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Today on Flashpoints:
An in-depth expose on Iran Contra con-man and Bush Middle
East point man, Elliot Abrams; Also we continue our reporting
on recent US/Israeli war crimes against Lebanon; On Earth
Matters—the devastation of Appalachia from mountaintop
removal strip mining; a mini-concert with environmental troubadour
Dana Lyons; and the Knight Report.
5:01 PM PST
01:00 The Knight Report
* Germany provides Israel with more nuclear submarines as
Israel prepares for a unilateral war with Iran
* Lebanon begs Washington to ease the ongoing Israeli blockade,
and France ups the ante for peacekeepers in Lebanon
* Muslim passengers are cleared of accusations in two separate
passenger mob rule incidents
* Louisiana black students were ordered to move to the back
of the bus to accomodate white students up front.
Robert Knight
07:00 An Update Lebanon
As Amnesty International criticizes Israel's massive destruction
of whole civilian neighborhoods and villages, and attacks
in areas clearly of no strategic importance could not possibly
have been "focussed on military targets".
Abdul Rahman, Special Flashpoints Correspondent
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
Further information: an article about the Amnesty International
report and the full report: Lebanon: Deliberate destruction
or "collateral damage"? Israeli attacks on civilian
infrastructure
25:00 An Expose on Bush Israel Point Man Elliott Abrams
Who is the one U.S. official, aside from the president and
vice presdident, who bears the most responsibility for the
disastrous war in Lebanon? It's self-proclaimed "neoconservative
and neo-Reaganite" Elliott Abrams, a notorious neocon
ideologue who was convicted for his role in the Iran-Contra
scandal in the 1980s and currently the president's point man
for "global democracy" and Middle East transformation.
Tom Barry, Policy Director of the International Relations
Center IRC-online.org
41:00 Flashpoints Music Series – I'd Go Anywhere to
Fight for Oil and Sweet New Orleans
Dana Lyons, Musician, www.cowswithguns.com
Lost Mountain, Ayearin the Vanishing Wilderness by Erik Reece;
A groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction that exposes
how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most
precious natural resources and the communities that depend
on it. http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9781594489082,00.html#
46:00 Earth Matters
Amanda Bellerby with Erik Reece, author of Lost Mountain,
A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Radical Strip Mining and
the Devastation of Appalachia. www.mountainjusticesummer.org
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