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D'loadToday on Flashpoints: Expanding violence in Iraq and the kidnapping of foreigners as the situation on the ground continues to worsen; we’ll have two reports from Baghdad; Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina in studio to report on the ongoing US-supported massacres in Haiti’s killing fields; plus the Knight Report
00:50 The Knight Report: Hostages galore in embattled Iraq where US allies prepare to recall troops and urge their citizens to leave; an Iraqi mutiny against US attacks in Fallujah; and British military condemnation and Israeli approval of US tactics in Iraq
07:00 Making Enemies:
Independent journalist May-Ying Welsh in Baghdad, interviewed by Dennis
Bernstein, describes the seething anger and hostility against US troops
over the seige of Fallujah, and inflammatory provocative statements by
boorish US military leaders. Mistakes and misjudgements by US leaders
continue to strengthen opposition to occupation troops, increasingly
viewed as emulating the repressive tactics of Saddam Hussein31:00 Fallujah Fallacies: In Baghdad, Rahul Mahajan, founding member of the Nowar Collective, National Board member of Peace Action, publisher of the Empire Notes weblog and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, describes his visit to Fallujah over the weekend. US snipers were obseved shooting ambulances and over half of the more than 600 civilian casualties were women and children. Read Rahul's weblog at EmpireNotes.org for daily updates
41:40 Musical Break
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with Pierre Labossiere and Dennis Bernstein Wednesday - April 14, 2004 - 7 to 9:30 PM 1st Congregational Church - Oakland - Harrison & 27th St. Congresswoman Barbara Lee calls for an indepedent investigation (H.R. 3919)of the Bush Administration's participation in the Coup d'État of President Aristide. Congresswoman
Barbara Lee (D-CA), Congressional Black Caucus Haiti Task Force
Co-Chair, last month introduced the T.R.U.T.H. (The Responsibility to
Uncover the Truth about Haiti) Act which calls for an independent
bipartisan commission to uncover the facts about the Bush
Administration's involvement in the recent Coup d'État in Haiti.
The bill was co-sponsored by John Conyers and 23 other members of the
CBC. Kevin Pina, the Flashpoints Radio correspondent in Haiti will comment on the importance of The T.R.U.T.H. Act and provide an update on the current situation in Haiti. DONATION requested to
support the work of HAC
and the Haiti Information Project in Port au Prince, Haiti For more information:(510) 483-7481 |