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Today on Flashpoints:
Waves of fierce resistance against US-led forces across Iraq
- we'll go to Baghdad for a full report; a commentary on the
so-called 'reconstruction' in Iraq by Rahul Mahajan; also,
as the world turns a blind eye to the genocide in Darfur,
the rapes and killings continue; a wide-ranging discussion
on police brutality and torture as plaintiffs rest their case
in the Pepper Spray trial; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: It's open season on private military contractors
in Iraq with gunfire, bombs and a chopper shootdown; a US
soldier is convicted of murder following a fragging incident
in Kuwait just before the Iraq invasion; the war and occupation
has now cost more than a third of a trillion dollars; President
Bush wants still more from Congress, but 53% of Americans
are opposed; and death squad coordinator John Negroponte is
now the nation's spymaster. Robert Knight
5:04 PM PST
Report from Baghdad: Iman, journalist, former director of
Occupation Watch,
interviewed by Nora Barrows Friedman, discusses the extreme
disconnect between the hardships of daily life for Iraqis
and the detached idealism of the interim government.
5:12 PM PST
Empire Notes - Massacre at Halabja: Rahul Mahajan, head of
Occupation Watch,
the author of Full Spectrum Dominance; US Power in Iraq and
Beyond, and webmaster of EmpireNotes.org,
in a commentary first broadcast Monday April 18 on Uprising
Radio on Pacifica station KPFK
5:18 PM PST
Genocide in Darfur: Ken Bacon, president of Refugees
International, former Pentagon spokesman, and co-chairman
of the Partnership
for Effective Peacekeeping Operations, interviewed by
Nora Barrows Friedman, discusses conditions in the camps that
are home to over 1.8 million displaced Sudanese driven from
their villages by violence. Also discussed is the Darfur Accountability
Act in US Congress. For more information, see the Human
Rights Watch website, and SaveDarfur.org
5:33 PM PST
Musical Break
5:36 PM PST
Pepper Spray Eight Case: An update on the trial in San Francisco
with plaintiff Spring Lundberg, and Andrea Prichett, founding
member of BerkeleyCopwatch. For details visit nopepperspray.org
5:54 PM PST
Musical Break: I Really Like the Cops, Spring Lundberg; Behind
the Barricades, David Rovics
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