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Monday, January 11th, 2010 0

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Flashpoints
Protesting Torture

Protesting Torture

Obama breaks his campaign promise to close the US Torture Center at Guantanamo Bay;  anti-torture protesters hold him accountable in Washington D.C. ; Meanwhile, the man who wrote the memos justifying the wide ranging use of torture under the Bush administration, John Yoo, starts teaching again, but exactly where is being kept a secret by Officials at the University of California in Berkeley; And Ali Abumimah speaks with us from Amman, Jordan about two weeks of protest in Cairo against Israeli Apartheid.

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Stephanie Tang, World Can't Wait
Kevin Pina, Haiti Action
Ali Abinumah, Electronic Intifada
Frida Berrigan, Witness Against TortureFPLOGO1



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Thursday, January 7th, 2010 1

Posted on January 07, 2010 by Flashpoints

Food Security / Anuradha Mittal

Food Security / Anuradha Mittal

Internationally-renowned expert on trade and development Anuradha Mittal talks about the politics of food and has a good deal to say about what’s happening between African farmers and the so-called Green Revolution; also, we rebroadcast an interview with legendary South African poet and leading anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus, who passed away December 26th.

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Anuradha Mittal, Founder/Executive Director of the Oakland Institute

Dennis Brutus, legendary South African poet/freedom fighter (passed away December 26th, 2009)FPLOGO1

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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 0

Posted on January 06, 2010 by Flashpoints

In Cairo, protesting is dangerous to ones health. Plainclothes government thugs clash with demonstrators protesting Israels assault on Gaza. (Photo © 2009 Mohamed Boraie)

In Cairo, plainclothes government thugs clash with demonstrators protesting Israel's assault on Gaza. (Photo © 2009 Mohamed Boraie)

Sam Husseini reports from Amman, Jordan, on ten days of protests in Cairo; also, Catherine Austin Fitts returns with Community Business, we’ll take a look at the year that just passed and what’s up ahead economically; and Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina, just back from Haiti, joins us in the studio for an update.

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Guests:

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

Sam Husseini, Institute for Public Accuracy

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Monday, January 4th, 2010 0

Posted on January 05, 2010 by Flashpoints


Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier

Jewish Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist Heddy Epstein, is the First to sign the Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid: In her on-going dialogue with Flashpoints, Heddy Epstein explains why; Also, a special report from Chiapas on the anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising: and American Indian Movement Founder, Bill Means, remembers Wounded Knee on the hundred and tenth anniversary of US Calvary Slaughter there, and calls for the release of Leonard Peltier
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Heddy Epstein
Bill Means
Alejandro Reyes FPLOGO1
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009 0

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Flashpoints

Stop AIPAC

Stop AIPAC

An encore presentation of our in-depth interview with Jefferey Blankfort, a leading investigator into the pervasive powers of AIPAC, the US-Israeli lobby; and we’ll rebroadcast our interview with exiled Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya, who talks about the ongoing impact of US occupation policy in her country.

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Guests:

Jefferey Blankfort, investigative journalist

Malalai Joya, author, A Woman Among Warlords

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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 0

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Flashpoints

...from Footnotes in Gaza (Joe Sacco)

...from Footnotes in Gaza (Joe Sacco)

A year of corruption, privatization and violence in US-occupied Iraq, we’ll get a full report from our correspondent Ahmed Habib; also, we continue our speak-out from Cairo and hear why Holocaust survivor and hunger striker Hedy Epstein refused to get on the bus to Gaza today; and award-winning cartoonist and reporter Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza, talks about his new book and the story of two massacres in 1956 that still echo throughout the Gaza strip.

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Guests:

Ahmed Habib, journalist and spoken word artist

Hedy Epstein, Holocaust survivor and Gaza Freedom March delegate

Joe Sacco, award-winning cartoonist/reporter, author of Footnotes in Gaza

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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 0

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Flashpoints
Gaza Freedom March

Gaza Freedom March

Voices from Cairo as over 1500 people gather for a Gaza Freedom March; also, legendary comedian, satirist and lead writer for Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney live in the studio with JR and the Block Report.

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Guests:

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Dr. Mona al-Farra, physician and director of Gaza Projects with Middle East Children’s Alliance

Hedy Epstein, Gaza Freedom March delegate

Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada

Paul Mooney, legendary comedian

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Monday, December 28th, 2009 0

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Flashpoints

Dennis Brutus

Dennis Brutus

Our special correspondent in the occupied West Bank, Jamal Juma, jailed by Israel for his nonviolent activism; also, a Holocaust survivor goes on hunger strike in protest to Egypt’s lockout of the Gaza Freedom March, we’ll also speak to Barbara Lubin in Cairo; plus, Andres Conteris reports on the upsurge of death squad violence under the coup regime in Honduras; we remember noted South African poet and freedom fighter Dennis Brutus; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Hindi Mesleh, anti-apartheid wall activist and organizer with Stop the Wall Campaign

Hedy Epstein, peace activist and Holocaust survivor

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!

Excerpts from an interview in 2007 with Dennis Brutus

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Friday, December 25th, 2009 0

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Flashpoints
Israeli attacks on Gaza

Israeli attacks on Gaza

Holiday Special, Part 3:

Today on Flashpoints: We rebroadcast part three of our three part series on the massive US/Israeli carpet bombing of the Gaza Strip, A year ago: During more than three weeks of US/Israeli bombing, by land, air and sea, over 1400 Palestinians were killed, including three hundred children. There was no where to hide: Schools, UN compounds, mosques, Hospitals, entire neighborhoods were leveled, using the latest in advanced weaponry, including the infamous DIME bomb.

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Thursday, December 24th, 2009 0

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Flashpoints
White phosphorus attacks on Gaza

White phosphorus attacks on Gaza

Holiday Special, Part 2:

Today on Flashpoints: We rebroadcast part two of our three part series on the massive US/Israeli carpet bombing of the Gaza Strip, A year ago: During more than three weeks of US/Israeli bombing, by land, air and sea, over 1400 Palestinians were killed, including three hundred children. There was no where to hide: Schools, UN compounds, mosques, Hospitals, entire neighborhoods were leveled, using the latest in advanced weaponry, including the infamous DIME bomb.

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