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Today on Flashpoints:
Fallujah under heavy attack by US occupation forces using
fighter jets, attack helicopters, tanks and heavily-armed
ground forces. Eyewitness accounts report as many as 10 explosions
a minute for extended periods of time. We'll have a report
from the field and speak with regional experts about the ramifications
of the US's all-out assault on Fallujah. Also we'll be joined
in-studio by Michael
Parenti talking about his latest book The
Assassination of Julius Caesar and commenting on the current
US war climate. And of course from New York City, the Knight
Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: Fierce fighting in Fallujah, bombs in Damascus,
and in Baghdad, a new US-approved Iraqi flag with a pale starless
crescent, the stripes and colors of the Israeli flag, and
at its rivers, a yellow stripe runs through it.
General Powell:
'I hope they [the Iraqi people] will understand that in
order for this government to get up and running, to be effective,
some of its sovereignty will have to be given back, if I
can put it that way, or limited by them. Some of that sovereignty
they are going to allow us to exercise on their behalf,
with their permission. It is not as if we're seizing anything
away from them. It is with the understanding that they need
our help, and for us to provide that help, we have to be
able to operate freely, which in some ways infringes on
what some would call full sovereignty.'
More
on Powell's comments
The new flag of the intended democratic government of Iraq
was chosen without listening to the voice of the people.
5:05 PM PST
Perfume Blast: Special correspondent Dahr Jamail, interviewed
by Dennis Bernstein, reports on civilian casualties of attacks
on alleged guerilla insurgents in Najaf, and also his visit
to the Baghdad perfume and cosmetics storeroom which was the
site of a huge explosion, likely triggered by the blowtorches
used by the Iraq Search Group (ISG) and US forces who refused
keys offered by the building owner. Also discussed, the Five
O'clock Follies, where US CPA spokesmen ignore questions from
Iraqi reporters.
5:19 PM PST
Lessons of Vietnam: An interview with Asad Abu Kahlil, author
and professor of political science at California State University,
Stanislaus, and visiting professor at UC Berkeley, and keeper
of the Angry
Arab News Service website, joined by author Larry Everest.
130,000 US troops in Iraq shake Fallujah, a city of 300,000
hoping to loosen one or two hundred insurgents. Asad Abu Kahlil
reads his latest blog on angryarab.blogspot.com
The campaign on Fallujah and impending campaign on Najaf are
discussed, and the extraordinary destruction by a military
using overwhelmingly excessive force killing many more innocent
civilians than insurgents. You can also hear Larry
Everest live at upcoming events in the San Francisco Bay
area - details here
5:42 PM PST
Musical Break - Michael Franti
5:43 PM PST
Listener Call-in Comments: Dennis Bernstein and Asad Abu Kahlil
take calls from listeners on the Middle East occupations.
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