Flashpoints

Flashpoints – March 29, 2005

UN forces prevent pro democracy activists from protesting in Haiti and open up on Haitian activist with tear gas and rubber bullets. We’ll have special reports form Father Gerard Jean Juste in Port Au Prince and Anthony Fenton in Vancouver British Columbia. Also, Guatemala courts cut ten years off the sentences of soldiers convicted in … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 28, 2005

We’ll go live to Port au Prince to update the situation around the attempted assassination of leading Haitian pro-democracy activist and liberation theologist Father Jean Juste, also a report on the renewal of military to the brutal Indonesian Military, we’ll also take a look at the 8.7 earthquake that hit Sumatra, we’ll also update the … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 25, 2005

Bullets fly as US backed assassins attempt to kill Haitian pro-democracy leader Father Jean Juste, a heart stopping report on the ground. Also Palestinian Noted Poet talks about her work bringing young Jews and Palestinians together, and Flashpoints en Español on the re-instatement of US aid to Guatemalan Death Squads.


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – March 24, 2005

An extended interview with former CIA officer Phillip Agee on the US program to destabilize Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, also remembering Archbishop Oscar Romero, 25 years after his assassination by US supported killers; we’ll also take a look at El Salvador with it’s economy on the verge of collapse. We’ll feature our weekly environmental segment; … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 21, 2005

Hindu protests flare up in Gujarat and other parts of India in response to the state departments barring the visit of Nurandra Modie, Chief Minister of Gujarat and the architect many believe of the 2002 massacre. Greg palest exposes the battle between BIG OIL and the Neo-Cons, and what it means for the future of … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 18, 2005

An update on attempts to jail the popular mayor of Mexico City, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leading contender for the Mexican presidency. Also the price Mexico pays for the war against Iraq, a small victory fighting to call attention to the slaughter in the Indian Province of Gujarat, and Flashpoints en Español also hones … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 17, 2005

Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu is indicted today for granting interviews to KPFA’s Flashpoints show and other international media: We’ll feature a follow-up interview with Vanunu in which he again uses Flashpoints as a platform to defy Israel’s restrictions on his speech; also Nora Barrows Friedman documents the accelerated building of the Apartheid Wall on … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 16, 2005

Israeli Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechi Vanunu, speaks out against nukes, his own brutal treatment by the Israelis, and the wide-spread Israeli torture of Palestinians: Also former US Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter says the Iraqi elections were fixed; our weekly segment, Earth Matters features the key-note speech at Last weeks Environmental Law Conference by Jeffrey Luers … Continued