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Today on Flashpoints:
Legendary filmmaker John Pilger talks about the wars and occupations
in Iraq and Palestine, and the pathetic state of Western journalism;
also, a report on the brutal free trade zones in Jordan, where
raping and beating slave wage workers is not uncommon; an
update on Paul LaRudee, a piano tuner, human rights activist
and friend of Flashpoints being detained by Israeli officials
in Tel Aviv; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
Flash point Somalia, where the Bush administration is now
trying to thwart Islamic populism through diplomacy after
the collapse of Washington's war lords in Mogadishu
Robert Knight
5:06 PM PST
John Pilger on Iraq and Palestine
John Pilger, interviewed
by Dennis Bernstein, presents an independent view of events
in the Middle East. When is a 'War on Terrorism' a campaign
of terror? Also discussed: how the US and the West created
Osama bin Laden and al-Zarqawi, and continues to expand escalating
anti-Western sentiment.
John Pilger, filmmaker, author, Freedom Next Time (read an
extract
on MediaLens.org)
5:30 PM PST
Music Break
5:31 PM PST
Detained for Political Activism in Tel Aviv
In a first-hand account of his detention for undisclosed reasons,
60-year old piano tuner and International
Solidarity Movement peace activist, Paul Larudee, speculates
on the true motivativation for his arrest as he awaits a delayed
court hearing on Sunday June 18. Paul has been held in detention
since the June 4. His reading and writing materials were confiscated
by the Israeli authorities, but the latter were returned after
consular and legal intervention. Only the representatives
of the American consulate and his attorney are being allowed
to speak with him. Unlike most other detainees in the same
prison, he has not been allowed to use his cellular phone.Read
more about this increasingly common Israeli tactic to
try to prevent support of Palestinians.
For more information call Paul’s lawyer: Gabi Lasky:
0544 418 988
Paul Larudee, piano tuner, member of International
Solidarity Movement
5:35 PM PST
Egregious Human Rights Violations in Jordanian Free Trade
Factories
A report on labor trafficking and atrocious working conditions
for Bangladeshi workers lured to Jordan by false promises
of wealth and trapped in slavery by confiscation of documentation.
Charles
Kernaghan, the director of the National
Labor Committee, an independent, non-profit human rights
organization focused on the protection of worker rights -
especially those of the young women assembling garments, shoes,
toys and other products for export to the U.S. in Central
America, the Caribbean, China, and the Middle East.
US Free Trade proponents are squirming to avoid questions
of complete lack of oversight and enforcement of worker protection
terms of the Jordan Free Trade agreement. Progress is being
made in correcting the massive imbalance between corporate
protections over workers rights.
Charles Kernaghan, National
Labor Committee for Human Rights
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