FLASHPOINTS

Sgt. Travis Bishop, who served a tour in Iraq, is now considered to be a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. (Photo: courtesy of Travis Bishop)

Award-winning reporter and author Dahr Jamail talks about the expanding wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the growing GI resistance movement; also, we’ll have a report from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with Andres Conteris; plus, we focus on the Arab Film Festival in the Bay Area, we’ll speak to the director of the event and one of the filmmakers included in the festival; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent, author, The Will to Resist; see his new piece on GI resistance here

SPEAKING EVENTS: click here for Bay Area event calendar

Michel Shehadeh, director of the Arab Film Festival

Najwa Najjar, director, Pomegranates & Myrrh

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