Flashpoints

Flashpoints – March 20, 2008

Special correspondent Dahr Jamail takes a troubling look at the impact of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other illegal weapons are having on the people of Iraq; Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues her investigation of internal attacks against Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza; also, we continue our dialogue with Catherine Austin … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 18, 2008

Activists mobilize from coast to coast on the fifth anniversary of the illegal war and occupation in Iraq; also, former US Army Privates who testified at the recent Winter Soldier investigation talk about the free-fire zones against civilians; on the Block Report with JR, Ramona Africa, one of the survivors of the aerial bombing of … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 17, 2008

Former Wall Street banker Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the tanking of Bear Stearns and its multiple impacts on the US economy; also, we’ll feature an excerpt from the Winter Soldier 2008 investigations; an update on the upcoming anti-war protests on the fifth anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq; plus, Kristen Ess reports … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 13, 2008

Israeli military death squads assassinate several Palestinians in Bethlehem, Kristen Ess reports from the ground; also, local national and international activists take on Chevron for its environmental destruction; Pierre Labossiere from the Haiti Action Committee calls for the City of Berkeley to act on the continuing human rights violations in Haiti; JR and the Block … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 10, 2008

The feds expand their terrorist dragnet against radical environmental justice activists, we’ll talk about the case of Briana Waters; also, Kristen Ess reports on the expanding war against Palestinians, using the so-called peace process as a political front; Activist Nation goes to the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, where protesters expressed their outrage against the … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 6, 2008

We catch up with Jimbo Simmons on the Longest Walk; we’ll be joined by Native American leader Tony Gonzales to talk about the walk and the battle to keep D-Q University, a radical indigenous college, alive; we’ll speak with Flashpoints co-host Rene Saucedo who is at the US-Mexico border on a human rights mission; Kristen … Continued