Flashpoints

Flashpoints – September 22, 2009

We continue our drumbeat reporting on the bold return of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to Tegucigalpa yesterday, we'll speak to our reporters standing by with President Zelaya inside the Brazilian embassy that remains surrounded by Honduran security forces; and we'll also have a report on dozens of activists who are reporting serious human rights violations … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 18, 2009

We feature the new documentary, American Outrage, about the battle for two elderly Native American sisters fighting to keep their land in Nevada; also, a special report on what happens to immigrants and undocumented workers after they're swept up by ICE and corralled to secret detention centers; and news headlines from Project Censored.  


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Flashpoints – September 16, 2009

A special report by Robert Knight on the recent US bombing and extra-judicial assassinations in Somalia; also, Temple University professor and Mumia Abu Jamal expert Linn Washington updates the case of Mumia and reveals further government misconduct; and our regular weekly segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts.  


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Flashpoints – September 14, 2009

We'll update parallel legal investigations into Bush administration torture, one being carried out by a special prosecutor of the US, and another investigation coming out of Spain; also, the battle for health care continues as the extreme right wing dominates the dialogue, we'll speak to a powerful advocate of single-payer; plus, young Israeli women talk … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 11, 2009

We broadcast live from the heart of San Francisco's Mission District at the International Answer Coalition, and we devote the entire hour to the battle for immigrants rights; we'll be joined by Pablo Alvarado, the executive director of the National Day Labor Organizing Network, and other key national leaders in the struggle for immigrants' rights; … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 10, 2009

We continue our focus on the resistance to expanding mountaintop removal in Appalachia, we'll speak to Mike Roselle of Climate Ground Zero; also, an in-depth investigation into Canada's role in the occupation and colonial-privatization of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine; ongoing Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, we'll have news headlines from Palestine; Community … Continued