Flashpoints – February 8, 2007
A presentation of an updated version of the film "Hijacking Catastrophe, featuring Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, and others.
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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
A presentation of an updated version of the film "Hijacking Catastrophe, featuring Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, and others.
A look at the Katrina disaster.
Bill Moyers at the media reform conference in Memphis.
Clashes in Gaza Leave 25 Dead and Over 200 Injured: Dennis Bernstein speaks with Flashpoints Special Correspondent Jon Elmer from Gaza where twenty five people were killed in weekend clashes.
Robert Fisk speaks on "Lebanon and Iraq: Point the Finger of Guilt"
As Israel and the United States solidify their plans for an apartheid ghetto-ized Palestinian state, Ali Abunimah calls for a one-state solution and describes how to implement it. We’ll feature a recent SF Bay area speech and the new book by Ali Abunimah.
Over 30 Palestinians killed in escalating street battles between Fatah and Hamas, fomented by the apartheid Israeli government and its American counterparts; we’ll have an on the ground report from Flashpoints special correspondent Jon Elmer in Gaza city; also, human rights activists accuse the United Nations of collective punishment against pro-Aristide communities in Haiti; indigenous … Continued
Immigration rights activists head to the border for the Great March and All People’s Immigration Hearing; Also, a Chicano woman’s odyssey with the Zapatista’s Other Campaign; And, indigenous groups face off against corporations who want to drill on sacred land; Also, a commentary from Miguel Gavilan Molina; Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints in Español.