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Thursday, January 8, 2004 Listen D'load
Today on Flashpoints: A Special Report from Haiti on Ongoing Confrontations Between Aristide Supporters and the Right-wing Opposition; "The Buying of the President 2004," a New Investigative Study by the Center For Public Integrity on the Buying and Selling of Presidential Candidates; A Look at Israel's Fully Developed Nuclear Weapons Program in the Context of a Call for a Nuclear Free Middle East; The Case of Israeli Nuclear Whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu

01:04  Haiti General Strike: Special correspondent Kevin Pina on the phone speaks with Dennis. In an apparent replay of the Venezuelan uprising of April 2002, US- and French-backed right-wing minority opposition to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide launched a 2-day general strike to further its destabilization campaign in the hopes that Aristide could be removed. Kevin describes the effect of the strike and also the unreported murder, violence and arson against Aristide supporters. More on this story tomorrow.

07:18  Presidential Bids: Author Charles Lewis, Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, talks about corporate campaign contributions and his book The Buying of the President 2004. While the Bush camp rakes in mind-boggling quantities of cash and evidence of government windfalls for campaign contributors grows daily, the hands of Democratic hopefuls are not entirely clean either. More information or watch the archived video webcast of today's book release press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

32:19  Musical Break

33:20  Nuclear Carte Blanche for Israel: Dr. Joseph Gerson, Director of Programs and Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program of the American Friends Service Committee, and author of With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination discusses the nuclear double-standard in the Middle East as the US appears to be entering a second Nuclear Age. As the world's fifth largest nuclear arsenal with an estimated 300 to 500 nuclear weapons, and steadfast refusal to allow inspections, Israel is embraced as a strategic partner, its weapons programs unchecked, unmonitored and largely ignored by the  US state department, while many nations press for a nuclear-free Middle East. More information
 
51:27  Vanunu's Release: Felice Cohenjappa, Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu, is interviewed by Associate Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman. A former Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu is just 105 days from his April 22 release from an 18-year sentence in an Israeli prison for blowing the whistle on his government's secret nuclear weapons program. He was captured by Israeli agents on September 30, 1986, and has spent more than 11 1/2 years in solitary confinement. More...

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