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 12/30
Today, a dialogue among the Flashpoints team and Flashpoints
en Espanol about the year that just passed and the year to
come. We’ll be talking, sharing poetry, singing and
sharing stories about our lives;
12/29
An update on an Associated Press reporter who appears to be
on the payroll of NED and who contributed to several stories
from Haiti in the New York Times; also, Haiti’s election
council recommends another rescheduling of Haiti’s elections;
Earth Matters interviews Captain Paul Watson on the endangered
whales off Antarctica; and the Knight Report;
12/28
UN soldiers and Haitian National Police in Haiti accused of
mass rape of supporters of Aristide’s Lavalas movement,
including children as young as eleven; also, radical intellectual
and author Norman Finkelstein analyses the ongoing ethnic
cleansing of Palestine; and the Knight Report;
12/27
Is Haiti’s correspondent for Associated Press and a
stringer for the New York Times on the payroll of the state
department through the National Endowment for Democracy? A
Flashpoints exclusive; also, Israelis close in on Gaza with
an extended air assault and a so-called buffer zone in the
north; As’ad abu-Khalil talks about Lebanon and the
US occupation in Iraq; and the Knight Report;
12/26
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, we feature a rebroadcast
of an interview with Studs Terkel, award-winning political
writer, historian, music lover and author of And They All
Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey; and Anita Barrows
with her poetry in a time of war;
12/23
An interview with James Bamford on the National Security Agency
and the illegal wire-tapping scandal of George W Bush; also,
an alternative Christmas story from Miguel Gavilan Molina;
and Flashpoints en Español features an interview with
Luis Gomez on the election of the first indigenous leader
in the hemisphere, Evo Morales;
12/22
A free-wheeling discussion on the unraveling Bush scandal
from wire-tapping to torture to illegal war in Iraq, we’ll
invite your questions for reporters Robert Parry and Norman
Solomon;
12/21
The calls for investigation and impeachment of George W. Bush
for illegal wire-tapping continue along with revelations about
the illegal policy; meanwhile, the Republican congressional
bribery scandal is about to take another leap as high-profile
Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff prepares to cop a plea and
tell all to prosecutors; also, student activists racially
profiled and beaten protesting Colin Powell’s visit
last month; and the Knight Report;
12/20
Palestinians in Gaza live in constant terror of Israeli sonic
boom attacks; new draconian legislation passes the House that
represents the Patriot Act on steroids for immigrants; also,
the DEA takes its road show to San Francisco, again violating
the people’s will to make medicinal marijuana safe and
legal; right-wing Congress sneaks a rider onto the Katrina
Aid bill that almost guarantees a renewal in the drilling
of the Arctic Refuge; and the Knight Report;
12/19
Noted constitutional scholar Francis Boyle challenges weak-kneed
Congress to impeach George W Bush for crimes against humanity;
also, Flashpoints special correspondent John Ross talks about
the election of the first indigenous president in the Western
Hemisphere; as the state prepares to kill a 76 year old Native
American diabetic heart attack victim, a memorial service
is being planned for Stan Tookie Williams; and the Knight
Report;
12/16
Today, our roving co-host Francisco Herrera is in East Los
Angeles, as a part of a vigil to commemorate all the immigrants
that have died crossing the border; plus, the Bush administration
caught illegally wire-tapping on opponents of its war policy
and alleged terrorists; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints
en Espanol;
12/15
A look at US-staged elections in Iraq with the Angry Arab,
As’ad Abu-Khalil; Kathy Kelly talks about the ongoing
daily violence in Iraq; an in-depth discussion on the inequities
of the criminal injustice system that continues to send innocent
people into the death chamber; plus, Wal-Mart nailed again
for sweatshop abuses; and the Knight Report;
12/14
One thousand days into the war on Iraq, we’ll speak
with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail on the ongoing
war crimes being committed on the ground; on Earth Matters,
an interview with a Greenpeace activist from last week's climate
change conference in Montreal; also, artist-activists converge
in occupied Palestine to build solidarity as they paint on
the apartheid wall; youth voices from Dheisheh refugee camp;
and the Knight Report;
12/13
We look at the criminal injustice system in the wake of the
State's public murder of Stanley Tookie Williams; also, death
row prisoner Kevin Cooper recalls what it's like waiting to
be executed; Israel continues its annexation policies against
Gaza and most of the West Bank, cementing their policies of
ethnic cleansing; and the Knight Report;
12/12
The Gropenator Arnold Schwartzenegger denies clemency for
Stanley Tookie Williams, we’ll have a live report and
an update from San Quentin Prison; we’ll replay last
Friday’s in-depth interview with Williams from his cell
on death row; we’ll also speak to Diego Garcia, a former
gangbanger, who says Tookie Williams turned his life around;
and the Knight Report;
12/9
Today, we’re expecting a call from Stanley Tookie Williams,
on death row in San Quentin, waiting the Governor’s
decision as to whether he will live or die; also, as the US
military prepares to blow a billion dollars on a national
recruitment campaign, thousands of Katrina survivors go homeless
for Christmas; a look at the New Song movement; headlines
from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol;
12/8
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hears the final
plea for clemency by attorneys representing Stanley "Tookie"
Williams - we'll have an update on the case; also, 20 racist
cops from the Bayview District in San Francisco busted for
allegedly producing a viciously racist and sexist videotape
mocking the people they are supposed to protect; we'll get
an update from our special New Orleans correspondent Malik
Rahim, founder of the Common Ground Collective; the Federal
Court of Appeals agrees to hear two aspects of the case of
Mumia abu-Jamal which were previously ignored; and the Knight
Report;
12/7
Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice defends the Bush administration’s
pro-torture policies, we’ll get an update from Michael
Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights; also, we’ll
go to the West Bank for a report on the ongoing ethnic purge
of Palestinians including continued assassinations and massive
arrest campaigns; anti-death penalty activists will gather
tomorrow in Sacramento as the Governor hears the plea for
clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams; and the Federal Court
of Appeals agrees to hear two aspects of the case of Mumia
Abu-Jamal which were previously ignored;
12/6
Pacifica Radio Archives 4th Annual Fund Drive: Today, for
18 hours, the entire Pacifica network will preempt its regular
schedule for a nationwide simulcast in support of the Pacifica
Radio Archives;
12/5
Legendary writer, radio broadcaster and social critic Studs
Terkel spends the hour with Flashpoints, talking about his
new book, And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc
Jockey; and, Barbara Becnel speaks with the Block Report on
the upcoming clemency hearing of Stanley Tookie Williams;
12/2
Today, we’ll have a report on Bush’s new draconian
program for the reporting and deporting of immigrants; we’ll
have an update on the case of Stanley Tookie Williams; headlines
from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol;
12/1
The former CNN Bureau Chief of Beirut accuses the Israelis
of ethnic cleansing in Hebron and talks about his colleagues
and friends now being held in Iraq for their work as Christian
Peacemaker Team members; also journalists and media experts
Norman Solomon and Robert Parry talk about the various scandals
now rocking official Washington and how they are being covered;
and the Knight Report;
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