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 12/31
We spend the entire hour with noted author David Ray Griffin
as he speaks about the 911 Coverup, questions still unanswered,
and his new book "The 911 Commission Report- Ommisions
and Distortions". Nora Barrows Friedman and Dennis Bernstein
- straight ahead on Flashpoints;
12/30
We'll take and in-depth look at the physical and political
impact of the recent tidal waves in southeast Asia, focusing
on Indonesia; we'll also take a look at whether the US withheld
critical information about the earthquake itself; and we'll
go to Haiti for an update and a report on the possible release
of the legendary folk singer and poet So Anne;
12/29
An in-depth look at potentially US war crimes as a result
of the US’s wide ranging program for torture and abuse
in the so called war against terror, and also we’ll
speak with Rahul Mahajan in an assessment of Iraq policy in
it’s impact in the region;
12/28
We continue our commemorative coverage of late investigative
reporter Gary Webb, we are proud to present again a forum
that was recorded with Gary Webb and Martha Hani in June of
1997 to celebrate the debut of his book Dark Alliance. The
interview was conducted on stage with Flashpoints executive
producer Dennis Bernstein. All this coming up straight ahead
on Flashpoints. Stay tuned;
12/23
Lyn Duff interviews a Haitian woman whose son was shot in
the back by a Haitian military death squad; also, we'll interview
a pro-Lavalas mayor in hiding in Haiti; we'll also feature
an in-depth piece on womens' experience of occupation in Palestine;
and the status of migrants' rights as considered at an international
migrants day conference in Sacramento last week;
12/22
We keep up with our commemorative coverage of late investigative
reporter Gary Webb by bringing to you a special encore presentation
of a Flashpoints Forum with Gary and Guests recorded in 1997,
and of course the Knight Report;
12/21
Resistance forces in Iraq Attack a US Army Base killing over
24 and wounding over 60, also a Cuban/Mexican labor conference
takes on Neo-liberalism and we continue our Gary Webb memorial
reporting series with author Robert Parry, and the Knight
Report;
12/20
The hell disaster continues in Iraq after a weekend of massive
bloodshed, we’ll speak with award-winning journalist
Robert Fisk on the current situation across the region;Israeli
settlers, backed by the occupying military, continue their
land steal in the West Bank; and the Knight Report;
12/17
Genetically modified corn invades the ancient strains in its
birthplace of Mexico, we'll speak with a U.C. Berkeley professor
under fire for hisoutspoken opposition to GMO proliferation;
Plus, art under occupation: we'll speak with an artist and
Israeli anarchist on creative ways of resisting Israel's colonial
policies; A statewide boycott of gas stationsin California
by the Latino community; Attempts to revive the driver's license
legislation; and Flashpoints en Español;
12/16
15,000 pro-democracy supporters take to the streets of Cap
Hatien despite the continuing repression of the Lavalas movement.
We'll have a full report from Kevin Pina on the ground in
Port-au-Prince. Plus Kevin Cooper, live from Death Row. We'll
play the entire interview, plus interviews with his attorney
and an anti-death-penalty activist. And of course, the Knight
Report;
12/15
UN forces occupy Cite Soleil, one of the poorest neighborhoods
in the Western Hemisphereas part of the ongoing purge of the
pro-democracy movement in Haiti; also, Michael Ratner discusses
new revelations about US torture in Iraq, including electrical
shocks and setting prisoners on fire; plus, human rights activist
Chris Brown on Israeli settler violence in occupied Palestine;
and the Knight Report;
12/14
Canada does the post-coup bidding for the United States in
Haiti; also, excerpts of Gary Webb on stage with Flashpoints
in a 1996 interview after the release of his book, Dark Alliance:
The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion was released,
we'll have an in-depth interview with investigative journalist
Robert Parry about Gary Webb and his own confrontations with
corporate media; and the Knight Report;
12/13
Patrick Cockburn reports on the latest occupation violence
in Iraq on the year anniversary of the capture of Saddam Hussein;
plus, Palestinian resistance forces in Gaza attack an Israeli
occupying military post; also, Augusto Pinochet indicted for
mass murder and war crimes more than thirty years after his
Chilean coup; Gary Webb remembered on the first of a Flashpoints
series on the CIA crack cocaine scandal; and the Knight Report;
12/10
More on the exclusive photographic evidence of US war crimes
in Fallujah with Dahr Jamail in Baghdad; also, we look at
the human cost of war and dissidence in Sudan on International
Human Rights Day; how you can protestright-wing American-Israeli
lobby groups; a commentary by Miguel Molina;and Flashpoints
en Espanol;
12/9
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail acquires exclusive photographic
evidence of the killing fields in Fallujah, he’ll talk
about how these images implicate the US military in egregious
war crimes; plus, taking direct action to stop the corporate
plunder of Iraq; also, instituting the Orwellian nightmare
of national ID cards as the plan goes to the Senate floor;
and the Knight Report;
12/8
An exclusive interview with Kevin Cooper, a year after his
eleventh-hour stay of execution at San Quentin; plus, violence
against women reaches epidemic proportions in Guatemala, where
500 women have died viciously this year; a report from the
ground in occupied Baghdad as the US military prepares to
re-shuffle the troops; we’ll also get reaction from
military families on the latest Bush administration maneuvers;
and the Knight Report;
12/7
After the US marines lay siege to Fallujah, they turn it into
a high-tech police state where nobody moves outside of the
crosshairs of US weaponry; also, a look at why the recent
attack on the US consulate in Saudi Arabia is the United States’
worst nightmare; Maria Suarez comes home after 21 years in
jail for a crime she didn’t commit; and the Knight Report;
12/6
Patrick Cockburn reports from the ground in Baghdad on one
of the bloodiest weekends in the war; an eleven year old boy
is shot by Israeli soldiers while he sat at his classroomImperial
Crusades - Patrick Cockburn desk; Kevin Pina live in the studio
to give us the latest news from Haiti; and the Knight Report;
12/3
Thirty people killed in twin car bomb attacks in Baghdad,
we’ll have an on-the-ground report from Dahr Jamail;
plus, the Union Carbide Chemical disaster and the horrific
twenty-year aftermath; a closer look at other environmental
catastrophes;and an interview with John Ross on Flashpoints
en Espanol;
12/2
Today Flashpoints is prempted by the Pacifica Archives fund
drive: This hour features portions of today's Democracy Now!
program, and excerpts from Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet
speech of April 12, 1964 from the Pacifica Archives;
12/1
As Israeli military forces demolish homes and a kindergarten
in Dheisheh refugee camp, bulldozers attack Palestinian land
in Jayyous in preparation for illegal settlement building,
we’ll speak with Palestinians directly affected by these
Israeli assaults; plus, an on-the-ground report from Dahr
Jamail in Iraq; an update on the situation in Haiti; and the
Knight Report;
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