Flashpoints – September 7, 2006
We spend the hour talking about the tenth annual Arab film festival and we’ll broadcast excerpts of a brand new documentary on the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the Knight Report.
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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
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
Flashpoints – September 4, 2006
We present an immigrants rights Labor Day special with live and taped reports form today’s National Immigration Rights March. We’ll look at the events of the day and we’ll talk to some of the leading activists as to where the Immigrants Rights Movement is headed now.
Flashpoints – September 1, 2006
Jon Gibler and John Ross report from the streets of Mexico City, as President Fox delivers his last address to the nation, which remains split over the refusal of the government to do a recount of the Presidential election; also, we’ll speak to several people just back from Mexico about the situation on the ground; … Continued
Flashpoints – August 31, 2006
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan calls for an end to Israeli aggressions after Israeli death squads kill nine more in Gaza, bringing the total to 20 in five days; also, a war resister turns himself in today after having gone AWOL for nearly a year and a half in protest of Bush’s illegal war against … Continued
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
Flashpoints – August 29, 2006
John Ross reports from Mexico City about the final word on the election steal; Israeli death squads continue their killing spree in the wake of the US-Israeli attack on Lebanon; also, a look at plans to go to war against Iran and the US’ use of torture in the Middle East; more UN violence in … Continued
Flashpoints – August 28, 2006
Kofi Annan visits Lebanon and calls for the lifting of Israel’s illegal blockade by sea and air; we’ll have a report from the south of Lebanon on how Israel snubbed the UN by raising its flag inside Lebanon; also, Israel kills eight more Palestinians in Gaza and kidnaps another member of Parliament in the West … Continued
Flashpoints – August 25, 2006
Today on Flashpoints we are live from the New College of California in San Francisco’s Mission District!! We continue our reporting from Oaxaca, Mexico where paramilitaries are attacking grassroots activists every night. Also, we’ll visit a Methodist church in Chicago where a Mexican woman has been given sanctuary as she fights against deportation and separation … Continued