29175: Potemaksonje (News) Flashpoints (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

FROM POTEMAKSONJE@YAHOO.COM



http://www.flashpoints.net
Thursday, September 14, 2006  Listen D'load Podcast

Today on Flashpoints: Author of the Lancet study on
mass killing and rape in Haiti under the US-installed
regime receive death threats, a phony bomb and rat in
the mail; a new study led by the director of Project
Censored finds the Associated Press to be a biased
voice for the state department and against Middle
Easterners; also, Project Censored 2007: The 25
Top-censored stories; a protest to save the life of
Mumia abu-Jamal who has moved one giant step closer to
the death house; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report - A War Summary
More recriminations in Israel and denials in Lebanon
Wars of words around the world
Robert Knight

 06:00 Authors of Haiti Study Under Attack
Jeb Sprague, journalist
Athena Kolbe, researcher at Wayne State, co-author of
report
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

Read The Lancet (Volume 368, Number 9538, 02 September
2006) article Human rights abuse and other criminal
violations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a random survey
of households (PDF format)
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/human_rights_reports/downloads/lancet.pdf

Also read Jeb Sprague's Counterpunch (September 11,
2006) article Death Threats Against Lancet's Haiti
Human Rights Investigator
http://www.counterpunch.org/sprague09112006.html


24:00 New Project Censored Anthology and Impeaching
the President
Peter Phillips, Project Censored
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

On October 25, 2005 the American Civil Liberties
(ACLU) posted to their website 44 autopsy reports,
acquired from American military sources, covering the
deaths of civilians who died while in US military
prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2002-2004. A press
release by ACLU announcing the deaths resulted from
torture was immediately picked up by Associated Press
(AP) wire service, making the story available to US
corporate media nationwide. A thorough check of
Nexus-Lexus and Proquest electronic data bases, using
the keywords ACLU and autopsy, showed that at least 95
percent of the daily papers in the US did not to pick
up the story nor did AP ever conduct follow up
coverage on the issue. Read the full article...

The new edition Censored 2007 covers the following
stories:
 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies
to Iran
Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
High-Tech Genocide in Congo
Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in
Afghanistan and Iraq
Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians
Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed
Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines
New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup
Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention
Centers in the US
Chemical Industry is EPA?s Primary Research Partner
Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal
Court
Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda
Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story
Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever
Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers
$Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed
US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe
Cheney?s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last
Year
US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region


45:00 Update on Mumia abu-Jamal
Kris Kinder and Bob Wells
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein


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