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 6/30
Israel bombs Southern Lebanon, we'll speak with As'ad Abu-Khalil
in Beirut about the implications and George Bush's expanding
war; plus, the People's Tribunal on rape and other abuses
in India reports to that country's national human rights commission,
we'll speak with our special correspondent Angana Chatterji
in New Delhi; also, Kathy Kelly finishes a 15-day fast for
peace in Geneva; and, the Palestine News Network reports on
the latest settler violence in the Gaza strip;
6/29
An expose on task force 121, the Pentagon’s top secret
kidnapping and assassination team--funded by drug money? Bush
Ag. Secretary continues to cover-up the multiple dangers posed
by Mad-Cow Disease:Noted political performance artist and
playwright, Sherry Glazer talks about tomorrow’s Breasts
not Bombs protest in San Francisco; and from exile, the Knight
Report;
6/28
Could the explosive rise in childhood autism be linked to
mercury in vaccines and a subsequent, massive cover-up by
the US Government with ties to the Big Pharmaceuticals? We’ll
investigate the mercury-autism link and the cover-up with
legendary environmental warrior Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; plus,
we’ll speak with a neurologist and mother of an autistic
child about her fight against the industry and the US government;
Dahr Jamail reports-back from the closing sessions of the
World Tribunal on Iraq; and from exile, the Knight Report;
6/27
Israel convicts the soldier who killed ISM activist Tom Hurndall,
who was shot in the head in 2003 in Rafah, we’ll speak
with al-Jazeera correspondent Laila el-Haddad about the situation
in Gaza; also, Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter on
the Bush plan for expanded military action in Iran; a commentary
by Rahul Mahajan on the ongoing system of torture by the US
military and medical personnel; plus, an update on the killing
fields in Haiti; and from exile, the Knight Report;
6/24
We launch our summer collaboration with La Onda Bajita and
the New College of California; we’ll go to Chiapas,
Mexico, where the Zapatistas have called a Red Alert based
on military attacks and threats of wider attacks; we’ll
also talk with our special guest host Francisco Herrera about
song and poetry as tools for political organizing; a commentary
by Miguel Molina; and of course, Flashpoints en Español
will focus on the Red Alert as well;
6/23
Israel resumes illegal, overt targeted assassinations in Gaza,
in violation of all international law, we’ll speak with
Kristen Ess on the critical situation in Palestine; plus,
we continue our series on drugs and the National Security
State with former high-level Bush 1 official Catherine Austin
Fitts; also, this week on Earth Matters, part one in a series
with human rights leader Van Jones on environmental justice
at the United Nations World Environment Day; and from exile
in Berkeley, the Knight Report;
6/22
The legendary leader of the pro-democracy movement in Cite
Soliel mortally wounded by UN forces in Haiti; also, a pro-democracy
activist pours fake blood in the hands of the Canadian Foreign
Minister as a symbolic gesture against Canada's support of
Haiti's Killing Fields; plus a freewheeling discussion with
Robert Fisk on the recent targeting assassinations and elections
in Beirut as well as the missing $2 billion plus in Iraq;
and from exile in Berkeley, the Knight Report;
6/21
Dahr Jamail reports from the World Tribunal on Iraq, focusing
on crimes of war and information by the Bush administration
and the corporate press; also, we continue our series on drugs
and the national security state; plus, more from Greg Palast
on the Downing Street Memos; and from exile in Berkeley, the
Knight Report;
6/20
Women activists in Eastern India under threat of attack, rape
and murder speak out about continuing abuse; also, the unholy
alliance between Wal-Mart and slave sweatshops of Bangladesh;
and, an extended version of the Knight Report from exile;
6/17
The hidden costs of war: we feature an in-depth interview
about how the war on Iraq is wreaking havoc on the environment;
plus, this week’s news roundup from the Palestine News
Network; the Block Report with JR on Assata Shakur and political
prisoners; a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints
en Español;
6/16
We focus on a Palestinian woman and her child in an Israeli
prison, featuring an interview with the husband and father,
as his family fights for justice; also, an update on military
recruitment on public school campuses, how you can keep them
off your kids; plus, a commentary on Bolivia by Rahul Mahajan;
how the FCC is targeting Pirate Radio; and from exile, the
Knight Report;
6/15
We talk about the war on Iraq and the responsibility of journalists
with Pacifica Radio reporter and author Aaron Glantz; we feature
a rebroadcast of Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy in the Flashpoints
studio reading from their new translations of Rainer Maria
Rilke and discussing poetry in a time of war; and from exile,
the Knight Report;
6/14
Over thirty people killed in Iraq, we’ll get a report
from our special correspondent Dahr Jamail as he prepares
to testify at the World Tribunal on Iraq; also, political
death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal is denied
once again, we’ll talk about what’s next on the
legal front; plus, an interview with Captain Paul Watson about
the Sea Shepherd Society taking on everyone from Disney to
the Canadian government in defense of the wild oceans; a report
on the boycott of Gallo Wines; and from exile, the Knight
Report;
6/13
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stands against the Bush administration
and demands that convicted terrorist and right-wing narcotrafficker
Jose Posada Carilles be extradited back to the country, we’ll
speak with Gregory Wilpert from Venezuela about the situation;
plus, we talk about the implications of the Downing Street
Memo and Bush’s push towards imperial hegemony in Iraq;
and Joanna Macy and Richard Heinberg strategize for a future
independent of oil and unending resource wars;
6/10
An update on the worsening situation in Haiti with our special
correspondent Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince; a week in review
from the Palestine News Network; we’ll feature an in-studio
interview with a Palestinian leader of nonviolent resistance
to the occupation in the West Bank; plus, a new federal grand
jury is convened in San Francisco against Earth Liberation
and Animal Liberation movements; and Flashpoints en Español;
6/9
The first shots have been fired in Bolivia as the Congress
tries and fails to convene to choose a new president; plus,
the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was killed by a US-made
Caterpillar bulldozer in the Rafah refugee camp two years
ago, in the Flashpoints studio, with members of the Nasrallah
family, whose home Rachel died defending, we’ll talk
about the critical situation in occupied Palestine; and, a
Bishop Emeritus from Chiapas, Samuel Ruiz, discusses the ongoing
fight against colonization;
6/8
3 million children under the age of five will die in sub-Saharan
Africa unless the United States and other rich nations honor
their promises at the G-8 summit, we’ll speak with Bill
Fletcher, President of the TransAfrica Forum about Africa’s
debt and Bush’s inaction; plus, military recruiters
kidnap teenagers and force them to sign up for the armed forces,
we’ll talk about how to fight back and keep them off
public school campuses; a commentary on the Bush plan for
Iraq and Latin America by Rahul Mahajan; we feature segments
of Rising Waters, a film about global warming and its sinking
of the Pacific Islands; and from exile, the Knight Report;
6/7
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa resigns after hundreds of thousands
take to the streets in the nation’s capital, we’ll
get the latest from Luis Gomez in La Paz; also, eighteen Iraqis
killed and seventy wounded as car bomb attacks sweep the country,
we’ll get a full update from Dahr Jamail; also, Israel
continues its ethnic purging campaign in the West Bank as
Palestinians protest settlement expansion and the apartheid
wall; Earth Matters speaks to Tero Mustonen, just south of
the Arctic Circle in Finland about global warming, indigenous
wisdom and colonialism; and the Knight Report;
6/6
Continued slaughter on the streets of Port-au-Prince, where
dozens of Haitians have been killed over the past several
days and homes have been destroyed by the Haitian national
police death squads, we’ll speak with Father Gerard
Jean Juste about the situation; plus, Operation Lightening
kicks off in Iraq, as 40,000 police and troops seal off Baghdad
and conduct violent house-to-house raids; and we re-broadcast
a recentinterview with award-winning filmmaker John Pilger
about expanding US militarism and the state of journalism;
6/3
We speak with Human Rights activist Van Jones about environmental
justice and visions of a more just and peaceful future. Also
this weeks edition of Flashpoints en Español which
hones in on Environmental Justice in the San Francisco Bay
Area;
6/2
We continue our live reporting from Bolivia where a growing
peasant movement is calling for nationalization of the country's
natural gas and oil industry; and an encore interview with
Dr. Helen Caldicott on the growing danger of a devastating
nuclear catastrophe; an update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal;
and from exile in New York City, the Knight Report;
6/1
Israel plans to demolish 90 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem
as the Apartheid wall continues to snake through the West
Bank; Christian Parenti, just back from Bolivia, talks about
the growing movement to nationalize the gas and oil industry;
plus, Greg Palast talks about Deep Throat and Venezuela; and
from exile in New York, the Knight Report;
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