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 4/27
Attacks on the people of Darfur intensify as thousands more
flee the country; we'll have a special reportr with Dr. Charlie
Clements, taking part in Sunday's National Day of Conscience
to stop the ongoing genocide; plus, International Solidarity
Movement co-founder and investigative filmmaker Adam Shapiro
talks about his new film Darfur Diaries that chronicles the
violence and enveloping crisis in Darfuri refugee camps; news
from occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess; and the Knight Report;
4/26
We get an update on the plan for the Great May One Boycott-a
national action in support of the new immigrant rights revolution.
We’ll also look immigration crack down by the feds to
take the steam out of this new movement. In Haiti, torture
victims who fled the country after the US funded death squaders;
we also hear from the President of Constitutional Rights on
the criminal culpability for torture and related war crimes
ordered and supervised Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
And the Knight Report;
4/25
Legendary actress Rita Moreno talks about her work on the
screen and her struggle as a Latino actress to get respect
and her strong support for the immigrant revolution; plus,
we celebrate the 52nd birthday of death row journalist and
political prisoner Mumia abu-Jamal; we continue our reporting
on the Kurdish and Palestinian refugees imprionsed at the
desert border between Iraq and Jordan; and the Knight Report;
4/24
An exclusive interview with celebrated Israeli journalist
Amira Hass on the worsening situation in occupied Palestine;
also, we continue our reporting on the growing immigrants’
rights revolution, and we’ll feature interviews with
Rene Saucedo Gloria LaRiva, two leaders in the movement; plus,
Mumia abu-Jamal interviewed by Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of
the Prisoners of Conscience Committee; and the Knight Report;
4/21
Due to technical difficulties with the live broadcast from
Santa Rosa, we will present an interview with Professor Alfred
McCoy. Professor Alfred McCoy latest book is “A Question
of Torture: CIA Interrogation From The Cold War to the War
on Prof. Alfred McCoy - Author of "A Question of Torture..."Terror”,
and an interview with Mumia Abu Jamal;
4/20
We continue our in-depth coverage of the escalating US war
rhetoric against Iran, Phyllis Bennis takes a further look
at the ramifications of a potential attack and what the day
after that war might really look like; news headlines from
occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess; documenting systematic
Israeli settler violence in occupied Hebron; and the Knight
Report;
4/19
What would Iran and the region look like in the aftermath
of US nuclear war? We’ll speak with internationally-renowned
theoretical physicist and environmentalist Dr.Michio Kaku;
also, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on the
unraveling civil war in Iraq and the misreporting of the story
by the US corporate media; smoking gun documents that link
Rumsfeld to torture at Guantanamo Bay; and the Knight Report;
4/18
We hear from one voice among thousands of Iraqis now fleeing
the violence in their US-occupied homeland; Israel expands
its bloody occupation against Palestine, we’ll have
an on-the-ground report; plus, an in-depth look at the forgotten
refugees of the Iraq war, imprisoned inside refugee camps
on the border between Iraq and Jordan; an interview with the
cheif prosecutor of the Human Rights tribunal investigating
US and UN-led war crimes in Haiti; and the Knight Report;
4/17
Pratap Chatterjee reports from Northern Iraq on the ongoing
corporate ripoffs and the total breakdown of the reconstruction
of Iraq; also, the cycle of violence continues with a Palestinian
suicide bombing in Tel Aviv on the heels of two weeks of the
most intense Israeli occupation violence seen yet; Los Angeles
students speak out for immigrants rights and protest the death
of student leader, Anthony Soltero, who comitted suicide after
a school administrator threatened him with time in prison
for his organizing;
4/14
We speak with Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Fernando Vegas
Torrealba about the structural changes of the blossoming Bolivarian
Revolution. Fred Hampton Jr. and JR of the Block Report, join
us to talk about the gentrification of communities of color
and the continuing abandonment of communities of color in
New Orleans. We?ll get a report on the Zapatistas Other Campaign,
a look at the mass deportation of Salvadoran and other Central
Americans from the U.S. and a commentary from Miguel Gavilan
Molina;
4/13
Is president Bush planning another war to keep the Republicans
in power and insulate himself from impeachment proceedings?
Also, will Peru elect another populist in the tradition of
Hugo Chavez? Israel kills two more Palestinians in Gaza and
continues its massive tank shelling barrage of civilian populations;
an interview with Robert Parry on leak-gate; and the Knight
Report;
4/12
Israel continues to pound Palestinians trapped inside the
occupied Gaza strip with 300 tank shells a day, we'll have
a special report from Ali Abunimah on the unraveling disaster
in Palestine; also, Flashpoints takes a look at leak-gate
with a former CIA intelligence official; the battle to shut
down one of the most toxic power plants in the US, in the
San Francisco community of BayView-Hunter's Point; and the
Knight Report;
4/11
Greg Palast talks about his recent interview with Hugo Chavez,
the immigrant revolution, and his soon-to-be-released book,
Armed Madhouse: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class
War; also, Craig and Cindy Corrie talk about the ongoing investigation
into the killing of their daughter by an Israeli bulldozer
operator and an upcoming organizing event taking plMy Name
is Rachel Corrieace in Olympia, Washington; and the Knight
Report;
4/10
15 Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in a 36 hour
period in Gaza, we’ll have a report from the ground
as the shells continue to fall; also, the immigrants’
rights revolution continues to spread as millions of undocumented
workers, their families and supporters continue to take to
the streets; we’ll have a series of reports form the
streets; we will pick up the troubling story we broke on Friday
in which a 14 year old activist took his own life after a
Principal in Southern California told him he would be going
to jail for his activism; and the Knight Report;
4/7
Today, Walkout, a new film by Edward James Olmos, remembers
the Chicano student uprising of 1968 in East LA, and sets
the stage for the current student uprisings that started in
LA and have caught on across the country, we’ll speak
to Paula Christosemos, the leader of the 68 student rebellion;
also, we’ll speak to Richard Montoya of Culture Clash
about their new consiousness-raising play, Zorro In Hell;
California legislators respond to HR4437 with a resolution
drafted by Leland Yee and Fabian Nunez, we’ll be joined
by Assemblyman Yee in the studio to talk about the resolution;
a report from Mexico with our technical director and Flashpoints
en Espanol producer Miguel Guerrero; and JR talks about the
continued federal abandonment in the wreckage of New Orleans;
4/6
We feature an hour with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail
and independent journalist Jeremy Scahill in a recent talk
on unending war, militarism and the failure of the bipartisan
system of empire;
4/5
An exclusive interview with Haitian pro-democracy leader and
priest of the poor, Father Gerard Jean Juste; also, on the
road with the Zapatistas and the Other Campaign; an update
on the burgeoning immigrants’ rights revolution in this
country, which has called for a general strike and national
student walkout on May 1st; and the Knight Report;
4/4
As over a million Gazans face starvation, Israeli warplanes
bomb a government building in Gaza City, we’ll have
a report from Laila el-Haddad; also, a US-supported death
squad leader in Honduras ordered to pay $47 million dollars
for extra-judicial killings and torture; amidst spiraling
scandals, Tom Delay, the once-powerful leader of the House
pulls out of his race for re-election; and the Knight Report;
4/3
An in-depth interview with former high-level CIA analyst Ray
McGovern; McGovern talks about his work as an advisor to Bush
1 and his belief that Bush 2 is a war criminal and should
be tried for crimes against humanity;
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