Thursday – March 24, 2011
Airman 1st Class Katelynn Michalko, 510th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load crew member, ensures an ordinance is secure on an F-16 Fighting Falcon March 21, 2011, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. The aircraft will deploy in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya. Picture from the official U.S. Air Force's photostream
March 1, 2011 - Doctors at a hospital in the key, rebel-occupied oil town of Brega, Libya deal with an influx of casualties from an early-morning raid by pro-Gaddafi forces. Eleven people were reported killed including a 12-year-old boy. Picture from Al Jazeera English
Today on Flashpoints: U.S. involvement in the Libyan bombing is being turned into a public relations ploy for AFRICOM., which is nothing but a front for U.S. military contractors like Dyncorp, MPRI and KBR: We’ll spend the entire hour with Dr Horace Cambell, Talking about the real politics behind the US lead bombing of Libya, and where the progressive movement need to go to really make a difference.
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Guest:
Horace Campbell, professor of African American studies and political science at Syracuse University
Immanuel Wallerstein’s Libya and the World Left
