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 8/31
We feature an up date for Haiti’s US Sponsored Killing
Fields: And we continue our series, poets in a time of war,
with notes Palestinian poet and Writer, Naomi Shihab Nye:
And from exile the Knight Report;
8/30
We’ll Feature a round-table discussion on how best to
stop the Bush war machine and end the bloody occupation of
Iraq and Palestine; Also how to deal with the sell out democrats;
And from exile the Knight Report;
8/29
Activists in El Paso call for the extradition of CIA asset
and known terrorist Luis Posada Carilles; also, the Texas
judicial death machine gets ready to execute another innocent
victim in the name of Frances Newton; poet and historian Aurora
Levins Morales reads poetry in a time of war; and the Knight
Report;
8/26
5000 soccer fans in Haiti witness a machete massacre of up
to 50 victims by national police, we’ll have a special
report from Kevin Pina on the ground; also, we’ll visit
the Peace House on the perimeter of the Bush Ranch, where
the alternative media has been getting the word out about
Cindy Sheehan and the growing movement against the war; we’ll
feature a report on the trial of CIA asset and mastermind
of the 1976 Cuban airline bombing Luis Posada Carilles; headlines
from the region, a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints
en Español;
8/25
Bush Supreme Court Nominee tied directly to the Administration’swide-ranging
program of illegal detention, abuse and torture, we’ll
have a special report on what appears to be an illegal conflict
of interest on the part of Judge Roberts; plus, Ali Abunimah
on today’s Israeli undercover attack that left five
young Palestinians dead; a reading of Amira Hass’ latest
article about the so-called Gaza disengagement; and the Knight
Report;
8/24
California’s immigrant community shocked by a pro-Minutemen
position taken by Fabian Nunez, the speaker of the California
Assembly; plus, Israelis continue to tighten their grip on
illegally-seized land in the West Bank, providing more and
more homes for the violent settlers from Gaza; organizers
prepare for major national demonstrations as opposition to
the Bush wars grows; and the Knight Report;
8/23
Gazans left in ruins and in the lurch as Israelis solidify
their holds in the West Bank, we’ll feature a report
from Gaza with Toufic Haddad; also, televangelist Pat Robertson
calls for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela;
in Iraq, Constitution or no, the slaughter continues; and
the Knight Report;
8/22
A large, spirited antiwar demonstration led by Gold Star Mothers
greets Bush in Salt Lake City, considered the most conservative
area in the country; also, an update on Haiti’s expanding
killing fields; the meltdown between Hugo Chavez and the US
continues as Chavez removes immunity for US agents; and the
Knight Report;
8/19
We Speak with a Gold Star Mother holding vigil at Camp Casey
in Crawford Texas. We speak with Father Aiden Troy in North
Belfast and Carol Russell in New York about the sectarian
murder of a 15 year old Catholic youth in Northern Ireland.
A weekly report from the Palestine News Network and Flashpoints
in Espanol;
8/18
Massive demonstrations in Haiti demanding justice and the
return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, we’ll go
to Port-au-Prince with Kevin Pina; plus, an in-depth look
at the life of Palestinian refugees, we’ll speak with
community leader and journalist Ziad Abbas of the Ibdaa Cultural
Center in the Dheisheh refugee camp, here in the Flashpoints
studio; we feature two radio pieces by students of the Ibdaa
media project; and an update from Cindy Sheehan’s growing
vigil at the Crawford ranch;
8/17
Legendary Haitian Priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste collapses
in prison, we’ll get a report on his condition from
Port-au-Prince; plus, Robert Fisk in Baghdad talks about today’s
series of deadly car bombs after he visits the city morgue;
an Israeli settler opens fire on a group of Palestinian workers
in the West Bank, killing three, as Israeli soldiers continue
the evictions in Gaza; we go back to Crawford, Texas, at the
expanding anti-war vigil; and the Knight Report;
8/16
Today on Flashpoints: Israel’s theatrics in Gaza play
out in the West Bank as settlements and the apartheid wall
expand and settlers attack Palestinians, we’ll speak
with Ali Abunimah on the latest news from occupied Palestine;
plus, stand up and take to the streets: the September 24th
massive march and rally to end the occupations of Iraq, Palestine
and Haiti; Earth Matters looks at the Mountain Justice Summer
campaign in Appalachia, where violent police and company thugs
cannot deter the community uprising against Mountain Top Decapitation
coal mining; and the Knight Report;
8/15
We hear from Palestinian journalists and activists in the
occupied Gaza strip and the West Bank about what the Gaza
pullout means for the future of Palestine; is this is just
another smokescreen to distract from Israel’s illegal
land theft in the West Bank? Also, a judge rules that providing
Iraqi children basic medical care is a crime, we’ll
speak with Kathy Kelly about his fine against Voices in the
Wilderness; and the Knight Report;
8/12
We return to Haiti’s killing fields where the murders
and arrests and tortures of pro-democracy activists continue
with the US and the UN calling the shots; also, we’ll
speak with members of the Mayan community in the Mission District
who have begun to organize for their rights; we’ll speak
with Senator Simon Salinas about the Dump Arnold Campaign;
plus, musicians and poets come together to bridge the gap
between different cultures in the wake of 9/11 hate crimes;
a commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina, and Flashpoints en
Espanol;
8/11
A series of massacres by Haitian death squad police leave
dozens wounded and dead, including a pregnant woman and a
teenager; also we'll return to Crawford, Texas to check in
with the Gold Star anti-war activists calling for an end to
the Iraq war; we'll also speak with Rahul Mahajan about the
ongoing killing in Iraq, as the US sacks the mayor of Baghdad;
plus headlines from occupied Palestine; and Earth Matters
exposes how Bush wants to leave no tree behind in the wake
of Oregon's Biscuit fire;
8/10
An in-depth report on the real implications of the Israelis
bloody pullout of occupied Gaza; also, we’ll feature
a special report from Crawford, Texas, where the Arlington
West project has just delivered a thousand crosses to signify
the growing number of dead from the illegal war in Iraq; and
from exile in Southern California, the Knight Report;
8/9
In a dramatic, precedent-setting decision, a southern appellate
court overturned the life convictions of the Cuban Five; also,
Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan faces arrest as she camps out
at the Bush ranch, we’ll ask Sheehan what she wants
to talk to the President about; Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez suspends drug fighting cooperation with the US government,
accusing the DEA of trafficking; and from exile in Southern
California, the Knight Report;
8/8
We commemorate the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the only use of nuclear weapons
against a civilian population in wartime. We'll feature an
interview about a new documentary called Original Child Bomb
about the real impacts of the bombing and how they were covered
up for so many years. Also we'll air The Road from Hiroshima,
an award-winning dramatic production by Marc Kaminsky based
on survivor testimony from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And from
exile in Southern California, we'll have the Knight Report;
8/5
Today, we’ll feature a segment on activists who are
risking their lives to rescue migrants dying at an accelerating
rate in the deserts as a result of new policies by Homeland
Security; also, a California Assemblyman speaks out against
the Governor’s special elections; headlines from the
region, and Flashpoints en Espanol with producers of La Onda
Bajita;
8/4
A phony investigation by the Haitian Coup Government accuses
President Aristide of absconding with fifty million dollars;
meanwhile Haiti's killing fields continue to claim the lives
of Lavalas leaders and supporters; plus a Congresswoman from
Eastern Congo talks about her country's struggle for self-determination
in the face of IMF and World Bank repression; news headlines
from Palestine; and from exile in southern California, the
Knight Report;
8/3
Nearly two dozen US soldiers killed in the past 72 hours as
the occupation and war rages on in Iraq, we’ll have
a report from the ground in Baghdad; also, environmental racism
meets military imperialism in Bay View-Hunter’s Point;
plus, live excerpts from a one-man play written by Howard
Zinn, author of the legendary People’s History of the
United States; and from exile in Southern California, the
Knight Report;
8/2
A report-back on the situation in Gaza as Israeli troops ready
to lock down the strip into a prison camp for 1.5 million
Palestinians; plus a round-table on the responsibility of
journalists in this time of war - we'll be joined by Bob Parry
and Dahr Jamail; and from exile in Malibu, the Knight Report;
8/1
Bush goes through the back door with his United Nations appointment,
is this one more big diversion from the Karl Rove scandal
that might bring the entire administration down? Also, Bush’s
Brain, we’ll feature an interview with one of the co-authors
of the book and excerpts of the documentary film based on
the book, Bush’s Brain, about how without Karl Rove,
there would be no George W. Bush;
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