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 7/31
We spend the hour looking at US-supported Israeli massacre
policy in Lebanon and Palestine. Our special correspondent
Dahr Jamail reports from on the ground in Beirut, Lebanon,
where he describes the scene after the Israeli massacre yesterday
in Qana, in which over 50 people were killed, including 37
children, and the Israeli targeting of ambulances; also, a
report from Gaza, as over 150 Palestinians are left dead in
the last four weeks, including another child today by Israeli
tank shelling; and the Knight Report;
7/28
We devote most of the show to the ongoing destruction of Lebanon
and the battle raging at the south border of lebanon between
Hezbollah and Israeli invaders; We’ll begin the coverage
with a report from our special correspondent Bilal El-Amine
from the south of Lebaon; We’ll move from the south
to Beirut where tens of thousands have fled the Israeli bombings
in the south; we’ll also speak with Ali Abunimah and
nation columnist Alexander Cockburn about U.S. diplomacy and
endless war policy; We’ll also have an exclusive interview
with Mumia Abu-Jamal about his case;
7/27
Israel intensifies its bombing campaign on the south of Lebanon,
and considers anyone there now to be a member of Hizbullah;
we'll have our daily report from Bilal El-Amine from the south;
then we'll speak to a woman who fled the south of Lebanon
with her family and lost some of her friends in the bombing;
we'll hear about the environmental nightmare caused by Israel's
bombing of a power plant; and we'll hear about working with
the hundreds of thousands of displaced Lebanese;
7/26
Isreali Invaders in South Lebanon take heavy casualities:
we'll feature a frontline report from Bilal El Amine in the
south; also Ali Abunimah on the breakdown of diplomacy in
Rome and on the latest Isreali slaughters in Gaza; and an
outraged panel on the Block Report, as JR and the crew confront
police brutality head on - I'm Dennis Bernstein with JR in
San Francisco's Mission District;
7/25
We Continue our Frontline reports from the south of Lebanon
where Israeli invaders continue to meet stiff resistance from
Hezbollah; We also speak with Nora Barrow Friedman in Palestine,
where Israeli occupation forces continue to lay siege to the
Gaza strip and have killed at least fifteen Palestinians in
the last three days; Nora will also tell us about an anti-Rice
protest in Ramallah on the West Bank; And we'll feature excerpts
from Sir! No Sir, a riveting new documentary about the suppressed
story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam;
7/24
Today on Flashpoints; A frontline report from the south of
Lebanon where the Israeli's continue to meet stiff resistance
from Hezbollah; And we'll speak with a Lebanese human rights
activist and former KPFA programmer about the Israeli/U.S.
war against Lebanon; And a special report by Alejandro Reyes
on the continued repression by the Mexican government of teachers
and those who stand up for themselves in the country;
7/21
An in-depth report on the expanded war taking place in the
south of Lebanon even as Israel contiues to bomb the entire
country. Also, Lebanon asks for political asylum in Mexico
for some of the tens of thousands of Lebanese fleeing the
attacks. We’ll speak to a Mexican diplomat about this.
We’ll also talk to Nora Barrows-Friedman to get a sense
of the Palestinian response to the ground war. And Flashpoints
in Espanol;
7/20
Today on Flashpoints: We'll feature a report from Beirut on
Israel’s continuing airwar against the entire country;
Also we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah about the continuing
bombing of Lebanon and the international reaction; We’ll
have the second report in our series on the battle for the
right to choose in Mississippi; We’ll speak to Greg
Palast who says that Ken Lay is still with us in the form
of deregulation and power blackouts; And the Knight Report
with Robert Knight;
7/19
We are broadcasting live from the New College of California
in San Francisco: Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from occupied
Palestine on the local response to Israel’s invasion
of Lebanon and about a poignant visit she made with young
Palestinians to the land that was stolen from their families
starting in 1948; We’ll also feature a live panel discussion
on the gentrification of inner city neighborhoods from Harlem
to Hollywood; The Knight Report with Robert Knight;
7/18
Israeli F-16s contine to pound Lebanon as the death toll rises
to over 230, including an entire family of 9 killed in Lebanon;
we'll speak to Robert Fisk on the ground in Beirut; we'll
also speak sith former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern
for a deep backgrounder on the players and the dangers in
the expanding Middle East war; and the Knight Report with
Robert Knight;
7/17
Israel continues it deadly bombing campaign of Lebanon, killing
or wounding dozens, including women and children, we'll feature
a report from on the ground; Also, we'll have a report from
occupied Gaza where over a million Palestinians continue to
be subjected to land and air attacks by Israeli occupiers;
We'll go to the heart of the south, in Mississippi, where
extreme right-wing fundamentalists are attempting to undermine
a poor women's right to choose; and The Knight Report;
7/14
Today on Flashpoints, we are broadcasting live from San Francisco’s
Mission District. We’ll talk about Israel’s intensive
bombing campaign against Lebanon; We’ll feature an in-depth
conversation on Obredor’s battle for a recount; We’ll
hoan in on labor and race and its significance in the work
place; we’ll have headlines from the region; Flashpoints
in Espanol;
7/13
Israeli fighter jets strike deep inside Lebanon killing over
50 including 15 children and a family of ten, we’ll
feature a special report with Ali Abunimah just back from
the region; also Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from occupied
Palestine on the expanding war against Palestinians and its
devastating impact on children; a look back at a U.N. assisted
massacre in Haiti one year ago today; and the Knight Report;
7/12
Today on another edition of Flashpoints, we’ll have
a special report on the Israeli invasion and bombings of Lebanon,
we’ll speak to a medical doctor about Israeli bombing
in Gaza today which wiped out a family of nine; also we’ll
talk about the Palestinian Right to Return; have a special
report from Nora Barrows-Friedman from the West Bank; and
the Knight Report;
7/11
A new report documents widespread abuses against Black and
Latino workers in post-Katrina New Orleans; also Palestinians
in the US protest Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine;
a former CIA-backed Haitian death squad leader is arrested
in New York on fraud and embezzlement, and grand larceny charges;
the mother of another Iraq soldier speaks out about the war;
and the Knight Report;
7/10
We go to Mexico City where hundreds of thousands of supports
of Obredor are accusing Calderon and his cronies of stealing
the Presidential election, we’ll speak to John Ross
live with the latest details; also a Spanish judge issues
an arrest warrant for the former President of Guatemala for
genocide and crimes against humanity; and Flashpoints Senior
Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from occupied Palestine
on the killing of over 50 people and the wounding of hundreds
of others by illegal occupation forces; and the Knight Report;
7/7
Former high level Bush official Catherine Fitts speaks out
against US corporate subversion and pump and dump economics;
John Gibler reports on the electoral fraud in Mexico and Flashpoints
en Espanol;
7/6
Calderon squeeks by Obrador by less than one-half of one percent
of the vote in Mexico - we'll have a live report from John
Ross in Mexico City; also Israeli occupiers push deep into
Gaza, killing more than 24 and wounding many more; and the
first in our series of women resisting war - we interview
performance artist Sherry Glaser;
7/5
US occupation forces continue to expand their killing fields
in Iraq. We’ll hear from an Iraqi investigative journalist;
also Defense Secretary Ronald Rumsfeld subpoenaed on the cover
up of torture and abuse in Abu Graib prison in Iraq; the US
House of Representatives takes their anti-immigration election
show on the road and we’ll have an update on the South
Central Farm in L.A.;
7/4
We spend the hour with legendary Uruguyian writer Eduardo
Galleano. Galleano spoke recently in Oakland, Calfornia and
shared new work from his latest book;
7/3
A look at the effects of the continued Israeli siege in Gaza
from the hospital beds to the streets; also, Dahr Jamail and
Mark Manning talk about the ongoing wreckage in US-occupied
Iraq and a film about the 2004 sieges of Fallujah; an update
on net neutrality; and a Freedom Ride redux jumps off in New
Orleans;
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