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Flashpoints – September 8, 2006

Human rights investigation published by the Lancet Medical Journal under attack; an update on the situation on the ground in Haiti with our special correspondent Kevin Pina; Salvadoran deportations continue with a bizarre twist; also, the US stranglehold on clean water puts Mexicans at risk; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.


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Flashpoints – September 6, 2006

Dahr Jamail reports on the killing fields in US-occupied Iraq, where officials are running out of morgue freezers to put the over 800 bodies a week that are pouring in; also, how Israel begins another round of ethnic transfers of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and their family members out of Palestine; plus, we’ll take … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 5, 2006

John Ross reports from Mexico City on the decision to make Calderon the next President of Mexico despite massive fraud; also, a free-wheeling discussion with former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern, focusing on the neo-cons’ drumbeat towards war with Iran, the bombing of Lebanon and the continued use of torture by the US government; and … Continued


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Flashpoints – August 30, 2006

A new study in the prestigious Lancet Journal of Medicine shows that under the US-imposed Haiti government, there were rampant human rights violations, including murder, beatings and sexual assault by the National Police; also, the Block Report returns today with an in-depth look at independent media and its effect in the way we see the … Continued