Flashpoints

Flashpoints – June 1, 2009

6 Palestinians dead in armed clashes between a Hamas resistance group and US-trained Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank, former PLO advisor Diana Buttu talks about how the PA is subcontracting the Israeli occupation and turning against its own people; also, an update with the Block Report on preliminary hearings in the San Francisco … Continued


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Flashpoints – May 29, 2009

Taking the global battle for indigenous and environmental rights to the Chevron shareholder's meeting, we'll talk to Mitch Anderson of Amazon Watch about the largest environmental case in history; also, Palestinian Authority quisling president Mahmoud Abbas goes to Washington as Israeli forces and settlers continue to lay siege to occupied Palestine, we'll have a report … Continued


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Flashpoints – May 27, 2009

After years of racist railroading by Federal prosecutors, a Texas court sentences five Arab-Americans on a combined 69 counts for their charitable work serving Palestinians, we'll speak to one of the defense attorneys whose client was just sentenced to 65 years in prison; also, Dr. Mads Gilbert, who treated and documented victims of US weaponry … Continued


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Flashpoints – May 26, 2009

The California Supreme Court upholds the discriminatory and draconian Proposition 8, continuing the ban on gay marriage, we'll talk to a gay pastor risking arrest as demonstrators hit the streets of San Francisco in protest of the ruling; also, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approves the construction of a new illegal colony in the Jordan … Continued


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Flashpoints – May 19, 2009

Bill Clinton, a consistent enemy of the people's Lavalas movement of Haiti, named as UN envoy, we'll feature a special report on the implications and a remembrance on UN and US slaughters in 2004 and 2005; also, the Block Report interviews Martina Davis on an international day devoted to saving the life of her brother, … Continued