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Flashpoints – March 20, 2007

Privatizing the US Presence in Iraq: Jeremy Scahill on his new book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army; Alison Weir of If American Knew discusses the Israeli policy of strip-searching Palestinian and Palestinian-American children; more on the Bush administration’s firing of judges; and the Knight Report.


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Flashpoints – March 19, 2007

We’re back in the San Francisco Mission District at New College of California! A former high-level Pentagon planner takes on Bush, the war in Iraq and the next war in Iran; also, an Iraqi businessman talks about the destruction of his country, four years into the occupation and war; protesters take direct actions in San … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 16, 2007

Kathy Kelly speaks out against four years of bloody war and occupation; also, leading Palestinian rights activist Huwaida Arraf talks about what solidarity looks like in the context of the unending Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine while commemorating the fourth anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie; direct actions planned against Chevron and … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 15, 2007

We’re back in the San Francisco Mission District at New College of California with an immigrant youth speak out against the war; we’ll also have a report from Washington, DC, where a number of activists were arrested at the Capitol for protesting the failure of Democrats to cut off funding for the war and occupation; … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 14, 2007

The White House and the Attorney General under fire for firing eight prosecutors based solely on their political views; also, protesters occupy the Congressional offices in Maryland and Washington DC of Senior Democrat and Dean of the Women’s Caucus Barbara McCulskey; plus, more violence in occupied Palestine as Israeli death squads continue to round up … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 13, 2007

A special Block report on the San Francisco Black Panther trial, and 25 years of oppression of Black liberation; also, military mom Tina Richards confronts David Olby, the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee about her son’s treatment and the illegal war in Iraq; plus, in violation of all previous agreements, Israel continues to … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 12, 2007

We’re back in the San Francisco Mission District at New College of California with a very special show that includes the legendary Haitian folksinger and political prisoner Annette Auguste, otherwise known as So Anne; we’ll have an in-depth follow up on the arrest of 361 mostly Guatemalan and Salvadoran women whose children were left to … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 9, 2007

Alfred McCoy talks about torture, psychological warfare and the CIA; also, 361 Latin American women arrested in Massachusetts and separated from over 100 of their children; Nane Alejandrez, director of Barrios Unidos, talks about the real causes of youth violence in the context of the attacks on the immigrant communities; headlines from the region; and … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 8, 2007

Today on a special International Women’s Day edition of Flashpoints, we hear the words of 27 year old Iraqi blogger Riverbend; looking at Palestinian refugee women’s rights and resistance under Israel’s brutal occupation and ethnic cleansing program; and Lebanese women document their lives through film, celebrated this week at a Bay Area film festival; and … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 7, 2007

Israeli occupiers abduct 45 Palestinians from the West Bank, including 13 school children, we’ll get a news report from the ground in Palestine; also, an activist from Oaxaca, Mexico, talks about human rights violations by the Federal police and the possibilities in bringing them to an International Court; and a new report that says a … Continued