Flashpoints

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


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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


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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


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Flashpoints – September 2, 2009

As the US State Department continues to hedge on the coup in Honduras, the resistance continues to grow, we'll have a report from Tegucigalpa; plus, we'll look at the Obama administration's decision to expand its military presence in Colombia and a 12-Nation declaration to oppose the US in the region; also, Catherine Austin Fitts talks … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 1, 2009

We continue reporting on Bush and torture as the Washington Post comes out four-square pro-torture; also, Israeli occupation forces inside a sniper tower in an illegal settlement shoot and kill a 15 year old Palestinian boy in the West Bank, we'll have a report from Palestine; and Ahmed Habib talks about the unraveling humanitarian disaster … Continued