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Thursday – March 17, 2011

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Flashpoints

Al Jazeera online producer Evan Hill captured this image, along with a series of Libyan front-line fighters struggling to overthrow longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi in early March.

Today on Flashpoints: Dangerously high levels of radiation, and a lack of electricity, continue to hamper nuclear workers from staving off a full core melt down, in post-Tsunami Japan: Also corporate media continues to give credence to an army of high-paid pro-industry flacks, lying their asses off to save the industry: We’ll follow up on yesterdays lethal Ruling Family attack on pro-democracy Activists in Bahrain: The UN gives the go-ahead for a no fly-zone over Libya, as Qaddafi warns the people of Benghazi his army is coming with full force and there will be “no mercy”, and CIA contract killer, Raymond Davis, Freed in Pakastan.

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Guests:

Dr Karl Grossman

Norman Solomon, www.rootsaction.org and www.normansolomon.com

Phyllis Bennis

Husain Abdulla

Dave Lindorff, CIA Contractor Raymond Davis Sprung from Murder Rap in Pakistan after US Pays ‘Blood Money’

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