Patrick Cockburn of the Independent of London reports from Kurdistan on the unraveling into civil war in US-occupied Iraq; also, Israelis vote for a new parliamentary government as occupation policies expand on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza; excerpts from a talk by Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill on the story that the corporate media won’t tell and the bi-partisan nature of empire in this country; and the Knight Report.