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Today on Flashpoints:
Bilal El-Amine reports on the devastation of large parts of
the south of Lebanon, and on the bombing of an orphanage which
leaves a family stranded in the basement with no way out;
also a report from Beirut on the bombing of a civilian neighborhood
that killed over 30 people; a report on the growing grass-roots
civil resistance movement in Lebanon; also, the battle for
a recount in Mexico continues to heat up in the streets; and
the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
* Israel bombs a Lebanese refugee camp, strafes a funeral
and threatens to kill every moving vehicle south of the Litani
River with the assistance of Pentagon satellites and NSA intercepts
* France and the Arab League join Lebanon in condemning a
US-backed Security Council resolution allowing Israel to keep
the Lebanese territory taken so far
* There is an election showdown for nominal Democrat and pro-war
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman
Robert Knight
5:06 PM PST
Israeli Warplanes Level Orphanage in Southern Lebanon
Bilal el-Amine, former editor, Left
Turn Magazine, FP Special Correspondent
5:25 PM PST
Israeli Warplanes Bomb Beirut Neighborhood, Killing 30
Abdul Rahman Zaza, human rights worker in Beirut
5:36 PM PST
Civil Resistance Movement Growing in Lebanon
Huwaida Arraf, human rights worker – lebanonsolidarity.org
For latest news on the devastation in Lebanon and the occupied
territories visit ElectronicLebanon.net
Visit WhyLebanon.net
for dozens of pages of photo documentation of the horror and
devastation of Israeli bombing attacks (warning: some images
are very graphic)
5:46 PM PST
Battle for a Recount in the Streets of Mexico
John Ross, independent journalist and author
Read the article The
Smoking Volcano by John Ross in The
Nation
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