Today’s interviews are produced by Mehmet Bayram, Sureya Sayadi and Susan Galleymore. Our interviews are with three different scholars covering various aspects of Kurdish issues, these guests will be speakers among many others at the Kurdish Human Rights Conference on September 4th and 5th in San Francisco. First we start with Dr. Nicole Watts an … Continued
Health Cost Recovery in Burundi, Africa Fish Mercury Levels Senegulese Businessmen Respond the Chinese Merchants Immigrants in NYC Losing Driver Licenses German Expellel Restitution Claims
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, whose book is Crimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy; Also, The Alps are melting: Europian Environmental Agency reports that Europe faces drastic weather; Scientists at Princeton have laid out a program whereby global warming can be stopped, … Continued
Father of Beheaded Iraq Hostage Blames Bush Administration For Son’s Death Illegal Strip Searches and the Crackdown on Dissent in California As NYC Braces for RNC, Anarchists Blast Media Coverage as Scare Tactics
7:00 amUpdate on the economy. (Google’s IPO, new overtime rules, jobless recovery, etc.) Doug Henwood editor of Left Business Observer and author of After the New Economy and Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom. 7:30 amLan Samantha Chang, author of Inheritance: A Novel. 8:00 amDensity and transporation in metropolitan areas — how privilege … Continued
U.S. occupation forces employ AC-130 gunships against Shiite militiamen in Najajf, Iraq after their leader Moqtada Al-Sadr apparantly defies a final demand from the interim prime minister to disarm Sources say an army investigation of the torture and abuse of Iraqis at Abu Grhaib prison finds no senior officers involved…. .a study by a bioethicist … Continued
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Continuing coverage from the National Conference on Mural Arts, Fabiana speaks with muralist Judy Baca. Anita Johnson talks with members of Canonball about their new album “From Nightfall to Sunup”.
Asian women speak about war, the chance for change and for peace as we remember the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. We’ll hear about: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the road to war in the gulf; the role of developing nations in opposing empire; and a book of peace. Japanese anti-nuclear activist Reiko Osato; award-winning … Continued
Today on Flashpoints, prying the lid off the 9/11 coverup, a new in-depth interview with David Ray Griffin, the author of the newly-updated The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11; plus, a new investigative documentary on the use of electronic voting machines and their inherent dangers to democracy; and the … Continued
Fund Drive Show – Michio talks about his work and his new book Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time. (Great Discoveries)
