AUDIO: Robert Fisk, Caoimhe Butterly, & Dennis Halliday on the Iraq Occupation

Robert Fisk and Caoimhe Butterly:
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01:04 The Knight Report with Robert Knight
Peace brings more fighting to Liberia...More American deaths than during combat in the Iraq invasion...Rwanda has a new president and an electoral challenger...Israel botches another remote-control helicopter and missile assassination...George W. Bush wants to reverse his father's ban on nuclear weapons testing.

05:54 Dennis Bernstein talks with Caoimhe Butterly with Occupation Watch.
A special front-line report from Baghdad from Occupation Watch's Caoimhe Butterly. Caoimhe talks about what daily life is currently like in Baghdad.

33:27 Music Break

34:46 Dennis Bernstein talks with Robert Fisk, award-winning journalist with the London Independent.
Haaretz, the Israeli daily, reported this week that the US has asked Israel to explore the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to Haifa. Robert Fisk talks with Dennis Bernstein from Beruit, Lebanon about this and also about the current Hutton Inquiry taking place in London.

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Dennis Halliday:
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01:00 The Robert Knight Report From New York:
Israeli Death Squads in Palestine; Bombs in Bombay and Bogata; Elections in Rowanda; In Liberia its Black Hawks Away as US troops flee to offshore ships as fighting renews.
06:00 Energy Market Manipulation: Dennis interviews Greg Palast, BBC Reporter
Unsolicited Corpornography: The continuing saga of those benefitting from the energy ripoffs. Greg describles how Kenny Lay's puppet Pat Wood III chairs FERC and continues to serve his masters. Is the Grid remaining regulated is the problem? Spencer Abraham, Energy Secretary states that transmission costs must be paid by the consumer. The industry has cut expenditure by $20 billion/year on the transmission system. Have you seen your energy bill decrease lately? Greg digs into who is profitting and how. For more info: http://www.gregpalast.com
18:00 Music Break: Rest Easy Weathy Gentlemen - Billionaires for Bush
20:00 Rebuilding Iraq: Dennis Bernstein talks with Dennis Halliday, formerly of "Oil for Food" Project. Aren't the UN workers just helping the Iraqi's? Based on current news, this (the bombing) is probably not an Iraqi endeavor. Staff members are now paying the price for terrible policies of the Council. Reflections on the role of the UN in Iraq. The sactions imposed by the United Nations almost 13 years ago, has resulted in close to one million unnecessary deaths or lives lost on the Iraqi people - not the regime. Diminishing independence of the United Nations.
36:00 Music Break: Jacobs Ladder - Chumbawamba
38:00 US Patriot Act: Interview with Irwin Chemerinsky, USC Proffesor of Law
How broadly redefining Terrorism as "any violation of Federal Law done to intimidate or coerce the government or civilian populations" serves to widen Ashcroft's Net. Police HQ at National Constitution Center in Philadelphia serves as Ashcrofts kick off of "Patriot Act Tour". A larger crack in the Liberty Bell? An attempt by Justice Dept to repeal parts of the Bill of Rights.
47:00 Music Break: What Would You Do - Paris
48:00 Remembering Mazen Dana: Dennis with Barbara Lubin and Sam Bahour.
Barbara and Sam rembember Mazen's ability to explain and teach the complexities of Occupation.