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Our jailed Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina released without charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; also, we’ll have a special update on the situation in New Orleans and down South with Jeremy Scahill; on the Block Report, we feature the harrowing story of Fred Hampton, Jr.’s rescue of five families from Mississippi; Laila … Continued
Haiti special correspondent Kevin Pina arrested by death squad police and facing grave danger; also, we return to the wreckage of the South, asFEMA’s chief is sacked for incompetency, we’ll have a report from ouremergency correspondent Malik Rahim, who is spearheading a grassroots initiative to return infrastructure, medical services and human rights to the area; … Continued
We’ll go back down South for an update on the situation as well as to Houston for an update around the Astrodome and in the city, we’ll also feature a collage of people picking up the slack left by Bush and the feds and trying to meet the needs of tens of thousands pushed out … Continued
We’ll feature a breaking story on how the federal government has vetoed a crucial microtransmitter radio project for the Astrodome; we’ll hear the stories of two Bay Area survivors who were shot at by local police in New Orleans; we’ll speak with a young man who is doing what the feds should be doing, re-establishing … Continued
Bush’s Flood-disaster death count may rise to well over ten thousand, as First Mother Barbara Bush, visits and insults thousands of victims still stranded inside the Astro-Dome – We’ll have reports from New Orleans, Houston, and we’ll hear eye-witness accounts from those just back from the hardest hit areas: Also students protest Bush’s racist response … Continued
Today on a special Labor Day edition of Flashpoints, we feature voices from New Orleans, with special reports from Pacifica and community radio producers; we’ll hear from people in the streets, community leaders, activists, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ordinary people who are all fed up with the deliberate abandonment by the Bush … Continued
The deliberate abandonment of hundreds of thousands of stranded Southerners left floating and hungry in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we’ll feature a special report from the ground in New Orleans; plus, author and attorney Eva Golinger talks about her new, explosive book, The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela; we’ll also feature headlines … Continued
We’ll feature an in-depth report on the Iraqui Bridge slaughter massacre; and an update on the bloody and endless US occupation; we’ll talk about what the Louisiana National Guard should be doing instead of kill and be killed in Iraq; we’ll feature an interview with Michael Parenti on the hurricane and its aftermath; and from … Continued
An update for Haiti’s US Sponsored Killing Fields: And we continue our Series, poets in a time of war, with notes Palestinian poet and Writer, Naomi Shihab Nye: And from exile the Knight Report.
We’ll feature a round-table discussion on how best to stop the Bush war machine and end the bloody occupation of Iraq and Palestine; Also how to deal with the sell out democrats; And from exile the Knight Report.
