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Today on Flashpoints: Robert Fisk dissects the latest violence in Iraq as the death tolls of Iraqis and American soldiers continue to spike, we will have a report from him on the ground in Baghdad; and we’ll speak with Brian Concannon, a lawyer for president Aristide about the latest legal issues facing the exiled president and the increasing terror unleashed by the U. S. supported death squads.

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Violence in Iraq: Award-winning British Journalist Robert Fisk with the Independent of London on the phone from Baghdad talks with Dennis about continuing violence in Iraq, the increasing death tolls for US soldiers and Iraqi citizens, and traces the anger behind attacks on foreign contractors and US forces. Robert gives first-hand examples of distortions and lies in reporting of events in Iraq when filtered through the lens of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

25:30 Music Break: Ultranada, The Madness of War

Dismantle Structures of Subversion - source: The Black Commentator26:40 The Staging of the Coup: Brian Concannon, a key player in prosecuting Haiti's death squads and former military killers, representing victims of the 1991 coupists, interviewed in the studio by Dennis Bernstein, provides an overview of the legal actions now under way to expose the facts around the February 29, 2004 removal of President Aristide. Details of a recent visit by an International Action Center fact-finding trip to the Dominican Republic and Haiti are discussed. Read their report incriminating the US in staging the coup within the DR, and the rap sheet of US-groomed Guy Philippe. More on Haiti Action Committee, The Black Commentator and Haiti Progres