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Flashpoints – June 22, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: Live from New College of California in San Franciso’s bustling mission district, We Go live to Taylor Texas, to hear about a major protest planned for tomorrow at the gates of the Hutto Jail, a privatized prison for profit, where many children of deported Immigrants are being held hostage underhorrific conditions: We … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 21, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: Mahmoud Abbas and the Israelis put Gazans on an extreme diet, we’ll have a report from the occupied Gaza strip; also, a Palestinian health worker arrested and threatened on his way from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp; and a new documentary by Norman Solomon, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 20, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: As Palestinian Authority President Mahmould Abbas colludes with the occupiers to overthrow democracy, Israeli death squads continue to kill Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Plus, a new report documenting the expanding violence of the US Occupation in Iraq. Anti landmine campaigners take on cluster bombs as an international movement gains … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 19, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cozies up with Israel and the Bush administration as occupation tanks amass at Gaza’s border, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah and Professor Hatem Bazian about the current crisis in occupied Palestine; also, an in-depth look at the expanding war in Afghanistan as the Taliban now controls nearly … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 18, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: A US-Israeli supported coup in the West Bank: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas annuls elections and selects a pro-West cabinet to rule from Ramallah, we’ll get a report from that city; also, we go back to the North of Lebanon, where human rights activist warn of growing human rights violations against Palestinians … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 15, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency, even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we’ll have a series of reports on these crucial breaking stories; also, we’ll have a report from Beirut on yesterday’s deadly bombing that killedten … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 14, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency, even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we’ll have a series of reports on these crucial breaking stories; also, we’ll have a report from Beirut on yesterday’s deadly bombing that killed ten people; and … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 12, 2007

Today on Flashpoints: Dahr Jamail nails the New York Times for lying about the United States use of white phosphorus in Iraq. Also John Pilger on the U.S. permanent occupation in Iraq. Twenty two Palistinians killed in factional violence in Gaza. A former CIA analyst talks about the CIA on trial for torture. A disscussion … Continued