Flashpoints

Flashpoints – July 8, 2004

More sweeping attacks on the people in Gaza, we’ll have a report from the ground; Knessit Member Azmi Bishara on hunger strike to protest the Israeli apartheid wall; and the indictment of Ken Lay, a full report with Catherine Austin Fitts on the Enron swindle and the implications for the Bushies; plus the Knight Report.


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Flashpoints – July 6, 2004

A look at the true cost of the Iraq war, with an in-depth discussion with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies; the intensified brutality of occupation and the reality of water resources in Palestine, a conversation with noted Palestinian scholar Dr. Marwan Haddad; and Nuclear weapons and WMDs found in the Middle East


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Flashpoints – July 5, 2004

Today on a special so-called Independence Day Edition of Flashpoints, we look at a world in bondage, from the Iraq war to the continued attack on women in this country. We’ll broadcast a recent speech by author and historian Larry Everest, and we’ll talk about the state of battered women in US prisons who killed … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 29, 2004

Christian Parenti reports on the situation in Iraq a day after the secret pseudo-power transfer ceremonies; detainees in Guantanamo finally get their day in court; Israeli scholar and peace activist Tanya Reinhart in the studio in a freewheeling discussion on solutions to the ongoing illegal occupation in Palestine; a call to action against the continued … Continued


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Flashpoints – June 25, 2004

Special farewell report with our correspondent in Baghdad as U.S. Forces drop more bombs in Fallujah. President select Bush investigated at the Oval Office by the Feds and the CIA leak probe. Cheney versus the Supreme Court in questions about the Energy Task Force Meetings. Special bilingual report on Walmart versus Women.