Flashpoints – November 5, 2003
The Bush Administration Moves to Re-Institute the Draft While Bush Signs a Bill that Makes a Safe, Legal Abortion a Near Impossibility Corporate Crime Sprees Go Unchecked Palestinian Children and Farmers Under Siege
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The Bush Administration Moves to Re-Institute the Draft While Bush Signs a Bill that Makes a Safe, Legal Abortion a Near Impossibility Corporate Crime Sprees Go Unchecked Palestinian Children and Farmers Under Siege
A Report on the Potential Stealing of the Next Election Through the Use of Electronic Voting Machines Family Members of Those Serving in Iraq Talk About the Growing Resentment Soldiers Now Harbor for George W. Bush Is the New Geneva Accord Between Israel and the Palestinians Really a Break-Through? The Knight Report
A Wide-Ranging Discussion with Award-Winning London Independent Reporter Robert Fisk on the Ongoing Occupation of Iraq The Wife of a Reservist Serving in Iraq Tells Us What She Hears on a Daily Basis from her Husband About the Real Situation on the Ground The Knight Report
Native Lands Go Up in Flames in Southern California as the Mainstream Media Concentrates on the Devastation of the Wealthier Neighborhoods The Block Report with Host JR Discusses Developments in the Case of H. Rap Brown Flashpoints En Español Host Nancy Charraga in Conversation with San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Tom Ammiano
Two Western Activists in Occupied Palestine Shot by Israeli Forces Earlier this Week Amira Hass Talks About Her New Book, Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land The Knight Report
The United States’ Most Famous Political Whistle Blower Daniel Ellsberg Talks About This Country’s Most Recent One, Joseph Wilson Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror The Knight Report
An Exclusive Interview with the Venezuelan Ambassador About the Current Political Situation Facing the Country and Hugo Chavez An Extended Conversation with Constitutional Law Expert David Cole About the Ups and Downs of the War on Our Civil Liberties The Knight Report
A report back from the WTO protests in Cancun.
A Report From the Occupied West Bank Village of Jayuus, Where Thousands of Palestinians are Being Held Hostage by the Israeli Apartheid Wall Noted Radical Historian Michael Parenti Talks About How he Became an Activist Sounds From the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride; Living With AIDS in Africa
A Conversation With Noted Israeli Journalist Amira Hass.