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Today on Flashpoints:
Israeli occupiers kill 8 more Palestinians in a brutal raid
on the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank - we'll have a
report from that camp; also, more damaging news on the NPR
- Voice of America collaboration; and a new EPA rule turns
humans into lab rats for the pesticide industry; and the Knight
Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report (Robert Knight)
Nearly 200 are dead in Iraq's sectarian crisis
New Cheney documents are reluctantly released
The Bush Administration is testing chemically exploded plutonium
in Nevada
President Aristide prepares for a Haitian homecoming
5:06 PM PST
West Bank Report
Brian Mulvaney, ISM
volunteer, reports from Balata
Refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank, describes unarmed
Palestinians being hunted and killed by snipers after Israeli
forces sealed off and terrorized the camp with tanks, jeeps,
bulldozers, helicopters and F16s. Also targeted are relief
rescue workers and reporters shot and killed while the survivors
face and live with increasing terror and trauma daily.
5:23 PM PST
Voice of NPR
Jeb Sprague, journalist and researcher reports on contact
with NPR concerning the work of Voice of America reporter
Amelia
Shaw reporting on Haiti. When the violation of NPR policy
was widely reported last week, Shaw resigned from VOA. Many
question her objectivity in light of a history of propaganda
reporting for VOA. Read NPR's reply
to Jeb Sprague on FreeHaiti.net. Listen to an excerpt of an
interview from January 2005 which introduces Shaw as a reporter
for NPR and VOA.
5:35 PM PST
Independent Media Infiltration by the State Department Propagandists
- Anthony Fenton follows up on yesterday's report on the so-called
Haiti
Democracy Project representative quoted in USA Today as
an impartial elections observer. Also covered is Haiti Democracy
Project's welcoming of fugitive electoral commission (CEP)
director-general Jacques Bernard who fled Haiti amid investigations
of massive election fraud. Read more at DominionPaper.ca
5:49 PM PST
Pesticide Testing on Children
Intentional and deceptive testing of poisons on humans - oftens
the most vulnerable members of society - prompted the EPA
to create protections, but the rules are loophole-ridden and
ineffective. Stephanie Hendricks, Communications Director
of Pesticide Action Network, reports on their lawsuit to hold
EPA accountable for protecting the public and analysis of
the EPA rules by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Visit panna.org for the
NRDC report and more information on Human Testing of pesticides.
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