Archived
Shows - June 2007
Friday, June 29,
2007 
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Today
on Flashpoints we
broadcast live from New College of California in San Francisco’s
mission
district, We’ll feature a special report from the Atlanta social Forum, including a report
from Nora Barrows Friedman on the children at the forum who really want
to make a change. West Coast Students speak out about
their hunger strike in support of immigrant rights and we’ll have a response to the
sinking of so-called immigrants reform legislation in Congress
along with Headlines in the region, Flashpoints in español.
01:00
Dennis and
Francisco
09:00
Live from
Atlanta
Renée Saucedo, La Raza Centro Legal,
www.lrcl.org
Davin Cardenas,
Santa Rosa Day Laborer Center Director
24:00
Children at the Atlanta Social Forum
Nora Barrows-Friedman
32:00
Students
Hunger Strike
Joel Aguiar, UC Berkeley student
40:00
Music Break
Miguel Gavilan Molina
41
Headlines from the Region
Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Guerrero
43:00
Flashpoints
en Español
Renée Saucedo,
La
Raza Centro Legal,
Davin Cardenas,
Santa Rosa Day Laborer Center Director
58:00
Outro live
Thursday, June 28,
2007
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Today on Flashpoints:
We'll feature a special report from the north of Lebanon on the plight
of 3000 Palestinian refugees caught in the cross-fire; also we'll have
a report from the World Social Forum in Atlanta, where we'll be joined
by Flashpoints producer, Nora Barrows Friedman; we'll have a brand new
edition with JR and the Block Report, and we'll have the Knight Report
with Robert Knight in exile
01:00
The Knight Report
- President Bush cops another plea for his war in Iraq - Robert
Knight
06:00
Palestinian Refugees
Caught in the Cross Fire in Lebanon
Rania Masri, human rights advocate and environmental scientist
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
For the latest on the situation in Lebanon, visit
ElectronicLebanon
and
ElectronicLebanon
17:00
Musical Break
Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein
18:00
A
Report from the Atlanta Social Forum
Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, is the first woman to head a national union in
Iraq, as president of the
Iraqi Electrical Utility
Workers' Union, and speaks about the privatization of Iraq's
resources. Read about the
Iraq
Workers Solidarity tour when the tour stopped in SF on June 12.
Davey D, host of
Hard
Knock Radio on Pacifica Radio
Dave Welsh,
Haiti Action
Committee
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Producer
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
Dr.
Mutulu Shakur
44:00
The Block Report
Mopreme
Shakur interviewed by JR discusses the case of his father, political
prisoner
Dr. Mutulu Shakur,
prisoner
83205-012.
Also visit
daretostruggle.org,
myspace/mutulushakur
and the
Bureau of Prisons
Wednesday, June 27,
2007
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Today on
Flashpoints:
We'll feature a special report on Iraq-Gate and the arming of Saddam
Hussein; also we'll take an in-depth look
at the new, US Driven, Iraqi
Oil
Law:
A License for US multinationals to steal Iraq's oil resources; and
we'll have the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- A Israel invades the Gaza Strip killing at least a dozen
- 3 of 13 past coup prisoners are released in Grenada
- Congress subpoenas the White House over illegal wiretaps.
- Pres. Bush loses two more Rep. supporters of the Iraqi War
- British PM Tony Blair leaves Downing St for the Middle East as
the Bush poodle reinvents himself as a Trojan Horse
06:00
Iraq-gate Cover Up/CIA
Family Jewels
Robert Parry, investigative journalist,
www.consortiumnews.com
Interviewed by
Dennis Bernstein
26:00
US Stealing
Iraqi Oil
Jody Williams,
Nobel Peace Prize and
founding coordinator of the
International Campaign to
Ban Landmines
Antonia Juhasz, author,
www.thebushagenda.net,
www.priceofoil.org
Tuesday, June 26,
2007
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Today on Flashpoints:
An in-depth update on the growing crisis in Gaza and the ethnic
cleansing of Palestine; we'll speak with Jonathan Cook; also a special
report on so-called honor killings in US-occupied Iraq; Barbara Lubin
honors Berkeley community leader and trusted politician Maudelle Shirek
in anticipation of the unveiling of a mural devoted to her work; and
the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- A Israel sends its favorite Palestinaian leader an olive branch
and a fig leaf.
- Somalian resistance under a US backed Ethiopian occupation
- Occupation collaborators in Iraq get bombed in a Baghdad hote.
- A conservative US Senator condemns the Bush Surge in Iraq
- US mayors vote for a partial withdraw from Iraq
Monday, June 25,
2007
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Today on
Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints, We continue our
reporting on a for-profitchildren's prison in
Taylor, Texas, we'll feature a special
report from a protest in front of the prison; also,
Dick Cheney, the point man on the
administration's wide-ranging program of torture; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- A US orchestrated death sentence for a former Iraqi Commander
that
the Pentagon concluded is not guilty of the gassing of Kurds in
Hallelujah.
- New details from Iraqi officials reveal a torturous decapatation
rather than hanging of Saddam Hussein's brother
- Iraqi puppet parlament decides to take a shorter summer va
cation than Pres. GW Bush.
16:00
Report on a
Children's Prison in Taylor, Texas
Jay Johnson Castro, longtime immigrants' rights
activist
31:00
Cheney and
the Future Structure of War
Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst
Friday, June 22,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints: Live
from New College of California in San Franciso’s bustling mission
district, We Go live to Taylor Texas, to hear about a major protest
planned for tomorrow at
the gates of the Hutto Jail, a privatized prison for profit, where many
children of deported Immigrants are being held hostage underhorrific
conditions: We move further south to
Mexico City and talk toJohn Ross about the
US Plan Columbia, for
Mexico: We’ll here from a hunger striker
for immigrant rights, we’ll have a commentary from Miguel Gavlan
Molina, Flashpoints in Espanol
01:00
Introduction. Dennis and Francisco
09:00
Hutto Prison Jay Johnson-Castro
21:00
US Plan
Columbia for Mexico John Ross,
journalist
33:00
Students
Hunger Strike,
Joel Aguiar,student activist
43:00
Gavilan’s
Commentary
Miguel Gavilan Molina
48:00
Flashpoints
en Español
John Ross, author and journalist
Thursday, June 21,
2007
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Today on Flashpoints:
Mahmoud Abbas and the Israelis put Gazans on an extreme diet, we'll
have a report from the occupied Gaza strip; also, a Palestinian health
worker arrested and threatened on his way from the Nahr el Bared
refugee camp; and a new documentary by Norman Solomon,
War Made
Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
01:00
Israel's Collective
Punishment in Gaza - Palestinians on the Brink of Humanitarian Crisis
Amjad Shawa, Gaza coordinator of
Palestinian
NGO Network
16:00
Report from Under Siege
in Lebanon
Milad Salameh, nurse from Nahr el Bared refugee camp
For more information visit the
Nahr el Bared Relief
Campaign website.
30:00
War Made Easy
Norman Solomon,
filmmaker
With a clip from the film
For more about
War Made Easy
visit
www.warmadeeasythemovie.org
Wednesday, June 20,
2007
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Today on Flashpoints: As Palestinian Authority President Mahmould Abbas colludes with
the occupiers to overthrow democracy, Israeli death squads continue to
kill Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Plus, a new report
documenting the expanding violence of the US Occupation in Iraq. Anti
landmine campaigners take on cluster bombs as an international movement
gains momentum. Also an update on the Black Panter Trials on the Block
Report and of course the Knight Report with Robert Knight.
01:00
The Knight Report
- The Israel reinvades Gaza while former President Carter
condemns Israeli-American plans saying "The United States and Israel decided to punish all the people
in Palestine
and did everything they could to deter a compromise between Hamas and
Fatah," he said.
Robert
Knight
Tuesday, June 19,
2007
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Today on Flashpoints:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cozies up with Israel and
the Bush administration as occupation tanks amass at Gaza's border,
we'll speak with Ali Abunimah and Professor Hatem Bazian about the
current crisis in occupied Palestine; also, an in-depth look at the
expanding war in Afghanistan as the Taliban now controls nearly half
the country; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- The Israeli-American axis pursues a three-state solution in
Iraq and in the mideast, where Olmert and Bush are contemplating aid
for Fatah-stan at the expense of Hamas-stine
- US troops battle militias in Iraqi Sunni-stan and
southern Shia-stan while pursuing oil concessions in Kurdistan
Robert
Knight
06:00
How
Mahmoud Abbas, Israel
and the US Subvert Democracy in Occupied Palestine
Ali Abunimah,
ElectronicIntifada.net
18:00
Report on Afghanistan
Christian Parenti,
author and journalist provides the perspective on-the-ground in
Afghanistan under spreading Taliban control.
Read
recent
articles by Christian Parenti in
The Nation
37:00
Pulling the Strings: The
US' Involvement in Palestine
Hatem Bazian, Lecturer at UC Berkeley, discusses the Palestinian
political landscape and recent coup in the context of the Oslo
agreement and subsequent intensified occupation humiliation and loss of
human rights.
Monday, June 18,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints:
A US-Israeli supported coup in the West Bank: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas annuls elections and selects a pro-West cabinet to rule from
Ramallah, we'll get a report from that city; also, we go back to the
North of Lebanon, where human rights activist warn
of growing human rights violations against Palestinians caught in the
crossfire, including illegal arrests, detentions, torture and beatings;
plus, the FBI, empowered by the Congress and the Patriot Act, illegally
collaborates with major telecommunications corporations; an update on
Scooter Libby as he prepares to go to jail; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- Israeli troops are massing in Northern Gaza and a new
economic cessation in the Gaza strip is underway following Hamas
military overthrow of Fatah and Abbas' unconstitutional creation of
another new western backed government.
- The Taliban conducts its most lethal bombing since the US
invasion of Afghanistan in which the United Kingdom feared that the
Bush Administration would use nuclear weapons.
- United Nations gives up the ghost to find nukes or any
other kind of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq where the Pentagon
says the US will remain for at least a decade.
Robert
Knight
06:00
Abbas Stages a Coup;
Israel, the US and the EU Brand Him a “Partner for Peace”
Jamal Juma'a, coordinator, Stop the Wall Campaign,
occupied West Bank
21:00
Update from Beirut,
Lebanon
Rania Masri, environmental scientist, human rights
activist –
www.nahrelbaredcampaign.org
34:00
FBI Collaborates with
Telecommunications Corporations
Lisa Graves, Center for National Security Studies,
www.cnss.org
44:00
Scooter
Libby Prepares for Jailtime
Bob Parry, investigative reporter, editor at
ConsortiumNews.com
Friday, June 15,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints: Today
on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks
the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency,
even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we'll have a
series of reports
on these crucial breaking
stories; also, we'll have a report from Beirut on yesterday's deadly
bombing that killedten people; and the Knight
report.
01:00 An Update from Gaza
Tilal Abu Shweish, Teacher and Human Rights Activist
09:00 The Ethnic Cleansing of
Palestine
Ilan Pappe,
Israeli author and historian
44:00 Flashpoints en
Español
Vladimir Flores, FSRN correspondent, www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com
Thursday, June 14,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks
the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency,
even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we'll have a
series of reports
on these crucial breaking
stories; also, we'll have a report from Beirut on yesterday's deadly
bombing that killed ten people; and the Knight
report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- Fatah loses its western front of the Gaza Strip following
todays armed takeover of the new Hamas stand on the Mediterranean.
- Neofascist Giulani treads on the edge of foreign finance
law with his solicitation of Israeli funds for his American
Presidential Campaign
Robert
Knight
06:7:00
Palestinian Authority
President Sacks Elected Hamas
Government
Ali Abunimah,
editor,
ElectronicIntifada.net
26:00
Eighty Palestinians Dead
Since
Saturday – A Look At Gaza
Talal Abu Shwiesh,
teacher and human rights worker in Nuseirat camp, occupied Gaza
Dr. Mona el-Farra,
health worker and Director of Gaza projects,
Middle East Children's Alliance
44:00
Dark Clouds Over Lebanon,
A Day
After A Deadly Bombing Kills Ten
Bilal el-Amine, FP
Special Correspondent, editor, Left Turn Magazine
Wednesday, June 13,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints: A Deadly Bombing in Beirut Kills at least ten and wounds
many more; Also Haitian death squad leaders
directly linked to US supported opposition in Haiti; Music industry puts the
squeeze on Internet radio broadcasters and the Knight report
01:00
The Knight Report
- New fighting in Gaza and the US bombardment in
Somalia.
- New curfews and mosque bombings in Iraq
- Same old Democrats say ending the war in Iraq was "setting
the bar too high"
Robert
Knight
06:00 Bombing Kills Ten in Beirut
Rania Masri,
Scientist, Teacher and Human Rights Activist,
www.nahrelbaredcampaign.org
21:00 Death Squad Leaders Linked to US
Supported Opposition in Haiti
Brian Concannon,
Attorney, www.ijdh.org
41:00 The Block Report
Davey D, Radio Host
Tuesday, June 12,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints:
Dahr Jamail nails the New York Times for lying about the United States
use of white
phosphorus in Iraq. Also John Pilger on the U.S. permanent
occupation in Iraq. Twenty two Palistinians killed in factional
violence in Gaza. A former CIA analyst talks about the CIA on trial for
torture. A disscussion on the future of the peace movement and the
Knight Report. 
01:00
The Knight Report
- A reprieve for Habeus Corpus.
- Israeli American bombing practice
- Iranian allegations about disinformation about Gulf
retaliation.
- US plan for Iraqi contras appears to be crumbling.
- Pentagon puts plans for a gay bomb back in the closet.
Monday, June 11,
2007
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Today on a special edition of
Flashpoints: We spend the hour listening to the national Pacifica broadcast,
Cages and Dreams: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession in
Palestine.
01:00 Cages and Dreams: 40 Years of
Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession
in Palestine
Pacifica Producers,
from a national broadcast this weekend
Hosted/coordinated
by Nora Barrows-Friedman
Websites,
links and more information on guests/topics covered
Photo by Nora-Barrows Friedman
Friday, June 8,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints: We
talk about the future of the immigrant’s rights movement in the face of
Congress’s failure to take any substantial action that would guarantee
some 12 million workers and their families fair treatment, wages, and
the respect they deserve; Also, we continue our investigation into the
U.S. Government’s wide ranging use of torture; We’ll have Flashpoints
in Espanol; and a commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina.
01:00
Introduction
Dennis Bernstein, Francisco Herrera,
co-host and Miguel Gavilan Molina
06:00
Torture on
Trial
Father Steve Kelley,
Witness Against Torture/Fort
Huachuca
Francisco Herrera
Father Steve Kelley outside Fort
Huachuca
24:00
What’s Next
in the Battle for Immigrant’s Rights
Rena Saucedo, organizer
La Raza Centro
Legal and SF Day Labor Program
Alfredo de Avila, organizer
Applied
Research Center
43:00
Flashpoints
en Espanol
Francisco Herrera, co-host
Rene Saucedo, organizer La Raza Centro Legal and SF Day Labor Program
Alfredo de Avila, organizer Applied Research Center
Thursday, June 7,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints: A
leading US scholar once again makes the case against Israel's illegal
occupation of Palestine; also, environmental activist Karen Pickett
speaks out against the government's green scare attacks; an eyewitness
account that refutes police claims against Mumia abu-Jamal; and the
Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- More mysterious developments along N. Iraqi and Turkey
border.
- Turkish Army continuted to amass along the Iraqi border
where military officials declared a so called security zone.
06:00
On Israel's Illegal
Occupation of Palestine
Professor Francis Boyle,
University of Illinois school of Law
author, “
Palestine,
Palestinians and International Law”
25:00
Federal Government
Targeting Environmental Activists, continued
Karen Pickett, activist discusses the government's
green
scare attacks.
34:00
New Testimony in the Case
of Mumia Abu Jamal: Evidence that Exonerates
JR and the Block Report
Wednesday, June 6,
2007
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Today on Flashpoints:
Rania Masri reports from the ground in
Beirut, Lebanon, on the latest human
rights nightmares growing out of the continued attacks across the
country; also, Israeli death squads kill an elderly Palestinian man and
kidnap two children in the
West Bank; part three of our series on the
torture training center at Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona; plus,
radical environmentalists sentenced to hard jail time under new
terrorist
enhancement
laws; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- Conflicting reports of a Turkish incursion into Iraq.
- A reproachment between Sunni insurgent groups.
- Conflict between Sunni and Shia militias.
- The British ambassador calls for Anglo-American evacuation
of Iraq.
06:00
Report from Lebanon
Rania Masri, environmental scientist and coordinator with
the Naher el Bared Relief Campaign
13:00
Israeli
Death Squads Invade Hebron.
Israelis killing an elderly Palestinian man and kidnap children.
International Middle East Media Center,
occupied West Bank.
18:00 Torture
on
Trial at Fort Huachuca, part 3
Father Steve Kelly and
Bill Quigley
43:00 Environmental
Activists Deemed “Terrorists” by Bush Administration
Lauren Regan, attorney
with Civil Liberties Defense Center
Tuesday, June 5,
2007
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Today on Flashpoints:
40 years after the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestine,
and the suffering remains with no end in sight, we'll speak with Diana
Buttu in Ramallah for an in-depth look at Israeli policies of expanded
military occupation and colonialism; plus, part two of torture in
Tuscon, an investigation into Fort Huachuca, Abu Ghraib and the
wide-ranging use of torture by the US Government; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- Conflict and compromise in Lebanon's refugee crisis
- A sudden visit to Somalia by the leader of its foreign
occupation
- The Bush administration escalates air strikes to compensate
for its lack of ground control in Iraq
Robert
Knight
06:00
40th Anniversary of
Israel's Illegal Occupation of Palestine
Diana Buttu, Ramallah-based attorney, legal advisor to President
Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, and the head of the PA's
negotiations affairs department
Diana Buttu
28:00
Torture at Fort Huachuca,
part 2
Francisco Herrera, FP Special correspondent
Retired Colonel Ann Wright
Father Steve Kelly
Jack Cohen-Joppa
Monday, June 4,
2007
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Today on Flashpoints:
A second refugee camp struck by violence as the bombardment of Naher el
Bared continues in Lebanon, we'll have a series of reports on the human
rights situation in the camps as well as the continuing bombings around
Beirut; also, anti-torture activists face off against torture trainers
in Tuscon; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
06:00
Fighting in Lebanon
Spreads to the South; Activists Stage a "Die-In" at Naher el Bared
Dr. Marcy Newman, Rania Masri and Sharif Bibi, coordiators,
NaherElBaredCampaign.org
25:00
Report from Beirut as
Bombs Fall
Bilal el-Amine, FP Special Correspondent, editor,
Left Turn Magazine
44:00
Protests in Tuscon
Against Militarization of US-Mexico Border
Francisco Herrera, FP Producer
Fr. Louis Vitale, human rights activist
Friday, June 1,
2007
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Today
on Flashpoints: Over
15,000 Palestinian refugees remain trapped under siege in the Naher
el-Bared refugee camp, we’ll have a report from Lebanon; also, a leading immigration
rights attorney arrested protesting the so-called immigration
compromise; former Black Panther and founder of Common Ground in New Orleans, Malik Rahim, in the studio; a
report from Venezuela on the shutting down of a
US-funded right wing television station; and Flashpoints en
Español.
01:00 Introduction by Dennis.
04:00 On the Ground Report from Lebanon – More
Attacks on Refugee Camp
Dr. Marcy Newman,
Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign
10:00 Protesting the New “Compromise” on
Immigration
Rene Saucedo,
activist and attorney
17:00 The State of New Orleans
Malik Rahim, Common
Ground Relief Collective
35:00 Report from Venezuela
Gregory Wilpert,
journalist
42:00 Flashpoints en Español
Gregory Wilpert
