Archived Shows - June 2005
Thursday, June 30, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Israel bombs Southern Lebanon, we'll speak with As'ad Abu-Khalil in
Beirut about the implications and George Bush's expanding war; plus,
the People's Tribunal on rape and other abuses in India reports to that
country's national human rights commission, we'll speak with our
special correspondent Angana Chatterji in New Delhi; also, Kathy Kelly
finishes a 15-day fast for peace in Geneva; and, the Palestine News
Network reports on the latest settler violence in the Gaza strip.
01:00 Israel Bombs South Lebanon:
As'ad Abu-Khalil, webmaster, AngryArab.blogspot.com19:00 Music Break
20:00 People's Tribunal on Rape and Abuse in India: Professor Angana Chatterji in Delhi, India
30:00 Fasting for Peace: Kathy Kelly, director, Voices in the Wilderness, in Geneva, Switzerland
47:00 Music Break - Jim Page - "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
50:00 Palestine Week in Review: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network, www.palestinenet.org/english
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: An expose on task force 121, the Pentagon’s top secret kidnapping and assassination team--funded by drug money? Bush Ag. Secretary continues to cover-up the multiple dangers posed by Mad-Cow Disease:Noted political performance artist and playwright, Sherry Glazer talks about tomorrow’s Breasts not Bombs protest in San Francisco; and fro
m exile,
the Knight Report.01:00 Knight Report
05:00 Mad Cow Disease John Stauber,
Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy
24:00 Music Break – “Cows With Guns” – Dana Lyons
26:00 An Exposee on Task Force 121. Celerino Castillo, Former DEA Agent
44:00 Music Break – “Gentle Rebellion” – Rebecca Riots
46:00 Breasts Not Bombs Protest. Sherry Glaser
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Could the explosive rise in childhood autism be linked to mercury in
vaccines and a subsequent, massive cover-up by the US Government with
ties to the Big Pharmaceuticals? We’ll investigate the mercury-autism
link and the cover-up with legendary environmental warrior Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.; plus, we’ll speak with a neurologist and mother of an
autistic child about her fight against the industry and the US
government; Dahr Jamail reports-back from the closing sessions of the
World Tribunal on Iraq; and from exile, the Knight Report.
01:00 The
Knight Report: Robert Knight06:00 Big Pharma, the US Government, Mercury in Childhood Vaccines, and Autism: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sr. Attorney with the National Resources Defense Council
36:00 A Parent’s Struggle Against Autism and the US Government: Dr. Sarah Bridges
52:00 Music Break: Merchants of Lies, Stephan Smith
53:00 Report-Back from World Tribunal on Iraq: Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent Also visit DahrJamailIraq.com
Monday, June 27, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Israel convicts the soldier who killed ISM activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot in the head in 2003 in Rafah, we’ll speak with al-Jazeera correspondent Laila el-Haddad about the situation in Gaza; also, Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter on the Bush plan for expanded military action in Iran; a commentary by Rahul Mahajan on the ongoing system of
torture
by the US military and medical personnel; plus, an update on the
killing fields in Haiti; and from exile, the Knight Report.01:00 Knight Report. By Robert Knight in exile.
07:00 Israeli Soldier Guilty of Manslaughter in Killing of Tom Hurndall
Laila El-Haddad, correspondent with al-Jazeera.net
15:00 Bush’s Plan for Iran. Scott Ritter, Former UN Weapons Inspector
43:00 Guantanamo and US rejecting Hippocratic Oath. Commentary by Rahul Mahajan, author.
47:00 Update on Haiti.
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent in Port-au-Prince
Friday, June 24, 2005
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Today on a special edition of Flashpoints:
We launch our summer
collaboration with La Onda Bajita and the New College of California;
we’ll
go to Chiapas, Mexico, where the Zapatistas have called a Red Alert
based
on military attacks and threats of wider attacks; we’ll also talk with
our special guest host Francisco Herrera about song and poetry as tools
for political organizing; a commentary by Miguel Molina; and of course,
Flashpoints en Español will focus on the Red Alert as well.01:00 Introduction to New College Events Series: Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina, Francisco Herrera
16:00 Chiapas Red Alert: With Blanca Martinez, director of Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Office in San Cristobal, Chiapas
37:00 Music Break
40:00 Commentary by Miguel Molina
43:00 Flashpoints en Español: Miguel Guerrero with Francisco Herrera and Blanca Martinez, director of Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Office in San Cristobal, Chiapas (Francisco Herrera)
Thursday, June 23, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Israel resumes illegal, overt targeted assassinations in Gaza, in violation of all international law, we’ll speak with Kristen Ess on the critical situation in Palestine; plus, we continue our series on drugs and the National Security State with former high-level Bush 1 official Catherine Austin Fitts; also, this week on Earth Matters, part one in a series with human rights leader Van Jones on environmental justice at the United Nations World Environment Day; and from exile in Berkeley, the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
05:00 Gaza and “Collateral Damage”: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network, www.palestinenet.org/english
20:00 Music Break – Palestinian music
21:00 Drug Wars and the National Security State: Catherine Austin Fitts, President, Solari Action Network, www.solari.com
45:00 Music Break – Narco Dollars 101, http://www.solari.com/audio/narcodollars.mp3
48:00 Earth Matters: Van Jones, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today
of Flashpoints: The legendary leader of the pro-democracy
movement in Cite Soliel mortally wounded by UN forces in Haiti; also, a
pro-democracy activist pours fake blood in the hands of the Canadian
Foreign Minister as a symbolic gesture against Canada's support of
Haiti's Killing Fields; plus a freewheeling discussion with Robert Fisk
on the recent targeting assassinations and elections in Beirut as well
as the missing $2 billion plus in Iraq; and from exile in Berkeley ,
the Knight Report
01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight
07:00 Report from Haiti. Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent in Haiti
with Yves Engler, Canadian Activist
27:00 Music Break
29:00 Lebanon and Iraq. Robert Fisk, award winning correspondent
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
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Today
of Flashpoints:
Dahr Jamail reports from the World Tribunal on Iraq, focusing on crimes
of war and information by the Bush administration and the corporate
press; also, we continue our series on drugs and the national security
state; plus, more from Greg Palast on the Downing Street Memos; and
from exile in Berkeley, the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 The Downing Street Memo: Greg Palast, author, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, www.gregpalast.com
21:00 Music Break
22:00 Report from World Tribunal on Iraq: Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent, www.dahrjamailiraq.com, www.worldtribunal.org
37:00 Drug War: Dean Becker, producer, Drug Truth Network, www.drugtruth.net
John Conyers and Dean Becker (C) drugtruth.net
Monday, June 20, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Women
activists in Eastern India under threat of attack, rape and murder
speak out about continuing abuse; also, the unholy alliance between
Wal-Mart and slave sweatshops of Bangladesh; and, an extended version
of the Knight Report from exile.
01:00 Knight Report. Robert Knight
09:00 Attacks in Eastern India. Dr. Angana Chatterji, Associate Professor, Social and Cultural Anthropology. California Institute of Integral Studies
30:00 Music Break
31:00 Wal-Mart’s Sweatshops in Bangladesh
Charles Kernaghan, labor rights activist, National Labor Committee
Friday, June 17, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today
on Flashpoints: The
hidden costs of war: we feature an in-depth interview about how the war
on Iraq is wreaking havoc on the environment; plus, this week’s news
roundup from the Palestine News Network; the Block Report with JR on
Assata Shakur and political prisoners; a commentary by Miguel Molina;
and Flashpoints en Español.
01:00 Iraq’s Environmental Crisis
Azzam Alwash, Environmental Engineer from Iraq
20:00 Palestine News Network’s Weekly Report.
Kristen Ess, PNN News Editor, PalestineNet.org.
31:00 The Block Report: Assata Shakur and Aaron Patterson,
Political Prisoners. JR interviews M1 from Dead Prez
42:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero
01:00 Iraq’s Environmental Crisis
Azzam Alwash, Environmental Engineer from Iraq
20:00 Palestine News Network’s Weekly Report.
Kristen Ess, PNN News Editor, PalestineNet.org.
31:00 The Block Report: Assata Shakur and Aaron Patterson,
Political Prisoners. JR interviews M1 from Dead Prez
42:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, June 16, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We focus on a Palestinian woman and her child in an Israeli prison, featuring an interview with the husband and father, as his family fights for justice; also, an update on military recruitment on public school campuses, how you can keep them off your kids; plus, a commentary on Bolivia by Rahul Mahajan; how the FCC is targeting Pirate Radio; and from exile, the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 Palestinian
Woman and Her Toddler in Israeli Prison: Naje Ghanem,
husband of Manal Ghanem
Brooke Atherton, SUSTAIN Campaign – www.addameer.org,
www.sustaincampaign.org24:00 Military Recruiters Update: Katrina Yeaw, SFSU Student and Gordon Caupp, National Lawyer’s Guild
33:00 Music Break – Bob Marley - “War”
36:00 Commentary on Bolivia: Rahul Mahajan, author, webmaster, www.empirenotes.org
42:00 FCC Targets Pirate Radio: “Screwy Louie” and “Soul,” Berkeley Liberation Radio, 104.1 FM
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We talk about the war on Iraq and the responsibility of journalists with Pacifica Radio reporter and author Aaron Glantz; we feature a rebroadcast of Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy in the Flashpoints studio reading from their new translations of Rainer Maria Rilke and discussing poetry in a time of war; and from exile, the Knight Report.
5:01 Knight Report. From New York in exile - Robert Knight
06:00 Focus on Iraq, Journalism
and
Responsibility:Aaron Glantz, Pacifica reporter and author of "How America Lost Iraq".
24:00 Music Break
26:00 Poetry in a Time of War
Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows, translators, “In Praise of Mortality: Sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Over thirty people killed in Iraq, we’ll get a report from our special
correspondent Dahr Jamail as he prepares to testify at the World
Tribunal on Iraq; also, political death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s
appeal is denied once again, we’ll talk about what’s next on the legal
front; plus, an interview with Captain Paul Watson about the Sea
Shepherd Society taking on everyone from Disney to the Canadian
government in defense of the wild oceans; a report on the boycott of
Gallo Wines; and from exile, the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Today's death toll in Iraq approaches 50 with double bombings and the discovery of executed corpses; and trial may now proceed against Argentina's military for the "disappearances" of the Dirty War. Robert Knight
05:00 Report on Iraq and Unending War: Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent, interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman, describes civilian casualties of "precision attacks" and US provocation of internal conflict in Iraq that appears to be designed to create civil war. Also described is the growing movement to hold leaders accountable for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan in the upcoming World Tribunal on Iraq in Turkey.
17:00 Music Break – Marcel Khalife - “The Bridge”
20:00 Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Appeal Denied: Jeff Mackler, coordinator, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Contact Jeff Mackler and the Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu Jamal by calling (415) 255-1085 for more information. (Nora Barrows-Friedman)
32:00 Ocean
Protection: Paul Watson,
Sea Shepherd Society
describes the brutal slaughter of seals off Newfoundland. Join the
boycott of Canadian seafoods to encourage the Canadian government to
recognize the cruelty of the seal hunt and take action to stop the
bludgeoning of hundreds of thousands of baby seals. (Amanda Bellerby)49:00 Music Break - Whose World Is This?
53:00 Boycott of Gallo Wines: Miguel Molina, FP Roving Reporter. Visit the United Farm Workers website for more information and to sign the petition.
Monday, June 13, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stands against the Bush administration and demands that convicted terrorist and right-wing narcotrafficker Jose Posada Carilles be extradited back to the country, we’ll speak with Gregory Wilpert from Venezuela about the situation; plus, we talk about the implications of the Downing Street Memo and Bush’s push towards imperial hegemony in Iraq; and Joanna Macy and Richard Heinberg strategize for a future independent of oil and unending resource wars.
Gregory Wilpert, editor, VenezuelaAnalysis.com
16:00 Music Break – Enrique Coria – “Vidalita”
17:00 The Downing Street Memo and Iraq.
Larry Everest, author, Oil, Power and Empire
33:00 Music Break – Bob Marley – “Stop That Train”
34:00 Beyond Oil.
Joanna Macy, author, activist, and scholar Richard Heinberg, author
Friday, June 10, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints:
An update on the
worsening situation in Haiti with our special correspondent Kevin Pina
in Port-au-Prince; a week in review from the Palestine News Network;
we’ll feature an in-studio interview with a Palestinian leader of
nonviolent resistance to the occupation in the West Bank; plus, a new
federal grand jury is convened in San Francisco against Earth
Liberation and Animal Liberation movements; and Flashpoints en
Español.
01:00 Update on Haiti
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent in Haiti
06:00 Music Break - "Resistance" - So Anne
07:00 Palestine News Network’s Week in Review
PNN’s Kristen Ess, reporting.
14:00 Palestinian Resistance to the Occupation and the Wall
Mansour Mansour, ISM volunteer, resident of Biddu village in West Bank
29:00 Attacks on Activist Groups in the US. Kayla Bott, activist
41:00 News Headlines and an Update on Bolivia.
Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero interviews Luis Gomez of NarcoNews.
Thursday, June 9, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
The first shots have been fired in Bolivia as the Congress tries and
fails to convene to choose a new president; plus, the parents of Rachel
Corrie, who was killed by a US-made Caterpillar bulldozer in the Rafah
refugee camp two years ago, in the Flashpoints studio, with members of
the Nasrallah family, whose home Rachel died defending, we’ll talk
about the critical situation in occupied Palestine; and, a Bishop
Emeritus from Chiapas, Samuel Ruiz, discusses the ongoing fight against
colonization.01:00 Update on Bolivia: Georgeann Potter, activist, Latin American expert in Cochabamba
09:00 Rachel Corrie and Gaza: Cindy & Craig Corrie, Samah & Khaled Nasrallah
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| SANTA CRUZ: Sunday, June 12, 7:00 PM Veterans Memorial Hall, 846 Front Street |
| Visit www.RebuildingAlliance.org for more information |
42:00 Music Break
43:00 Bishop Emeritus from Chiapas, Samuel Ruiz: Francisco Herrera and Antonio Sanchez
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: 3 million children under the age of five will die in sub-Saharan Africa unless the United States and other rich nations honor their promises at the G-8 summit, we’ll speak with Bill Fletcher, President of the TransAfrica Forum about Africa’s debt and Bush’s inaction; plus, military recruiters kidnap teenagers and force them to sign up for the armed forces, we’ll talk about how to fight back and keep them off public school campuses; a commentary on the Bush plan for Iraq and Latin America by Rahul Mahajan; we feature segments of Rising Waters, a film about global warming and its sinking of the Pacific Islands; and from exile, the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report. Robert Knight in exile
06:00 Africa and how Bush's response to Tony Blair's proposal is lacking.
Bill Fletcher, President, Trans-Africa Forum
20:00 Military Recruiting. Todd Chretien, activist, CollegeNotCombat.
See Seattle Post-Intelligencer article: "When Marine recruiters go way beyond the call"
32:00 Commentary: Bush, Iraq and the OAS, Rahul Mahajan, author
37:00 Music Break
38:00 Global Warming, “Rising Waters” film. Amanda Bellerby
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa resigns after hundreds of thousands take
to the streets in the nation’s capital, we’ll get the latest from Luis
Gomez in La Paz; also, eighteen Iraqis killed and seventy wounded as
car bomb attacks sweep the country, we’ll get a full update from Dahr
Jamail; also, Israel continues its ethnic purging campaign in the West
Bank as Palestinians protest settlement expansion and the apartheid
wall; Earth Matters speaks to Tero Mustonen, just south of the Arctic
Circle in Finland about global warming, indigenous wisdom and
colonialism; and the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight in exile
06:00 Bolivian President Resigns: Luis Gomez, publisher, NarcoNews Read more...
14:00 Report on Iraq: Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent speaking from Amman, Jordan www.dahrjamailiraq.com
24:00 Palestine Protests: Hanna, volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service describes the positive effects of Internationals marching with Palestinians to protest Israeli occupation.
36:00 Israel to Make 1,000 Palestinians Homeless in East Jerusalem: Meir Margolit, Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, www.icahd.org
42:00 Earth Matters: Tero Mustonen at the Arctic Circle in Finland discusses the effects of Global Warming in the far north.
Monday, June 6, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Continued slaughter on the streets of Port-au-Prince, where dozens of Haitians have been killed over the past several days and homes have been destroyed by the Haitian national police death squads, we’ll speak with Father Gerard Jean Juste about the situation; plus, Operation Lightening kicks off in Iraq, as 40,000 police and troops seal off Baghdad and conduct violent house-to-house raids; and we re-broadcast a recentinterview with award-winning filmmaker John Pilger about expanding US militarism and the state of journalism.
01:00 Report on Haiti.
Father Gerard
Jean Juste15:00 Music Break – So Anne, “Rezistans”
16:00 Report from Iraq. Esam Rashid, Iraqi journalist, Baghdad
22:00 Music Break: Jim Page, “Her Eyes”
24:00 John Pilger on Journalism, Iraq, Palestine and US Militarism
Dennis Bernstein with John Pilger, award-winning filmmaker
Friday, June 3, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: We speak with Human Rights activist Van Jones about environmental justice and visions of a more just and peaceful future. Also this weeks edition of Flashpoints en Español which hones in on Environmental Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
01:00 Conference On Environmental Justice
Van Jones: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
29:00 Dennis and Gavilan on future collaboration with New College.
39:00 Gavilan's Commentary. Roving Producer Miguel Molina
42:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, June 2, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
We continue our live reporting from Bolivia where a growing peasant
movement is calling for nationalization of the country's natural gas
and oil industry; and an encore interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott on
the growing danger of a devastating nuclear catastrophe; an update on
the case of Mumia Abu Jamal; and from exile in New York City, the
Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Iraq's death rate grows, but with increased targeting of police and troops; 405 Palestinian prisoners are released; the Saudi king is unaccounted for; the trans-europe express is derailed by Dutch voters and Amnesty challenges George Bush to prove that Guantanamo is not Spanish for Gulag. (Robert Knight)
06:00 Helen Caldicott Encore: Physician, Author and Speaker Helen Caldicott, www.helencaldicott.com (Dennis)
38:00 An Update On Boliiva: Luis Goméz, Acting Publisher of www.narconews.com, and Georgeann Potter, with COCAM TROP, a women peasant's organization. (Dennis)
50:00 An Update on Mumia Abu-Jamal: JR, Independent Journalist. Also read Mumia's Freedom Journal. (Dennis)
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
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Today
on Flashpoints:
Israel plans to demolish 90 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem as the
Apartheid wall continues to snake through the West Bank; Christian
Parenti, just back from Bolivia, talks about the growing movement to
nationalize the gas and oil industry; plus, Greg Palast talks about
Deep Throat and Venezuela; and from exile in New York, the Knight
Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 Ethnic Purging in Palestine: Jamal Juma', coordinator, www.stopthewall.org
24:00 Music Break - Adel Salameh - Musica Nahawand
25:00 Update on Bolivia: Christian Parenti, author, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, columnist in the Nation
40:00 Music Break - Huayucaltia - Lagrimas de Maiz
41:00 Watergate: Deep Throat Comes Out? Greg Palast, author, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
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06:00 Ethnic Purging in Palestine: Jamal Juma', coordinator, www.stopthewall.org
24:00 Music Break - Adel Salameh - Musica Nahawand
25:00 Update on Bolivia: Christian Parenti, author, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, columnist in the Nation
40:00 Music Break - Huayucaltia - Lagrimas de Maiz
41:00 Watergate: Deep Throat Comes Out? Greg Palast, author, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy