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 7/30
Was John Kerry a war hero, or a war criminal? We discuss a
new ground-breaking story on what Kerry really did in Vietnam.
Plus we continue our celebration of the Chilean poet and revolutionary
Pablo Neruda. Young activists get out the vote at the Democratic
Convention in Boston. And the Knight Report;
7/29
We speak to a photo-journalist who was pulled aside four times,
detained and harrassed by security forces, apparently fitting
a racial profile that Boston was wary of; plus riot police
arm themselves in anticipation of protests at the DNC; a wrapup
report from Solange Echeverria on the unanswered questions
directed at the democratic platform; Flashpoints rebroadcasts
a recent interview with third-party candidate Ralph Nader;
and the Knight Report;
7/28
Peace activists are thrown out of the Democratic National
Convention for exercising their rights to free speech; Dolores
Huerta on the Latino vote and immigrant rights; we speak to
several activists working with the Latino Caucus on labor,
education and democracy; Flashpoints en Espanol with a conversation
with a young activist fighting to get out the Latino vote;
and an extended edition of the Knight Report;
7/27
We go to the Haiti Forum in Boston where members of Congress,
journalists and Haitian activists come together to talk about
the Bush-supported coup, the kidnapping of President Aristide,
and what the future holds for Haiti; plus sounds of protest
against the DNC; also Flashpoints en Espanol talks with a
Colombian national labor leader at last weekend's Boston Social
Forum; and an extended edition of the Knight Report;
7/26
Israeli occupiers murder a mentally unstable woman and two
teens; Al Sharpton on the immigrant workers' revolution and
civil rights; a bilingual interview with the leader of the
California Latino Caucus; and a survivor of military sexual
abuse speaks out to the Democratic delegation; and sounds
from the Democratic National Convention in Boston;
7/23
A new Iraqi Resistance Group raises the stakes with a bold
kidnapping of an Egyptian Diplomat in Baghdad. We'll take
a look at the implications of the latest kidnapping as well
as some background on Saudi connections. We'll take an in
depth look at what the critics are now calling the 9/11 Coverup
Report. We'll take phone calls as well;
7/22
The occupation of Palestine still goes unnoticed despite condemnations
by the International Court of Justice and the United Nations
general assembly; plus, the first in a series of celebrations
of the life of Chilean poet and icon Pablo Neruda; we’ll
rebroadcast a recent interview with Farouk Abdel-Muhti, who
died just last night after delivering a speech in Philadelphia;
and the Knight Report;
7/21
Haitian pro-democracy activists still being hunted and arrested
by US-supported coup leaders; also Phyllis Bennis at the United
Nations where she talks about today's vote in the General
Assembly condemning the Israeli Apartheid Wall; plus an in-depth
expose on Bush's phony military service that continues to
be covered up and laundered; and the Knight Report;
7/20
A freewheeling conversation with Robert Fisk of the Independent
of London. Fisk talks about his journey outside of Baghdad
into the land of Muqtada al-Sadr, the failing occupation,
and what is in store for the US if they continue to stay the
course in Iraq. Plus, an in-depth report on the assault of
the West Bank and how Sharon's policy affects what is left
of the Palestinian leadership and the Zionist redrawing of
the map; and from New York, the Knight Report;
7/19
A Look Deeper into the Unfolding Crisis in Palestine with
Noted Scholar and Activist Jeff Halper; plus, Almost a Million
Sudanese People Flee Their Homes as They Face Starvation and
Mass Rape, We’ll Speak With the Executive Director of
Doctors Without Borders for an Update on the Ensuing Disaster
in Sudan;
7/16
Did the new “democratic” leader of Iraq, Iyad
Allawi, summarily execute six Iraqi prisoners days before
he was handed power? We’ll speak with an investigative
journalist who talked to eyewitnesses in Baghdad; San Francisco
Board of Supervisors member Matt Gonzales continues the discussion
on alternatives to the bankrupt two-party system; a special
election edition of Flashpoints en Espanol with Peter Camejo;
and poetry by Aurora Levins-Morales on this weekend’s
Bohemian Grove gathering.
7/15
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, a wide-ranging
interview with Independent Party Presidential Candidate Ralph
Nader, we'll focus on Palestine, Iraq, NAFTA, corporate greed
and immigrant rights; also, a special expanded Knight Report
into the potential postponement of the 2004 election that
could throw it into the House of Representatives and guarantee
a Bush victory;
7/14
Vice President Dick Cheney faces possible indictment in an
international bribery scandal stemming from Halliburton's
collaboration in a Nigerian natural gas project; also, Catherine
Austin Fitts on Cheney's ongoing domestic scandals and Halliburton's
near-bankruptcy before it was given sweetheart no-bid contracts
in Iraq; plus, the latest in the ongoing assault on the residents
on Beit Hanoun in the Gaza strip; and of course the Knight
Report;
7/13
An in-depth discussion and analysis on the situation in Iraq
with award winning journalist Robert Fisk in Baghdad; American
Peace Activists detained and deported by Israel, we’ll
have an interview with one of the activists and her Attorney,
the continuous Bush Administrations attacks on women’s
reproductive rights and the Knight report with Robert Knight;
7/12
More lethal attacks in Gaza, we’ll feature an in-depth
interview with noted physician and scholar; Dr. Mustafa Barghouti
on the political, social and medical situation in Palestine;
plus, the voting disappearing act: could they eliminate our
vote in November? And a Pacifica producer detained by Homeland
Security, we’ll talk about his ordeal;
7/9
the International Court of Justice rules that the Israeli
apartheid wall is illegal and must be abolished; and reports
of resistance from both sides of the wall; a Palestinian activist
and headmistress of a school in East Jerusalem, and an Israeli
refusnik who was a former high-ranking Israeli Air force Captain
dismissed from service after refusing to collude with the
destruction of the occupied territories; the Cuban Caravan
;Pastors for Peace defy the stifling Embargo against the Cuban
People, and Flashpoints en Español;
7/8
More sweeping attacks on the people in Gaza - we'll have a
report from on-the-ground; Knesset member Azmi Bishara on
hunger strike to protest the Israeli Apartheid Wall; the indictment
of Ken Lay - a full report with Catherine Austin Fitts on
the Enron swindle and the implications for the Bush administration;
plus the Knight Report;
7/7
We spend the entire hour with our Special Correspondent, Dahr
Jamail, just back from three months in occupied Iraq. We'll
take calls from listeners, and we'll also be joined by a very
special guest; plus the Knight Report;
7/6
A look at the true cost of the Iraq war, with an in-depth
discussion with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy
Studies; the intensified brutality of occupation and the reality
of water resources in Palestine, a conversation with noted
Palestinian scholar Dr. Marwan Haddad; and Nuclear weapons
and WMDs found in the Middle East ...in Israel! We'll take
a peek at the Israeli and the American nuclear weapons proliferation
programs;
7/5
A special so-called Independence Day Edition of Flashpoints,
we look at a world in bondage, from the Iraq war to the continued
attack on women in this country. We'll broadcast a recent
speech by author and historian Larry Everest, and we'll talk
about the state of battered women in US prisons who killed
in self-defense;
7/2
A report from Christian Parenti on the trial of Saddam and
Iraqi Resistance; The Peace and Dignity Run, a journey through
American conscience from Alaska to Argentina; and the Knight
Report;
7/1
A look at Palestine through the eyes of film. We'll speak
with Bay Area peace activists about the upcoming Palestine/Israel
Film Festival, and we'll broadcast an excerpt of John Pilger's
Palestine is Still the Issue; and the Knight Report;
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