Archived Shows - December 2004
Friday, December 31, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We spend the entire hour with noted author David Ray Griffin as he speaks about the 911 Coverup, questions still unanswered, and his new book "The 911 Commission Report- Ommisions and Distortions". Nora Barrows Friedman and Dennis Bernstein - straight ahead on Flashpoints.
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Nonviolence International
Office Destroyed in Banda Aceh.
Staff are still missing (photo AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
Staff are still missing (photo AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
Today on Flashpoints:
We'll take and in-depth look at the physical and political impact of
the recent tidal waves in southeast Asia, focusing on Aceh in
Indonesia; we'll
also take a look at whether the US withheld critical information about
the earthquake itself; and we'll go to Haiti for an update and a report
on the possible release of the legendary folk singer and poet Sò
Anne.1:00 Tragedy and Repression in Indonesia: Investigative Journalist Allan Nairn, Director of Nonviolence International Michael Beer, with UC Berkeley Professor of Southeast Asian studies, Sylvia Tiwon are interviewed by Dennis Bernstein. The role of the Indonesian military in raids on remote villages and acts of terrorism under cover of aid efforts to eliminate political dissent is also discussed. Also visit etan.org and background on the situation in Aceh, and Sylvia Tiwon's article The Aftermath in Aceh.
Donations for Aceh relief can be made to Nonviolence International (202) 244-0651 and the East Timor Action Network (202) 544-6911
47:20 Musical Break: Ani DiFranco singing Phil Ochs' When I'm Gone, Swing Set (July, 2000)
49:50 Haiti Report: Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina reports on $29.5M cash payouts rewarding former military criminals who illegally seized Aristide's home in Port au Prince in mid-December. Also, the refusal of the US-appointed Haitian Government to honor the Judicial Branch's order to release pro-democracy prisoners, the recent massacre of more than 60 people held in the National Penitentiary by the Haitian National Police, and continuing repression and police killings in pro-Aristide neighborhoods.
Also read President Aristide's 2005 New Year's message from Durban South Africa.
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today
on Flashpoints:
An in-depth look at potential
US war crimes as a result of the US’s wide ranging program for torture
and
abuse in the so called war against terror, and also we’ll speak wit
h Rahul Mahajan in an assessment
of Iraq policy in
it’s impact in the region.
01:00 US War Crimes in Iraq
Michael Rathner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights
33:00 Iraq Policy and it’s impact in the Region. Rahul Mahajan,
Author of Full Spectrum Dominance, US Power in Iraq and Beyond
Tuesday,
December 28,
2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: We continue our commemorative coverage of the late investigative reporter Gary Webb. We are proud to again present a forum that was recorded with Gary Webb and Martha Honey in June 1997 to celebrate the release of his book Dark Alliance. The interview was conducted on-stage with Flashpoints Executive Producer Dennis Bernstein.
Monday, December 27, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: We interview author David Ray Griffen of "The New Pearl Harbor, Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11" and his most recent book "The 911 Commission Report: Ommissions and Distortions". 911 Coverup Questions from before, during and after 9/11 still unanswered are discussed.
Friday, December 24, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: We rebroadcast our exclusive interview with Kevin Cooper on Death Row in San Quentin nearly a year after his last minute stay of execution. On Flashpoints en Espanol we speak with Haitian activist regarding the ongoing purge of the Pro-Democracy Movement.
Thursday, December 23, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints Lyn Duff interviews a Haitian woman whose son was shot in the back by a Haitian military death squad; also, we'll interview a pro-Lavalas mayor in hiding in Haiti; we'll also feature an in-depth piece on womens' experience of occupation in Palestine; and the status of migrants' rights as considered at an international migrants day conference in Sacramento last week.
Wednesday, December 22, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Tuesday, December 21, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints:
Resistance forces in Iraq Attack a US Army Base killing over 24 and
wounding over 60, also a Cuban/Mexican labor conference takes on
Neo-liberalism and we continue our Gary Webb memorial reporting series
with author Robert Parry, and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Resistance shelling takes a heavy toll on American and Halliburton troops in Mosul; More ACLU evidence of Bush administration torture at Guantanamo; and - In a new British Invasion, Prime Minister and Islamic Scholar Tony Blair goes to Iraq and Israel, while Baroness Margaret Thatcher visits her middle-age-delinquent son in South Africa (Robert Knight)
05:30 Iraq in Flames: Middle East Regional Analysis, Patrick Cockburn, Independent of London
Read Patrick Cockburn's article (Dennis)
14:00 Music Break
15:00 Cuba-Mexico Labor Conference: Juan Jose Gutierrez, National Director of Latino USA (Solange)
33:00 Music Break
35:00 Gary Webb Memorial Series: Robert Parry, Investigative Reporter and Journalist (Dennis)
Read more about Gary Webb on ConsortiumNews
Monday, December 20, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
01:00 Knight Report.
06:00 Iraq in Flames: Middle East Regional Analysis. Robert Fisk, Independent of London.
34:00 Music Break
35:00 Land Steal in the West Bank. Abu Hammed Salim, Christoph Blocke, and John Petrovado
Friday, December 17, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Thursday, December 16, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints:
15,000 pro-democracy supporters take to the streets of Cap Hatien
despite the continuing repression of the Lavalas movement. We'll have a
full report from Kevin Pina on the ground in Port-au-Prince. Plus Kevin
Cooper, live from Death Row. We'll play the entire interview, plus
interviews with his attorney and an anti-death-penalty activist. And of
course, the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Iraqi resistance cuts US supply lines and learns new tricks; Saddam Hussein finally sees a lawyer; Osama bin Laden resurfaces; and an Ohio judge has thrown out a challenge to the election (Robert Knight)
05:30 Thousands Protest in Cap Hatien: Kevin Pina reports on a massive protest by pro-democracy Haitians demanding the return of their elected President, Jean Bertrand Aristide (Dennis)
19:00 KPFA Local Station Board Meeting Announcement and Musical Break
20:00 Kevin Cooper Live from San Quentin: Phone interview by Dennis Bernstein
32:20 Musical Break
35:20 More with Kevin Cooper and attorney David Alexander (Dennis)
52:00 Musical Break
55:00 The Case Against the Death Penalty: Crystal Bybee, Anti Death Penalty Activist (Dennis)
For more on the Kevin Cooper case visit www.savekevincooper.org
Wednesday, December 15, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: UN forces occupy Cite Soleil, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphereas part of the ongoing purge of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti; also, Michael Ratner discusses new revelations about US torture in Iraq, including electrical shocks and setting prisoners on fire; plus, human rights activist Chris Brown on Israeli settler violence in occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report. Daily news and analysis.
06:00 UN Storms Cite Soleil in Haiti. Kevin Pina, FP special correspondent in Port-au-Prince
26:00 Music Break
27:00 US Torture at Abu Ghraib. Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights .
41:00 Settler Violence in Palestine. Chris Brown, activist with Christian Peacemaker Teams
Tuesday, December 14, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints:
Canada does the post-coup bidding for the United States in Haiti; also,
excerpts of Gary Webb on stage with Flashpoints in a 1996 interview
after the release of his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras
and the Crack Cocaine Explosion was released, we'll have an
in-depth interview with investigative journalist Robert Parry about
Gary Webb and his own confrontations with corporate media; and the
Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: The Bush administration wants four or more years in Iraq and Afghanistan; Iraq's puppet regime plans show trials for the election campaign; and Palestinian front-runner Mahmoud Abbas says armed resistance is inappropriate to the Israeli occupation (Robert Knight)
05:30 Report from Haiti: Anthony Fenton, Canadian Journalist discusses the recent visit of US-appointed Prime Minister Latortue, meeting in Canada of 400 wealthy Haitian diaspora, and the role of France and Canada in the overthrow of President Aristide (Solange)
Read Anthony Fenton's satirical Zmag article Canada to Exterminate Lavalas and his recent article Kosovo Liberation Army helps establish "protectorate" in Haiti on HaitiAction.net
For more on Haiti and the latest violence against pro-democracy Lavalas supporters in Cite Soleil demanding the return of President Aristide, read Deaths reported as UN enters Haiti slum
17:20 Musical Break - Joni Mitchell
22:30 Remembering Gary Webb - Part 2 in a series: Robert Parry, investigative journalist and author of the new book Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, and Flashpoints remember the courage, vicious media mistreatment, and the brilliant, award-winning investigative journalism of Gary Webb who died this past weekend in what is being described as an apparent suicide. Includes excerpts from a June 13, 1997 Flashpoints panel discussion with journalist and policy expert Martha Honey (Dennis)
Read Robert Parry's article America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb on ConsortiumNews.com
Monday, December 13, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Patrick Cockburn reports on the latest occupation violence in Iraq on the year anniversary of the capture of Saddam Hussein;
plus, Palestinian resistance forces in Gaza attack an Israeli occupying
military post; also, Augusto Pinochet indicted for mass murder and war
crimes more than thirty years after his Chilean coup; Gary Webb
remembered on the first of a Flashpoints series on the CIA crack
cocaine scandal; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report. Daily news analysis by Robert Knight.
06:00 Report from Baghdad, One Year After Saddam’s Capture. Patrick Cockburn, Independent of London
21:00 Palestinian Resistance to Occupation. Kristen Ess, Palestine NewsNetwork
38:00 Pinochet Indicted for War Crimes. Daniel Wilkinson, Human Rights Watch.
44:00 Remembering Gary Webb – Part 1. Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch
Friday, December 10, 2004 Listen
D'load thanks to KPFA.org
Today on Flashpoints: More on the exclusive photographic evidence of US war crimes in Fallujah
with Dahr Jamail in Baghdad; also, we look at the human cost of war and dissidence in Sudan on International Human Rights Day; how you can protestright-wing American-Israeli lobby groups; a commentary by Miguel Molina;and Flashpoints en Espanol.
Thursday, December 09, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today
on Flashpoints:
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail acquires exclusive photographic
evidence of the killing fields in Fallujah, he’ll talk about how these
images implicate the US military in egregious war crimes; plus, taking
direct action to stop the corporate plunder of Iraq; also, instituting
the Orwellian nightmare of national ID cards as the plan goes to the
Senate floor; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Shi'ites campaign and Sunnis abstain from Iraq's military election; NATO contemplates a post-election escalation; and Fallujans and American passport-bearers become the targets of electronic IDs and biometric surveillance. (Robert Knight)
06:00 Fallujah Photographs: Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent. View photos (Nora)
14:00 Music Break
15:00 US War Profiteering and Direct Action in Iraq: Ewa Jasiewicz, human rights activist and journalist. Read background and outcome (Nora)
44:00 National ID Cards, Mariana Bustamante, ACLU. More information and latest ACLU news. Have you signed the Pledge? Refuse to Surrender your freedom. (Solange)
Wednesday, December 08, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: An exclusive interview with Kevin Cooper, a year after his eleventh-hour stay of execution at San Quentin; plus, violence against women reaches epidemic proportions in Guatemala, where 500 women have died viciously this year; a report from the ground in occupied Baghdad as the US military prepares to re-shuffle the troops; we’ll also get reaction from military families on the latest Bush administration maneuvers; and the Knight Report.
Tuesday, December 07, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today
on Flashpoints:
After the US marines lay siege to Fallujah, they turn it into a
high-tech police state where nobody moves outside of the crosshairs of
US weaponry; also, a look at why the recent attack on the US consulate
in Saudi Arabia is the United States' worst nightmare; Maria Suarez
comes home after 21 years in jail for a crime she didn't commit; and
the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: There are new doubts about the Bush administration's adventure in Iraq; three Iraqi national guardsmen were killed and a dozen wounded in a bomb attack south of Baghdad today; also two Christian churches, one of them Caldenian and the other Armenian were bombed in Mosul with three injuries there; and more deaths in Iraq. The Knight Report is followed by commentary with Dennis Bernstein (Robert Knight, live in-studio)
10:00 Fallujah as Police State: Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent (Nora)
Read Dahr's latest blog entry "So much loss…" and view photos
22:00 Music Break
23:00 Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Iraq: As'ad Abu-Khalil, author, professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at UC, Berkeley, webmaster of angryarab.blogspot.com (Dennis)
40:00 Music Break
42:00 Coming Home - Maria Suarez Out of Jail: Maria Suarez (Solange)
Monday, December 06, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Patrick Cockburn reports from the ground in Baghdad on one of the bloodiest weekends in the war; an eleven year old boy is shot by Israeli soldiers while he sat at his classroom
desk; Kevin Pina live in the studio to give us the
latest news from Haiti; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Robert Knight Report. Today's headline news.
06:00 Report from Baghdad. Patrick Cockburn, Independent of London
23:00 Music Break
24:00 Schoolchildren Shot in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Mohammed Ali, journalist in Gaza City
45:00 Music Break
46:00 Haiti Report. Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
Friday, December 03, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Thirty people killed in twin car bomb attacks in Baghdad, we’ll have an on-the-ground report from Dahr Jamail; plus, the Union Carbide Chemical disaster and the horrific twenty-year aftermath; a closer look at other environmental catastrophes;and an interview with John Ross on Flashpoints en Espanol.
01:00 Baghdad Report.
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent
11:00 Music Break – Saraab – Simon Shaheen
13:00 Bhopal, The Twenty Year Aftermath.
Raj Sharma, Attorney for Bhopal Victims
27:00 Environmental Disasters, A Closer Look.
George Sorvalis, Outreach Coordinator, Working Group for Community Right To Know
36:00 Music Break – Dance For Shiva – Misty Rhythms
38:00 Flashpoints en Espanol.
John Ross, Independent Journalist based in Mexico
Thursday, December 02, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today Flashpoints is prempted by the Pacifica Archives fund drive:
This hour features portions of today's Democracy Now! program, and excerpts from Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet speech of April 12, 1964 from the Pacifica Archives.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: As Israeli military forces demolish homes and a kindergarten in Dheisheh refugee camp, bulldozers attack Palestinian land in Jayyous in preparation for illegal settlement building, we’ll speak with Palestinians directly affected by these Israeli assaults; plus, an on-the-ground report from Dahr Jamail in Iraq; an update on the situation in Haiti; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report. Colin Powell hears gunfire during his coup tour of Haiti; Marwan Barghouthi enters the Palestine campaign from an Israeli jail cell; Ukraine's parliament votes no confidence and awaits a new election; Carpet-bomber George Bush sends 12,000 more carpetbagging troops for Iraq's election; John Kerry brings too little, too late to the Ohio recount; and lame-duck Homeland czar Thomas Ridge leaves travelers seeing red.
06:00 Report from Occupied Baghdad Dahr Jamail, FP Correspondent
17:00 Voices from Palestine: Home Demolitions and Land Confiscation.
Ziad Abbas, director, Ibdaa Cultural Center Jehad Abu Shemarcha, student, born in Dheishehm, Abu Hammed Salim, resident of Jayyous Allam Salim, land owner in Jayyous, lives in Oakland
55:00 Haiti Update. Kevin Pina, FP special correspondent
h Rahul Mahajan in an assessment
of Iraq policy in
it’s impact in the region.01:00 US War Crimes in Iraq
Michael Rathner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights
33:00 Iraq Policy and it’s impact in the Region. Rahul Mahajan,
Author of Full Spectrum Dominance, US Power in Iraq and Beyond
Tuesday,
December 28,
2004 Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We continue our commemorative coverage of the late investigative reporter Gary Webb. We are proud to again present a forum that was recorded with Gary Webb and Martha Honey in June 1997 to celebrate the release of his book Dark Alliance. The interview was conducted on-stage with Flashpoints Executive Producer Dennis Bernstein.
Monday, December 27, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We interview author David Ray Griffen of "The New Pearl Harbor, Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11" and his most recent book "The 911 Commission Report: Ommissions and Distortions". 911 Coverup Questions from before, during and after 9/11 still unanswered are discussed.
Friday, December 24, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: We rebroadcast our exclusive interview with Kevin Cooper on Death Row in San Quentin nearly a year after his last minute stay of execution. On Flashpoints en Espanol we speak with Haitian activist regarding the ongoing purge of the Pro-Democracy Movement.
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints Lyn Duff interviews a Haitian woman whose son was shot in the back by a Haitian military death squad; also, we'll interview a pro-Lavalas mayor in hiding in Haiti; we'll also feature an in-depth piece on womens' experience of occupation in Palestine; and the status of migrants' rights as considered at an international migrants day conference in Sacramento last week.
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We keep up with our
commemorative coverage of late investigative reporter Gary Webb by
bringing to you a special encore presentation of a Flashpoints Forum
with Gary and Guests recorded in 1997, and of course the Knight Report.
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints:
Resistance forces in Iraq Attack a US Army Base killing over 24 and
wounding over 60, also a Cuban/Mexican labor conference takes on
Neo-liberalism and we continue our Gary Webb memorial reporting series
with author Robert Parry, and the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Resistance shelling takes a heavy toll on American and Halliburton troops in Mosul; More ACLU evidence of Bush administration torture at Guantanamo; and - In a new British Invasion, Prime Minister and Islamic Scholar Tony Blair goes to Iraq and Israel, while Baroness Margaret Thatcher visits her middle-age-delinquent son in South Africa (Robert Knight)
05:30 Iraq in Flames: Middle East Regional Analysis, Patrick Cockburn, Independent of London
Read Patrick Cockburn's article (Dennis)
14:00 Music Break
15:00 Cuba-Mexico Labor Conference: Juan Jose Gutierrez, National Director of Latino USA (Solange)
33:00 Music Break
35:00 Gary Webb Memorial Series: Robert Parry, Investigative Reporter and Journalist (Dennis)
Read more about Gary Webb on ConsortiumNews
Monday, December 20, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints:The hell disaster continues in
Iraq after a weekend of massive bloodshed, we’ll speak with
award-winning
journalist Robert Fisk on the current situation across the
region;Israeli settlers, backed by the occupying military, continue
their land steal in the West Bank; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report.
06:00 Iraq in Flames: Middle East Regional Analysis. Robert Fisk, Independent of London.
34:00 Music Break
35:00 Land Steal in the West Bank. Abu Hammed Salim, Christoph Blocke, and John Petrovado
Friday, December 17, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Genetically modified corn
invades the ancient strains in its birthplace of Mexico, we'll speak with a U.C.
Berkeley professor under fire for hisoutspoken opposition to GMO
proliferation; Plus, art under occupation: we'll speak with an artist and
Israeli anarchist on creative ways of resisting Israel's colonial
policies; A statewide boycott of gas stationsin California by the Latino
community; Attempts to revive the driver's license legislation; and
Flashpoints en Español.
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints:
15,000 pro-democracy supporters take to the streets of Cap Hatien
despite the continuing repression of the Lavalas movement. We'll have a
full report from Kevin Pina on the ground in Port-au-Prince. Plus Kevin
Cooper, live from Death Row. We'll play the entire interview, plus
interviews with his attorney and an anti-death-penalty activist. And of
course, the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Iraqi resistance cuts US supply lines and learns new tricks; Saddam Hussein finally sees a lawyer; Osama bin Laden resurfaces; and an Ohio judge has thrown out a challenge to the election (Robert Knight)
05:30 Thousands Protest in Cap Hatien: Kevin Pina reports on a massive protest by pro-democracy Haitians demanding the return of their elected President, Jean Bertrand Aristide (Dennis)
© 2004 Haiti Information Project - Today
December 16
Peaceful Lavalas Demonstration - Banner reads:
"Operation Baghdad is a plot by Group 184 to put an end to Lavalas. They will Fail!"
Peaceful Lavalas Demonstration - Banner reads:
"Operation Baghdad is a plot by Group 184 to put an end to Lavalas. They will Fail!"
19:00 KPFA Local Station Board Meeting Announcement and Musical Break
20:00 Kevin Cooper Live from San Quentin: Phone interview by Dennis Bernstein
32:20 Musical Break
35:20 More with Kevin Cooper and attorney David Alexander (Dennis)
52:00 Musical Break
55:00 The Case Against the Death Penalty: Crystal Bybee, Anti Death Penalty Activist (Dennis)
For more on the Kevin Cooper case visit www.savekevincooper.org
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: UN forces occupy Cite Soleil, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphereas part of the ongoing purge of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti; also, Michael Ratner discusses new revelations about US torture in Iraq, including electrical shocks and setting prisoners on fire; plus, human rights activist Chris Brown on Israeli settler violence in occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report. Daily news and analysis.
06:00 UN Storms Cite Soleil in Haiti. Kevin Pina, FP special correspondent in Port-au-Prince
26:00 Music Break
27:00 US Torture at Abu Ghraib. Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights .
41:00 Settler Violence in Palestine. Chris Brown, activist with Christian Peacemaker Teams
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints:
Canada does the post-coup bidding for the United States in Haiti; also,
excerpts of Gary Webb on stage with Flashpoints in a 1996 interview
after the release of his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras
and the Crack Cocaine Explosion was released, we'll have an
in-depth interview with investigative journalist Robert Parry about
Gary Webb and his own confrontations with corporate media; and the
Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: The Bush administration wants four or more years in Iraq and Afghanistan; Iraq's puppet regime plans show trials for the election campaign; and Palestinian front-runner Mahmoud Abbas says armed resistance is inappropriate to the Israeli occupation (Robert Knight)
05:30 Report from Haiti: Anthony Fenton, Canadian Journalist discusses the recent visit of US-appointed Prime Minister Latortue, meeting in Canada of 400 wealthy Haitian diaspora, and the role of France and Canada in the overthrow of President Aristide (Solange)
Read Anthony Fenton's satirical Zmag article Canada to Exterminate Lavalas and his recent article Kosovo Liberation Army helps establish "protectorate" in Haiti on HaitiAction.net
For more on Haiti and the latest violence against pro-democracy Lavalas supporters in Cite Soleil demanding the return of President Aristide, read Deaths reported as UN enters Haiti slum
17:20 Musical Break - Joni Mitchell
22:30 Remembering Gary Webb - Part 2 in a series: Robert Parry, investigative journalist and author of the new book Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, and Flashpoints remember the courage, vicious media mistreatment, and the brilliant, award-winning investigative journalism of Gary Webb who died this past weekend in what is being described as an apparent suicide. Includes excerpts from a June 13, 1997 Flashpoints panel discussion with journalist and policy expert Martha Honey (Dennis)
Read Robert Parry's article America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb on ConsortiumNews.com
Monday, December 13, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Patrick Cockburn reports on the latest occupation violence in Iraq on t
he year anniversary of the capture of Saddam Hussein;
plus, Palestinian resistance forces in Gaza attack an Israeli occupying
military post; also, Augusto Pinochet indicted for mass murder and war
crimes more than thirty years after his Chilean coup; Gary Webb
remembered on the first of a Flashpoints series on the CIA crack
cocaine scandal; and the Knight Report.01:00 Knight Report. Daily news analysis by Robert Knight.
06:00 Report from Baghdad, One Year After Saddam’s Capture. Patrick Cockburn, Independent of London
21:00 Palestinian Resistance to Occupation. Kristen Ess, Palestine NewsNetwork
38:00 Pinochet Indicted for War Crimes. Daniel Wilkinson, Human Rights Watch.
44:00 Remembering Gary Webb – Part 1. Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch
Friday, December 10, 2004
Listen
D'load thanks to KPFA.org
Today on Flashpoints: More on the exclusive photographic evidence of US war crimes in Fallujah
with Dahr Jamail in Baghdad; also, we look at the human cost of war and dissidence in Sudan on International Human Rights Day; how you can protestright-wing American-Israeli lobby groups; a commentary by Miguel Molina;and Flashpoints en Espanol.
01:00 Photographic Evidence of War Crimes
in Fallujah.
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent
12:00 Sudanese Opposition Leader Jailed.
Mohammed Hassan and Ghada Abdel-Aziz Khalid
28:00 Music Break
29:00 AIPAC and The Occupation of Palestine
Uda Walker, Middle East Children's Alliance; and Jeffery Blankfort, activist/journalist
37:00 Commentary. Miguel Molina, FP Roving Producer
41:00 Flashpoints En Espanol. Miguel Guerrero and Solange Echeverria
56:00 Event Promo (KPFA Crafts Fair and WMD The Film)
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent
12:00 Sudanese Opposition Leader Jailed.
Mohammed Hassan and Ghada Abdel-Aziz Khalid
28:00 Music Break
29:00 AIPAC and The Occupation of Palestine
Uda Walker, Middle East Children's Alliance; and Jeffery Blankfort, activist/journalist
37:00 Commentary. Miguel Molina, FP Roving Producer
41:00 Flashpoints En Espanol. Miguel Guerrero and Solange Echeverria
56:00 Event Promo (KPFA Crafts Fair and WMD The Film)
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today
on Flashpoints:
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail acquires exclusive photographic
evidence of the killing fields in Fallujah, he’ll talk about how these
images implicate the US military in egregious war crimes; plus, taking
direct action to stop the corporate plunder of Iraq; also, instituting
the Orwellian nightmare of national ID cards as the plan goes to the
Senate floor; and the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Shi'ites campaign and Sunnis abstain from Iraq's military election; NATO contemplates a post-election escalation; and Fallujans and American passport-bearers become the targets of electronic IDs and biometric surveillance. (Robert Knight)
06:00 Fallujah Photographs: Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent. View photos (Nora)
14:00 Music Break
15:00 US War Profiteering and Direct Action in Iraq: Ewa Jasiewicz, human rights activist and journalist. Read background and outcome (Nora)
44:00 National ID Cards, Mariana Bustamante, ACLU. More information and latest ACLU news. Have you signed the Pledge? Refuse to Surrender your freedom. (Solange)
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Today on Flashpoints: An exclusive interview with Kevin Cooper, a year after his eleventh-hour stay of execution at San Quentin; plus, violence against women reaches epidemic proportions in Guatemala, where 500 women have died viciously this year; a report from the ground in occupied Baghdad as the US military prepares to re-shuffle the troops; we’ll also get reaction from military families on the latest Bush administration maneuvers; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
06:00 Baghdad Report. Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
19:00 Military Families React to US Military Plans. Nancy Lessin, Military Families Speak Out .
25:00 Music Break
26:00 Massacre in Guatemala.
Pat Davis, Executive Director of Guatemalan Human Rights Commission
43:00 Live from Death Row: Kevin Cooper Speaks Out. Kevin Cooper, death row inmate.
06:00 Baghdad Report. Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
19:00 Military Families React to US Military Plans. Nancy Lessin, Military Families Speak Out .
25:00 Music Break
26:00 Massacre in Guatemala.
Pat Davis, Executive Director of Guatemalan Human Rights Commission
43:00 Live from Death Row: Kevin Cooper Speaks Out. Kevin Cooper, death row inmate.
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Listen
D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Smoke rising from the US
Consulate in
Jedda,Saudi Arabia, after Al-Qaeda
attack yesterday (Assafir, 12/7/04)
Jedda,Saudi Arabia, after Al-Qaeda
attack yesterday (Assafir, 12/7/04)
Today
on Flashpoints:
After the US marines lay siege to Fallujah, they turn it into a
high-tech police state where nobody moves outside of the crosshairs of
US weaponry; also, a look at why the recent attack on the US consulate
in Saudi Arabia is the United States' worst nightmare; Maria Suarez
comes home after 21 years in jail for a crime she didn't commit; and
the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: There are new doubts about the Bush administration's adventure in Iraq; three Iraqi national guardsmen were killed and a dozen wounded in a bomb attack south of Baghdad today; also two Christian churches, one of them Caldenian and the other Armenian were bombed in Mosul with three injuries there; and more deaths in Iraq. The Knight Report is followed by commentary with Dennis Bernstein (Robert Knight, live in-studio)
10:00 Fallujah as Police State: Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent (Nora)
Read Dahr's latest blog entry "So much loss…" and view photos
22:00 Music Break
23:00 Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Iraq: As'ad Abu-Khalil, author, professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at UC, Berkeley, webmaster of angryarab.blogspot.com (Dennis)
40:00 Music Break
42:00 Coming Home - Maria Suarez Out of Jail: Maria Suarez (Solange)
Monday, December 06, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Patrick Cockburn reports from the ground in Baghdad on one of the bloodiest weekends in the war; an eleven year old boy is shot by Israeli soldiers while he sat at his classroom
desk; Kevin Pina live in the studio to give us the
latest news from Haiti; and the Knight Report.01:00 The Robert Knight Report. Today's headline news.
06:00 Report from Baghdad. Patrick Cockburn, Independent of London
23:00 Music Break
24:00 Schoolchildren Shot in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Mohammed Ali, journalist in Gaza City
45:00 Music Break
46:00 Haiti Report. Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
Friday, December 03, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Thirty people killed in twin car bomb attacks in Baghdad, we’ll have an on-the-ground report from Dahr Jamail; plus, the Union Carbide Chemical disaster and the horrific twenty-year aftermath; a closer look at other environmental catastrophes;and an interview with John Ross on Flashpoints en Espanol.
01:00 Baghdad Report.
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent
11:00 Music Break – Saraab – Simon Shaheen
13:00 Bhopal, The Twenty Year Aftermath.
Raj Sharma, Attorney for Bhopal Victims
27:00 Environmental Disasters, A Closer Look.
George Sorvalis, Outreach Coordinator, Working Group for Community Right To Know
36:00 Music Break – Dance For Shiva – Misty Rhythms
38:00 Flashpoints en Espanol.
John Ross, Independent Journalist based in Mexico
Thursday, December 02, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today Flashpoints is prempted by the Pacifica Archives fund drive:
This hour features portions of today's Democracy Now! program, and excerpts from Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet speech of April 12, 1964 from the Pacifica Archives.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: As Israeli military forces demolish homes and a kindergarten in Dheisheh refugee camp, bulldozers attack Palestinian land in Jayyous in preparation for illegal settlement building, we’ll speak with Palestinians directly affected by these Israeli assaults; plus, an on-the-ground report from Dahr Jamail in Iraq; an update on the situation in Haiti; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report. Colin Powell hears gunfire during his coup tour of Haiti; Marwan Barghouthi enters the Palestine campaign from an Israeli jail cell; Ukraine's parliament votes no confidence and awaits a new election; Carpet-bomber George Bush sends 12,000 more carpetbagging troops for Iraq's election; John Kerry brings too little, too late to the Ohio recount; and lame-duck Homeland czar Thomas Ridge leaves travelers seeing red.
06:00 Report from Occupied Baghdad Dahr Jamail, FP Correspondent
17:00 Voices from Palestine: Home Demolitions and Land Confiscation.
Ziad Abbas, director, Ibdaa Cultural Center Jehad Abu Shemarcha, student, born in Dheishehm, Abu Hammed Salim, resident of Jayyous Allam Salim, land owner in Jayyous, lives in Oakland
55:00 Haiti Update. Kevin Pina, FP special correspondent