FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints we discuss the propaganda surrounding US and NATO involvement in Libya. Then we talk with the author of a new report on US defense spending, which is estimated to have reached 1.3 trillion dollars over the past decade.  Then we look at reports that the US-installed Iraqi government uses torture as a means of controlling dissent.  Finally we delve into CIA training of death sqads in Afghanistan.
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Guests: Patrick Cockburn-journalist, Todd Harrison-senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Raed Jarrar-Iraq-American analyst & activist, and David Swanson-author of War is a Lie.