FLASHPOINTS

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, award-winning investigative journalist Max Blumenthal takes on the religious right wing in his book, Republican Gomorrah; UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in occupied Palestine, Dr. Richard Falk, analyses the UN report condemning Israel for war crimes in Gaza; also, the Knight Report investigates the US bombings in Somalia; an update on the case of political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal; and an in-depth look at the 2001 US anthrax attacks and the dark secrets of the shadowy world of modern-day germ weapons research.

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US bombs Somalia using attack helicopters

A special report by Robert Knight on the recent US bombing and extra-judicial assassinations in Somalia; also, Temple University professor and Mumia Abu Jamal expert Linn Washington updates the case of Mumia and reveals further government misconduct; and our regular weekly segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts.

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Guests:

Linn Washington,  Professor of Journalism at Temple University in Philadelphia and a weekly columnist for The Philadelphia Tribune

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Canada's Outsourced War for Iraq's Oil Riches

We continue our focus on the resistance to expanding mountaintop removal in Appalachia, we’ll speak to Mike Roselle of Climate Ground Zero; also, an in-depth investigation into Canada’s role in the occupation and colonial-privatization of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine; ongoing Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, we’ll have news headlines from Palestine; Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; and a commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Guests:

Mike Roselle, Climate Ground Zero (also check out I Love Mountains)

Anthony Fenton, investigative journalist

International Middle East Media Center

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Mumia Abu Jamal