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Today on Flashpoints:
Israelis kill 11 more Gazans, including 2 children and 2 ambulance
drivers; meanwhile, we counter Israeli claims that Hamas was
responsible for Friday's beach massacre - we'll talk to the
doctor who treated the wounded and observed the dead; also,
how the AFL-CIO might better be named CIA in Haiti and Venezuela;
Karl Rove makes a narrow escape for the time being; South
Central farmers get evicted after being betrayed by the new
progressive mayor of LA; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
* President Bush pays a secret visit to his Iraqi proxy President
as post-Zarqawi resistance attacks escalate
* New US assaults are underway in Ramadi and Afghanistan,
and
* The cost of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is now approaching
a half trillion dollars
Robert Knight
5:06 PM PST
More Palestinian Deaths in Israeli Gaza Siege
US-supplied Israeli Apache helicopters terrorize Palestinians,
killing at least 11 people including 2 children and 2 ambulance
drivers - another blatant violation of international law.
Dr. Mona el-Farra, Vice President of the Red
Crescent Society in Gaza and Health Development Consultant
with the Union
of Health Work Committees, is interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman
An investigator for international rights group Human
Rights Watch told reporters in Gaza earlier that the evidence
pointed to Israel. Read the HRW
report.
5:16 PM PST
AFL-CIO Partners to Undermine Self-Determination in Haiti
and Venezuela - Freelance Journalist Jeb Sprague and Kim Scipes,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department
of Social Sciences at Purdue University North Central speak
with Dennis Bernstein about the international foreign policy
of the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center and its activities in Venezuela
and Haiti. Hear how the ACL-CIO leadership supported the Group
of 184 in decimating labor unions and depriving thousands
of workers of their livlihood. Also revealed is the NED-funded
Solidarity Center's blueprint for fueling opposition and fomenting
the coups in Chile, Venezuela and Haiti, and undermining democracy
and self-determination in Latin America.
Read Failed
Solidarity by Jeb Sprague.
Read and sign the Letter
to AFL-CIO.
WorkerToWorker.net;
LaborNotes.org; FreeHaiti.net;
HandsOffVenezuela.org;
Latin America Solidarity
Coalition (LASC)
5:32 PM PST
Rove Escapes Indictment - For Now?
Robert Parry, editor of ConsortiumNews.com
discusses the Valerie Plame CIA-leak case with Dennis Bernstein.
Is Karl Rove out of the picture, or will he become involved
in pursuit of a bigger target?
Read Sealed
vs Sealed on TruthOut.org
5:49 PM PST
Forced Eviction from the South Central Farm
Mass arrests at dawn signal clear the nations largest urban
farm for developers. Listen to audio from the evictions by
LA Sheriffs and arrests of at least 55 people.
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