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 10/31
Bush nominates an extreme right-winger to sit on the Supreme
Court as he circles the wagons and attempts to divert from
Leak-Gate; also, former Aristide attorney talks about the
demonization of one of the most courageous pro-democracy activists
in Haitian history; we’ll also have an update on political
prisoners still being held by the illegal Haitian government;
and a report on a trial that opened today in Tennessee which
accuses the former US-trained vice-Minister of Defense for
El Salvador of torture and other human rights atrocities;
10/28
Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis Libby indicted on five
felony counts for lying about his role in the outing of CIA
officer Valerie Plame; also, the Minutemen vigilantes converge
on Sacramento on Saturday, immigrants’ rights activists
will be there to give them the greeting of their lives; a
special segment with Israeli dissident Dr. Ilan Pappe on the
stepped-up ethnic cleansing of Palestine; Zapatistas start
a proactive organizing campaign; fighting gentrification in
San Francisco’s Mission District; headlines from the
region and Flashpoints en Espanol;
10/27
Ariel Sharon declares open-ended, all-out war on Palestinians,
everywhere in Palestine, we’ll feature interviews with
activists resisting the expanding occupation; also, what are
the real reasons the government doesn’t want you to
smoke pot and continues to undermine the possibilities of
medicinal marijuana; we’ll speak to cannabis guru and
federal convict Ed Rosenthal; and the Knight Report;
10/26
We devote the entire hour to the US-engineered campaign for
the extermination of the Lavalas movement to pave the way
for phony elections in Haiti; we'll spend the hour with Flashpoints
Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina and we'll also feature excerpts
from Kevin's brand-new film, Haiti: The Untold Story; and
the Knight Report;
10/25
We’ll take a look at the inside of Bush’s Brain,
as outside, in Washington DC, the special counsel zooms in
on Bush administration crimes; we’ll feature an interview
with Phillipe Sands, the British barrister who sent Pinochet
packing put of Great Britain as a fleeing war criminal, as
he talks about Bush crimes; also, activists disrupt the law
class of former Bush justice department official John Yoo
for his part in authoring the pro-torture memo; and the Knight
Report;
10/24
We continue our fight against another state-sponsored murder
as former gang leader, children’s book author and Nobel
laureate nominee is given a date to be murdered by the state,
we’ll be joined by the leader of a movement to save
the life of Stanley Tookie Williams; also, new revelations
in the widening White House leak scandal: did the Bush administration
forge phony documents regarding so-called African uranium?;
and the Knight Report;
10/21
The vigilantes plan to converge in Sacramento, California,
where they were invited by the Governor who applauds their
work; also, a new documentary, Chavez Ravine, with music by
Ry Cooder, that depicts the destruction of an East Los Angeles
neighborhood to make room for major league baseball; and United
Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta honored for her life’s
work in social justice;
10/20
The state of California prepares to murder two-time Nobel
Peace nominee and death row prisoner Stanley “Tookie”
Williams, today marks the beginning of the Flashpoints campaign
to save his life; also, sense-deprivation and torture as key
tools of Israeli authorities against imprisoned Palestinian
youth; we’ll feature more excerpts from the hard-hitting
documentary, Aristide: The Endless Revolution; and the Knight
Report;
10/19
A special report on children rotting and left to die and starve
to death in Haiti’s prisons as the US plans another
phony election in the hemisphere; also, we’ll feature
a full-length documentary: Aristide and the Endless Revolution
tells the behind-the-scenes story of the US attack on the
Aristide government that forced him into exile; plus, a new
documentary depicts the work of Flashpoints special correspondent
Dahr Jamail; and the Knight Report;
10/18
US forces bomb innocent civilians, including women and children
as US officials put the final touches on fixing the Iraq election;
we’ll take a look at the war and what many believe are
sham elections with Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr
Jamail and warfront filmmaker Mark Manning; and we’ll
feature hard-hitting excerpts from two documentaries, one
by Manning, and the other, the award-winning War Photographer
about James Nachtwey; and the Knight Report;
10/17
Former CIA officer Philip Agee addresses the Valerie Plame-Karl
Rove case and the continuing US attempts to overthrow Hugo
Chavez in Venezuela; plus, Norman Finkelstein takes on the
Israeli lobbies and the disinformation campaigns; and the
Knight Report;
10/14
Today on Flashpoints, we broadcast live from the SomArts Gallery
in San Francisco in a special celebration of the Day of the
Dead! We’ll be talking about the Day of the Dead and
the powerful, political significance that it has now taken
on; Plus, mudslides and hurricanes from Guatemala to Southern
Mexico wreak havoc and destruction, and no one seems to care;
and a riveting speech by radical educational visionary Jonathan
Kozol based on his new book, The Shame of the Nation: The
Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America;
10/13
The Great War for Civilization, the Conquest of the Middle
East - we'll feature the new 1300-page book by award-winning
journalist Robert Fisk, along with an excerpt from a prescient
interview we did with Robert Fisk in January, 2005; also,
a Texan runs for President of Haiti as the Bush Administration
attempts to put the final touches in its coup against the
people of Haiti; and the Knight Report;
10/12
We are proud to feature a brand-new, hard-hitting documentary
called The Oil Factor. The Oil Factor tears the lid off of
the Bush lie and shows that the war on terror is really a
war of terror to control oil and gas resources in the Middle
East; and the Knight Report;
10/11
We feature the work of Norman Finkelstein, one of the most
outspoken and articulate critics of the illegal Israeli occupation
of Palestine; plus, Ali Abunimah speaks out against the continued
killing of Palestinian teens as Israelis open fire again in
Gaza while in the West Bank, arresting over a hundred more
Palestinians; and the Knight Report;
10/10
The bloodbath continues in the streets of Iraq as the US presses
forward on its phony referendum; corporate media continues
to flack for war; and media critic Norman Solomon will join
us to read between the lines; and environmental activist Diane
Wilson on the lam from Texas authorities;
10/7
We’ll feature a regional roundup of key stories in the
hemisphere, in English and in Spanish; we’ll take a
look at the current face-off between the US and Nicaragua
as the Sandanistas vie for power again. Homeland Security
deports immigrants who lost their homes as a result of Hurricane
Katrina. We’ll take a look at how gentrification is
forcing people out of their communities all over this country.
Headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol;
10/6
A USAID document provides the proof that the US government
is actively trying to purge Haiti’s Lavalas pro-democracy
movement; we’ll speak with Dahr Jamail about the expanding
violence in Iraq and the upcoming sham referendum; also, Bush
Supreme Court nominee reportedly fired a whistleblower in
Texas to protect her friends; and the Knight Report;
10/5
We’ll take an in depth look at the recent Bali Bombings
and other kinds of terrorisms that have been haunting the
people of Indonesia since the CIA Over throw of Sukarno’s
non-aligned government in 1965 ; also an update on the situation
in Ache since the tsunami killed over a hundred thousand people
there; Earth matters looks at the long-term damage to the
environment around the gulf coast oil rigs; and the Knight
Report;
10/4
An eyewitness account of the US government’s racist
failure to protect the people of New Orleans, parts of Mississippi,
and Alabama in the wake of Katrina; also, activists in over
40 cities around the world protest the coup government in
Haiti and call for the restoration of democracy and the return
of President Jean Bertrand Aristide; and the Knight Report;
10/3
We spend the hour with acclaimed professor Norman Finkelstein
on his hard-hitting new book, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse
of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, in which he confronts
the contrived controversy of anti-Semitism and the misrepresentation
or falsification of facts on the ground to suit Israeli and
Zionist policy; and the Knight Report;
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