over the weekend. US snipers
were obseved shooting ambulances and over half of the more
than 600 civilian casualties were women and children. Read
Rahul's weblog at EmpireNotes.org
for daily updates
5:41 PM PST
Musical Break
5:42 PM PST
Killing Democracy: Kevin Pina, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
in the studio, provides perspective on the overthrow of President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, describes conditions in Port-au-Prince
leading up to the kidnapping, and media manipulation setting
the stage for the dramatic removal of Aristide in the culmination
of a long term destabilization campaign against democracy
in Haiti. Dennis and Kevin also discuss the roles of Roger
Noriega nad Otto Reich in undermining popular democracies
in Latin America. Learn more, find out what you can do to
uncover the truth, and help provide needed humanitarian relief
for the desperate situation created by the US-supported coup,
at the Tell
the T.R.U.T.H. about Haiti event at 7PM Wednesday April
14, 2004 at the 1st Congregational Church in Oakland, at Harrison
and 27th Street. Call (510)483-7481 for information. Sponsored
by the Haiti
Action Committee
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