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 11/30
The reign of terror continues for ordinary Iraqis as four
members of the Christian Peacemaker Team are being held hostage,
we’ll have an update from Dahr Jamail; we’ll also
be joined by the founder of the United Farmworkers Dolores
Huerta, speaking out against the planned execution of Stan
Tookie Williams; a former gang member talks about the role
Tookie Williams played in helping to fight violence in the
youth community; also, we continue our rouge’s gallery
reporting on the latest scandals in the White House and Republican-led
Congress; and the Knight Report;
11/29
Vice President Cheney linked to torture and international
war crimes by a former high-level Bush administration official;
also, an exclusive story from the Electronic Intifada that
implicates British foreign secretary Jack Straw in violations
of international law for lobbying on behalf of British corporations,
helping to expand Israel’s illegal grip on East Jerusalem;
plus, four human rights activists kidnapped in Baghdad as
the US military continues to raid and destroy hospitals with
chemical and uranium weapons; actor Martin Sheen speaks to
us about the School of the Americas and the work of late,
legendary peace activist Father Bill O’Donnell; and
the Knight Report;
11/28
United Nations peacekeepers again on the attack against unarmed
civilians in the poor neighborhoods of Cite Soleil in Haiti;
also, activists with the group No More Deaths protest the
growing violence against immigrants coming over the Arizona-Mexico
border; anti-death penalty advocate Michael Kroll widens the
lens to look at death row as Stanley Tookie Williams moves
one day closer to his execution date; and on Earth Matters,
Pacific Lumber continues its liquidation logging of ancient
redwood trees;
11/25
Today on a special Friday edition of Flashpoints, domestic
war crimes against the poor and the working class; we’ll
look at how communities like Richmond have been betrayed by
an administration willing to blow the US budget on oil wars
for the rich; a rogue’s gallery of the current administration
officials and congressmen facing criminal indictments; we’ll
take a look at a terrible shooting that took place in Richmond;
also, a 24 year old Native American in Montana may be sentenced
to death on Monday for a crime he didn’t commit; and
a look at the Ibdaa dance troupe direct from occupied Palestine;
11/24
A report on the ongoing ethnic cleansing of poor people and
people of color from New Orleans; the smoking-gun proof that
Bush's war against Iraq was an Oil War, not a war of liberation;
and, with 19 days left before the state murders Stanley "Tookie"
Williams, we'll feature an encore interview with his closest
friend and editor;
11/23
Israel bombs Lebanon while the US plots to bomb al-Jazeera;
the international war crimes tribunal on Haiti indicts members
of the US military and others in war crimes against the Haitian
people, we’ll also have an update on the case of Father
Gerard Jean Juste; as Dick Cheney tries to undermine the McCain
abuse bill, Jennifer Harbury speaks out against the widespread
use of torture by the US; and the Knight Report;
11/22
In a riveting speech, award-winning international correspondent
Robert Fisk talks about his new book and the breakdown in
the Middle East; and the Knight Report;
11/21
Without a pardon from the Governor, the State of California
will murder death row prisoner and Nobel prize nominee Stanley
Tookie Williams in 22 days, today, we focus on life on death
row through the eyes of those who visit there regularly; also,
Israeli occupation forces continue with their policy of extra-judicial
assassinations in the West Bank as Sharon reinvents himself
as a so-called moderate; Palestinian refugee youth communicate
their experience through dance: the Ibdaa dance troupe returns
to the Bay Area; and the Knight Report;
11/18
Thousands converge in Fort Benning, Georgia, to close down
the School of the Americas, we’ll speak with Father
Roy Bourgeois as Flashpoints co-host Francisco Herrera joins
us from the main stage of the weekend protest; also, an interview
with Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr., for an update on the case
of Stanley Tookie Williams and a report on a new anti-state
crime campaign against the racist judicial system; headlines
from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol;
11/17
We devote the entire hour to the life and work of frontline
foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, and his new book, The Great
War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East; and
the Knight Report;
11/16
Human rights activists call for an international inquiry into
revelations of a secret prison in Baghdad run by the Iraq
government, in which people were tortured, beaten and starved,
we’ll talk about this and new revelations about torture
and abuse at Guantanamo Bay; also, an Israeli commanding officer
acquitted of charges for murdering 13 year-old Palestinian
girl last year, shooting her 20 times; also, 27 days until
the State plans to kill Stanley Tookie Williams; The Palestinian
youth of Ibdaa come to the Bay Area; and the Knight Report;
11/15
We’ll feature an in-depth interview on the violent uprisings
that have rocked cities around France for 18 days, we’ll
speak to Diana Johnstone in Paris; also, Malik Rahim, founder
of the Common Ground Collective and Green Party candidate
for Mayor of New Orleans joins us in the studio; and the Knight
Report;
11/14
An in-depth look at Mexican politics with award-winning journalist
and poet John Ross, Ross will also read from his poetry; also,
the US, Canada, Brazil and the United Nations accused of war
crimes at the inter-American Commission of Human Rights, we’ll
speak to the lead prosecutor of a war crimes tribunal into
possible war crimes by the aforenamed countries; and the Knight
Report;
11/11
Today on Flashpoints, we continue our collaboration with the
New College of California in the heart of San Francisco’s
Mission District!Salvadorans end a three-day occupation in
a church outside of San Salvador to protest inhumane prison
conditions; today on Flashpoints, we’ll have a special
report on the large numbers of Salvadorans criminalized, imprisoned
in the US and deported, we’ll also talk about how the
growing deportations ultimately impact the US and El Salvador,
as well as Honduras and Guatemala; also, fighting gentrification
in the wreckage of New Orleans; news headlines from the region;
and Flashpoints en Espanol;
11/10
Attacks continue against Haitians in the streets of Cite Soleil
as the mainstream media pays no attention, we’ll have
a full report on the latest situation there; also, EPA moves
to allow pesticide companies to test on pregnant women and
at-risk children; a report from the streets of Argentina;
we’ll feature the Block Report’s interview about
Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who is facing murder
by the State of California next month; and the Knight Report;
11/9
A triple bombing leaves over 60 people dead and hundreds wounding
at three hotels in Amman, Jordan, we’ll speak with Ali
Abunimah about the situation. An in-depth look at the expanding
deadly impacts of uranium munitions that are being used by
US and British forces in Iraq; and on Earth Matters, grassroots
environmentalists are blamed for the flooding and deaths in
New Orleans. And the Knight Report;
11/8
The ongoing destruction of Iraq by the United States results
in dozens killed, on the one-year anniversary of one of the
bloodiest massacres by occupation forces, we’ll speak
with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail about the situation;
also, Israeli snipers shoot another young Palestinian boy
in the West Bank; we’ll feature an in-depth interview
on Israeli policy in occupied Palestine with Israeli dissident,
historian and activist Dr. Ilan Pappe; and the Knight Report;
11/7
Six US Marines accused of gang-raping a young Filipina woman,
we’ll have a special report on an immediate call for
action and an investigation; also, media critic Norman Solomon
arrested briefly over the weekend as a potential security
risk during the visit of Prince Charles; the pro-torture administration
of George Bush opposes any limitations on torture, as laid
out in a new Senate bill by John McCain ; and the Knight Report;
11/4
Today on Flashpoints, we broadcast live from New College of
California in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District.
Today on Flashpoints, Bush is confronted in Argentina by tens
of thousands of protestors who are fed up with the US Free
trade policies that are strangling the regional economy. Plus
a new film documents how a victim of Argentina's dirty war
investigates her kidnapers and sends them to jail. Healines
from the region and Flashpoints in Espanol with Nancy Charaga,
Miguel Gavilan Molina, and Miguel Guerrero, and more;
11/3
I. Lewis Libby pleads not guilty to 5 felony counts regarding
the coverup of his role in the Leak-gate affair; also the
Oakland Institute calls for a radical transformation in the
way international food aid systems work to help prevent wholesale
starvation; and on Earth Matters this week, an interview with
Goldman Environmental Prize winner Sarah James of the Gwich'in
nation of native Alaskans and our fight to save America's
Serengeti, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and the Knight
Report;
11/2
The Republican Senate caves in to the Democrats and agrees
to a bi-partisan investigation into Bush administration intelligence
fixing in the lead-up to the war; also, former CIA officer
Philip Agee talks about the Plame affair and the US push to
destabilize Venezuela and overthrow Hugo Chavez; and the Knight
Report;
11/1
Israel fires missiles into the rubble of Jabaliya refugee
camp, killing two and wounding six, as Israeli occupation
forces continue their sweeps, arrests and killings in the
West Bank; we’ll feature a report from the ground in
Gaza city, we’ll talk to journalist and activist Toufic
Haddad about Israeli policy and whispers of a third intifada;
and the Knight Report;
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