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Flashpoints – April 7, 2008

Death Row political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, in his own words, talks about the status of his case for the first time since the most recent ruling from the 3rd Circuit Court which recently denied his appeal; headlines from occupied Palestine as Israel continues to bomb and attack the Gaza strip; Rachel Corrie’s … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 4, 2008

We welcome back Francisco Herrera and broadcast live from the San Francisco Day Labor Program with co-host Rene Saucedo! We’ll be focusing on recent ICE raids in the Bay Area; Rene will report back from a recent conference at the border; we’ll talk about the implications of the recent militarization of the border; we’ll speak … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 3, 2008

More rape allegations surface against Halliburton-KBR in US-occupied Iraq; also, excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King’s moving speech on April 30, 1967, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam, and we talk about his vision against what King called the triple evils of militarism, racism and economic exploitation; and the Knight Report.


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Flashpoints – April 2, 2008

Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues reporting on Land Day and one woman’s story about losing her home in 1948 when Zionist militias began to purge Palestinians from their land; also, UC Berkeley Law professor John Yoo exposed as the author of a newly-revealed torture memo; Bay Area Salvadorans protest the decision by San Francisco’s … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 1, 2008

Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on Israeli military shoot-to-kill orders on nonviolent protesters; also, a riveting documentary on the commemoration of Land Day in occupied Palestine, to bring attention to the continued theft of Palestinian land by the Israeli state; John Ross reports from Mexico on the killing of members of a Mexican family … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 27, 2008

Special correspondent Dahr Jamail talks about the phenomenal upsurge in violence in US-occupied Iraq; also, Mumia abu-Jamal loses a major appeal in the courts, JR and the Block Report speaks with Pam Africa about what that means for his freedom; Greg Palast wonders what happened to Elliot Spitzer after he wrote his op-ed on the … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 26, 2008

Former CIA official and antiwar resister Ray McGovern talks about the media as cheerleaders for the war; also, we speak with Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess about the US-Israeli decision to send 700 Palestinian security servicemen to Jenin essentially as subcontractors of the Israeli occupation; plus, with a huge bailout of the Wall Street elite … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 25, 2008

Independent of London correspondent Patrick Cockburn reports on the Cheney visit to Baghdad and the 5 year old occupatio; former Marine Corps Sergeant Adam Kokesh and Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army testifiy during the recent Winter Soldier 2008 Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts to the Occupation; … Continued