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Today on Flashpoints:
John Ross reports from Mexico City about the final word on
the official Mexican election steal; Israeli death squads
continue their killing spree in the wake of the US-Israeli
attack on Lebanon; also a look at plans to go to war against
Iran, and the US use of torture in the Middle East; more on
UN violence in Haiti, as a major Lavalas leader is arrested;
and the Knight Report.
5:01 PM PST
01:00 The Knight Report
* Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi militia defeats the Iraqi army
in southern Iraq
* US-trained Iraqi troops refuse to obey US deployment orders
* Attorney General Gonzales is in Baghdad to proscribe new
torture protocols
* Defense secretary Rumsfeld goes off the deep end, calling
war opponents "confused cowards"
* President Bush backs away from a proposed debate with the
President of Iran
Robert Knight
07:00 Israeli Death Squads Continue Killing Rampage
Ali Abunimah, co-founder, ElectronicIntifada.net discusses
the UN's blatant disregard for killings, kidnappings, imprisonment
and mistreatment of Palestinians by Israeli forces, the UN
role in calling for investigation of war crimes committed
by Israel in its July-August invasion of Lebanon, and the
hypocrisy of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's highly publicized
visit to the region.
Interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman
Oil, Power and Empire, Iraq and the US Global Agenda by Larry
Everest. source http://www.larryeverest.com
26:00 Regional Analysis
Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power and Empire
How much and what kinds of torture can US get away with? What
countries are next on the list? Whose list is it anyway? Was
Lebanon a trial run for invasion of Iran? What can we do about
it?
Drive out the Bush regime. Nationwide meetings start September
7th for a National Day of Resistance on October 5th. There
is a day, there is a way!
Visit WorldCantWait.net or call (866) 973-4463 for information
on upcoming protests and actions. Listeners in the San Francisco
Bay Area can participate in weekly Torture Teach-Ins at Boalt
Hall on the UC Berkeley campus starting September 5, 2006.
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein (in the studio)
35:00 Report from the Streets of Mexico City
John Ross, journalist, author discusses the electoral commission's
side-stepping claims of fraud in the White Elite vs Brown
Poor race struggle that this election represents.
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
44:00 Violent UN Attack in Cite Soleil, Haiti
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints special correspondent
Ben Terrell and Dave Welch, Haiti Action Committee, www.haitiaction.net
Eyewitness accounts and video soundtrack of Brazilian UN troops
murdering civilians and shooting up poor Haitian neighborhood
on August 24, 2006
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
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