UPDATE -Depleted Uranium on body

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Thursday, January 1, 2004 Listen D'loadToday on Flashpoints: Radical Author and Anti-Imperialist Chalmers Johnson talks about US Imperialism and Empire-Building; and as the US Continues to Deploy Depleted Uranium We Present this Encore Interview with DU Expert Doug Rokke00:50 Empire! As the US accelerates towards control of global resources and navigating the future of the world, Chalmers Johnson, author of the hard-hitting national best-seller Blowback, turns his attention to US militarism and empire-building. In The Sorrows of Empire - Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, Johnson maps America's expanding empire of military bases and the vast web of services that support them. Chalmers Johnson is President of the Japan Policy Research Institute and professor emeritus of the University of California in San Diego. Dennis discusses the astonishing extent and costs of US military deployment worldwide. For more on the costs of Empire see www.skyhen.org and thirdworldtraveler 32:15 Musical Break33:15 Update on Depleted Uranium and Troops Health: Doug Rokke, Army Reserve Major, joins Dennis to continue discussion in the ongoing investigation of the negative impacts of depleted uranuium being used on the battlefield by US troops currently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Doug Rokke started his military career in 1967 in Vietnam, and was later tasked in 1990 as a theater health physicist with the 3rd US Army Medical Command's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare Special Operations and Teaching Team. He was then reassigned to help supervise the cleanup of depleted uranium after the first Gulf War. For more information: Traprockpeace, National Gulf War Resource Center, Centers for Disease Control (search for Gulf War diseases and Feb, 1999 conference), Campaign Against Depleted Uranium, Dallas Environmental Health Center, Uranium Medical Research Center