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Today on Flashpoints:
We spend most of the hour taking a look at Venezuela through
the eyes of worker’s movements, the implementation of
social programs and the new anti-neoliberalist economic policies
under president Hugo Chavez; plus, news headlines from occupied
Palestine; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
* Iraq's puppet regime falters amid death reports among the
kidnapped education hostages
* The Shia government attempts a distraction with the arrest
of a Sunni cleric
* The Pentagon sends an emergency shipment of marines to occupation-resistant
Anbar
* President Bush's neo-conservative circle is reforming to
create a new debacle like Iraq -- this time in Iran
Robert Knight
06:00 Economic Policies in Venezuela Under Hugo Chavez
Alejandro Reyes with Steve Ellner, professor of history at
Universidad del Oriente, author of several books on Venezuela
27:00 Music – Venezuela Canta – Huracan de Fuego
29:00 Health Programs in Venezuela
Alejandro Reyes with Carina Vance, grad student of Public
Health at UC Berkeley, researcher on the Barrio Adentro public
health program
44:00 Workers Fight Against Coca-Cola in Venezuela
Emily Howard with Ray Rogers, www.killercoke.org
52:00 News from Occupied Palestine
International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org
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