FLASHPOINTS

Blood and Politics

Blood and Politics: An in-depth look at the white supremacists and neo-Nazi movement with one of the leading experts in the field; also, a new report documents a trail of human rights violations against immigrants and undocumented workers; and activists planning major protests across the country tomorrow against the expansion of the war in Afghanistan.

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Guests:

Richard Becker, ANSWER Coalition

Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Leonard Zeskind, author, Blood and Politics

Noam Chomsky

Dozens of anti-torture activists arrested in Washington today, in a protest against the expanding war in Afghanistan, we’ll speak to Kathy Kelly and a student leader arrested at the protest; also, reactionary elements within the Palestinian Authority continue to collaborate with Israel in suppressing the Goldstone report, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah for a full analysis; plus, JR and the Block Report feature an exclusive interview with a father of one of Oscar Grant’s friends, on the eve of an attempt to change the venue for the killer cop’s hearing; and Noam Chomsky, at 80, speaks about Obama’s Middle East policies in a benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance.

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Guests:

The Block Report

Kathy Kelly, Voices of Creative Nonviolence

Jericha Arentzs, anti-torture activist with Witness Against Torture, VCNV

Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada

Noam Chomsky, leading intellectual – Speaking at Oakland’s Paramount Theater, Oct. 3rd, in a benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance

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

Illegal Israeli settlement colony construction in the occupied West Bank

Venezuela and the United States nose-to-nose on regional and hemispheric policies, we’ll speak to the Consul General to San Francisco from Venezuela; also, continuing US-related atrocities in Afghanistan paint a dark picture for the future of that country; plus, the Israeli government starts issuing hundreds of new building permits in illegal settlement colonies in the West Bank as the “settlement freeze” becomes meaningless; a leading war resister decides to run for Congress on the Republican ticket; and a special edition of the Knight Report focuses on the expanding war in Afghanistan.

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Guests:

Martin Sanchez, Venezuelan Consul General for San Francisco

Tom Englehardt, TomDispatch

Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada

Tina Richard, Military Families Speak Out

Adam Kokesh, GI Resister and Congressional candidate

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Continuing resistance to the coup on the ground in Honduras; Israeli snipers shoot at children in the occupied West Bank, killing a 15 year old Palestinian boy; the Knight Report with special analysis on Obama’s expanding war in Afghanistan; Reese Erlich on the Afghan elections and the widening drug trade; Eva Golinger talks about the regional move to close US bases in Latin America; plus, Ahmed Habib discusses the situation in US-occupied Iraq; and Catherine Austin Fitts delivers Community Business.

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The Death Penalty

12,000 people march through the streets of Tegucigalpa to protest the ongoing coup in Honduras, we’ll have a report from the ground; also, drug dealing and phony elections in Afghanistan, we’ll speak to Reese Erlich, just back from Kabul; a new survey shows that more people oppose the death penalty than ever before, yet the state keeps executing innocent people; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Tim Russo,  FSRN

Reese Erlich, author and journalist

Stephanie Faucher, Death Penalty Focus

Healthcare or Warfare?

A special report on Mexico: teetering on the economic brink; also, expanding resistance and repression in Honduras, we’ll feature a live report from “Coup City”; syndicated columnist Norman Solomon reports on destruction and refugee camps in Kabul; plus, the Democrats: spineless corporate rats on health care; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

John Ross, Historian, author and poet

Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter and Single Payer Action

Norman Solomon, media critic, Executive Director of Institute for Public Accuracy

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Jordan Flaherty and Malik Rahim, activists and journalists in New Orleans, reflect on the 4^th year since hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the continued inaction and injustice perpetrated by the Federal Government; also, Native American leaders prepare to reclaim Mt. Rushmore and other sacred sites across the country; Ali Abunimah talks about the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza and Obama’s policies in Palestine; plus, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern talks about the potential to jail Bush administration officials for torture and kidnapping; and the Knight Report returns from exile.

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Israeli PM Netanyahu with US President Barack Obama

A special report from Honduras on the ongoing investigation of the coup leaders by the Spanish judge who indicted Pinochet; plus, Israel bombs southern Gaza, killing at least three, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah about the attacks and Obama’s declaration in support of a “necessary war” in Afghanistan; also, we’ll have a special report from the United Native Americans on a pilgrimage to take back Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Ali Abunimah, editor and co-founder of Electronic Intifada

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

Quanah Parker Brightman, United Native Americans

Professor Lehman Brightman, President of UNA