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Today on Flashpoints: Over 15,000 Palestinian refugees remain trapped under siege in the Naher el-Bared refugee camp, we’ll have a report from Lebanon; also, a leading immigration rights attorney arrested protesting the so-called immigration compromise; former Black Panther and founder of Common Ground in New Orleans, Malik Rahim, in the studio; a report from Venezuela … Continued
Corporations complicit in torture: the ACLU files a lawsuit against Boeing corporation for their contracts with the CIA to transport detainees to countries in the US government’s illegal program of extraordinary rendition; also, Palestinian American activists talk about the 40/60 Campaign to call international attention to the 40 years of Israel’s military occupation of the … Continued
An in-depth look at the unraveling situation for Palestinian refugees who remain displaced inside Lebanese refugee camps; also, Israeli war planes continue to attack Gaza, killing two Palestinians; two young boys from Gaza, both of them seriously wounded from recent Israeli attacks, join us in the Flashpoints studio as we talk about Israel’s continuous shredding … Continued
Over 20,000 Palestinians have now fled refugee camps in northern Lebanon as food and medical aid is restricted by constant attacks by the US-backed Lebanese army; plus, Israeli warplanes continue to pound the Gaza strip; gas gouging in a time of war – why oil profits are soaring and Bush’s allies are making a killing; … Continued
We spend the hour listening to a riveting speech by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, on the Zionist project to purge Palestinians from their homeland from 1948 through today, and his new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
The United States rushes millions of dollars in military equipment to support the Lebanese military attack on refugee camps in Northern Lebanon, we’ll have two reports from the ground on the condition of the refugees and the widening political involvement of the US; In the Margins: poetry with Carolyn Norr; and Flashpoints en Espanol, staff … Continued
We continue our reporting from northern Lebanon, where the Lebanese army continues to besiege the densely-populated Nahr El-Bared refugee camp; also, Ali Abunimah talks about US-backed Palestinian counter-revolutionaries fomenting violence and suffering in Lebanon and Palestine; plus, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on Bush’s presidential finding to destabilize Iran through the CIA; JR reports back … Continued
Greg Palast, author of "Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans – Sordid Secrets & Strange Tales of a White house Gone Wild," talks about Karl Rove, electoral fraud and US politics.
A report from the Bidalwi refugee camp, where hundreds of Palestinians are streaming in from the nearby camp under siege now for three days in northern Lebanon; also, environmental activist and scientist Rania Masri reports from Beirut on the real origins of the Fatah al-Islam group and the implications of the recent bombing inside the … Continued
Lebanese security forces continue shelling for a second day the Nahar al-Barad refugee camp, killing over 40 and wounding many more, we’ll have a report from an eyewitness and commentary from our special correspondent in Beirut, where two bombings shook the city in the last 24 hours; also, Israeli war planes pummel the Gaza strip, … Continued
