Flashpoints – September 21, 2009
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya defies US wishes and returns to Tegucigalpa to join the people's resistance, we'll have a series of reports from Honduras and around the region on Zelaya's bold return.
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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.
Flashpoints – September 17, 2009
An in-depth look at Glenn Beck and the new extreme right with Nation writer Max Blumenthal and his new book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party; also, a new United Nations report accuses Israel of potential major war crimes and crimes against humanity during its recent bombing siege and attacks on Gaza, … Continued
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.
Flashpoints – September 15, 2009
Anthrax Wars: the provocative new film about the untold story of the 2001 US anthrax attacks and the dark secrets of the shadowy world of modern-day germ weapons research; we'll also feature the book, Dead Silence, by the same filmmakers of Anthrax War.
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
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
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
Flashpoints – September 9, 2009
An exclusive report from a militant anti-coup protest and march through the poor neighborhoods through Tegucigalpa; also, an update on the case of Bay Area activist Tristan Anderson, who was shot in the head with a tear-gas canister by Israeli occupation forces six months ago; plus, the Cuban Five file suit in Federal Court against … Continued
Flashpoints – September 8, 2009
Venezuela and the United States nose-to-nose on regional and hemispheric policies, we'll speak to the Consul General to San Francisco from Venezuela; plus, the Israeli government starts issuing hundreds of new building permits in illegal settlement colonies in the West Bank as the “settlement freeze” becomes meaningless; a leading war resister decides to run for … Continued