Archived Shows - March 2005

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: The US General formerly in charge of Iraq accused of signing off on torture; we’ll also feature an update on the violent situation Palestinians are facing as illegal West Bank settlers become more  vicious and frequent; we’ll meet a young Palestinian who sings about the theft of his country; also, a wide-ranging interview with Dora Maria Tellez, a leading Nicaraguan intellectual who has refused a visa to teach at Harvard based on US claims that she is a terrorist for overthrowing Somosa; and the Knight Report.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: UN forces prevent pro-democracy demonstrators from protesting in Haiti, and open up on Haitian activists with tear gas and rubber bullets. We'll have special reports from Father Gerard Jean Juste in Port-au-Prince and Anthony Fenton in Vancouver, BC. Also Guatemalan courts cut ten years off the sentences of soldiers convicted in the bloody bludgeoning murder of Bishop Gerardi. And the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: There's chaos in Iraq's puppet parliament; two journalists are killed in another US checkpoint malfunction in Iraq; a US Captain is under court-martial for the murder of an Iraqi chauffer; Lebanon's Prime Minister is on the way out; while United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says Hell no, I won't go! Robert Knight from New York

06:00 Haiti Analysis: Anthony Fenton, human rights activist and freelance journalist based in Vancouver, British Columbia is interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, discussing the work of the UN in Haiti in support of US goals. Also discussed is the role of Wesley Clark and the Haiti Democracy Project in suppressing popular democratic government in Haiti.

16:00 Haiti On the Ground: Special Flashpoints Correspondent Kevin Pina with Reverend Gerard Jean Juste and Attorney Bill Quigley describe suppression by UN forces of Constitution Day protests in Port-au-Prince calling for the return of the constitutional government and duly elected President Aristide. Bill Quigley describes the scene on the ground as UN forces intimidate and open fire on protesters following distribution of leaflets warning demonstrators to stay home.

42:00 Guatemala Update: Adriana Beltran, Specialist on Guatemala, Washington Office on Latin America, interviewed by Solange Echeverria, discusse the strategic importance of Guatemala in the Washington's plans for Latin America and recent US "special" funding of the Guatemalan military.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 Listen D'load   (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints:  We’ll go live to Port au Prince to update the situation around the attempted assassination of leading Haitian pro-democracy activist and liberation theologist Father Jean Juste, also a report on the renewal of military to the brutal Indonesian Military, we’ll also take a look at  the 8.7 earthquake that hit Sumatra, we’ll also update the situation in Guatemala where the US has reinstituted financial aid to the Death Squad military.

	Anthony Fenton, Ira Kurzban

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Friday, March 25, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)

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Thursday, March 24, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: An extended interview with former CIA officer Philip Agee on the US program to destabilize the government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Also, remembering Archbishop Oscar Romero 25 years after his assassination by US-supported killers. We'll also take a look at El Salvador's economy on the verge of collapse. We'll feature our weekly environmental segment, Earth Matters which hones in today on the slaughter of wolves in Alaska. And the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: More resistance attacks in Iraq, and a shootout between Iraqi troops and police; a UN report criticizes Lebanon's assassination probe; a military reprieve for Guatemala from Donald Rumsfeld; and immunity for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the killing of his predecessor. (Robert Knight)

05:00 Philip Agee, Former CIA agent speaks on Venezuela: In his books Inside the Company and On the Run, Philip Agee wrote about CIA destabilization activities in Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba and now in Venezuela, predicting many of the events which came to pass to overturn popular governments in Latin America. Agee discusses some of the tactics used recently in Venezuela, funded by Washington-based "consulting" organizations under the control of the US embassy. For more details, read Jonah Gindin's article on Zmag. (Dennis)

26:00 Remembering Archbishop Romero and El Salvador Today: Francisco Herrera, Poet, musician and activist, with Burke Stansbury, Program Director CISPES share background on the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero, and current opposition to the US-backed CAFTA trade agreement, and the crisis triggered by the dollarization of El Salvador's currency. (Solange)

38:00 Musical Break Francisco Herrera (followed by more on El Salvador with Francisco Herrera and Burke Stansbury)


48:00 Earth Matters: In violation of federal law, state sanctioned aerial gunmen indiscriminently terrorize and kill hundreds of wolves. Incredibly, their goal is to increase moose populations for trophy hunting, in spite of a lack of supporting biological science. Karen Deatherage of Defenders of Wildlife is interviewed. For more information visit the Defenders of Wildlife Wolves in Alaska page and read Karen's article Wolf Control Programs are Ill-Advised. (Amanda Bellerby)

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Poetry In a time of War, the work of the great German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke with Special guests Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows. Nora Barrows Friedman reports back from Palestine.

01:00 The Knight Report: Disputed claims of a US-led raid on an alleged insurgent camp in Iraq; a possible cover-up in the checkpoint malfunction that killed an Italian officer; a long stay for British troops in Iraq and a shortfall for military recruitment in the United States; and Arab league inaction as Israeli colonists surround east Jerusalem. Robert Knight

06:00 Nora Barrows-Friedman back from Palestine: Nora Barrows Friedman, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, discusses her experiences on the ground in Palestine and the Dheisheh refugee camp.

25:00 Music Break

26:00 Poetry In a Time of War: The Work of Rainer Maria Rilke, Nora Barrows Friedman, Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: We pay special attention to the Southern Hemisphere as Washington DC neo-conservatives gear up to invade the region with Unfair Trade Agreements and military intervention.

01:00 The Knight Report, Robert Knight from New York

06:00 The Chavez Code, Eva Bolinger, attorney, author of the Chavez Code
The English edition of 'The Chavez Code' will be available shortly on Amazon.com or directly through the author, Eva Golinger: evagolinger@hotmail.com

18:00 Gregory Wilpert-Venezuela, Gregory Wilpert, Journalist, online journalist for www.venezuelanalysis.com. For related information, read the interview with Philip Agee former CIA operative in the region.

30:00 Colombia, an Update, John Lindsey Poland, Coordinator, Latin America Program of Fellowship for Reconciliation For more information, read about the massacre in San Jose de Apartado.

45:00 Guatemala Under Siege, Matthew Kennis, Organizer, NISGUA. Visit Mesa Global (Espanol) for more details.

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Monday, March 21, 2005 Listen D'load   (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Hindu protests flare up in Gujarat and other parts of India in response

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Friday, March 18, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: An update on attempts to jail the popular mayor of Mexico City, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leading contender for the Mexican presidency. Also the price Mexico pays for the war against Iraq, a small victory fighting to call attention to the slaughter in the Indian Province of Gujarat, and Flashpoints en Español also hones in on Mexico.

01:00 Mayor of Mexico City Fights for his Future
Activist, Independent Journalist and Author.

26:00 Music Break – Stay Human – Micahel Franti

28:00 Open Lines

43:00 Flashpoints En Español
Titulares de noticias y una entrevista con el periodista independiente. John Ross

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu is indicted today for granting interviews to KPFA's Flashpoints show and other international media: We'll feature a follow-up interview with Vanunu in which he again uses Flashpoints as a platform to defy Israel's restrictions on his free speech; also Nora Barrows- Friedman documents the accelerated building of the Apartheid Wall on the Occupied West Bank. The wholesale purge of the Lavalas pro-democracy movement in Haiti continues unabated. And the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Uninvestigated deaths under US military custody; a promotion for a Guantanamo torturer; and a Wolfowitz in the henhouse of the World Bank
07:00 Israeli Nuclear Whistle Blower
Mordechai Vanunu interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
17:00 Music Break - Occupation - David Rovics
20:00 Apartheid Wall in Bethlehem
Nora Barrows-Friedman and Babak Jacinto Tondre
26:00 Music Break - The Death Of Rachel Corrie - David Rovics
28:00 Update on Haiti
Special Flashpoints Correspondent Kevin Pina
Sasha Kramer, www.haitiaction.net
49:00 Music Break
50:00 Open Phone Lines

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechi Vanunu, speaks out against nukes, his own brutal treatment by the Israelis, and the wide-spread Israeli torture of Palestinians: Also former US Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter says the Iraqi elections were fixed; our weekly segment, Earth Matters features the key-note speech at Last weeks Environmental Law Conference by Jeffrey Luers who is serving 23 years for burning SUV's in protest: And of course The Knight Report.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Iraq veterans speak out against the war; a front-line doctor speaks out about medical horrors facing Palestinians who live on the Gaza strip; also we'll look at Rumsfeld's terror solution, Perpetual War; a benefit commemoration for Rachel Corrie on the second anniversary of her bulldozer murder by Israeli occupiers; and the Knight Report

01:00 The Knight Report: Iraq's new parliament will be a "headless" body following a breakdown in Shia - Kurdish negotiations; US allies are rushing for the door in Iraq as US troops kill one of their own Iraqi Generals at a checkpoint; and Congress challenges Pentagon claims of Iraqi troop training as "a fantasy". Robert Knight

05:15 Report from Palestine: Flashpoints Senior producer Nora Barrows-Friedman and Babak Tondre continue their special series on conditions and the struggles of daily life in refugee camps in Gaza in occupied Palestine.

5: 28 Iraq Veterans Speak Out:
Richard Becker, www.internationalanswer.org/
Michael Hoffman,  www.ivaw.net

5:43 Remembering Rachel Corrie:
Noura Erakat, Palestinian Activist
Paul La Rudee, www.NorCalISM.org

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Monday, March 14, 2005 Listen D'load   (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: We spend the entire show in the Gaza Strip, with senior producer Nora Barrows Friedman and Pacifica team. Nora takes us to burned upneighborhoods and the devastating Rafah refugee camp. We’ll also visit the site were Rachel Corey was executed two years ago by a US made Israeli Bulldozer. And of course The Knight Report.

01:00	The Knight Report. Perspectives on current news.
 
06:00	Report From Palestine. Nora Barrows-Friedman, on a special assignment
 

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Friday, March 11, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)

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Thursday, March 10, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on a Special Edition of Flashpoints: We spend the hour with Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints special correspondent back from Iraq, reading from his journals, and in conversation with Dennis Bernstein and an audience in Oakland California.

01:00 Dahr Jamail In Conversation with Dennis Bernstein
54:00 Music Break-Highway 33 Revisited, White House Gangsta Rap

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Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Grass roots activists continue to rook the government of Bolivia: we’ll have reports from La Paz and Los Altos. Aso Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman on a special mission of mercy in the Gaza Strip; Earth Matters, our weekly environmental report, hones in on Global Warming in Nepal. And of course The Knight Report.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Congresswoman Maxine Waters pleads for the life of Haitian Prime minister Yvon Neptune, now on a second week of a life or death hunger strike in Haiti's national penitentiary. We'll speak with the congresswoman just back from Haiti, and with an attorney for the Artistede government, who was prevented from entering the country. Also, we celebrate international womens day with reports on Kenya, Bolivia, and India.

01:00 Haiti, Congress woman Maxine Waters, Attorney Ira Kurzban, Kevin Pina Live in Studio
22:00 Global Women's Strike Demonstration, Lori Hairne, Global Women's Strike Demonstration
24:00 International Women's Day, Global Women's Strike, Rosario Panozo, Bolivia, Sara Calloway, Kenya, Angana Chatterji, India

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Monday, March 7, 2005 Listen D'load   (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Bush nominates a UN-hater to be the US Ambassador to the United Nations; also a report on the killing of a 70 year-old environmentalist and church worker in the Brazilian rain forest; armed settlers lay seige to the old Palestinian city of Hebron; and noted author and radical thinker Michael Parenti talks about Social Security and the domestic impacts of war; and the Knight Report.

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Friday, March 4, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: A seasoned covert officer for the CIA defends Negroponte and claims to be a critic of the agency, but is she really? Or she is still working for the Company?And on Flashpoints en Español we continue with our recorded reports from the recent World Social Forum in Brazil.

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Thursday, March 3, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Israel moves to confiscate another chunk of the West Bank for illegal occupation, despite the peace talks. We'll have a special report from Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman. Also the two main parties in Mexico collaborate to illegally arrest, prosecute and jail a key opponent in next year's Presidential Election. We'll have an update on the bloody situation in Haiti. We'll feature an interview with pro-democracy leader and Aristide friend, Father Gerard Jean-Juste. And the Knight Report.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: US continues to pressure Syria to pull out of Lebanon in the wake of the resignation of the Lebanese Government, also, growing resistance among military families to the Iraqi War. A look at the impact of US imposed democracy in El Salvador, our weekly environmental report Earth Matters investigates mountain top decapitation in Tennessee, And of course the Knight report .

01:00 Knight Report. Robert Knight.
06:00 Syria. Elaine Hagopian, Region Expert Professor Simmons College, Boston MA
16:00 Military Resistance to the Wars. Nancy Lessin, Military Families Speak Out.
31:00 El Salvador and the FMLN. Larry Birns, Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
47:00 Earth Matters. Amanda Bellerby, Flashpoints Special Correspondent.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Defense secretary Rumsfeld is sued by the ACLU in Federal Court for torture and abuse. We'll feature an interview with the lead attorney on the case. Also new leftist president Tabare Vasquez sworn into office in Uruguay as Hugo and Fidel look on. A report from the Flashpoints team from the West Bank on the so-called peace process, and a critical look at how the US media mis-reports on Palestine. And of course the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is sued for torture; British Parliamentarians question the legality of the Iraq War whose conduct was questioned today even by the State Department; and there's anguish in Hillah as Marines in Iraq privatize their hunt for members of the resistance. Robert Knight from New York

06:00 Rumsfeld Sued for Torture: WARNING: This segment includes disturbing explicit descriptions of torture and abuse incidents. Lucas Guttentag, Lead Attorney for ACLU (Dennis)

26:00 Uruguay: Larry Birns, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Read the COHA analysis of the social-consciousness trend in Latin America which is increasingly resisting US pro-globalization pressure. (Solange)

38:00 Palestine Report: Nora Barrows-Friedman with Kristin Ess discuss the humanitarian tragedy in the West Bank resulting from years of Israeli attacks, deprivation, restriction of mobility, coupled with shameful international disinterest. Also discussed is the suicide attack in Tel Aviv, in the context of one-sided western media coverage and misrepresentation of the reality of Israeli occupation. For more visit the Palestine News Network website.

52:00 If Americans Knew: Alison Weir, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, reveals details about the Tel Aviv bombing and unreported violence and killings by Israeli forces during the so-called cease-fire. Read more on IfAmericansKnew.org