FLASHPOINTS

President Barack Obama lays out his plans for an expanded escalation of the occupation of Afghanistan; we’ll get analysis from Robert Knight and Dahr Jamail; also, we speak with Private Michael Kern, an active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Hood who is also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, who talks about the effect that repeated deployments and growing post-traumatic stress disorder has on the military; also, we speak with members of Military Families Speak Out about their sons and relatives sent to wage Obama’s war; and Rami al-Meghari reports from the occupied Gaza strip about recent Israeli invasions and shootings into Gaza as the suffocating blockade continues.

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