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Flashpoints – July 9, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: In Iraq, the US military continues to use white phosphorus on the civilian population and the death toll continues to rise despite US claims to the opposite, we’ll have an in-depth report from Dahr Jamail; also, Day laborer and immigrants rights activists liberate a building in the Mission District in San Francisco … Continued


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Flashpoints – July 6, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: We’ll go to the Arizona-Mexico border and the Tohono O’odam Nation for a report on the deaths of 19 migrants in the last 20 days; also, we’ll look at the commuting of the Libby sentence in the context of the treatment of indigenous Americans including political prisoner Leonard Peltier; we’ll hear about … Continued


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Flashpoints – July 5, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: Israeli military death squads kill 11 Palestinians in the Gaza strip as food and medicine supplies run short; also we’ll take a close look at the Libby case in the context of mandatory minimums and who really goes to jail; and we’ll take a look at the anti-militarism movement in Japan and … Continued


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Flashpoints – July 4, 2007

Today on a special July 4th edition of Flashpoints, We continue our reporting from the United States Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia. We’ll hear a moving speech from an indigenous leader on the history of US imperialism in North America, Ziad Abbas of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in the Dheisheh refugee camp talks about the … Continued


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Flashpoints – July 3, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have an in-depth report on the commuting of the sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, we’ll speak to a former high-level CIA analyst, a friend to Valerie Plame, and we’ll also speak with award-winning investigative reporter Robert Parry; also, we’ll have an update on … Continued


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Flashpoints – July 2, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: We spend the entire hour listening to the first half of a riveting panel discussion on new paradigms for social change, one of the last sessions from the US Social Forum in Atlanta as we kick off a week of reports and voices from many different movements, collaborating at the Forum


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Flashpoints – June 29, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: we broadcast live from New College of California in San Francisco’s mission district, We’ll feature a special report from the Atlanta social Forum, including a report from Nora Barrows Friedman on the children at the forum who really want to make a change. West Coast Students speak out about their hunger strike … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 28, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: We’ll feature a special report from the north of Lebanon on the plight of 3000 Palestinian refugees caught in the cross-fire; also we’ll have a report from the World Social Forum in Atlanta, where we’ll be joined by Flashpoints producer, Nora Barrows Friedman; we’ll have a brand new edition with JR and … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 27, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: We’ll feature a special report on Iraq-Gate and the arming of Saddam Hussein; also we’ll take an in-depth look at the new, US Driven, Iraqi Oil Law: A License for US multinationals to steal Iraq’s oil resources; and we’ll have the Knight Report.


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Flashpoints – June 26, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: An in-depth update on the growing crisis in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine; we’ll speak with Jonathan Cook; also a special report on so-called honor killings in US-occupied Iraq; Barbara Lubin honors Berkeley community leader and trusted politician Maudelle Shirek in anticipation of the unveiling of a mural devoted to … Continued