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Monday, February 27, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
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Friday, February 24, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: In a major national protest, the National Day Laborer Network has organized a historical cross-country run to call attention to the abuses against immigrant workers in this country; we’ll also be talking about a major rally in Oakland on immigrant and refugee rights; Professor Armando Navarro from the National Alliance for Human Rights will speak about the fight to defend immigrant rights and about the backlash activists now face in taking up this cause; also, ancient Mayan translations of poetry with John Curl; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español.
La Onda Bajita
01:00 Intro, Headlines from the Region
Dennis, Francisco, Miguel Guerrero, Miguel Gavilan Molina, Nora

13:00 Report on The Other Campaign
Guillermo Mayer, Public Advocates, Inc.

19:00 Immigrants Rights
Rene Saucedo, Centro Legal de la Raza
Armando Navarro, prof of Political Science at UC Riverside –

30:00 Music Break – Soy Jornalero - Francisco Herrera

31:00 Palestine Update


36:00 Official Opening of Flash/Onda
Miguel Molina, Flashpoints Roving Producer/La Onda Bajita Executive Producer

38:00 Poetry. John Curl, poet, author, Ancient American Poets

43:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero with Guillermo Mayer and John Curl

Thursday, February 23, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Jarar Candola, an experienced ambulance driver with the UPMRC,
was shot in the arm and leg and Ihab Mansour, a medical volunteer
working with the Palestinian scientific society, was shot in the head
and taken away by the Israeli soldiers.
http://www.balatacamp.net/website/balata.htm
Jarar Candola, an experienced ambulance driver with the UPMRC, was shot in the arm and leg and Ihab Mansour, a medical volunteer working with the Palestinian scientific society, was shot in the head and taken away by the Israeli soldiers. source http://www.balatacamp.net/website/balata.htmToday on Flashpoints: Israeli occupiers kill 8 more Palestinians in a brutal raid on the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank - we'll have a report from that camp; also, more damaging news on the NPR - Voice of America collaboration; and a new EPA rule turns humans into lab rats for the pesticide industry; and the Knight Report.

01:30 The Knight Report (Robert Knight)
Nearly 200 are dead in Iraq's sectarian crisis
New Cheney documents are reluctantly released
The Bush Administration is testing chemically exploded plutonium in Nevada
President Aristide prepares for a Haitian homecoming

06:00 West Bank Report
Brian Mulvaney, ISM volunteer, reports from Balata Refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank, describes unarmed Palestinians being hunted and killed by snipers after Israeli forces sealed off and terrorized the camp with tanks, jeeps, bulldozers, helicopters and F16s. Also targeted are relief rescue workers and reporters shot and killed while the survivors face and live with increasing terror and trauma daily.

23:30 Voice of NPR
Jeb Sprague, journalist and researcher reports on contact with NPR concerning the work of Voice of America reporter Amelia Shaw reporting on Haiti. When the violation of NPR policy was widely reported  last week, Shaw resigned from VOA. Many question her objectivity in light of a history of propaganda reporting for VOA. Read NPR's reply to Jeb Sprague on FreeHaiti.net. Listen to an excerpt of an interview from January 2005 which introduces Shaw as a reporter for NPR and VOA.

35:30 Independent Media Infiltration by the State Department Propagandists
Anthony Fenton follows up on yesterday's report on the so-called Haiti Democracy Project representative quoted in USA Today as an impartial elections observer. Also covered is Haiti Democracy Project's welcoming of fugitive electoral commission (CEP) director-general Jacques Bernard who fled Haiti amid investigations of massive election fraud. Read more at DominionPaper.ca

Pesticide Action Network logo49:30 Pesticide Testing on Children
Intentional and deceptive testing of poisons on humans - oftens the most vulnerable members of society - prompted the EPA to create protections, but the rules are loophole-ridden and ineffective. Stephanie Hendricks, Communications Director of Pesticide Action Network, reports on their lawsuit to hold EPA accountable for protecting the public and analysis of the EPA rules by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Visit panna.org for the NRDC report and more information on Human Testing of pesticides.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Non-stop retaliation has followed on the heels of what appears to be a Sunni attack on one of the most holy Shia sites in the world; Independent journalist Anthony Fenton talks about the State Department Infiltration on USA Today; also, award-winning poet and essayist Suheir Hammad reads from her new book and responds to the US global war of terror; on Earth Matters, Amanda Bellerby covers the torture and slaughter of Yellowstone Park's last wild buffalo; and the Knight Report
Cows with Guns cowswithguns.com
06:00 Worsening Situation in US-Occupied Iraq
As’ad Abu-Khalil, webmaster, , author, professor at CSU Stanislaus

15:00 USA Today Meets the State Department Anthony Fenton,
Independent Reporter, Flashpoints Special Correspondent

24:00 Earth Matters. Amanda Bellerby
Earth Matters features an interview with Mike Mease of the Buffalo Field Campaign, who reports on the slaughter of more than 900 wild bison that migrate outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. music clip: "Cows Witrh Guns" by Dana Lyons

36:00 UAE Port Deal with Bush Administration
Tyson Slocum, Special Flashpoints Correspondent

46:00 Poetry on the Street. Suheir Hammad, poet, author, “ZaatarDiva”,

50:00 Vigil Against Torture. Anita Barrows, poet and activist.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Michael Morales - source sfgate.comToday on Flashpoints: Murderer's Row at San Quentin set to kick back into gear at 7:30PM Pacific Time with the state-sponsored homicide of Michael Morales; also Starhawk reports back from the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, where the community stands against government attempts at ethnic cleansing; plus Israeli occupiers step up their program of collective punishment and serial murder, killing 31 Palestinians in the last month; and on the Knight Report, Robert Knight focuses on the death needle at San Quentin.

01:20 The Knight Report
The State of California is engaged in irrevocable haste to kill a death row inmate with a novel injection of sodium pentathol to ease the pain of the public while Michael Morales silently suffocates in a paralytic narcotic coma.

06:30 A Slow and Painful Death
Pacific News contributor and editor of The Beat Within, Michael Kroll discusses the pure insanity of searching for sanitary means of publicly killing some who may or may not have killed others. The rush to kill Morales before midnight adds frenzy to insanity. Read more commentary from Michael Kroll on Pacific News Service

Starhawk22:00 Bioremediation and Ethnic Cleansing in the Lower 9th
Activist Starhawk, author of The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Spiral Dance and The Earth Path, discusses recent work with Common Ground Relief in New Orleans providing basicpublic  health and safety that local, state and federal government is unable or unwilling to provide. Read Bioremediation in New Orleans, and visit www.starhawk.org

34:00 Israel Continues to Kill Palestinians As Collective Punishment for Democratic Elections
Kristen Ess, FP Special Correspondent, journalist in West Bank
Also visit Palestine News Network
Monday, February 20, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: The state of California prepares to murder Michael Morales at San Quentin tonight; also, an extended interview with award winninStarr Asks Schwarzenegger to Spare Killerg poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield about Poetry in a time of War.

01:00  Michael Morales’ Execution
Lance Linsey, Ex. Dir. Of Death Penalty Focus

08:00 Poetry in a Time of War: Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield, award-winning poet/essayist
 
Friday, February 17, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Today, we’ll have an update on the situation in Colombia where human rights activists, unionists, and indigenous farmers face sure death if they resist the US-supported military and their associated death squad paramilitaries; also, here in the wine capital of the country, the spigots are flowing but those who pick the grapes are facing repression both where they work and where they live; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español.

01:00 Introduction/ Headlines from the Region
Dennis, Francisco, Miguel Guerrero, Miguel Molina, Nora

16:00 Colombia in the Crosshairs. Pablo Serrano, photojournalist

26:00 Global Domination. Peter Phillips, Project Censored,

41:00 Iran Update. Bonnie Faulkner, KPFA's Guns and Butter,

47:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero and Pablo Serrano.
Recently released Abu Ghraib torture photos - source: http://www.dahrjamailiraq.comThursday, February 16, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Voice of America infiltrates National Public Radio’s flagship show, Morning Edition, regarding the situation in Haiti; also, invoking language reminiscent of the Nazis, Israel announces they will be putting millions of occupied Palestinians on a “diet”; part two of our searing interview with Alfred McCoy on the United States’ use of torture over the last 50 years; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Vice President Richard Cheney gives conflicting accounts about the Saturday when he shot the lawyer but would not see the deputy. Robert Knight

09:00 Haiti Report: Preval Wins Elections
Brian Concannon, director, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
Read Ginger Thompson's NYT article about the deal to name a new Haitian President

24:00 “Put the Palestinians on a Diet” – Israel, US Cut Aid
Ali Abunimah, co-founder, ElectronicIntifada.net
“A Question of Torture : CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror” by Alfred McCoy
37:00 50 Years of US’ Use of Torture: Part Two
Alfred McCoy, author, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Also see Tuesday's show for the first part of this extraordinary discussion of how this happened, who's responsible and who's getting punished.

Newly-released photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib: http://dahrjamailiraq.com
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: The US embassy continues to call recent elections in Haiti free and fairwhile the US media blame the current violence on presidential frontrunner Rene Preval; also, an Israeli sniper shoots a young disabled Palestinian boy in the chest, killing him, the latest in a series of vicious shootings in the West Bank and Gaza; Lawyers Guild President-elect Marjorie Cohn responds to the latest torture pictures from Abu Ghraib; plus, the Block Report on alcohol and the Black Muslim community in Oakland; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report

10:00 Haiti’s Elections and the US Subversion  Pierre Labossiere - Haitian Action Committee
Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

34:00 Israel Kills Another Child in the West Bank
Mohammed Ali, Flashpoints special correspondent in Gaza City

45:00 Oakland Liquor Stores and the Black Muslim Community
JR and Maya Orozco

54:00 Response to new Abu Ghraib torture photographs
Marjorie Cohn, President-elect, National Lawyer’s Guild; editor,
Truthout.org; Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A leaked UN report calls for the US to close its torture center at Guantanamo Bay; also, Haiti Presidential frontrunner Rene Preval says there was massive fraud in last week’s election; Alfred McCoy on the US government’s use of torture for the last 50 years; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
10:00 Report on Haiti:
Kevin Pina, FP special correspondent
Disgruntled business leaders and Haitian elites try to thwart the majority
Read more on IndyBay and John Maxwell's perspective at HaitiAction.net
21:00 UN Report on Guantanamo:
Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights
“A Question of Torture : CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror” by Alfred McCoy31:00 On the US’ Use of Torture:
Alfred McCoy, author, “A Question of Torture : CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror”
(Read Naomi Klein's comments about the book)
Alfred W. McCoy is professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Politics of Heroin, CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, an examination of the CIA's alliances with drug lords, and Closer Than Brothers, a study of the impact of the CIA's psychological torture method upon the Philippine military.

Monday, February 13, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: The US coup government in Haiti moves to steal the election, meanwhile, UN forces open fire on protesters who have now taken to the streets all over Port-au-Prince; also, an in-depth analysis of the Palestinian political situation as the Israeli occupation expands and deepens; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 Report from Haiti: US Destabilizes Election Outcome
Kevin Pina, FP special correspondent
Lucy Tondreau, Haitian activist
26:00 Music break
27:00 Palestine, Occupation and the Hamas Election Victory:
Dr. Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley professor on Near-East Studies, is a native Palestinian who immigrated to the US in pursuit of higher education. His more than twenty years of experience as a Palestinian activist have earned him the role of a local media spokesperson on Middle East issues. He currently teaches at UC-Berkeley where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Islamic studies, specializing in Islamic Law and the history of Muslims in Jerusalem.
Friday, February 10, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We spend the hour featuring the hard-hitting documentary Poison Dust, which dives into the untold story of depleted uranium as it’s being used in occupied Iraq; and headlines from the region.
 Haitians Voting  in Port-au-Prince                      
Haitians outside polling station in Port-au-Prince01:00 Introduction. Dennis, Miguel Guerrero.

06:00 Haiti Elections
Kevin Pina, Special Flashpoints Correspondent

16 :00 La Otra Campaña. John Ross en Español

26:00 Film: Poison Dust on the dangers of depleted uranium


Thursday, February 9, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Projected Newly-elected Haitian President Rene PrevalToday on Flashpoints: We'll have a report from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the apparent victory of Aristide frind and protege, Rene Garcia Preval; also 15 Palestinians killed by Israel in the last two weeks - we'll feature a report by Laila El-Haddad in Gaza; a look at the exploding Middle East and South Asian region with an area expert, blogger Rahul Mahajan; we continue with the excerpts from David Ray Griffin's hard-hitting speech on '9/11' and the coverup; and the Knight Report

01:20 The Knight Report:
 6:15 Haiti Elections a Victory for the Poor: Election exit polls show Preval a 63% winner of the Presidential elections.  Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina reports from Port-au-Prince on the hopes for an end to oppression and groundless arrests of pro-democracy advocates.

17:45 Palestine Report: Laila El-Haddad describes the escalation by Israeli forces of targeted assasinations that also result in civilian bystander casualties, continual shelling and amplified psychological warfare following the Palestinian elections. Read Laila El-Haddad's blog at http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/

23:00 Middle East Protests: Middle East expert, author and blog master, Rajul Mahajan provides perspective on freedom of the press and provocation, double-standards and the targeting of protesters, with at least 13 protesters dead at the hands of agents of 'Western order'.  Visit EmpireNotes.org for more.

31:00 9/11 and the American Empire - How should Religious People Respond? Author and theologian David Ray Griffin updates some Commandments in a recent speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
David Ray Griffin builds a powerful case for fore-knowledge of the 9/11 attacks and worse.

47:00 KPFA Winter Fund Drive: Pledge your support for the hard-hitting investigative reporting that Flashpoints brings you daily. Call 1-800-439-5732 or pledge securely on-line.
KPFA Winter Fund Drive - Pledge to support Free Speech Radio
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast  The New Pearl Harbor - Author David Ray Griffin
We focus on the upcoming July presidential elections in Mexico as well as ananalysis of the recent progressive victories in Bolivia, Chile, Brazil and of course Venezuela; also, we’ll feature a hard-hitting speech by David Ray Griffin on his 9/11 analysis and the attacks which he is now suggesting may have been an inside job.

01:00 On Mexico, the US, and the Zapatistas           
John Ross, journalist, author, poet

16:00 Speech: David Ray Griffin – Remarkable Facts About 9/11
David Ray Griffin

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: US-designed elections in Haiti undermine the poors' ability to vote and immediately taint the elections - we'll have a live report from Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince; also the deadly untold story of depleted uranium used in Iraq - we'll feature an interview with DU expert Major Doug Rokke; and we'll broadcast exerpts of a hard-hitting new documentary Poison DUst, a close look at the dangers of radioactive DU; and the Knight ReportPoison Dust - exposing the dangers of depleted uranium

01:00 The Knight Report:
 06:30 Haiti Elections: Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina reports observations at various polling places in Port-au-Prince, contrasting delayed, congested and problematic polling places in poorer communities with those in wealthier pro-business elite neighborhoods. Learn about the methods used by a wealthy few to try and control the majority poor while attempting to maintain a facade of democracy. Also exposed is the role and responsibility of the media in supporting the elite agenda, ignoring and misrepresenting the widespread support for Aristide that continues even now.

More to follow. Also visit haitiaction.net for updates. Watch Reuters video for an amazing view of voting activities.

19:30 Depleted Uranium - The Weapon That Goes On Killing: Gulf War veteran and former Director of the US Army's Depleted Uranium Project, Major Doug Rokke provides alarming statistics on mounting disabilities resulting from DU exposure. The US Department of Veteran Affairs has formally awarded permanent disability to close to 200,000 Gulf War I veterans as of December 2005, and it is estimated that close to 370,000 veterans suffer permanent disabilities as a result of DU exposure in the Persian Gulf region. Read the latest Gulf War Veterans Information System report released December 28, 2005 (pdf format). Compensation and Pension statistics start on Page 7.

Also discussed is the devastating long-term impact of indisciminant environmental DU contamination in Iraq that can not be cleaned up.

32:00 Poison DUst - Radioactive DU Weapons in Iraq: Excerpts from a new documentary that takes a closer look at the deadly effects of radioactive depleted uranium weapons on soldiers returning home from the Gulf region. Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disablity of her young husband - a Gulf War veteran.

43:00 KPFA Winter Fund Drive: Pledge your support for the hard-hitting investigative reporting that Flashpoints brings you daily. Call 1-800-439-5732 or pledge securely on-line.
KPFA Winter Fund Drive - Pledge to support Free Speech Radio

Monday, February 6, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Report from Port-au-Prince as US-designed elections are scheduled and government violence is expected; also, our next installment on the National Endowment for Democracy’s infiltration into social groups in Haiti; a report from our special correspondent in New Orleans, where the Louisiana government was greeted by jeers and questions from forgotten residents about the future of their neighborhoods; a speech by Robert Fisk; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report                                                                               Common Ground Collective - New OrleansCommon Ground Collective - New Orleans

06:00 Report from Haiti:
The Elections and the NED
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
Jeb Sprague, investigative journalist

25:00 New Orleans’ Racist Eviction
Brandon Darabey,
Common Ground Collective

32:00 Speech: Robert Fisk in Berkeley

Friday, February 3, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Our special correspondent Kevin Pina gets an interview with the most wanted man in Haiti; President Hugo Chavez throws the US Naval Attaché out of Venezuela for his involvement in espionage against the Chavez government; also, the Revolution Will Not Be Televised: a ground-breaking documentary about the 2002 attempted coup of Hugo Chavez; and headlines from the region.

01:00 Introduction Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Guerrero and Miguel Molina

06:00 Report from Haiti. Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

13:00 On Venezuela. Gregory Wilpert, VenezuelaAnalysis.com

28:00 FILM: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Documentary film about the attempted coup of Pres. Hugo Chavez in 2002

Venezuela Analysis.com
Thursday, February 2, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Media report card from www.ifamericansknew.orgToday on Flashpoints: How the Associated Press and other major US news organizations deliberately censor the facts on the ground in occupied Palestine, we’ll have a lively discussion with journalist and media analyst Alison Weir; also, Israeli dissident historian and author Dr. Ilan Pappe on the continued dispossession and colonization of the Palestinian people; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report:
 Alison Weir - http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com06:00 Associated Press and US Media on Palestine/Israel:
Alison Weir, If Americans Knew – www.ifamericansknew.org
Read more from Alison Wier on American for Middle East Understanding
See Alison Weir at upcoming events in the SF Bay area

Dr. Ilan Pappe - from http://pilger.carlton.com/palestine/peaceprocess31:00 Ilan Pappe on the Continued Colonilization of Palestine:
Dr. Ilan Pappe, Israeli dissident historian and author.
Prof. Pappe speaks about Zionism, the Palestinian Nakba, teaching the truth in Israel, the desirability of a one-state solution, Israel-Palestinian labor relations and divestment.

45:00 KPFA Winter Fund Drive:
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Renowned Native American leader and co-founder of the American Indian Movement Dennis Banks talks about the new run for life, across the country from San Francisco to Washington DC; also, Dahr Jamail reports from the Al-Jazeera conference on media responsibility in a time of war and occupation; Palestinian refugee youth visit their original villages inside Israel; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report                                                       Dheisheh Refugee Camp Mural - Mariposa.Yosemite.Net
Dheisheneh Refugee Camp - Occupied Palestine
06:00 Al-Jazeera and Media Under Occupation in Iraq
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent

17:00 American Indian Movement Legend Dennis Banks
Dennis Banks, AIM

37:00  (Affiliates Only)
Refugee Girls Visit Original Villages
inside Israel’s 1948 Borders
Documentary by Nora Barrows-Friedman,
from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in occupied Palestine

43:00 KPFA Fund Drive