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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;

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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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