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Flashpoints – September 15, 2006

We broadcast both from our studios in Santa Rosa and from our homebase at KPFA in Berkeley. On the show tonight, we’ll feature a young, new investigative unit of bilingual producers and hear some of their maiden voyages into radio with an emphasis on the immigrant revolution; also, an interview with the filmmakers of Occupation … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 13, 2006

A special report by Patrick Cockburn on the deadly conditions in occupied Gaza and the West Bank; also, the situation in Mexico intensifies as both sides intend to greet their supporters in the same Zocalo this weekend; we’ll take a look at the psychological impacts of migration and immigration, particularly focusing on women and children; … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 12, 2006

An Israeli commander publicly says his own actions in the Israeli bombing of Lebanon were quote “insane and monstrous,” we’ll have responses from Lebanon on this public admission of a war crime; a news report from occupied Palestine where another 14 year old is gunned down by Israeli occupiers; also, the Cuban 5 face another … Continued


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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