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Today on Flashpoints:
A leaked UN report calls for the US to close its torture center
at Guantanamo Bay; also, Haiti Presidential frontrunner Rene
Preval says there was massive fraud in last week’s election;
Alfred McCoy on the US government’s use of torture for
the last 50 years; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: Robert Knight
5:10 PM PST
Report on Haiti:
Kevin Pina, FP special correspondent
Disgruntled business leaders and Haitian elites try to thwart
the majority
Read more on IndyBay and John Maxwell's perspective at HaitiAction.net
5:21 PM PST
UN Report on Guantanamo:
Michael Ratner, President, Center
for Constitutional Rights
5:31 PM PST
On the US’ Use of Torture:
Alfred McCoy, author, “A Question of Torture : CIA Interrogation,
from the Cold War to the War on Terror”
(Read Naomi Klein's comments about the book)
Alfred W. McCoy is professor of History at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Politics of
Heroin, CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, an examination
of the CIA's alliances with drug lords, and Closer Than Brothers,
a study of the impact of the CIA's psychological torture method
upon the Philippine military.
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