Flashpoints

Flashpoints – June 8, 2005

3 million children under the age of five will die in sub-Saharan Africa
unless the United States and other rich nations honor their promises at the
G-8 summit, we’ll speak with Bill Fletcher, President of the TransAfrica
Forum about Africa’s debt and Bush’s inaction; plus, military recruiters
kidnap teenagers and force them to sign up for the armed forces, we’ll talk
about how to fight back and keep them off public school campuses; a
commentary on the Bush plan for Iraq and Latin America by Rahul Mahajan; we
feature segments of Rising Waters, a film about global warming and its
sinking of the Pacific Islands; and from exile, the Knight Report.

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