Today on Flashpoints, Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electronic Intifada brings us their weekly podcast on occupied Palestine. Later on we’ll play another excerpt from a powerful documentary film we featured yesterday, Israel Vs. Israel.
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Today on Flashpoints: Thousands of “Israel first” citizen lobbyists descend on Capitol Hill. We’ll find out why. Also former Attorney General, Ramsey Clark is in town to talk about limits of power. Later we feature excerpts from a new documentary on the battle inside Israel against occupation, “Israel vs. Israel”.
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Today On Flashpoints: Hugo Chavez, visionary leader of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela is dead. We’ll feature an in-depth backgrounder with Eva Golinger, a former adviser to Chavez, on the man most likely to succeed Chavez as president. We’ll speak to BBC reporter and best selling author, who broke the story on Flashpoints, of the US inspired attempt to kidnap, kill or marginalize Chavez. And we’ll feature excerpts from “South of the Border”, a powerful and enlightening documentary on Chavez and the other new radical leaders in Central and South America Oscar Winning Filmmaker, Oliver Stone
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Today on Flashpoints: The pope jumps ship right before the high holy days. We’ll look to someone who wants to summon the ex-pope for and international prosecution. And We feature excerpts from “Over Troubled Water”, a new documentary on the battle to prevent corporate water poachers from diverting and stealing the public ‘s source of all life, fresh water.
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Today on Flashpoints, we remember the ninth anniversary of the coup against the constitutional government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti. We’ll listen to some excerpts of Senior Producer Kevin Pina’s live reports from the past. We’ll also speak with author Jeb Sprague about his new book, “Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti”.
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Today on Flashpoints: We celebrate and commemorate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the American Indian Movement at wounded knee. We’ll feature an extended conversation with AIM co-founder, and wounded knee survivor, Bill Means. Also we’ll feature excerpts from “Welcome to Hebron”, which portrays the struggle for Palestinian high schoolers to go to school, while under constant attack by Israeli settlers, protected and backed up by Israeli occupation forces.
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