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Today on Flashpoints:
Kathy Kelly of Voices In the Wilderness reports from the wreckage
of Lebanon as people begin to return to the areas left in
ruins by the month-long US-Israeli seige; also British MP
George Galloway challenges the media's racism; Mexican Federal
police beat pro-Obrador parliamentarians bloody as the battle
to uncover Mexico's election steal continues; plus the RFK
Human Rights Center sues the US Treasury for alleged political
interference in funds slotted for Haiti; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
* Israeli threatens returning refugees with new leaflets in
the second day of a UN ceasefire
* Iran and Syria resond to the Bush Administration's disputed
claim of an Isreali victory
* The Taliban resurges in Afghanistan
* Ethiopian troops make an incursion into Somalia
Robert Knight
5:08 PM PST
Lebanese Returning Home to Rubble and Devastation
After 34 days of punitive Israeli bombing, amid ongoing threats
of possible attacks, weary Lebanese are returning to find
bombed-out hospitals, clinics, electrical plants, factories,
gas stations, water reservoirs, TV and radio stations, bridges,
apartment buildings, houses, markets, schools, airports, mosques,
churches, roads and farmland. Kathy
Kelly reports from Lebanon on Lebanon Solidarity's civilian
aid convoy to the south and the outpouring of support from
all levels of society.
Kathy Kelly, Voices
in the Wilderness – www.lebanonsolidarity.org
Voices for Creative Nonviolence - www.vcnv.org
More
photos of the destruction around Beirut
5:27 PM PST
British MP George Galloway Interviewed on Sky TV
In a spirited discussion rising to a near shouting-match at
times, George Galloway dispels the widespread western misconception
that Hizbullah is not a legitimate political entity with broad
support in Lebanon, and tries to show the interviewer's own
racism to which she is apparently totally blind! Mr. Galloway
goes on to say that there can be no resolution until Israel
withdraws from all occupied territories it holds from the
1967 war, the release of all political prisoners, and the
establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as
its capital.
George Galloway, British MP, on Sky TV (Rupert Murdoch’s
company) which aired on 6 August
5:36 PM PST
Report from Mexico
The third week of encampment of Obrador supporters in Mexico
City meets with a violent response from the outgoing Fox regime.
John Ross discusses the irregularities uncovered in the recount
which shows a high liklihood that AMLO won the election. Read
The Smoking
Volcano in The Nation,
and read Al
Giordano's piece on NarcoNews.com
which includes graphics and photos of some of the irregularities
John Ross, journalist in Mexico City
5:48 PM PST
RFK Human Rights Center Sues US Treasury
The RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights sued the Treasury
Department for withholding documents in a FOIA request filed
three years ago. The request sought documents concerning four
fully approved Interamerica Development Bank infrastructure
loans that were withheld resulting in hundreds of preventable
deaths among Haiti's rural poor and condemning Haiti to remain
the poorest nation in the hemisphere for many years to come.
The IDB loans were for water and sanitation, health clinics,
roads and education. Will the record show that the US interfered
to create a humanitarian crisis in order to destabilize the
country under President Jean Bertrand Aristide? Read
more...
Monika Kalra Varma, acting director of the RFK Center
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