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 3/31
Special Correspondent Lyn Duff on the ground in Haiti;
An in-depth interview with author David Ray Griffin about
the events surrounding 9/11; What the Bush Administration
knew, when they knew it and how the current investigation
is playing out; The Robert Knight Report;
3/30
The US government pressures Jamaica to evict Aristide
from the region as the repression in Haiti continues, we’ll
feature a special report from Brian Concannon, attorney for
President Aristide just back from the Dominican Republic;
also, we’ll hear from a leader of Lavalas who risked
his life to leave the country to testify before Congress;
also, a six year old Palestinian boy is shot in the chest
by Israeli colonizers in the West Bank after another vicious
raid; the Bush administration relents and allows National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to testify before the 9/11
commission; the Knight Report;
3/29
An exclusive interview with Haiti’s former drug
czar and defense minister, Patrick Elie, on CIA involvement
with terrorists and drug traffickers in Haiti; also, a report
from Lyn Duff on a member of Lavalas in hiding from the death
squads; Phyllis Bennis on Sharon’s indictment and the
killing of Sheikh Yassin; Family member from 9/11 sues the
federal government based on the RICO law for racketeering
and corruption; Interview with a family member who says the
9/11 commission is throroughly under the control of a Bush
insider; the Knight Report;
3/26
Special Correspondent Lynne Duff continues interviews
with Pro Democracy Activists now hiding in Haiti; Interviews
with the right wing Group 184 now in power in Haiti; Also
Bush has a big laugh at US soldiers and Iraqies who were killed
based on his false claim on WMDS in Iraq. We'll speak to military
families who don't get the joke and two war resistors who
are not laughing; Why the 911 investigation group is doomed
to failure; Malcolm Marshall youth forum on war; Also a poem
by Laura Evans Morelos;
3/25
An on-the-ground report from Haiti, where the body
count continues to rise; Palestinian leaders question the
circumstances of today's capture on camera of an alleged Palestinian
bomber; ISM activist Laura Gordon talks about her time in
Gaza, in part 2 of our interview; an excerpt of a discussion
on the questions surrounding 9/11 and the current investigations;
and a look at the day-laborer situation for immigrants;
3/24
A report from Haiti - a woman in hiding and in fear
of her life; Dissecting the US-Israeli relationship in the
context of the recent assassination of Sheikh Yassin in Gaza;
Protesters in San Francisco descend on the Israeli Consulate,
denouncing the targeted assassination of Sheikh Yassin and
the complicity of the United States; ISM activist Lora Gordon
speaks about her time in occupied Rafah; poetry by Aurora
Levins-Morales;
3/23
An on the ground report from Haiti, where former Police
Deputy is hiding from U.S. backed Death Squads. Israel attacks
Lebanon one day after the assasination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin
in Palestine. An in depth look at elections in El Salvador.
We talk about the Group of Five, Cubans held captive on trumped
up charges and conviction. Dolores Huerta talks about the
Legacy of Hugo Chavez. The Knight Report;
3/22
Haiti’s newly-installed US puppet government
praises the death squad coupists as pro-democracy activists
continued to be hunted down, tortured, imprisoned and killed;
In Palestine, US-supported Israeli colonialists assassinate
the spiritual leader of Hamas, and the streets of Gaza erupt
into angry protests; Robert Fisk reports from occupied Iraq
on the latest details of US occupation;
3/19
A Priest in Haiti gives an update on the current situation
on the ground; on this year anniversary of the illegal Anglo-
American invasion and occupation of Iraq, we speak to Kathy
Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness; a look at this weekend’s
elections in El Salvador, and Kathleen Cleaver joins JR on
the Block Report;
3/18
We follow the lives of those in hiding and under death
threat since the US coup that drove President Aristide out
of Haiti. We'll speak with a youth reporter whose collegue
was murdered by US backed members of the former military.
We hear from Haitian human rights activist Mietzlean Wilson,
also in hiding; and an Aristide official who sneaked out of
Haiti to brief members of congress and demand temporary asylum
for the growing numbers of Haitians fleeing the violence.
We'll hear from an American pro-democracy activist now in
Haiti protesting at the US embassy who was threatened by American
soldiers. A report back from occupied Palestine where today
Israeli soldiers killed two children. And of course, the Knight
report;
3/17
Breaking story on false translation of what the US
embassy called Aristide’s resignation; Continued coverage
of pro-democracy activists now in hiding in Haiti facing beatings,
torture, prison and assassination; Massive car-bombing of
a downtown Baghdad Hotel kills more than 25 and wounds scores.
We’ll speak to a reporter from Al-Jezera about the bombing
and about US coverage of the war. Laura Flanders talking about
Bush women. Celebrate publication of Laura's book in SF, Thur
March 18;
3/16
A frontline report from Haiti's US-sponsored killing
fields; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recognizes Jean Bertrand
Aristide as the legitimate leader of Haiti and offers him
sanctuary in Venezuela; Remembering Rachel Corrie, we'll feature
excerpts from an interview we did with members of her family
after she was killed; the mayor of Santa Cruz proclaims today
Rachel Corrie Day in her honor; We'll speak to Brian Avery
who was shot in the face while standing in solidarity with
the Palestinian people in the West Bank; and a poem by Aurora
Levins-Morales dedicated to Rachel Corrie; and from New York
City, The Knight Report;
3/15
Aristide in Jamaica; US Marines open fire on pro democracy
demonstrators; Events in Spains elections; The Knight Report
3/12
We re-broadcast a documentary about the 1991 coup that
sent President Aristide into exile after his first presidential
election; Haiti, Drugs, Thugs and the CIA shows how the CIA
collaborated with drug-dealing Haitian military terrorists
like Guy Philippe for more than a decade; Also members of
the Burmese pro-democracy movement speak out about continuing
repression against their movement and their leader, Nobel
Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi; and The Block Report with JR and
Rashita focuses on education in Oakland;
3/11
Two pro-democracy activists are killed and seven wounded
in a mass protest calling for the restoration of democracy
in Haiti, and the return of President Aristide; We'll feature
a special report from the ground on today's killings; We'll
also continue our coverage of pro-democracy activists under
attack or in hiding from US-sponsored military death squads;
We'll hear from the mayor of a northern Haiti city who has
been in hiding since the coup and fears for his life; We'll
hear from Haiti's foreign press liason on the steps that led
up to the coup, and the action taken by the international
community to restore Aristide; and from New York, the Knight
Report;
3/10
Haiti’s US supported Death Squads continue to terrorize
thousands of supporters of Jean Bertrand Aristide; We’ll
be joined by Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince, we’ll hear
from Father Gerald Jean-Juste now under death threat by US
trained killers. We speak with the President’s attorney
just back from the Central African Republic. The Knight Report;
3/9
Attorneys for Jean-Bertrand Aristide start legal proceedings
against the United States government for their involvement
in the coup against the sitting president of Haiti. We'll
continue our on-the-ground reporting from Port-au-Prince,
we'll hear from a young Haitian media activist now in hiding
and fearing for his life, we'll also go back to occupied Palestine
where Israeli occupiers have killed at least fifteen in Gaza
and others in Jenin, and the Knight Report;
3/8
Today on Flashpoints, we continue our drumbeat coverage of
the situation in Haiti as the violent, US-backed coup surges
into another week. We hear the words of a twelve year-old
Haitian girl in hiding from the death squads; Flashpoints
correspondent Kevin Pina returns with an on-the-ground report;
We go to the Central African Republic where Aristide’s
lawyers meet with him for the first time as they begin to
map out a legal strategy to undo the coup; A rebroadcast of
Aristide’s first address to the Haitian people, a Flashpoints
exclusive; A roundtable discussion on Haiti through the eyes
of Haitian and American women activists; Poetry by homeless
youth on a new Flashpoints segment, Roaddawgz;
3/5
Today on Flashpoints, an exclusive broadcast of President
Aristide’s first address to the Haitian people and the
people of the world, recorded covertly this morning by cell
phone; A roundtable of Haitians and activists respond to the
President’s words and talk about the future of Haiti;
Angry Haitians speak out from yesterday’s protest on
the coup against Aristide; Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Israeli
terror in the West Bank;
3/4
We continue our reporting from the US-sponsored killing fields
of Haiti; also the Ambassador to the United States from the
Central African Republic admits collaborating with the US
to silence Aristide as he remains under armed guard; also
excerpts from yesterday's congressional hearings on the US
coup against Haiti and the kidnapping of the elected president,
and we focus on the situation in Venezuela where the US government's
destabilization attempts have failed to date, but continue
unabated; and a protest this morning against Bush policy in
Haiti, the Middle East, and domestically, as the selected
President stumps California for re-selection;
3/3
Today on Special Two Hour Edition of Flashpoints: Haiti's
U.S. supported killers continue to exact their bloody revenge
against leaders of Lavalas. We'll have our special reports
from our correspondent Kevin Pina, on the ground in Port-au-Prince
about these latest killings and about the treatment of the
Prime Minister. We'll hear about a tax on community organizations
and we'll counteract the massive disinformation campaign being
carried out against President Aristide by U.S. architects
of the coup;
3/2
The US turns the keys to Haiti's killing fields back over
to the killers; We'll have a report from Flashpoints Special
Correspondent Kevin Pina in Port-Au-Prince on revenge attacks
against Aristide supporters and on the Prime Minister, Yvon
Neptune; We'll also speak to Haitian activists across the
country, and with Hazel Ross-Robinson, a close personal friend
of the Aristides; and from New York City, the Knight Report;
3/1
Today on a special national edition of Flashpoints, the Anatomy
of a Coup and the Kidnapping of a Democratically-Elected President
by the US Marines. We’ll feature an on-the-ground report
from our Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina under
fire; we’ll hear about an attack on a radio station
set up by Aristide and destroyed today by anti-Aristide thugs
as US Marines stood by; we’ll speak with Ira Kurzban,
General Counsel to the Haitian government and the Aristides;
we’ll also speak with a close personal friend of the
Aristides, Hazel Ross-Robinson, former senior foreign policy
analyst for Ron Dellums; Knight Report;
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