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 5/31
We go live to the Bolivian Capital of La Paz where a growing
grassroots revolt is calling for the Nationalization of the
country's Gas and Oil Industry: Dar Jamail reports on more
death and destruction in Iraq: We'll go back to Port Au Prince
where the US-installed government continues to wipe out the
pro democracy movement with the active support of the UN;
and from somewhere in Exile in New York City, the Knight Report;
5/30
Today on a special memorial day edition of Flashpoints, We
feature the award-winning documentary, Stealing A Nation by
John Pilger, which lays out the secret purging of an entire
population in the Chagos Islands to make way for a US military
base;
5/27
Robert Fisk talks about the hell disaster in Iraq, and assesses
the situation in Lebanon and Palestine; also, a weekly headline
report from the Palestine News Network; a commentary by Miguel
Gavilan Molina; and Flashpoints en Espanol;
5/26
An eleven year old shot in the back by US-armed Haitian death
squad police as he attempted to go to school, as Prime Minister
Yvon Neptune finally goes to court; also, FBI documents bolster
allegations that the Koran was flushed down the toilet by
interrogators in Guantanamo; Ali Abunimah joins us to talk
about the Gaza-fication of Baghdad as a part of a new national
security crackdown in the city; and John Pilger's film, Stealing
A Nation, a troubling documentary of the Chagos Islands by
the British for a US military base;
5/25
Massive uprisings in the streets of La Paz, the capitol of
Bolivia,where a growing grassroots movement is calling for
the resignation of thePresident and the nationalization of
the gas and oil industry; and we celebrate the release of
a new book by the niece of the legendaryAfrican-American writer
and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston;
5/24
We celebrate Judi Bari Day, with an auditory journey through
her life, and how we continue her work. Our environmental
segment Earth Matters takes on the Bush administration's lies
and deceptions regarding global warming with Pulitzer prize
winner Ross Gelbspan. We also feature a film about the drowning
of Pacific Islands due to sea level rise;
5/23
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail at the Jordanian-Iraqi
border, where thousands of refugees drift around No Man’s
Land; also, Kevin Pina continues to risk his life to report
on the death squad national police of Haiti and their UN collaborators;
and a collage on the streets of Oakland, where protesters
are holding vigil for Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune,
whose life in a Haitian prison still hangs in the balance;
5/20
We devote most of the hour to the recent Mayoral election
in Los Angeles, where a Latino Mayor was elected for the first
time since the 1800s; we’ll speak with Arnoldo Torrez,
a seasoned political analyst for Spanish-language television;
we’ll have a roundtable discussion with Juan Jose Gutierrez,
an immigrant rights advocate and Richard Montoya of the legendary
Latino theater troupe, Culture Clash; also, women from the
Latino community speak out against police violence and the
Real ID act; and a roundup of weekly news from Palestine;
5/19
We spend the entire hour with anti-nuclear warrior Dr. Helen
Caldicott. Caldicott has spent a lifetime trying to alert
the world to the imminent dangers of nuclear weapons and nuclear
war; and we'll also feature excerpts from a new documentary,
Arsenal of Hypocrisy, which explains how the space program
will be used to fight future wars on Earth from space and
how they recruited the Nazi intelligencia to pave the way;
5/18
Correspondent Dahr Jamail documents massive destruction across
Iraq; Kevin Pina threatened by Haiti’s national police
death squads as he stands between the people of Haiti and
US-supported death squads during a major pro-democracy demonstration
on Flag Day; British lawmaker George Galloway tells the US
Senate to go to hell; smoking gun evidence that the Israeli
military murdered Rachel Corrie in cold blood; and fired WBAI
producer. Robert Knight with the Knight Report;
5/17
We spend most of the hour with legendary filmmaker John Pilger;
for decades, Pilger has been sifting through a mountain of
government lies for the truth. We talk to him on Flashpoints
today about his article in the New Statesman on media control,
and his new award-winning documentary, Stealing A Nation,
about the purging of the native population of the Chagos islands
by the British in order to build a US military base;
5/16
Condi Rice in Baghdad as Iraqi death squads sweep the country:
we’ll feature a report on the ongoing slaughter in Iraq
with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail; plus, legendary
journalist Bill Moyers speaks at the Conference on Media Reform
in St. Louis; and the Knight Report;
5/13
Vicious police attacks on Mexican communities across California:
we’ll speak to several activists about the growing paramilitary
police presencein Latino communities; we play excerpts from
the new film, The Corporation; also, Palestinians commemorate
the 1948 Nakba, or catastrophe, of their forced exile as Israel
plans its so-called independence day; and commentaries by
Miguel Gavilan Molina and Rahul Mahajan;
5/12
We honor the new journalism: we'll feature a new documentary
by John Pilger on the expansion of US militarism on the island
of Diego Garcia, entitled Stealing a Nation; plus, Flashpoints
special correspondent Dahr Jamail talks about reporting from
occupied Iraq; youth voices from Dheisheh refugee camp in
Palestine; and the Knight Report;
5/11
The right-wing supreme court of Haiti overturns dozens of
convictions of Haitian military mass murders and death squad
activists, we’ll have a special report live from Port-au-Prince
on the deadly implications of this breaking story, and we’ll
speak to one of the lawyers who worked on what’s come
to be known as the Robeteau massacre; plus, we’ll feature
a report from Baghdad, where today over 70 Iraqis were killed
and over 130 wounded; and the Knight Report;
5/10
A former high-level DEA agent talks about government drug
trafficking and the Oliver North connection; and we'll be
joined by the author of Drug War: Covert Money, Power and
Policy, an encyclopedia on the history of government drug
involvement; and the Knight Report;
5/9
Independent of London reporter Patrick Cockburn reports from
Baghdad onthe killing of 75 Iraqis by US forces at the Syrian
border; plus, a free-wheeling discussion with award-winning
investigative reporter Robert Parry on CIA-linked drug trafficking
and the cover-up of the October Surprise; and the Knight Report;
5/6
Israeli soldiers shoot to death two Palestinian teens at close
range for protesting against the apartheid wall in the West
Bank; also, the Center for Constitutional Rights sues Caterpillar
Inc. for its role in the deaths and injuries during home demolitions
in Palestine; a report on continuing attacks against immigrants
as a part of a special Cinco de Mayo protest; plus, more on
the life and death situation of Haitian Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune; and the Knight Report;
5/5
Israeli soldiers shoot to death two Palestinian teens at close
range for protesting against the apartheid wall in the West
Bank; also, the Center for Constitutional Rights sues Caterpillar
Inc. for its role in deaths and injuries during home demolitions
in Palestine; a report on continuing attacks against immigrants
as a part of a special Cinco de Mayo protest; plus, more on
the life and death situation of Haitian Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune; and the Knight Report;
5/4
Has Reporters Without Borders become a front group for the
US State Department? We’ll feature a breaking story
on right-wing and State department funding of Reporters Without
Borders; plus, at least fifty killed and three times as many
wounded in northern Iraqi Kurdistan, we’ll speak with
Patrick Cockburn of the Independent of London and Aaron Glantz;
also, immigrants rights activists speak out against Congress’
Real ID act, a blatant attack against the immigrant community;
and the Knight Report;
5/3
Dr. Helen Caldicott reports from a global UN conference on
nuclear proliferation; also immigrant California governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger goes pro-vigilante; Iraq and Afghanistan
still up in flames as new government is sworn in; youth voices
from Palestine; and the Knight Report;
5/2
Haiti’s imprisoned Prime Minister hangs on by a thread
in the fifteenth day of his second hunger strike; meet the
Bush family’s favorite terrorist; also, over a hundred
people killed in Iraq over the last five days; youth voices
from Palestine; and the Knight Report;
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