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 8/30
A new study in the prestigious Lancet Journal of Medicine
shows that under the US-imposed Haiti government, there were
rampant human rights violations, including murder, beatings
and sexual assault by the National Police; also, the Block
Report returns today with an in-depth look at independent
media and its effect in the way we see the news; we’ll
also feature an ongoing report on continuing attacks of the
San Francisco Bayview Newspaper website; and the Knight Report.
8/29
John Ross reports from Mexico City about the final
word on the official Mexican election steal; Israeli death
squads continue their killing spree in the wake of the US-Israeli
attack on Lebanon; also a look at plans to go to war against
Iran, and the US use of torture in the Middle East; more on
UN violence in Haiti, as a major Lavalas leader is arrested;
and the Knight Report.
8/28
Kofi Annan visits Lebanon and calls for the lifting
of Israel’s illegal blockade by sea and air; we’ll
have a report from the south of Lebanon on how Israel snubbed
the UN by raising its flag inside Lebanon; also, Israel kills
eight more Palestinians in Gaza and kidnaps another member
of Parliament in the West Bank; plus, a Flashpoints documentary
on Palestinian refguee children crossing the border to their
homeland; and the Knight Report.
8/24
An in-depth expose on Iran Contra con-man and Bush
Middle East point man, Elliot Abrams; Also we continue our
reporting on recent US/Israeli war crimes against Lebanon;
On Earth Matters—the devastation of Appalachia from
mountaintop removal strip mining; a mini-concert with environmental
troubadour Dana Lyons; and the Knight Report.
8/23
Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes
based on the destruction of whole villages in Lebanon; also
paramilitary death squads kill a grassroots activist in Oaxaca
as activists occupy over eight private radio stations; We’ll
hear from a military draft resister who said “no”
after receiving orders to deploy in Iraq; and immigrants rights
activists fight back against the vigilantes; plus the Knight
Report
8/22
A report from Southern Lebanon on Israel’s contiuing
violations of the cease-fire on the ground and the air space
over Lebanon; plus, fighting back corporate censorship with
grassroots low power FM stations; JR takes the Block Report
inside lockdown for a special interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal;
and the Knight Report.
8/21
A preschool teacher and human rights activist goes
home to Southern Lebanon and finds both destruction and hope;
Israeli snipers kill three more Palestinians in the occupied
West Bank as Gazans remain under siege; the battle for a recount
in Mexico continues to heat up as striking teachers in Oaxaca
seize control of at least eight radio stations in their fight
for educational rights; and the Knight Report.
8/18
Vigilantes threaten day laborers and immigrant workers
in northern California; aspecial report from Santa Rosa; continuation
of dialogue with those who were forced to flee Lebanon after
the Israelis and the US started destroying the country again;
poetry with Aurora Levins Morales; headlines from the region;
and Flashpoints en Español.
8/16
Beirut after the bombing: an extended interview with Beirut-based
human rights activist Tina Naache; also, Lt. Ehren Watada,
the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment
to Iraq, reports for duty against the war and calls for a
"change of strategy" for the peace movement; and
the Knight Report;
8/15
Kathy Kelly of Voices In the Wilderness reports from the wreckage
of Lebanon as people begin to return to the areas left in
ruins by the month-long US-Israeli seige; also British MP
George Galloway challenges the media's racism; Mexican Federal
police beat pro-Obrador parliamentarians bloody as the battle
to uncover Mexico's election steal continues; plus the RFK
Human Rights Center sues the US Treasury for alleged political
interference in funds slotted for Haiti; and the Knight Report;
8/14
Thousands of Lebanese head south to assess the destruction
following thirty-three days of Israeli bombings and shellings;
also, the cease-fire does not include Gaza, where Israeli
tanks and warplanes killed three members of the same farmer
family, blown up in their own fields by Israeli attackers;
an in-depth discussion with Dr. Helen Caldicott on the dangers
of nuclear war in the context of expanding conventional wars
in the Middle East; and the Knight Report;
8/11
Today on another live Friday edition of Flashpoints, we again
return to the South of Lebanon, where Israel knowingly bombed
a caravan of civilians, mostly women and children, killing
or wounding over twenty people; also, an in-studio speak out
about war and peace; we’ll have a report from Mexico,
where there has been a series of violent attacks against teachers
calling for justice in Oaxaca; and Flashpoints en Espanol
also focuses on the situation in Mexico;
8/10
After a month-long bombing siege, Israel continued today to
hit Beirut, the eastern Baqaa valley, and all of the South;
in the midst of the bombing, a human rights activist in Beirut
talks about the destruction of her country and the future
implications of US-Israeli burnt earth policies against its
neighbors; plus, poet Matthew Shenoda, American Book Award
winner, calls for a special right to return; and the Knight
Report;
8/9
Our special correspondent Bilal el-Amine reports from the
south of Lebanon about the expanding Israeli land invasion
and the continued killing of civilians; also, a report from
Gaza, where Israeli apache helicopter gunships killed another
three Palestinians today, including a 5 year old girl; and
the Knight Report;
8/8
Bilal El-Amine reports on the devastation of large parts of
the south of Lebanon, and on the bombing of an orphanage which
leaves a family stranded in the basement with no way out;
also a report from Beirut on the bombing of a civilian neighborhood
that killed over 30 people; a report on the growing grass-roots
civil resistance movement in Lebanon; also, the battle for
a recount in Mexico continues to heat up in the streets; and
the Knight Report;
8/7
The Lebanese cabinet votes to send 15,000 troops to stand
between Hizbollah and Israel at the Lebanese border when Israel
pulls back; also a report from the south with our special
correspondent Bilal El Amine; we'll talk to Phyllis Bennis
about the US stonewalling a ceasefire; we'll speak with Ali
Abunimah about the expanded ethnic cleansing of Palestine,
and what he calls a new global racism; we'll hear a spirited
press conference with the Israeli Ambassoador to the United
States being questioned by Sam Husseini of the Institute for
Public Accuracy; and the Knight Report;
8/4
Today on Flashpoints, Israel and the United States intensify
their aerial attacks on Lebanon from the southern border to
the Mediterranean sea, including the killing of 26 farmworkers
picking nectarines at the Syrian border and the destruction
of a school for hearing-and sight-impaired children; also,
special correspondent Bilal el-Amine visits a school-turned-shelter
in the south: the school’s founder was killed by an
Israeli missile on the second day of the siege; we’ll
get a report from Beirut on the growing number of displaced
Lebanese flooding the city; and on Flashpoints en Espanol,
John Ross reports on a series of civil disobedience actions
to protest electoral fraud in Mexico;
8/3
Our daily war summary from the south of Lebanon with Bilal
El Amine; We'll get a view from Congresswoman Barbara Lee
on the US backed war against Lebanon; Eight more dead in Gaza;
we'll speak to Dr Mona Al- Farra about the killings and the
latest Israeli seige of Gaza; Lebanese writer Elmaz Abinader
counteracts the war with poetry; JR takes the Block Report
to Angola Prison and the Knight report with Robert Knight;
8/2
An in-depth look at the continuing destruction of Lebanon
by Israel and the United States; we’ll speak to a human
rights activist and preschool teacher who fled her home in
the South and is trying to care for some of the hundreds of
thousands of Lebanese fleeing the war zones; Dahr Jamail tours
the infamous Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla,
where Palestinian victims of prior Israeli massacres care
for those fleeing the current Israeli attacks; we’ll
take a deep look at the war and the real politics driving
it; and the Knight Report;
8/1
Our special correspondent Bilal el-Amine tours the destroyed
south of Lebanon, where thousands still remain trapped and
many dead lie along the highway; also, a report from Beirut
on the human rights nightmare presented by hundreds of thousands
of displaced Lebanese; we’ll also hear about the emerging
environmental nightmare as a result of Israel’s bombing
of a major Beirut power plant; a commentary about Condoleezza
Rice’s birth pangs of a new Middle East; a documentary
on Palestinian refugee children visiting the ruins of their
villages, ransacked by Israeli militias nearly 60 years ago;
and the Knight Report;
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