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Flashpoints – April 25, 2006

Legendary actress Rita Moreno talks about her work on the screen and her struggle as a Latino actress to get respect and her strong support for the immigrant revolution; plus, we celebrate the 52nd birthday of death row journalist and political prisoner Mumia abu-Jamal; we continue our reporting on the Kurdish and Palestinian refugees imprionsed … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 20, 2006

We continue our in-depth coverage of the escalating US war rhetoric against Iran, Phyllis Bennis takes a further look at the ramifications of a potential attack and what the day after that war might really look like; news headlines from occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess; documenting systematic Israeli settler violence in occupied Hebron; and the … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 19, 2006

What would Iran and the region look like in the aftermath of US nuclear war? We’ll speak with internationally-renowned theoretical physicist and environmentalist Dr. Michio Kaku; also, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on the unraveling civil war in Iraq and the misreporting of the story by the US corporate media; smoking gun documents that … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 18, 2006

We hear from one voice among thousands of Iraqis now fleeing the violence in their US-occupied homeland; Israel expands its bloody occupation against Palestine, we’ll have an on-the-ground report; plus, an in-depth look at the forgotten refugees of the Iraq war, imprisoned inside refugee camps on the border between Iraq and Jordan; an interview with … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 17, 2006

Pratap Chatterjee reports from Northern Iraq on the ongoing corporate ripoffs and the total breakdown of the reconstruction of Iraq; also, the cycle of violence continues with a Palestinian suicide bombing in Tel Aviv on the heels of two weeks of the most intense Israeli occupation violence seen yet; Los Angeles students speak out for … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 13, 2006

Is president Bush planning another war to keep the Republicans in power and insulate himself from impeachment proceedings? Also, will Peru elect another populist in the tradition of Hugo Chavez? Israel kills two more Palestinians in Gaza and continues its massive tank shelling barrage of civilian populations; an interview with Robert Parry on leak-gate; and … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 12, 2006

Israel continues to pound Palestinians trapped inside the occupied Gaza strip with 300 tank shells a day, we’ll have a special report from Ali Abunimah on the unraveling disaster in Palestine; also, Flashpoints takes a look at leak-gate with a former CIA intelligence official; the battle to shut down one of the most toxic power … Continued