FLASHPOINTS

A soldier searches a child in the West Bank

Today on Flashpoints, Senior producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports for the entire hour from the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Palestine. Nora will speak with a traumatized 10 year old arrested twice by soldiers and beaten so badly that he was hospitalized. We’ll hear from the troubled child, his family, and from a child development expert on the multiple impacts the illegal occupation is having on Palestinian children.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer

The boy with his mother just hours before he was abducted by Israeli soldiers

Israeli forces beat and rearrest 10 year old; Nora Barrows-Friedman talks to the traumatized child and to the family about the 2nd attack on their home in Hebron. Also, Lubna Masarwa, a Palestinian activist from the West Bank, is in-studio to talk about her continuing grassroots organizing against Israeli occupation. Also, we have more excerpts from a recent speech by Ali Abunimah, founder of the Electronic Intifada.net.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Lubna Masarwa, Palestinian Activist
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada.net

Student and Faculty activists at UC Berkeley

Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on the illegal arrests and detention of 10 year old and 12 year old Palestinian brothers by Israeli security forces. Also, a special report from Chiapas Mexico where state security forces are cracking down on indigenous communities who they are falsely accusing of involvement in the drug trade. We’ll hear from Dr. Mads Gilbert who treated the victims of Israel’s use of unconventional weaponry in last years attack on Gaza. And students and teachers protest budget cuts all over the state.

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Guests:
Alejandro Reyes, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
Dr. Mads Gilbert, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent

Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank

Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman begins the first of a month long series of frontline reports in occupied Palestine. Also, The People Speak, a powerful documentary based on the voices from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Senior Producer, Flashpoints

Haitian President Rene Preval with Bush in 2006

Today on Flashpoints, we will be speaking to special correspondent Kevin Pina about new revelations that President Preval secretly participated in the 2004 U.S. sponsored coup against Aristide. Also, Ali Abunimah speaks about the future of the movement to end Israeli occupation of Palestine, and much more.

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Guests:
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada

(Photo: The U.S. Army; Edited: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t)

Kevin Pina reports on growing diseases and brutality against Haitians by UN peacekeepers; also, we’ll speak with a nurse who just returned from Haiti; plus, Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on a massive joint weapons stockpiling deal between the US and Israel; Barbara Lubin will be in to talk about new projects by the Middle East Children’s Alliance; and our weekly segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Joanna Berrigan

Nora Barrows-Friedman – read Truthout article here

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Mohammed Khatib

We continue our reporting from the earthquake zone in Haiti with Kevin Pina and Laura Flynn of the Aristide Foundation; also, Israel intensifies its arrests and attacks against nonviolent Palestinian peace activists, we’ll talk to Mohammed Khatib of the Popular Committee Against the Wall, who was just released from five days in detention; and on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we look at Secretary Treasurer Geithner’s claiming credit for the disastrous bailout.

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Guests:

Mohammed Khatib, Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in

Kevin Pina

Laura Flynn, Aristide Foundation

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

The morgue has been largely cleared of corpses. But one remains. Without effective aid, more will come. (Sharif Abdel-Koddous, Democracy Now)

Bay Area-based civil rights attorney Walter Riley reports back from his days in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during and after the earthquake hit; also, we’ll hear from Ira Kurzban, former special counsel to Haiti under President Aristide; and an in-depth interview with cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza.

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Guests:

Walter Riley

Ira Kurzban

Joe Sacco

Helicopter flying over Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday. Francois Mori/AP

We’ll have a frontline report from on the ground in Haiti, where tens of thousands of people have died in a massive earthquake; we’ll also talk about the politics behind relief and hear from Pierre Labossiere about various actions to support the people of Haiti; also, Flashpoints special correspondent Jamal Jumaa released from Israeli detention, he talks about his month in jail, enduring solitary confinement and psychological torture and his perseverance to keep the anti-apartheid movement going; Bekah Wolf talks about expanding Israeli settler attacks in West Bank villages; and cartoonist reporter Joe Sacco talks about the focus story of his book, Footnotes in Gaza.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina, Haiti Action

Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Emergency Relief Fund

Ansel Herz, Narco News

Jamal Jumaa, Stop the Wall

Bekah Wolf, Palestine Solidarity Project

Joe Sacco, reporter and cartoonist

Joe Sacco

Earthquake in Haiti - from Radio Tele Ginen

The poverty-stricken nation of Haiti was rocked today by a massive earthquake that exceeded 7.0 on the richter scale; a major hospital, the presidential palace and many other buildings were damaged; we’ll have a special report on the devastation; also, ten Palestinians killed in Gaza in two weeks by Israeli airstrikes and tank fire, we’ll go to Gaza City for a full report; and a year after the police murder of Oscar Grant, protesters face felony charges for their street response to the close-range killing.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Pierre Labossiere

Farah Juste

Dr. Haidar Eid, professor of Culture Studies at Al-Aqsa University, Steering committee member of PACBI, One Democratic State Group, and Gaza Freedom March

JR and the Block Report