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Today on a special Labor Day edition of Flashpoints, we feature voices from New Orleans, with special reports from Pacifica and community radio producers; we’ll hear from people in the streets, community leaders, activists, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ordinary people who are all fed up with the deliberate abandonment by the Bush … Continued
The deliberate abandonment of hundreds of thousands of stranded Southerners left floating and hungry in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we’ll feature a special report from the ground in New Orleans; plus, author and attorney Eva Golinger talks about her new, explosive book, The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela; we’ll also feature headlines … Continued
We’ll feature an in-depth report on the Iraqui Bridge slaughter massacre; and an update on the bloody and endless US occupation; we’ll talk about what the Louisiana National Guard should be doing instead of kill and be killed in Iraq; we’ll feature an interview with Michael Parenti on the hurricane and its aftermath; and from … Continued
An update for Haiti’s US Sponsored Killing Fields: And we continue our Series, poets in a time of war, with notes Palestinian poet and Writer, Naomi Shihab Nye: And from exile the Knight Report.
We’ll feature a round-table discussion on how best to stop the Bush war machine and end the bloody occupation of Iraq and Palestine; Also how to deal with the sell out democrats; And from exile the Knight Report.
Activists in El Paso call for the extradition of CIA asset and known terrorist Luis Posada Carilles; also, the Texas judicial death machine gets ready to execute another innocent victim in the name of Frances Newton; poet and historian Aurora Levins Morales reads poetry in a time of war; and the Knight Report.
5000 soccer fans in Haiti witness a machete massacre of up to 50 victims by national police, we’ll have a special report from Kevin Pina on the ground; also, we’ll visit the Peace House on the perimeter of the Bush Ranch, where the alternative media has been getting the word out about Cindy Sheehan and … Continued
Bush Supreme Court Nominee tied directly to the Administration’s wide-ranging program of illegal detention, abuse and torture, we’ll have a special report on what appears to be an illegal conflict of interest on the part of Judge Roberts; plus, Ali Abunimah on today’s Israeli undercover attack that left five young Palestinians dead; a reading of … Continued
California’s immigrant community shocked by a pro-Minutemen position taken by Fabian Nunez, the speaker of the California Assembly; plus, Israelis continue to tighten their grip on illegally-seized land in the West Bank, providing more and more homes for the violent settlers from Gaza; organizers prepare for major national demonstrations as opposition to the Bush wars … Continued
Gazans left in ruins and in the lurch as Israelis solidify their holds in the West Bank, we’ll feature a report from Gaza with Toufic Haddad; also, televangelist Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela; in Iraq, Constitution or no, the slaughter continues; and the Knight Report.
