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Flashpoints – April 20, 2005

The President of Ecuador, Lucio Gutierrez is forced from office in a breaking coup d’etat as Colombia continues to explode with violence; plus, a Palestinian woman in the Gaza strip is forced to give birth at a checkpoint, her baby dies shortly afterwards; also, commemorating the Berber people’s fight for national recognition in Algeria; a … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 19, 2005

An update on the critical situation in Haiti with Kevin Pina; also, activists face off with vigilantes at the Arizona-Mexico border; a discussion with an esteemed Palestinian artist on resistance and culture; our new Earth Matters segment focuses on the Pepper Spray trial; and the Knight Report.


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Flashpoints – April 18, 2005

San Francisco-based Goldman Foundation gives a $125,000 environmental award to a well-known violator of human rights in Haiti, and an update on how the US violated its own 13-year old arms embargo to provide new weapons to the death squads of the Haitian National Police; plus, an American aid worker killed in a car bomb … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 15, 2005

Esteemed civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart talks about her conviction and why she’s still speaking out against the assaults on civil liberties; also the women of Mulukulú, Nicaragua and their nonviolent resistance of oppression in the wake of war and economic terrorism; plus Flashpoints en Español; Mexico Snubs Cuba at The UN with allegations of … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 14, 2005

An in-depth interview with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail about the current deteriorating situation in Iraq, on a day where 18 Iraqis were killed and dozens wounded; plus, as the G7 World Bank and IMF Summit convenes, we talk about erasing poor nations’ massive debt; also, we speak to a ship Captain off the coast … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 13, 2005

A full update on Haiti and the illegal arms transfers by the United States; plus, what’s next for the Patriot Act, and how potential changes will further affect civil liberties; a look at the unraveling political crisis in Nepal; our weekly environmental segment, Earth Matters; and the Knight Report.


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Flashpoints – April 12, 2005

Palestinian former political prisoners speak out about the system of torture and oppression inside Israeli prisons; we’ll speak to a Latin American human rights activist who interrupted John Negroponte’s senate confirmation hearings today; Plus, environmental activists sue law enforcement for pepper spray torture during a nonviolent demonstration; and the Knight Report.


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Flashpoints – April 11, 2005

Three Palestinian teenagers are shot and killed in Gaza while Ariel Sharon visits George Bush’s Texas ranch; plus, new revelations and investigations into torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo, we’ll talk about the role of top-level Bush administration officials in the ongoing torture; also, hate crimes against Muslims break out in Chicago; and the Knight … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 8, 2005

New evidence on how the United States government is secretly and illegally arming the US-installed coup government of Haiti; plus, right-wing Jewish extremist groups rally to storm the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem this weekend; Phyllis Bennis on the nomination of John Bolton to become the new UN Ambassador; a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 7, 2005

New smoking gun evidence proves that the killing of Rachel Corrie by the Israeli military was premeditated; an in-depth discussion on recent elections in Zimbabwe and the deadly impact of the Pope on Africa; an update on death squad police in Brazil; plus, Palestinian artists display the personal and the political on exhibit in San … Continued