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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 The California Supreme Court upholds the discriminatory and draconian Proposition 8, continuing the ban on gay marriage,  we'll talk to a gay pastor risking arrest as demonstrators hit the streets of San Francisco in protest of the ruling; also, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approves the construction of a new illegal colony in the Jordan Valley while offering Obama a deal to take down only a handful of the illegal outposts, we'll speak to Jamal Jumaa in the West Bank about what this means for the so-called peace process; and Chris Hedges in a riveting speech about collateral damage in US-occupied Iraq; and the Knight Report.


Monday, May 25, 2009 Today on a special Memorial Day edition of Flashpoints, We re-broadcast the full hour of death row prisoner Kevin Cooper, in an in-depth interview about his case, and the criminal injustice system.

Friday, May 22, 2009 A Fund Raising Special. Adam Curtis's "The Trap: What Happened  To our Dream of Freedom".  Under George Bush senior, America has lid into depression and Clinton has promised he would use the power of the presidency  to rescue the nation. "It's time to change America. George Bush, if you won't ue your power to help America, step aside I will" said Bill Clinton.  Clinton promised to use the power of the state to reform America's health car, extend welfare, and invest in jobs. And above all reducing inequalities that had risen up under President Reagan. At the end of 1992 he was triumphantly elected.

A few days before his innaugaration, two leading members of the financial world came to see Clinton in Washington. One was Alan Greenspan, the head of the Federal Reserve. The other was Clinton's economic adviser Robert Rubin, the head of Goldman Sachs. What they told the President was dramatic. His political plans were impossible. He was inheriting a huge government debt. If he borrowed anymore money to pay for his politital promises, interest rates would rise, people would stop borrowing and spending and there would be an economic disaster...

Thursday, May 21, 2009 A Fund Raising Special. Economist Richard Wolf, University of Massachusetts at Amherst who uses a blend of Marxist and Keysian economics to undersnad whats going on in the world.  He sees the economy and economics crises as a problem that is a marriage of political problems and economic problems.  Its not just policy but the people who are making the policy. A sense of what is going on in both American economy and around the world, since the US plays such an enormous role in the world economy. How did we get into this situation and gives some help in navigating where we go from here. If this suggests that you yourself will have to play some sort of role, then he has gotton his message across.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 An expose on Penny Pritzker, former finance chair for Barack Obama and now the leader of a movement against the Emloyee Free Choice Act. Also we speak to Katherine Austin Fitts on community business about the cleansing of debts against Bank of America and Goldman Sachs and much more.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 Bill Clinton, a consistent enemy of the people's Lavalas movement of Haiti, named as UN envoy, we'll feature a special report on the implications and a remembrance on UN and US slaughters in 2004 and 2005; also, the Block Report interviews Martina Davis on an international day devoted to saving the life of her brother, death row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis; and Chris Hedges and Laila al-Arian talking about their book, Collateral Damage.

Friday, May 15, 2009 Audio links not active until 6:30pm Friday

Thursday, May 14, 2009 On the 61st anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from their land, ethnic cleansing continues apace in occupied Palestine. We spend the hour listening to excerpts from the hard-hitting documentary film, Occupation 101, which takes viewers through the brutal chronology of dispossession, exile and military occupation in Palestine even before 1948 and the creation of the state of Israel.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Award-winning independent journalist Dahr Jamail explains the accelerated collapse of security and infrastructure in US-occupied Iraq,  as President Obama seeks to refuse to allow the public release of new torture photographs from US-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan; and as Palestinians mark 61 years of dispossession since their expulsion from historic Palestine in 1948, Israel uses an entrenched  system of apartheid to continue to deny them human rights, we'll re-broadcast an important interview on the anatomy of Israeli apartheid.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Torture is still happening under the Obama administration, we'll talk about why activists are gearing up to launch major protests around the country; also, JR and the Block Report talks about an innocent man who did 18 years in prison, and legal loopholes that prevent him from receiving compensation from the state; and a riveting speech by Dr. Vandana Shiva on Sustainability and the World Food Crisis.

Monday, May 11, 2009  In Gaza, Palestinian patients interrogated or blackmailed as Israel attempts to trade their access to medical care across the border in exchange for becoming informants for the state, we get a full report from the Gaza Strip with al-Jazeera correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin; plus, British member of Parliament George Galloway talks about his recent 100-vehicle convoy to Gaza with medical aid and supplies, and what needs to be done to hold Israel and the US accountable for its crimes in Palestine.

Friday, May 8, 2009  We'll have Francisco Herrerra our TroubadourCultural worker and Co-Host joining us as we focus on recent developments in Mexico. And a live report from Mexico City on the recent federal indictments against members of the Zapatistas with Alejandro Reyes our foreign correspondent. We'll also listen to a speech by John Gibler author of the book Mexico Unconquered “Chronicles of power and revolt.”

Thursday, May 7, 2009  US airstrikes in Afghanistan kill an estimated 130 civilians, including many women and children, as the Pentagon scurries to cover up the massacre and Obama prepares to send 21,000 more troops to occupy the country; also, excerpts from the Pacifica Radio documentary, the Ballad of Pete Seeger, which chronicles the life and times of the revolutionary folk musician and social justice hero.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 We spend the hour listening to a speech by author and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, as he discusses Israel's siege on Gaza and the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid.
Monday, May 4, 2009 Environmental justice activist Mike Roselle talks about a legal victory for activists in court against Massey Energy, a leading corporation responsible for mountaintop removal and toxic coal mining; also, we re-broadcast a special Flashpoints investigation into how Palestinians are employing permaculture farming practices as a tool of resistance under occupation; a commentary by journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

Friday, May 1, 2009 A rebroadcast of a special noon day celebration day show live from the San Francisco Mission Distict. Garay Bacco, Miguel Molina and Dennis in a May Day Broadcast. A new People's Union  and Francisco Herrera.

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Thursday, April 30, 2009 A University of California professor is labeled an anti-semite for criticizing Israel's recent savaging of the Gaza Strip; we'll speak to Professor William Robinson of UC Santa Barbara about the backlash against his free speech; also human rights activists warn of a life and death situation for political prisoners in Haiti; we'll have an exclusive report; and Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts returns to talk about further woes on Wall Street as Chrysler files for bankruptcy; and the Knight Report.
Friday, November 28, 2008  We present the second hour of an evening with Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Anthony Arnove, Mos Def, Aya de Leon, Melanie DeMore, Steve Earle, Nora el Samahy, John Trudell, and Luis Valdez, reading the voices of a People's History of the United States in the concluding half of a production recorded in Berkeley in November 2006.

Thursday, November 27, 2008 We spend the hour with Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Anthony Arnove, Mos Def, Aya de Leon, Melanie DeMore, Steve Earle, Nora el Samahy, John Trudell, and Luis Valdez, reading the voices of a People's History of the United States in part one of a two-part production recorded in Berkeley in November 2006.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 The bailout expanded yesterday with billions being forwarded to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we'll speak to Catherine Austin Fitts about the expanding bailout and her recent trip to Estonia on this week's Community Business; also, Kristen Ess reports on how Israel's deadly siege impacts hospitals across the Gaza strip; JR and the Block Report take a look at torture in the Chicago police department; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 A Special 2-hour Hard Knock Radio Broadcast:
Flashpoints hour of airtime features an extended Hard Knock Radio discussion about some of the implications of the election of this nation's first black President.

Monday, November 10, 2008 We address the global climate change emergency with an activist working with Latin American indigenous communities; Also, How will Obama shut down Guantanamo Bay torture prison, Eric Klein speaks with Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Michael Posner of Human Rights First;  News Headlines from Occupied Palestine; And the Knight Report.

Friday, November 7, 2008 We have a freewheeling discussing on what impact the Obama Administration could have on immigrants and indigenous rights; Also, we'll be joined by educator Sudia Paloma and renowned filmmaker Daniel Flores and a delegation of cultural workers from El Salvador; We get a report from the streets of San Francisco where people are marching in droves against the passage of Proposition 8;  And Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, November 6, 2008 JR and The Block Report speak with Death Row prisoner journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal on his reaction to the election of Barack Obama; plus, we begin a new segment, The Rendition Report, that takes a look at the struggle for justice for detainees inside Guantanamo and secret prison sites around the world; also, we rebroadcast a moving interview with Studs Terkel who passed away last week; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 We spend the hour discussing the election and what an Obama administration means for domestic and international issues;  we'll hear from Catherine Austin Fitts, Ali Abunimah, Mumia Abu Jamal, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., Amjad Shawa in Gaza, Robert Jensen, and we'll take your phone calls.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008   Democracy Now! Election Night Special, Part 1
Amy Goodman, with Juan Gonzales and Jeremy Scahill.
The broadcast started at 4PM PST

Includes coverage of the results as the polls close, on-the-ground reports from across the country, reactions from across the globe, and running in-depth analysis and commentary from a wide range of guests you won’t get anywhere else.

Guests will include Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Melissa Harris Lacewell, Roberto Lovato, John Nichols, Howard Zinn, Tim Robbins, Michael Moore, Bill Perkins, Laura Flanders, Vincent Harding, Robert Scheer, Mark Crispin Miller, David Sirota and many more.

Monday, November 3, 2008 Investigatve Reporter, Greg Palast, says Tomorrow's election has Already been stolen, whether Obama wins or loses:  Also Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional, on the Trial of Donald Rumsfeld, as a War Criminal, and a musical bay area exclusive from hip-hop visionary, Dead Pres, And the Knight Report.

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Friday, October 31, 2008 Using facebook and various forms of alternative media, immigrant youth and their supporters took to the streets of San Francisco today;  the theme for protests all over the Bay Area was roll back the ICE raids and the detentions and deportations; we'll speak with youth activists, organizers and some youth who were prevented from attending the march by police, closing down various East Bay BART stations; and Flashpoints en Espanol reports from the streets of San Francisco.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 We'll have a special report on a break-in at Cindy Sheehan for Congress headquarters last night; also, Exxon-Mobil cleans up with record profits as the rest of the economy crashes; Death row political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal comments on the factors behind the money crash; music by the Welfare Poets; we'll get an update on the case of Dr. Sami al-Arian, out on house arrest and bail, we'll speak to his daughter, independent journalist Laila al-Arian about the continuing struggle for his freedom; and this week's roundup of news from Palestine with Kristen Ess.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 New information ties Obama's finance chair Penny Pritzker directly to the Sub-Prime meltdown on Wall Street;  also, Catherine Austin Fitts with an update on the Wall Street meltdown and a new vision for financial permaculture;  Israeli occupation soldiers shoot a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank, three years after his son was killed by the same military;  and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Retired Colonel Ann Wright and former high-level CIA official Ray McGovern respond to the attack on Syria and talk about what's missing in the US political campaigns; plus, the US secretly recognizes Hamas as the potential peacemaker in ongoing talks, we'll have a report from the occupied Gaza strip about what that means; and the Knight Report.

Monday, October 27, 2008  We feature a series of reports on the US bombing and killing of civilians in Syria,  we'll get a report from Washington and we'll hear from our special correspondent, Dahr Jamail, on the volatile situation; also, immigrants rights activists protest Wells Fargo's connection to ICE abuses; a conference to commemorate the San Francisco State student strike that led to the first ethnic studies department in the country; news headlines from Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Friday, October 24, 2008  An international movement to save the life of Troy Anthony Davis bore fruition as a federal court of appeals in Atlanta officially stayed his execution paving the way for a new trial; Also, in Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico police continue to surround the remaining thirty families fighting to keep their land from being stolen for a major free trade zone; Plus, an eight year fight to win promised benefits for participants in the original bracero program is victorious; Also, Massive ICE Sweeps in the Bay Area leave thousands of people terrorized; And, Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, October 23, 2008 Four days until the State of Georgia once again plans to murder death row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis, JR and the Block Report speak with Davis' mother about the racist injustice surrounding her son's case; plus, Kristen Ess reports on the growing humanitarian disaster in occupied Gaza, as Israeli settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian farmers in the West Bank; Susan Nathan, author of The Other Side of Israel discusses the recent violence against Palestinian citizens of Israel in the context of expanded and state-sanctioned racism; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 The US stock market plunges again as fears of a worldwide recession take hold, we'll speak with Catherine Austin Fitts about the bailout of the elite  while the working and middle classes are abandoned; also, on the Block Report, Akua Njeri, the widow of assassinated Black Panther leader Fred Hampton talks about yesterday's arrest of known Chicago Police torturer John Burge; Jackie Salloum, director of Slingshot Hip-Hop, talks about her film which celebrates hip hop culture in occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 We'll have a special report on the murder of US independent journalist Brad Will two years ago in Oaxaca, Mexico; Flashpoints' special correspondent John Gibler was on the scene at the time and reports on the Mexican government's attempt to blame the activists who tried to save Will for his murder; also, JR and the Block Report update the planned state murder of Troy Anthony Davis next Monday; and Iraq Veteran Against the War, Camilo Mejia, talks about the growing GI resistance movement with independent journalist Aaron Glantz, author of Winter Soldier.

Monday, October 20, 2008 nternationally-renowned anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott highlights the dangers of the new push towards nuclear power and nuclear weapons; also, California seniors are devastated by budget cuts at the Federal, State and local level;  San Franciscans face a new round of predatory military recruiters in public schools; and the Knight Report.

Friday, October 17, 2008 A new anti-immigrant law in Arizona deputizes everyone in the state, we'll speak to a leading activist at a day labor center in Tuscon about this new vigilante state; also, we'll be joined by Arnoldo Garcia about a call for the end of expanding ICE raids; plus, a Flashpoints roundtable discussion on grassroots journalism; JR and the Block Report give us an update from El Salvador, focusing on worker's rights; and Flashpoints En Espanol.

Thursday, October 16, 2008 Global markets are volatile again, as the Tokyo market suffers its biggest loss in two decades, while US foreclosures intensify, we'll discuss this with Catherine Austin Fitts in our weekly segment, Community Business; we'll also hear about a protest against investment bankers gathering in San Francisco over the weekend; UN human rights expert John Dugard condemns the illegal Israeli separation wall, four years after the World Court demanded its elimination; plus, film directors from Morocco and Algeria talk about their films, being shown at the annual Arab Film Festival in the Bay Area; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008  KPFA's pre-debate broadcast before the third and final debate between John McCain and Barack Obama at Hofstra University, anchored by Mitch Jeserich. Included are discussions with protesters outside Hofstra University, Acorn and voter registration, Bill Ayers, and the anti-Muslim film that ended up on the doorstep of 28 million voters in swing states.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Right-wing Jewish extremists attack and set fire to over a dozen Palestinian homes in the Israeli town of Akka, during almost a week of violent and racist assaults on Palestinian citizens of Israel, we'll get a report from the ground and we'll have a full analysis from Ali Abunimah; also, the US Supreme Court refuses to look at the case of Georgia Death Row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis, pushing him one step closer to state-sponsored execution, The Block Report talks to Davis' sister about the decision; Peter Phillips of Project Censored talks about the very real potential of another election steal; and the Knight Report.

Friday, October 10, 2008 Indigenous resistance at Big Mountain builds for a special action in November.
A report on the case of John Graham, AIM activist being prosecuted for a 32-year old murder that he did not commit. Here in Hayward, where we broadcast live, there will be a special health fair offering free health care to undocumented workers and their families. And Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, October 9, 2008 US stocks fall for a seventh straight day, another 600 points; we'll speak to Cindy Sheehan and Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen about the ongoing panic on Wall Street and Main Street; also, the Block Report features stories on resistance to environmental racism and gentrification in two urban neighborhoods; Israeli settlers and Rabbis attempt to attack the second holiest site in Islam, the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; local filmmakers document community struggles and strategies in Colombia; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Global markets in panic mode as the US Federal Bank coordinates interest rate cuts around the world;  we'll feature another expanded edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; plus,  we'll get a report from a village in the West Bank in Palestine under siege by Israeli settlers and military forces  as Palestinian farmers attempt to harvest their olive trees; we'll also get a roundup of news headlines from Palestine;
and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Presidential Candidates Debate
Pacifica Radio broadcasts the "Town Hall" Presidential Debate between Barack Obama and John McCain at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, anchored by Larry Bensky, Aimee Allison, and Mitch Jeserich.

Monday, October 6, 2008 Author and investigative reporter Greg Palast comments on the Wall Street bailout, its impact on Main Street, and tells us about his new film, The Election Files, which documents the previous Presidential elections steals, and how the next steal will go down; also, the Block Report features breaking news on the cases of death row prisoners Mumia Abu Jamal and Troy Anthony Davis; and more.

Friday, October 3, 2008  A US Federal Judge dismisses thirty-two year old murder charges against American Indian Movement activist John Graham;
we'll feature a special dialogue with AIM leader Bill Means, who was slotted to be a witness at the trial before the charges were dismissed;
also, massive ICE raids across the state send a wave of fear through immigrant communities; radical teachers envision an alternative to the
current educational system; an emergency update on the Wall Street bailout with Catherine Austin Fitts; and more.

Thursday, October 2, 2008   Flashpoints archive unavailable

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 We feature an expanded edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; we explore Catherine's ten reasons for opposing the bailout; also, longtime civil rights activist and homeland security target Lynne Stewart talks about radical women in America.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Another look at Obama's money maven, Penny Pritzker and her connection to the sub-prime meltdown; and we rebroadcast excerpts of a riveting, in-depth interview with author and environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, as he describes the fate of industrial capitalism and a popular mandate in protection of our planet.

Monday, September 29, 2008  Cindy Sheehan, in the middle of a people's rebellion against the bailout of corporate criminals and bank robbers on Wall Street;  also, we'll go to Washington DC and speak with the director of Congressional Research for Public Citizen about the groundswell of  opposition by Congress against the bailout; JR and the Block Report speak with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. about a recent upsurge in  police violence and a series of fight-back actions; and we'll feature excerpts from a hard-hitting documentary film, 911: Blueprint tfor Truth.

Friday, September 26, 2008  Sorry, no runsheet for this show.

Thursday, September 25, 2008  Award-winning journalist Robert Fisk talks about his new book, The Age of the Warrior; also, British junior spy and whistleblower Katherine Gunn goes public about her blowing the whistle on the US spying at the United Nations before the Iraq war.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Another special extended edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts,  as we continue to cover the meltdown on Wall Street and its reverberations on Main Street; we'll feature listener calls and a close look at the implications of a $700 billion dollar bailout.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 A last-minute stay from the Supreme Court gives a one-week reprieve to Death Row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis, who was slotted to be murdered by the state an hour before airtime; we'll speak with his sister, Martina, on the streets of Savannah, Georgia, and we'll hear from a local minister who was arrested at the Governor's office this morning in protest of the planned execution; also, we'll speak to five anti-war veterans who literally went out on a 40-foot ledge at the National Archive in Washington DC to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Monday, September 22, 2008 Robert Fisk talks about the expanding war in Pakistan, his new book, The Age of the Warrior, and the extreme censorship in the US press.

Friday, September 19, 2008  Francisco Herrera reports from the field on the growing attacks against grassroots activists south of the border;
and Peter Phillips of Project Censored reports on the top 25 censored news stories of 2009.

Thursday, September 18, 2008 Part two of our special on the Wall Street meltdown with Catherine Austin Fitts and a special edition of Community Business; also, JR and the Block Report speak with the sister of Troy Anthony Davis, who is scheduled for state-sponsored murder in Georgia; the Knight Report, and lots more.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 In another huge bailout, the federal reserve jumps in to rescue American International Group, known as AIG; we'll begin the first of a two-part special community business investigation into the failure of Wall Street and how it affects you; Mumia Abu-Jamal comments on what he calls the Silent Riots on Wall Street; also, JR of the Block Report addresses the police beating inside KPFA with a statement by Angola 3 member and author Robert King; Alison Weir of If Americans Knew explains why the corporate establishment media actively fails to report on Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 We acknowledge Mexican Independence Day with a special report from Chiapas about the expanding resistance movement there; we'll speak with American Indian Movement founder Bill Means and West Coast director Tony Gonzales about the recent police violence at the RNC in St. Paul, and the implications new Homeland Security policies have on Indian treaty rights; we'll get a report from a Youth Radio reporter from our sister station KPFT in Houston on the state of the hurricane as KPFT was knocked off the air; and the Knight Report.

Monday, September 15, 2008 We spend the entire hour with author and environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, who talks about the collapse of industrial capitalism and peak oil economy, and what it will take for people to resist the destructive urges of civilization and replace it with a culture of resistance.

Friday, September 12, 2008 We broadcast live from the Hayward day laborer center in Hayward, California.
We'll be joined by the executive director of this vital peoples' center for immigrant labor rights, Gabriel Hernandez; we'll hear how the center is making a difference in the lives of day laborers and in the community where it's based; we'll also speak to members of a union local who represent the janitors about their recent one-day job action; we'll hear about a racist art exhibition on a San Francisco beach that glorifies the destruction of Indian culture; as well as an action today in Washington DC in support of the Cuban 5; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, September 11, 2008 On the seventh anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we'll speak to David Ray Griffin, the leading expert and researcher on the attacks and the subsequent coverup; Bonnie Faulkner of Guns and Butter co-hosts this important special; and we'll report on the ongoing 9-11 film festival extravaganza at Oakland's Grand Lake Theater; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Sounds from the streets of St. Paul with Indigenous leaders and youth speaking out against the two-party system during the Republican National Convention;  also, JR of the Block Report speaks with Kiilu Nyasha, former Black Panther and KPFA programmer, about the recent police violence inside the station;  we'll open up the phone lines and take your comments about what you think the most important story around the 2008 elections should be; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 A thousand dead in Haiti and the death toll still rises as a result of three hurricanes; we'll also speak with Malik Rahim of Common Ground about the situation in New Orleans at the height of hurricane season; we'll have a post-mortem on the final slash and burn of the Memorial Oak grove in Berkeley, as tree-sitters are forced to descend; the Block Report interviews a woman recently released from jail after spending seventeen months in solitary confinement; and the Knight Report.

Monday, September 8, 2008 A special Community Business report with Catherine Austin Fitts on the implications of the government takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; We go live to the Berkeley Memorial Oak Grove where tree-sitters are standing off against the UC Cops; also, a city hall press conference in St. Paul last Friday highlighted the impact of massive police violence against RNC protesters, we'll have sound from the conference; plus, a special report on the continuing Israeli siege in occupied Gaza; and the Knight Report.

Friday, September 5, 2008 Live from downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, we'll report on a standoff at Coldwater Springs between the American Indian Movement and local, state and Federal police and Homeland Security; We'll speak with journalist Mordechai Spector, publisher of the American Jewish World, about his son's arrest ontrumped-up domestic terrorism charges; we'll have a wrap-up on police violence and the implications of locking down most of St. Paul for the Republican National Convention; and much more.

Thursday, September 4, 2008  From the great police state of St. Paul, Minnesota, we'll feature a just-concluded press conference with the National Lawyer's Guild representing several victims of police violence; also, we'll have a dialogue with three teachers of the Multicultural Indigenous Academy in St. Paul about the terror they feel and their students face as a result of the near-lockdown by police in response to the RNC; we'll also report on soldiers taking to the streets as Bush and Cheney come to town.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008  KPFA's UNconventional coverage:
Today on Flashpoints, as we continue our broadcasts from the police state of St. Paul, Minnesota, AIM activists and their supporters hold the line in a protest at the site of one of the most egregious public spectacles in US history: the mass hanging of dozens of members of the Dakota Nation at Fort Snelling in St. Paul; also, as so-called lawmakers and delegates continue the pomp and  circumstance at the RNC, Flashpoints will feature an in-depth discussion on international treaty rights and the lawless actions of the US government against Indian peoples; we'll conclude the broadcast with interviews and sounds from last night's spirited Poor People's March for Economic Justice.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008  KPFA's UNconventional coverage:
Radical alternative programming during the Republican National Convention with the Flashpoints team reporting from the American Indian Movement headquarters in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. 
We continue our live broadcast from the Multicultural Indigenous Academy in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the shadows of the Republican convention; we'll feature a live interview with Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder and National Director of the American Indian Movement (AIM); we'll also feature an interview with Jerry Lopez, the director of the Multicultural Indigenous Academy, who talks about the impact of the current police violence on Native American children, and he'll give eyewitness accounts of police attacks; we'll also discuss the lives of Native Americans in the Twin Cities community with AIM leader and national board member, Bill Means.

Monday, September 1, 2008 Radical alternative programming during the Republican National Convention with the Flashpoints team reporting from the American Indian Movement headquarters in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. ONLY at this link: http://www.radio4all.net/

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Friday, August 29, 2008  Victims of Hurricane Katrina brace for Hurricane Gustav, fearing the worst again, we'll feature a special report
from Malik Rahim of Common Ground, from New Orleans; also, former Angola prisoner Robert King talks about the
treatment of prisoners during major storms; In honor of the Chicano moratorium, we remember the life and times of Ruben Salazar,
one of the most significant Latino journalists of the 20th century, who was assassinated by Sheriff Deputies 40 years ago;
and Flashpoints prepares to take the show on the road to Minneapolis, in the heart of Indian country, as the Republicans
start their convention and nominate a pro-life, pro-war woman vice-President.

Thursday, August 28, 2008 UNconventional DNC Coverage hosted by Mitch Jeserich, Aimee Allison, and Sonali Kolhatkar; with Larry Bensky and Davey D. Visit Pacifica Radio's 2008 Election Center election411.org

Wednesday, August 27, 2008  All this week: UNconventional DNC Coverage hosted by Mitch Jeserich, Aimee Allison, and Sonali Kolhatkar; with Larry Bensky and Davey D. Visit Pacifica Radio's 2008 Election Center election411.org

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 All this week: UNconventional DNC Coverage hosted by Mitch Jeserich, Aimee Allison, and Sonali Kolhatkar; with Larry Bensky and Davey D. Visit Pacifica Radio's 2008 Election Center election411.org

Monday, August 25, 2008   All this week: UNconventional DNC Coverage hosted by Mitch Jeserich, Aimee Allison, and Sonali Kolhatkar; with Larry Bensky and Davey D.

Friday, August 22, 2008 JR and the Block Report follow up on the KPFA arrest and police beating of a graduate of the  apprenticeship program; also, Peter Phillips reports on a new censorship series at Sonoma State University and a Truth Emergency  Survey; we'll have an update on farmworker deaths in California; a special report from protest central in Denver at the Democratic Convention; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, August 21, 2008 We devote the entire show to a Black August special, produced by JR and the Block Report. We'll look back at Attica and the murder of George Jackson; but first, we'll hear eyewitness accounts of a police operation inside KPFA yesterday that led to the violent arrest of a black single mom, who was dragged out of free speech KPFA by a phalanx of Berkeley's so-called finest.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Major Drug Makers pushing new drugs down the throats of consumers that have not been properly tested or proven to be effective. We'll feature a special Flashpoint's Report. Also, a tribute to the late poet, writer and potlitical activits, Grace Paley and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Outspoken author, historian and media critic, Dr. Michael Parenti, in a free-wheeling discussion of the pressing issues of our time; we'll take a look at the elections and what's going on in Russia and Georgia; also JR and Block Report in an extended interview with the filmmaker of Disappearing Voices, the Decline of Black Radio, and the Knight Report.

Monday, August 18, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly talks to us during a break in her 450-mile peace walk from Chicago to St. Paul;  also, a background report on the resignation of Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan; the death toll in Gaza reaches 237 due to the14-month Israeli blockade, we'll have a full news roundup from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Friday, August 15, 2008 We welcome back our own Francisco Herrera, Flashpoint's Friday co-host back from a special journey to El Salvador. Francisco will report back on the political situation there and the possibility of the first president from the revolutionary party of the FMLN. We'll get a report from our North Coast Immigrant Rights Contributor Molly Goss, just back from a confererence in Washington D.C. We'll have a Flashpoints in Espanol with Miguel Peres and Miguel Gavilan Molina
Thursday, August 14, 2008 We continue our investigation into former attorney general Alberto Gonzales' criminal activities and potential war crimes; also, we'll have a special report on a breaking story in the case of Canadian rendition-torture victim Maher Arar, whose case was re-opened by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals without either party requesting; Kristen Ess reports from the streets of Ramallah as Mahmoud Darwish's body is laid to rest; actor and artist Jennifer Jajeh talks about her new one-woman play, I Heart Hamas And Other Things I'm Afraid To Tell You; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008   An analysis of the expanding war between Russia and Georgia as the United States vows to send aid to support the Georgian side of the conflict; also, Flashpoints' Beirut correspondent Bilal el-Amine responds to the decision by the Lebanese parliament to approve the use of all force necessary to take back Lebanese  territory occupied by Israel; we go to occupied Palestine, where thousands gathered to honor the life of Mahmoud Darwish,  in a state funeral in Ramallah; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Protests mark a year since nationally-revered Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine disappeared; we'll have special reports from protests taking place around the world, and we'll go to Port-au-Prince for a live update; also, we'll take a look at the new free-speech cages the Democrats have prepared for the protesters in Denver, and we'll speak to an activist who is suing to remove the cages; headlines from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Monday, August 11, 2008 Russian troops enter Georgia and raid several towns inside the country; also, an in-depth analysis of slave labor in China as the Olympics continue. Noted poet Naomi Shihab Nye remembers legendary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died over the weekend.

Friday, August 8, 2008 A special report on the new Zapatista International Caravan with an update from Chiapas;
Also, A report from the U.S./Mexico border where the expanding militarization has turned the lives of indigenous people upside down;
We'll have a report on the anti-gang Runner Initiative; Plus, the battle to keep an orphanage open in Haiti; We'll also share the poetry of Al Robles, And, Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, August 7, 2008 The City of Berkeley challenges China on Burma; also, Cindy Sheehan fights an uphill battle to get on the Congressional ballot; JR and The Block Report interview Puerto Rican political prisoners; and, the week in review from occupied Palestine.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Hundreds of Muslim protesters clash, for a second day, with government forces in Indian Administered Kashmir;
Ali Abunimah reports on Israel's expanding crackdown on Gaza and the possibility of a new extreme right wing Prime Minister
who is calling for war with Iran; And we'll feature an expanded debate between Norman Solomon and Larry Everest on the differences between Obama and McCain;
And the Knight Report.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 Torture survivors and a former interrogator denounce John McCain for his support of torture; also, injured workers testify about the collapse of Cal/OSHA and the deregulation of workers' compensation, labor journalist Steve Zeltzer reports; plus, headlines from occupied Palestine; and we'll have a special report from Robert Knight, Will the cordite fumes of Ron Suskind's smoking gun overwhelm Nancy Pelosi's impeachment Airwick?

Monday, August 4, 2008  We'll have a live report from Chiapas on an emerging coffee cooperative and continuing attacks on community broadcasters.  Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina offers background on the new prime minister of Haiti and the resurgence of the dreaded Haitian military.Project Censored's Peter Phillips about the 2009 Most Censored Story: A Million Iraqi's Confirmed Dead; And the Knight Report.

Friday, Aug 1, 2008 Presidential candidate Ralph Nader talks about immigrants rights and the militarization of the U.S/Mexico border;  Also, a youth speak out by undocumented students; Plus, the Salvadorian Congress takes action in support of U.S. Immigrants; And Flashpoints en Espanol.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008 A post-mortem on the Israeli occupation execution of another Palestinian youth in the West Bank; also, Barack Obama “has a feeling” that Israel will lead the attack if the US goes after Iran; Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen discusses Exxon-Mobil's $11 billion dollar ripoff of the American people; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Israeli occupation snipers in the West Bank shoot a ten year old Palestinian in the head and kill him, we'll speak to an activist who saw the child's body in the hospital; also, one of the leading investigators into voter fraud in Ohio sends out a warning about a possible next election steal; local activists put up a billboard in Berkeley calling for torture professor John Yoo to step down; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 JR and the Block Report feature an interview with Mumia Abu Jamal, hosted by San Francisco BayView Newspaper's Appolonia Jordan; then, JR interviews Appolonia about her personal experiences with the California foster care system; also, news headlines from occupied Palestine, as another Palestinian child is killed indirectly from the Israeli blockade against Gaza; and Jewish anti-zionists speak out against the racist and supremacist regime of Zionism and what they're doing to build a global movement of resistance.

Monday, July 28, 2008  Kristen Ess reports on the latest Israeli attacks against Palestinian families, in a widening process of ethnic cleansing; JR and the Block Report investigate police attacks on a Black neighborhood in West Oakland; a commentary by Death Row journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

Friday, July 25, 2008 A new Grand-Jury report on the negative impacts of the collaboration between Ice and local law enforcement on undocumented workers and their families: A report from the Founder of the Border Angels on the deadly dangers of the expanded militarization at the US/Mexico border: An update on the case of the Cuban Five, and Flashpoints in Espanol with Francsico Herrera and Miguel Perez... I'm Dennis Bernstein. This is my brother, Francisco Herrera on the Guitara

Thursday, July 24, 2008 We investigate the alleged suicide of US Army Private First Class LaVena Johnson. We'll speak with retired Colonel Ann Wright. Also, Israeli occupation forces launch another brutal invasion into the West Bank village of Beit Ommar. We'll have a report from the ground. Plus, we'll hear from noted authors and historians, Dr. Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Ilan Pappé, about the continued ethnic cleansing and undermining of democracy in Palestine.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 We feature an in-depth report on the multiple massacres in Indian-administered Gujarat, we'll speak to one of the key witnesses at a recent international hearing; also, Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail unmasks Obama's pro-war policies in the Middle East, as the Senator makes his way from US-occupied Iraq to Jordan; and the Knight Report.

Monday, July 21, 2008 We'll feature and in-depth update on the massive ICE raid in the small town of Postville, Iowa; also, antiwar activist and former Marine Adam Kokesh illegally spied on and physically confronted by the FBI; Kristen Ess, reporting from the occupied West Bank, features a report on the continuing Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine; and the Knight Report.
Former Director of the US Army Depleted Uranium Project speaks out on a huge shipment of DU just sent back by Kuwait to the US for burial;  also, Gold Star mother, Congressional candidate and fierce antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan remembers her son Casey on what would have been his 29th birthday; and the Knight Report.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Thursday, July 17, 2008 Cynthia McKinney talks about her vision for the future as the first Green Party President of the United States, also joining the discussion is her Vice Presidential running mate, Rosa Clemente; plus, internationally renowned Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk comments on the prisoner exchange, the Iraq war and the potential war against Iran; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 We'll get a report on the historic prisoner exchange between Hezbollah and the Israeli government,  we'll speak with our special correspondent Rania Masri in Beirut; also, on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts,  we take a close look at the IndyMac failure and we'll also talk about how to pick the right bank in uncertain times;  JR and the Block Report speak with Black Panther activist Erica Huggins about the education crisis in Oakland; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Thousands take to the streets throughout Haiti to celebrate the 55th birthday of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide, we'll have a special report from Haiti with legendary folklorist and singer So Anne, we'll also speak with Haiti pro-democracy leader and close friend of Aristide, Reverend Gerard Jean Juste; also, we'll have an update on the Berkeley Oak Grove treesitters and a report on the arrest of one of the sitters when he came down; we'll remember the work and life of Berkeley political luminary Dona Spring; and the Knight Report.

Monday, July 14, 2008 With major government mortgage corporations Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac teetering on the brink of failure,  we present a special edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; a Federal judge grants Palestinian American political prisoner Dr. Sami al-Arian bail, we'll speak to his daughter Laila about the latest in his case;  and JR and the Block Report talks with award-winning legal journalist Linn Washington about the history of Mumia Abu Jamal's case and his latest legal appeals.

Friday, July 11, 2008 A live report as the Longest Walk arrives in Washington DC; also, Francisco Herrera reports on the expanding militarization  on the Mexican side of the border; we'll have a report from Redford, Texas, on the US side of the border, on the killing of Esequiel Hernandez;  Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 We'll be joined by Representative Dennis Kucinich, who introduced another article of impeachment on the floor of the House today; also, we'll speak to a lawyer for the Oak Grove treesitters in Berkeley about the deeper issues involved for the University and those in the tree-sit; news headlines from occupied Palestine; JR and the Block Report give us an update on the Angola 3, as one of the defendant's case is overturned after a 36-year lockup; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Israeli occupation forces continue to lay siege to Nablus in the West Bank, we'll have an eyewitness report from the ground. Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we dissect the dismay toward Fannie May and Freddie Mac; JR and the Block Report talk document the loss of one of this country's most important Black-owned and run local newspapers, the San Francisco BayView.  Commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal, who hits the mortgage meltdown and its specific implications for people of color. And the Knight Report.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 An in-depth interview with border activists on the 1997 killing by US Marines of an indigenous teenaged goatherder on his own land, and their continuing struggle against the stealing of their land; also, JR and the Block Report discuss the struggle for water rights in El Salvador; and the Knight Report.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Friday, July 4, 2008  We rebroadcast the Flashpoints radio documentary on Canada's systematic mass murder of over 50,000 Indian children from the 1870s through the 1990s, produced by Amanda Bellerby. 

Thursday, July 3, 2008 We replay our entire on-the-ground documentary on the humanitarian effects of Israel's suffocating and illegal siege in the occupied Gaza strip. We'll speak to hospital workers, politicians, and human rights activists about the tightening siege.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges talks about the devastating civilian impact of the US war against Iraq, and evaluates the potential for a US-Israeli war against Iran; an update on the removal of a Memorial Oak Grove tree sitter; also, our weekly segment, Community Business, with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 New revelations about US plans to steal and control Iraq's oil; also, a report from the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces shot and killed two teenage Palestinians over the weekend; JR and the Block Report takes us to the frontlines of political struggle in El Salvador; and the Knight Report.

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Monday, June 30, 2008 Award-winning journalist and Flashpoints contributor Mohammed Omer beaten and tortured by Israeli secret police,  we'll speak to him in his hospital bed; also, Ali Abunimah responds to the attack and speaks about the anti-Palestinian stance of the major presidential candidates; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges talks about the administration's plans for war against Iran; and the Knight Report.

Friday, June 27, 2008  We welcome back our Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman from the West Bank and Gaza where she spent the last month reporting for Flashpoints and the Interpress Service; Also, Flashpoints Special Commentator Juan Jose Gutierrez just back from addressing the Mexican Congress on immigration; An update on Blackwater's expanding role in the militarization of the US-Mexico border; Plus, We'll have a report on the upcoming celebration of workers called LaborFest; And Flashpoints en Español.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 We devote the entire show to the ongoing investigations into the Bush Adminstration's wide-ranging use of torture as a tool of war. We'll speak to the President of the National Lawers Guild, a former high level CIA analyst, a nationally renowned consititional lawyer and anti-torture activists on the front lines of the struggle to restrain and prosecute the torturers.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Award winning investigative journalist and author Greg Palast talks about the Supreme Court's decision to reward Exxon for the Prince Edward Sound Oil Spill; also, the city of Berkeley decides not to interfere with the Memorial Oak Grove tree sitters; plus, we'll have live acoustic ska; and, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008  We continue our coverage of the potential US-Israeli attack on Iran; Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the Arab-Israeli town of Jaffa; Special Correspondent Kevin Pina reports on the dropping of charges against Haitian pro-democracy leader Jean Juste; JR and the Block Report in a background interview on the current situation in El Salvador; and, the Knight Report.

Monday, June 23, 2008 Israel and the United States prepare for war against Iran, we'll speak with author Gareth Porter about his new book,  Perils of Dominance and about recent revelations regarding an eminent attack on Iran. Nora Barrows-Freedom reports on the battle by Palestinians to retake their neighborhoods from illegal Jewish settlers; Plus, we remember George Carlin who died yesterday of heart complications at the age of 71; And, the Knight Report.

Friday, June 20, 2008  The family of Maria Vasquez Jimenez files a wrongful death lawsuit against Merced Farmlabor and West Coast Grape Farming. Meanwhile a new study from the Centers for Disease Control finds that heat kills farmworkers at nearly twenty times the rate of other US workers. Also, we'll have a report on a hearing held in Oakland by Congress woman Barbara Lee on the devastating impacts of recent ICE raids in Oakland and the surrounding areas. And, a new push in Oakland to create a legal ID for immigrant workers;We'll have an update on Blackwater's invasion of southern California. Headlines from the Region; And Flashpoints en Espanol.
 
Thursday, June 19, 2008 The first corporate sub-prime con men arrested today; will Obama's National Finance Chair be next? Tree sitters claim a victory in Memorial Oak Grove; also, our regular weekly segment Community Business with Catherin Austin Fitts; plus, The Block Report features Boots Riley in an exclusive interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 An explosive hour long report on the collusion between church and state in a program of genocide against the indigenous people of Canada; We'll feature excerpts from the hard-hitting new documentary, Unrepentant, which turns official history on its head and exposes a brutal story of rape, torture and mass murder against native peoples and their children, who were kidnapped and sent to residential schools; Amanda Bellerby will speak, in an exclusive interview, with Kevin Annett who is still fighting to debunk the official story and reveal the ongoing cover-up; And the Knight Report.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on an Israeli invasion of the Dheisha refugee camp where soldiers in search of a 16 year old opened fire on the Middle East Children's Alliance's Ibdaa Cultural Center; we'll have an eye-witness account from the hardest hit part of Burma where over a million people still face mass disease and death from the recent cyclone; and, UC police raid the Oak Grove site and risk the lives of several tree sitters; plus the Knight Report. 

Monday, June 16, 2008  We broadcast live from City Hall in San Francisco where the legal gay marriage is taking place; We'll hear from the couple, legendary gay rights activists Phyllis Lyons and Del Martin, on their historic action; Plus, statements from Mayor Gavin Newsom and Assemblyman Mark Leno.

Friday, June 13, 2008 We feature an in-depth celebration of the life and times of the late muckraking troubadour and troublemaker, Bruce 'Utah' Phillips; Also, an encore presentation of the Knight Report featuring the reading of all 35 articles of Impeachment introduced this week by Representative Dennis Kucinich; And our recent Flashpoints interview with Kucinich on the Impeachment.

Thursday, June 12, 2008  Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from Occupied Palestine on the latest Israeli bombings in Gaza that have killed at least four and wounded over forty; also, Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater, the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, talks about the latest exploits of this international mercenary operation; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 A wide-ranging interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich on his articles of impeachment against Bush/Cheney, and we'll speak to Kucinich about why he did it now, and what the response has been; also in our weekly segment Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts we look at Obama's Vice-Presidential vetting committee and its connections to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown; a special report on indigenous genocide, Canadian-style; and JR and the Block Report cover the United Nations special tribunal on racism inthe US.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008  A special Knight Report on Dennis Kucinich's courageous decision to introduce articles of impeachment against Bush and Cheney; we'll speak to Medea Benjamin about impeachment, and Code Pink's guerrilla action against John McCain today; JR and the Block Report join us from the Media Reform Conference in Minneapolis where they confront noted media progressives, including Amy Goodman; also, students and teachers speak out against military recruitment in high schools.

Monday, June 9, 2008  In a special report from the Gaza Strip, Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on the growing desperation of over a million people who are facing hunger, a complete lack of medical care, and even the necessary fuel to stay alive. Nora talks to political leaders, medical workers, human rights activists and everyday Palestinians ab

Friday, June 6, 2008  We broadcast live from  San Francisco Day Labor Center from San Francisco in the heart of the Mission district.  Today we'll be taking a look at the ICE raids as they continue all over the Bay Area. We'll also be looking at health and safety for immigrant workers; the longest walk attacked by police in Columbus Ohio, several walkers are beaten and arrested; farmworkers and their supporters march from Lodi to Sacramento to protest the death of a 17 year old pregnant farmworker who died based on major violations of the law; we'll have headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Español.

Thursday, June 5, 2008  Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the Gaza strip, where another 4-year old child is killed in an Israeli drone missile attack; also, Anuradha Mittal reports on the global food crisis summit in Rome; also, today the Block Report features an exclusive interview by M1 with Mumia Abu-Jamal; Activist Nation talks to Jewish activists about their strong opposition to Zionism; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from inside an illegal Israeli settlement; Also, In the last year there have been significant reports about the expansion of global hunger and the dangers of mass starvation around the world; Today on Flashpoints we begin a multi part series on hunger and how to deal with it. We'll be joined by John Ross in Mexico to talk about the growing dangers of mass hunger inside the borders of our southern neighbor; and Our weekly feature, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 Obama poised to capture the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, making him the first African American in the history of the country to run for the office; we'll speak to an outspoken African American activist and veteran about the story; also, the Senate holds hearings on a $544 billion proposal to subsidize a new generation of nuclear power plants; plus, young anti-zionist Jews speak out against Israeli occupation of Palestine; JR and the Block Report take it to the gates of a maximum security prison in Colorado dubbed 'the Guantanamo of America'; and the Knight Report.

Monday, June 2, 2008 Nearly two million people still in grave jeopardy as Burmese dictatorship continues to stonewall against international aid; As Ehud Olmert heads to Washington, Nora Barrow-Friedman reports on the nearly 900 new illegal settlement housing units in the West Bank; And, we speak to the President of the National Lawyers Guild on a new Justice Department report on torture; And the Knight Report.

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Friday, May 30, 2008 Border activists fear the militarization of the border could turn into a full scale joint operation with the Mexican Army in the name of fighting drugs; Also, human rights activists threatened in their battle against the militarization of Chihuahua; We'll get an update from Evelyn Sanchez on the immigrant ICE sweeps; Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, May 29, 2008 Cindy Sheehan speaks out against the war machine on the day that would have been her son Casey's 29th birthday; also, Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the West Bank as Archbishop Desmond Tutu completes his human rights fact-finding tour in Gaza; JR and The Block Report talk to Davey D on the failures of the mainstream media to cover police brutality; Activist Nation speaks with anti-torture activists who protested John Yoo at a recent graduation ceremony; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, May 27, 2008 We'll have a special report from Beirut, Lebanon on the picking of a new Prime Minister and President; Also, we continue our drumbeat coverage of Burma where the dictatorship still stands in the way of millions of people getting the aid they need; We'll speak to activists who blocked the front gate of Chevron Headquarters during a shareholders meeting; And our regular segment Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; And the Knight Report.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 We feature an in-depth interview with Ghada Karmi, a celebrated Palestinian author, doctor and lecturer; also, JR and the Block Report on the front line battle to save the last black community run neighborhood in San Francisco.

Monday, May 26, 2008  Sorry, no runsheet for this day.

Friday, May 23, 2008  ICE raids Pottsville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrant workers; also, human rights attorney at the Mexico border receives multiple death threats; co-host Rene Saucedo reports from the National Day Laborer Organizing Conference; plus, we'll have an update on the situation in Burma, where the dictator says he'll finally let aid workers in; headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, May 22, 2008 UN Secretary visits the Burmese dictatorship but fails to convince them to let life and death aid flow into the country, meanwhile, in a breaking story out of Burma, reports say 7,000 people with swords and solid bamboo staffs are heading towards Rangoon to liberate food supplies; also, author and internationally-renowned lecturer on Black American history Dr. Michael Eric Dyson in a powerful new speech.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 An in-depth history of the bursting of the housing bubble with Catherine Austin Fitts, we'll spend the entire hour talking about the bailout and the covert side of the national economy.    
                              
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 We spend the entire hour listening to excerpts from the riveting new documentary film USA vs. Al-Arian which documents the dark side of the Patriot Act in the context of the extreme federal persecution of a Palestinian-American university professor and political activist in Florida; we'll also get an update in the case of Dr. Sami al-Arian with his attorney, Linda Moreno.

Monday, May 19, 2008 National immigrants rights activists condemn the latest homeland security raids on immigrants; also, Cuba in the headlines again, we'll speak to activists about a major breaking story; and noted Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, author of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, delivers a riveting speech on the 60-year old purge of Palestinians from their homeland.

Friday, May 16, 2008 Noted international law scholar Francis Boyle demands that torture professor John Yoo be removed from UC Berkeley's Boalt Law School immediately; also, a rally planned in support of death row political prisoner Mumia abu Jamal; an update on Burma; and stories of change by San Francisco youth.

Thursday, May 15, 2008 We devote the entire show to international coverage of the 60th anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine: we'll speak with Palestinian refugees, from communities across the global diaspora about the last six decades of ongoing ethnic cleansing and dispossession; plus, we'll hear excerpts from a brand-new speech by Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, author of the meticulously-researched book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 We devote the entire hour to Part two of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts: a look at the dark side of Wall Street and how you can fight back with local economic power.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1.5 million Burmese still facing epidemics and death as Burma's narco-dictatorship continues to stonewall against foreign aid; also, the street battles in Lebanon move to the northern city of Tripoli, we'll have special report on the ongoing violence; Kristen Ess interviews Palestinian elders as they remember 60 years of dispossession and expulsion from their homes; and sounds from the Free Palestine Peace and Solidarity concert, with two songs from the Arab Summit.
Monday, May 12, 2008 1.9 million people in grave jeopardy in Burma as the narco-dictatorship continues to stonewall on international humanitarian aid, we'll speak to prodemocracy leaders about the devastation and the tens of thousands of exiled Burmese who cannot locate their relatives; also, the battle in Beirut moves to the mountains, we'll have a report from our special correspondent Bilal el-Amine; and we'll feature excerpts from The Eleventh Hour, a stirring documentary film on climate change and the future of our planet.

Friday, May 9, 2008  Sorry, no runsheet writeup for this program.

Thursday, May 8, 2008 Over a million and a half Burmese in life-threatening conditions as the narco-dictatorship refuses outside aid; also, we get a report under fire from the streets of Beirut, where six people have been killed in violent political clashes; plus, the US occupation military seals off Sadr City in preparation for a wide-scale assault, we'll speak with Dahr Jamail; Kristen Ess reports on Israeli attacks in occupied Palestine as Palestinians commemorate 60 years of ongoing expulsion and ethnic cleansing by Israel; and we'll air moving excerpts of dramatic readings of Rachel Corrie's journals.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faces corruption and bribery charges, as Palestinians continue to face the brunt of his ethnic cleansing policies, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank; also, in a special expanded edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we'll explore the darker side of secret government and also how communities can take back their own wealth.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Twenty-two thousand dead, forty thousand missing, and a million on the run in Burma, we'll have an update on the wake of the cyclone that devastated the country over the weekend; also, ICE raids all over the Bay Area, we'll talk with Flashpoints special co-host Evelyn Sanchez about the latest roundups and terror; and we'll be joined by one of the organizers of the recent Winter Soldier testimonials, former Marine Sergeant Adam Kokesh, who is on a national tour speaking out against the continuing US occupation of Iraq.

Monday, May 5, 2008  Public citizens speak out against oil price gauging and the Bush Administrations support for Big Oil. Also, award winning activist and author Michael Parenti dissects the plan to aerial spray the people of Northern California with pesticides to benefit Big Ag. And on the Block Report Fred Hampton Jr speaks about political prisoner Aaron Patterson and why the Feds moved him from Illinois to Kentucky.

Friday, May 2, 2008 Labor activists and union organizers reflect on yesterday's international May Day actions and protests, as workers continue their struggles for justice, from the post office to the biotech industry; also, JR and the Block Report feature an interview with the parents of a 15 year old Oakland boy shot in the back by cops; and a weekly wrapup of news headlines from occupied Palestine, as Israeli forces continue to kill Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Thursday, May 1, 2008  We broadcast live from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, where workers and immigrants rights activists, students, teachers, and antiwar coalitions have converged on this May Day!

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008  We air the hour-long pilot program, If You Love This Planet, hosted by Dr. Helen Caldicott, author, anti-nuclear physician and activist; she explores environmental crises, the state of climate change and nuclear weapons proliferation, and offers important solutions to effect change on behalf of the planet.
 
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 We get an on-the-ground report from Gaza City, where Israeli attacks continue despite Hamas' offer of a ceasefire; plus activists lose a lawsuit against the EPA for post 9/11 health disasters; JR and the Block Report focus in on the political crisis in Zimbabwe; and the Knight Report.

Monday, April 28, 2008 Israeli attacks kill seven Palestinians in Gaza, including a mother and her four children, who were sitting around the breakfast table this morning when a missile landed on their home, we'll have an on the ground report from Gaza City; also, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on the ongoing ethnic cleansing there, 60 years after the initial expulsion of Palestinians by Israeli forces; plus, Davey D in Massachusetts gets reaction from poet Suheir Hammad and activist Rosa Clemente to the acquittal of three NYPD officers in their 2006 murder of Sean Bell; and the Knight Report.

Friday, April 25, 2008 Blackwater mercenaries try and force their way into San Diego for the second time in a year; also, three cops walk in a brutal 2006 New York City killing of an unarmed young man the night before his wedding; plus, a tribute to the late Ruben Salazar who was just honored with a United States postal stamp, 38 years after his assassination by an LA county sheriff; headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, April 24, 2008 World-renowned pediatrician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott talks about her new national radio program; the Israeli military continues its special punishment for nonviolent Palestinian activists organizing their oppressed communities; JR and the Block Report take to the streets in Philadelphia as protests continue against the persecution of death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008  A special report on the decision by the West Coast Dock Workers to stop work on May 1st to express their opposition to the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. Community business with Katherine Austin Fitss. We'll take a look at the continuing housing meltdown, peak oil prices and the real, behind the scenes coverup at Bear Stearns. Also food shortages and headlines from Occupied Palestine. Artists and Activists prepare to commemurate the ongoing dispossion of Palestinian homeland by painting a mural at the Edward Said Conservatory of Music in Ramallah in the West Bank and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008  United Nations troops violently attack a Haitian market after one UN soldier is killed; also, a conscientious objector of the Iraq war takes his story into an Oakland high school; and the occupied Gaza strip faces imminent electricity cuts as Israel continues its fuel embargo in extreme and illegal collective punishment maneuvers against Palestinians.

Monday, April 21, 2008  Iraq Veterans bring a landmark lawsuit against the VA for failing to provide proper mental health care to returning vets, we'll speak to one of the key organizers; also, filmmakers report from inside the courtroom and take the story to young people; plus, a report from the occupied Gaza strip, where US-made Israeli warplanes and helicoptergunships continue to attack and kill Palestinians; Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on the rampant torture inside Israeli prisons inflicted on Palestinian political prisoners; and the Knight Report.

Friday, April 18, 2008 Today on Flashpoints, we broadcast live from the Sonoma Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa! United Farmworkers win a major victory against Chales Krug, including the re-hiring of key workers; also, not a single Latino delegate was elected from the Obama campaign from San Francisco to Santa Rosa; we'll have headlines from the region, Flashpoints en Espanol, and much more!

Thursday, April 17, 2008 We'll feature an update on the international call for action to free Mumia Abu-Jamal; we'll have an exclusive interview with the Angola 3, who were moved after 36 years of solitary confinement into general maximum security; and, an in-depth interview with Black Panther Charlotte O'Neal talks about her husband Pete O'Neal's continuing exile in Tanzania.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Food riots and grassroots struggle continues in Haiti; Also, we'll have a global perspective on the massive struggle to feed the world's hungry. A Palestinian rights activist is held in solitary confinement in his 45^th day of a hunger strike. Activist Nation features the million signature campaign in Iran and the plight of women's rights in Occupied Iraq; Our Wednesday edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitz. And an update from the Wheels of Justice bus tour rolling through Lawrence, Kansas.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Iconic singer songwriter Ani DiFranco speaks with Nora Barrows-Friedman on her evolution as a musician, life as a mother, and her community in New Orleans; plus, our Palestine bureau chief Kristen Ess reports on the educational crisis and fuel shortages in Gaza; and the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

Monday, April 14, 2008 Body of War, a new documentary by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, we'll be joined in studio by the filmakers. Also, Nora Barrows Friedman reports from the Wheels of Justice Bus Tour, they're in Kansas. Anaronda Nital reports on a growing global hunger emergency and the Knight Report by Robert Knight.  

Friday, April 11, 2008 We focus on state violence in Mexico against women activists and journalists.  Miguel Perez reports on a takeover in the Mexican Congress in protest of the privatization of oil.  Headlines en Espanol.

Thursday, April 10, 2008 For the third day thousands of Haitians protest the rise in food and fuel prices and call for the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide; also, Kristen Ess reports as many as a million Palestinians facing hunger as UN food supplies run out; we'll get a report from Iraq on the fifth anniversary of the occupation and the huge role that contractors are playing; plus, we'll speak the organizer of the Iraq Moratorium; and the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Israeli occupation forces kill ten Palestinians in Gaza, and kidnap 50 in the West Bank in a series of expanded raids; also, a second generation of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other advanced US weaponry continue to take their silent toll across US-occupied Iraq; we report on an in-depth assessment of the body count of the Iraq war and occupation, by Dori Smith; and on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we'll look at how your personal finances feed the war machine, and what you can do about it.                                                

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Thousands of Haitians rush the Presidential palace and are dispersed by UN forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess interviews a major political leader in the West Bank about the expanded colonization of Jerusalem; we'll also feature a special report on a Fallujah prison that's more like a dungeon; and the Knight Report.

Monday, April 7, 2008 Death Row political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, in his own words, talks about the status of his case for the first time since the most recent ruling from the 3^rd Circuit Court which recently denied his appeal; headlines from occupied Palestine as Israel continues to bomb and attack the Gaza strip; Rachel Corrie's parents, Cindy and Craig, talk about Rachel's legacy through her intimate writing, poetry and the new book of her journals, Let Me Stand Alone; and the Knight Report.

Friday, April 4, 2008 We welcome back Francisco Herrera and broadcast live from the San Francisco Day Labor Program with co-host Rene Saucedo! We'll be focusing on recent ICE raids in the Bay Area; Rene will report back from a recent conference at the border; we'll talk about the implications of the recent militarization of the border; we'll speak with the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was killed by a US-made Israeli bulldozer in 2003, about the publication of Rachel's writings; we'll talk about plans and protests on May Day; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, April 3, 2008 More rape allegations surface against Halliburton-KBR in US-occupied Iraq; also, excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King's moving speech on April 30, 1967, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam, and we talk about his vision against what King called the triple evils of militarism, racism and economic exploitation; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008  Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues reporting on Land Day and one woman's story about losing her home in 1948 when Zionist militias began to purge Palestinians from their land; also, UC Berkeley Law professor John Yoo exposed as the author of a newly-revealed torture memo; Bay Area Salvadorans protest the decision by San Francisco's Mayor to give an award to the former Salvadoran president leader of the mass-murdering Arena party; on our regular segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we examine the Bush bailout; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008  Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on Israeli military shoot-to-kill orders on nonviolent protesters; also, a riveting documentary on the commemoration of Land Day in occupied Palestine, to bring attention to the continued theft of Palestinian land by the Israeli state; John Ross reports from Mexico on the killing of members of a Mexican family in a cross-border raid into Ecuador last month; and the Knight Report.

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Monday, March 31, 2008 Voices from War: a conscientious veteran who refused to load his gun in Iraq speaks out; also, Flashpoints special correspondent John Gibler reports on Mexico and free trade; and the Knight Report.

Friday, March 28, 2008 Today on a special Friday edition of Flashpoints, Juan Jose Gutierriez talks about a national day of action in Washington DC to call for the rights of immigrants and their families; also, we'll hear about planned celebrations for Cesar Chavez weekend; headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 Special correspondent Dahr Jamail talks about the phenomenal upsurge in violence in US-occupied Iraq; also, Mumia abu-Jamal loses a major appeal in the courts, JR and the Block Report speaks with Pam Africa about what that means for his freedom; Greg Palast wonders what happened to Eliot Spitzer after he wrote his op-ed on the subprime predators; plus, Robert Parry talks about Hillary Clinton going negative and lying; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Former CIA official and antiwar resister Ray McGovern talks about the media as cheerleaders for the war; also, we speak with Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess about the US-Israeli decision to send 700 Palestinian security servicemen to Jenin essentially as subcontractors of the Israeli occupation; plus, with a huge bailout of the Wall Street elite in progress, we start a new weekly segment: Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008  Independent of London correspondent Patrick Cockburn reports on the Cheney visit to Baghdad and the 5 year old occupation; former Marine Corps Sergeant Adam Kokesh and Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army testifiy during the recent Winter Soldier 2008 Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts to the Occupation; and the Knight Report.

Monday, March 24, 2008 We'll talk to the father of an Iraq war vet who took his own life after severe PTSD, amongst reports that 120 vets are committing suicide a week; a victim of Penny Pritzker's Superior Bank speaks out; also, Kristen Ess reports on the Hamas-Fatah talks held in Yemen; an update on the case of Dr. Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian-American professor targeted for his political activism by the US government, as his health deteriorates during another longterm hunger strike; and the Knight Report.

Friday, March 21, 2008 Father Louis Vitale reflects with us on his decision to get arrested at Fort Huachuca, out of a five-month jail term and re-arrested at Livermore Laboratories; Rene Saucedo returns from a delegation to Juarez, where people are resisting the corporate takeover by big business box stores; we hear Bay Area voices of revolution and protest against the ongoing occupations in Iraq and Palestine on Activist Nation; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, March 20, 2008  Special correspondent Dahr Jamail takes a troubling look at the impact depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other illegal weapons are having on the people of Iraq; Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues her investigation of the internal attacks against Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza; also, we continue our dialogue with Catherine Austin Fitts on the tanking of Wall Street and its expanding impacts on Main Street; and JR and the Block Report discuss the FCC's attempts to consolidate media and limit crucial community broadcasting.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Live from the SF Civic Center's March and Rally Against the 5 Years of Iraq Occupation

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Activists mobilize from coast to coast on the fifth anniversary of the illegal war and occupation in Iraq; also, former US Army Privates who testified at the recent Winter Soldier investigation talk about the free-fire zones against civilians; on the Block Report with JR, Ramona Africa, one of the survivors of the aerial bombing of the MOVE house in Philadelphia in 1985; and the Knight Report.

Monday, March 17, 2008 Former Wall Street banker Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the tanking of Bear Sterns and its multiple impacts on the US economy; also, we'll feature an excerpt from the Winter Soldier 2008 investigations; an update on the upcoming anti-war protests on the fifth anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq; plus, Kristen Ess reports from on the ground in occupied Palestine about the latest restrictions of movement as the Israeli settlement colonies expand in the West Bank; we remember Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli military bulldozer in 2003; and the Knight Report.

Friday, March 14, 2008
Special Broadcast on Fifth Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq.
Issues and Trends on the Anti War Movement.
Anti War Movement Intersects with Climate Change and Labor Unions.
Interview with Madeline Gardner, Antiwar Activist.

Thursday, March 13, 2008 Israeli military death squads assassinate several Palestinians in Bethlehem, Kristen Ess reports from the ground; also, local, national and international activists take on Chevron for its environmental destruction; Pierre Labossiere from the Haiti Action Committee calls for the City of Berkeley to act on the continuing human rights violations in Haiti; JR and the Block Report feature an interview on the thought crime bill in Congress; and the Knight Report.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008We'll look at displaced persons as a result of the Iraq War and the Failure of the US government to respond to Katrina. We'll talk to the president of the hip hop caucus about Iraq five years into the war and get an on the ground update from Malik Raheem in New Orleans. Also we'll go to Tuscon where a border agent dodges a murder conviction. And Kristen Ess reports from the west bank on the Palestinian authorities continuing crack down on Journalists. All that straight ahead on Flashpoints. Stay tuned.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Presidential hopeful Cynthia McKinney; also, a look at Iraq 5 years after the Bush Administration lied the country into a war there; the head of US forces in the Middle East resigns in controversy; and The Block Report looks at gentrification of black-owned property.

Monday, March 10, 2008 The feds expand their terrorist dragnet against radical environmental justice activists, we'll talk about the case of Briana Waters; also, Kristen Ess reports on the expanding war against Palestinians, using the so-called peace process as a political front; Activist Nation goes to the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, where protesters expressed their outrage against the Israeli military's killing of over 140 Palestinians in ten days; and we'll have a report on the upsurge of Bay Area police violence and hearings planned to try and restrain it.

Friday, March 7, 2008 Today on a special International Women's Day edition of Flashpoints, we speak to Naim Ateek, a Palestinian Anglican Priest about the struggle for self-determination inside Palestine; legendary political activist and professor Angela Davis gives a riveting speech called From Jim Crow to Guantanamo: Prisons, Democracy and Empire; a discussion with the artist Robert Shetterly, author of Americans Who Tell The Truth; and poetry by Suheir Hammad and the Brooklyn-based spoken word duo Climbing Poetree.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 We catch up with Jimbo Simmons on the Longest Walk; we'll be joined by Native American leader Tony Gonzales to talk about the walk and the battle to keep D-Q University, a radical indigenous college, alive; we'll speak with Flashpoints co-host Rene Saucedo who is at the US-Mexico border on a human rights mission; Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank, as Israeli attacks kill four more Palestinians in Gaza and as two Palestinians attack a settler stronghold in Jerusalem; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Brattelboro, Vermont officials empower local police to arrest Bush and Cheney on war crimes;  Greg Palast talks about his time with the new President of Ecuador and the current hostilities happening in the region, we'll also talk about voter fraud and the next election; Kristen Ess reports on the condition of Palestinian prisoners  inside Israeli jails; former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern responds to the revelations of US involvement in political  destabilization in occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 We'll feature an in-depth report of Vanity Fair's expose that documents the US-led contra operation to purge democracy from occupied Palestine; plus, Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on Condoleezza Rice's visit and her refusal to call off the Israeli attacks; Ziad Abbas talks about the human rights nightmare and the aftermath of the attacks; JR and the Block Report talk about a new film that documents the urban ethnic cleansing of Black communities across this country; and the Knight Report.

Monday, March 3, 2008 Israelis kill or wound over 400 people in the last six days in Gaza, we'll feature a series of special reports from Gaza and the West Bank, including an update on an expanding medical emergency there; we'll also speak with Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada for an overview; and the Knight Report.

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Friday, February 29, 2008  Israel's deputy defense minister threatens a quote “holocaust” against the 1.5 million Palestinian people in Gaza; also, we'll have a report back on the Longest Walk from Jimbo Simmons; we'll talk about today's international actions calling for the return to democracy, 4 years after the US-sponsored coup in Haiti; headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol with Evelina Molina and Miguel Perez.

Thursday, February 28, 2008  Should Penny Pritzker, finance chair for Obama 2008, step down? We'll speak with independent financial whistleblower Tim Anderson; we'll also speak with former Assistant HUD secretary and financial wizard Catherine Austin Fitts about the larger challenges on the horizon of the sub-prime meltdown; also, US-made Israeli fighter jets, helicopter gunships, unmanned drones and tanks kill 26 Palestinians in 48 hours, including four children; plus, national protests are planned on the first leap year since the US-staged coup against Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008  Sorry, no runsheet available.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on the total breakdown of infrastructure within the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip; plus, author, historian and human rights activist Mary Elizabeth King talks about the collective history of Palestinian nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience strategies; and the tragic story of Iraq veteran Brian Jason Rand.

Monday, February 25, 2008 In still one more act of peaceful disobedience to the violent Israeli military, thousands of Palestinians trapped in Gaza form a human chain at the northern border fence, Kristen Ess reports; also, we'll get full analysis from Ali Abunimah; and investigative reporter Allan Nairn on the possibility of another full-scale Israeli invasion into Lebanon.

Friday, February 22, 2008 The Fire and the Word: a History of the Zapatista Movement; and Michael Parenti on his stunning new book, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader.

Thursday, February 21, 2008 We'll talk about the case of the Freightliner Five, who say they were illegally fired and arrested by their own union; also, Israel continues its West Bank lockdown, we'll get a report from Kristen Ess in Palestine; and we'll play more of the groundbreaking BBC documentary film series The Power of Nightmares.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Today on Flashpoints, An investigative report into Penny Pritzker, the 2008 campaign finance chairman for Barack Obama, who was a key mover and shaker in creating the sub-prime meltdown; also, Oakland police gun down a grandmother in the back, we'll have an update; police attack DQ Indigenous University and arrest several students; and we hear excerpts from the hard-hitting BBC documentary series, the Power of Nightmares, about the perceived threat of global organized terrorism. Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Fidel Castro shakes the world again, this time with an announcement that he will no longer seek Cuba's presidency; also, tree-sitters under attack by homeland security forces in Berkeley; Kristen Ess reports on Israel's continued program to annihilate Hamas; and we hear excerpts from the hard-hitting film, Fidel: The Untold Story.

Monday, February 18, 2008 US-made Israeli warplanes kill 14 people in two days, including eight members of a family in Gaza, we'll get an eyewitness report from the ground; and an encore presentation of our interview with David Ray Griffin on his soon-to-be-released book, 9-11 Contradictions.

Friday, February 15, 2008 While the Mexican President Calderon is in Sacramento, he leaves the real issues behind him regarding free trade and the future of Mexican culture; also, we'll have a report on the Longest Walk for indigenous rights and to save the environment; we'll get an update on the volatile situation in Lebanon after the assassination of a major Hezbollah leader; we'll also have a report on today's actions at the Berkeley marine recruiters office, where resisters took to the streets; a salute to Utah Phillips, who faces serious life and death health challenges; and sounds from John Pilger's documentary The War on Democracy.
Thursday, February 14, 2008 JR and the Block Report feature an exclusive interview with Death Row journalist Mumia Abu Jamal; also, amongst continuing sieges, Israel's occupation forces make it impossible for Palestinian farmers to export millions of flowers on Valentine's day; human rights activist and author Anna Baltzer talks about being a witness in the West Bank.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Berkeley City Council caves under pressure and withdraws strong language refering to US Marine Recruiters in Berkeley as “unwelcome intruders,” we'll continue our discussion with members of a growing resistance movement against the intruders; also, former weapons inspector Scott Ritter with a new speech on the mainstream corporate media's pro-war spin on Iran and Iraq.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Hundreds of students from Berkeley High School join a growing movement of activists trying to run the Marine recruiters out of the city; also, National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn speaks out against Bush's Guantanamo terrorist indictments; Maya Orozco with the Longest Walk as it arrives in Sacramento; Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on a thousand more illegal Jewish-only settlement colony units in the Bethlehem area.

Monday, February 11, 2008  A violent early morning attack in East Timor critically wounds President Ramos-Horta, while the Prime Minister escapes serious injury; also, Israeli leaders debate the assassination of  Hamas leaders and a major offensive in Gaza; we'll have a report from Alcatraz on the kick-off of the Longest Walk; and Laura Flanders talks about grassroots action in the Democratic party.

Friday, February 8, 2008 Revenge of the Illegal Alien: A new book of poems and political bullets from Cesar Cruz; also, a brand new documentary by John Pilger about the attempts by the US to subvert democracy in Latin America.

Thursday, February 7, 2008  One of the leading investigators of the 9-11 coverup, David Ray Griffin, talks about his brand new book, 9-11 Contradiction: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Former Alaska Senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel ignores Super Tuesday and addresses himself to the real issues of our time; and Michael Parenti in a recent speech at City Lights Books, in conjunction with the release of his new book, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 Super Tuesday Presidential Primary Election Coverage

Monday, February 4, 2008 Kristen Ess reports on the Israeli killing of three Palestinians in Gaza and a suicide operation in Israel.A radical leader in the immigrants rights movement throws his support to Obama. Former UN special envoy to Haiti Juan Gabriel Valdez, referred to by Haitians as the Butcher of Cite Soleil, visits UC Berkeley tomorrow; and thirty years of contamination by Chevron in the Amazon.

Friday, February 1, 2008  Rene Saucedo, Day Laborer Center, Lynne Stewart, civil rights attorney, Nativo Lopez, Headlines with Miguel Perez.
Flashpoints en Espanol. Broadcasting LIVE from the SF Day Laborer Center in the Mission District!!

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Thursday, January 31, 2008 Audio Archive not available.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 An in-depth interview with Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess on over a half dozen invasions into the West Bank  over the last forty eight hours. On the Block Report we'll feature an eyewitness account to the murder of Gary King.  Also, High school students punished for not being objective about the use of torture by the U.S. Government. And the Knight Report.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Award winning journalist Robert Fisk talks about the war in Iraq, the killings in Beirut, and what's happening in Gaza; Also, Flashpoints Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on the killing, by occupation forces, of a 17 year old in Bethlehem; and the Knight Report.

Monday, January 28, 2008  Egyptians attempt to tighten control at the Gaza border to restrain hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who refuse to be locked down in the prison of Gaza, we'll get a report from the ground in Rafah. Kristen Ess reports on the death of George Habash, resistance leader and political activist as Israeli forces swarm into Bethlehem, killing one Palestinian teenager. Also, remembering the bloody legacy of General Suharto in Indonesia.  Robert Parry nails CBS and 60 Minutes for lying about the war. And the Knight Report.

Friday, January 25, 2008
Sorry no runsheet for today.

Thursday, January 24, 2008  We get a frontline medical report on the situation in Gaza, as Palestinians continue to cross the border by the thousands into Egypt for necessary goods and medical care; also Flashpoints' Palestine bureau chief reports on the continuing seiges in the West Bank; Activist Nation reports on an emergency demonstration called by International ANSWER at the Israeli consulate to protest the genocide; Davey D of Hard Knock Radio joins us for an in-depth interview as the fireworks continue to fly between Clinton and Obama in South Carolina; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008  We devote the entire hour to the genocidal actions of the occupation forces in Gaza; we'll get a report from southern Gaza, Palestinians broke down the wall at the Egypt border to obtain the life-sustaining supplies they could no longer get under the draconian Israeli embargo; Ali Abunimah joins us to analyze the current actions and to take your questions; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Israel continues its siege against Palestinians in Gaza, as food runs out and raw sewage floods the streets, we'll have a report from the ground in Gaza City as Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank; A national speak-out against torture, we'll speak with Cindy Sheehan, a key participant in the event; also, Deborah Sweet of World Can't Wait discusses torture and impeachment; and the Knight Report.

Monday, January 21, 2008  Israel cuts fuel supplies to the occupied Gaza strip, cutting power to over 800,000 Palestinians in another act of illegal collective punishment as US-made warplanes continue to pound civilian areas, we'll have a report from the ground in Gaza as Kristen Ess also reports from the West Bank; plus, Israel and the UK steal Gaza's natural gas reserves and use divisive fometing of political splits in Palestine to secure a profit and control the Palestinian economy; and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his own words as he spoke out against racism, violence and war over forty years ago.

Friday, January 18, 2008 Immigrants rights activists converge in Houston for a national conference on immigration rights, we'll hear from Flashpoints correspondents Evelina Molina, Rene Saucedo and others attending the conference; also, a preview of the upcoming Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit; Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan stands up against torture and endless war; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 Two former high-level CIA analysts speak out against the genocide in Palestine; plus, buying the White House: how campaign contributions undermine free and fair elections; Evelina Molina reports on the continued cleansing at the US-Mexico border; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Israeli warplanes continue their series of missile attacks against Palestinians inside Gaza, killing five more today, including a 14 year old boy; Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., President of the Hip Hop Caucus, talks about Martin Luther King in the context of the upcoming elections; also, we'll look at the double standard of reproductive rights for the poor and for the rich; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles besiege neighborhoods all over the Gaza Strip, killing 19 Palestinians and wounding over 50, we'll hear from a physician and a human rights worker on the scene in Gaza; also, international scholar Francis Boyle deconstructs the Bush visit and its devastating impact on the Palestinian Right of Return; Kathy Kelly talks about the growing Iraqi refugee tragedy in Jordan and other countries that border Iraq; and the Knight Report.

Monday, January 14, 2008 Our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the border of the Gaza Strip as Israeli occupation forces kill three more Palestinians in the last 24 hours; also, how international human rights activists confront the colonization policies in the West Bank; Dahr Jamail dissects the latest policies by the US occupation military in Iraq, including the employment of over 80,000 militia contractors; and the Knight Report.

Friday, January 11, 2008 Native American leader Bill Means responds to the recent cleansing of Native tribes at the border based on eminent domain; we go to the Mexican side of the US border to speak with an eyewitness to the ongoing ethnic cleansing there; we'll hear about an upcoming conference in Tucson to hear about immigrant rights and immigrant labor; also, we're joined in New York city by Davey D in dialogue with supporters of the Puerto Rican liberation movement; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol, this week with Francisco Herrera and Rene Saucedo.

Thursday, January 10, 2008 George Bush ponders the fantasy of a Palestinian state as key cities in the West Bank are locked down for his visit, Kristen Ess reports from Bethlehem; also, we get reaction from the south of Lebanon with our special correspondent Chris Brown reporting from the squalor of the Palestinian refugee camps; Michael Parenti talks about the real politics behind the campaigns and his new book, Contrary Notions: the Michael Parenti Reader; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 Bush Goes to Israel in the name of Peace, even as the Israeli War machine continues killing innocent Palestinians. We'll have a series of special reports from the West Bank, which has been locked down and sealed tight in anticipation of the Bush Peace Train. Also JR and Block with an important up date of the case of the SF 8.  And were remember fondly former CIA whistle blower, Philip Agee, who died suddenly today at 72.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Hilary's campaign goes negative as she struggles to stay in the race; we'll speak to Bob Parry about the campaign and the politics around it.  And will the US turn the alleged confrontation in the Gulf of Hormuz into another Gulf of Tonkin?  Also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank, on the eve of George W Bush's visit, about the US-backed fomenting of Fatah-Hamas strife while subverting the Palestinian democratic process.  Evelina Molina features an interview with a family whose property is being cut in two by the proposed path of the separation wall at the US-Mexico border.  JR and the Block Report on the homeland security attack on Puerto Rican anti-colonialist artists and activists; and the Knight Report.

Monday, January 7, 2008 Investigative journalist Alan Nairn talks about the CIA kidnapping tortures, the real story behind the candidates and the upcoming elections, and Suharto on his death bed, maybe; also, fourteen Palestinians killed in one week as Israeli warplanes bombard the Gaza strip, Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank as George Bush prepares to swing into Jerusalem; Ali Abunimah and Jonathan Cook dissect Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's policies of ethnic cleansing and apartheid; and the Knight Report.

Friday, January 4, 2008 Today on Flashpoints; We speak with filmmakers of the groundbreaking documentary meeting resistance, that takes a look at the Iraqi Resistance in their own voices; Plus, U.S., Mexican and Canadian workers block the southern U.S. border in response to new NAFTA regulations; Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, January 3, 2008 We get an on-the-ground report from Nairobi, Kenya, where fighting has broken out over the disputed Presidential election results as hundreds of people are killed and over 70,000 are on the run; also, eight Palestinians dead and dozens wounded in Gaza as Israeli tanks swarm into Nablus in the West Bank, we'll get reports from the ground; Larry Everest talks about Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Palestine, the Bush administration's plans for 2008 and the role and responsibility of US resistance movements; Activist Nation with Joe Tougas; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 Israeli tanks and warplanes re-invade the occupied Gaza strip, opening fire and extra-judicially assassinating six resistance fighters, bringing the weekly death toll to twenty; we'll get reports from both Gaza and the West Bank; also, Chris Brown reports from Beirut, Lebanon, where he investigates the ongoing displacement and dispossession of Palestinian refugees; JR and the Block Report focus on the people's protests against home demolitions in New Orleans; and the Knight Report. Tuesday, January 1, 2008 We take a look back at our top stories, in part two of our New Years special featuring the best of Flashpoints in 2007. U.S. Gunships attack Somalian citizens in an escalation of the so-called'War on Terrorism' and a surge in military spending; Israeli economic sanctions worsen the humanitarian crisis in Occupied Palestine, while gunbattles rage in the streets of Gaza; and an eyewitness denies government accounts proving the innocence of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Friday, December 28, 2007 As the U.S. Border Patrol fires gas cannisters at Mexican citizens in Tijuana, Mexico, we get a response from the American Friends Service Committee working on the ground; Plus, we speak with Bill Means on the decision by the Lakota Nation to declare independence from the United States; Also, Activist Nation features the work of the White Rose Collective in Southern California; JR and Block Report talk about the impact of gang injunctions and gentrification in San Francisco; Headlines from the Region with Miguel Peres; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, December 27, 2007 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto assassinated as the country falls further into political collapse. Plus, three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza as illegal settlement colonies expand in the West Bank; our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess investigates. Also, a Haitian human rights leader goes into hiding following a new wave of threats; Kevin Pina speaks with Selma James of the Global Women's Strike. The Block Report features a discussion with legendary comedian Paul Mooney; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007  Our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the occupied city of Bethlehem, as Israeli forces continue to kidnap, arrest, attack, and shoot Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza strip during Christmas celebrations; also, JR and the Block Report feature an update on police terrorism in Chicago; and activists in Santa Cruz and Berkeley, California, talk about why tree-sits are necessary actions to defend the environment, native land and the community from University collaborations with nuclear and military corporate contractors.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007  Dr. Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, in a speech on the history and ongoing reality of Israel's colonization program.

Monday, December 24, 2007 Naomi Klein, acclaimed author of The Shock Doctrine, in conversation with filmmaker Robert Greenwald; they discuss the war and occupation in Iraq, the ongoing disaster in New Orleans, the ongoing privatization of war by mercenary contractors, and much more.
Friday, December 21, 2007 A new report documents severe human rights abuses by the US border patrol; plus, the 9th circuit court denies death row prisoner Kevin Cooper his appeal, despite overwhelming evidence confirming his innocence in a 1983 trumped-up murder charge, which could mean his return to facing murder by the state of California; Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina and Selma James of the Global Women's Strike talk about the abduction of human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre Antoine and how they're fighting for his return home; a commentary by Miguel Molina on the recent passing of Indian activist and leader Floyd Red Crow Westerman; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol focuses on the attacks on Mexican families' homes by US border patrol agents at the border.

Thursday, December 20, 2007 Police attack protesters, including elderly women, with taser guns and pepper spray in New Orleans as the City Council votes unanimously to destroy 4500 public housing units, favoring profit over the people's needs; also, Israel invades the Gaza strip, killing at least seven Palestinians; at the US-Mexico border, US patrol agents fire tear gas at Mexican families' homes, we'll talk about the increase of violent attacks due to the militarization of the border; and Kevin Pina, our special correspondent on Haiti, discusses US policy and the political climate nearly four years after President Jean Bertrand Aristide's US-backed ouster.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Immigration agents raid an Oakland Elementary School yesterday and attempt to separate yet another mother from her son, we'll speak to a school official and Arnoldo Garcia about the intensification of ICE raids and racist anti-immigrant attacks across the country; Also, JR and the Block Report speak with a member of the San Francisco 8 for an update on that case; Activist Nation takes a look at torture paid for by American tax dollars; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 The UN plans to extend its mandate in Iraq for another year placating the Bush Administration and the puppet regime in the Iraqi Parliament, we'll speak with Raed Jarrar about what that means for the ordinary Iraqi on the ground; Also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on the Israeli killings in Gaza; Plus, Kevin Pina, on the ground in Haiti, escorts freed political prisoner Rene Civil home from jail; An update on Blackwater's defeat in Southern California; and the Knight Report.

Monday, December 17, 2007 Kevin Pina back on the ground in Haiti, describes the latest situation with political prisoners and how the Lavalas party remains steadfast in its rebuilding; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank, as five Palestinians are killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza while European governments pledge millions of dollars to back PA President Mahmoud Abbas and further undermine the elected Hamas leadership; plus, as fighting intensifies inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, leaders continue to ignore the use of rape as a weapon of war, we'll speak with a reporter on the ground about the unraveling situation there; and the Knight Report.

Friday, December 14, 2007 Education rights activist and author Jonathan Kozol talks about the school system and education as a human right; also, we talk about the political rhetoric that is being used to dehumanize Latinos and immigrants while rallying voters TOWARD racist immigration policies; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, December 13, 2007 The Bush Administration and HUD send bulldozers to New Orleans, where they plan to demolish thousands of housing units as tens of thousands of people still remain homeless or waiting for federal assistance, over 2 years since Hurricane Katrina; also, Kristen Ess reports from occupied Palestine; Activist Nation, a new segment that focuses on direct actions taking place across the country, features a story on the expanding threats to women's reproductive rights; JR and the Block Report; and a commentary by Mumia abu Jamal.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 In the aftermath of another Israeli siege we speak with Dr. Mona Al-Farra inside occupied Gaza about the ensuing humanitarian catastrophe; We get an update from the West Bank on Israel's blatant violations of international law as it prepares to build more illegal settlement colonies; Also, Blackwater defeated in Southern California as the community of Potrero recalls the planning group that voted in favor of the Blackwater Mercenary Camp; Plus, new developments in the case of revolutionary journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007  Israeli tanks, bulldozers, helicopters and US-made F16s invade the occupied Gaza strip from all sides, our special correspondent Mohammed Omer has an on-the-ground report on the ensuing bloodbath in the streets as the international community once again turns its back on the people; also, Cathy Wilkerson, infamous member of the Weather Underground and community activist speaks about the legacy of that revolutionary movement and the future of grassroots resistance; and the Knight Report.

Monday, December 10, 2007 We focus our attention on several stories from across the country of civil rights under attack: At the gates of Fort Huachuca, Arizona, The US Army continues to jail nonviolent protesters who demonstrate against the military's teaching of torture and interrogation tactics; in New York City, we hear the case of the New Jersey Seven, a group of women assaulted and imprisoned in a sexist and homophobic attack; also, from Chicago, JR and the Block Report with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. feature an update on the case of political prisoner Aaron Patterson; plus, the CIA destroys evidential tapes of US torture tactics, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal reports on that story; in San Francisco, student and youth organizers fight to keep the JROTC off high school campuses; and the Knight Report.

Friday, December 7, 2007 Immigrants continue to organize against the wave of racist anti-immigrant legislation, we'll speak with a community activist; headlines from the region with Miguel Perez; and we'll get an update on the hunger strike out of Chicago on Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, December 6, 2007  Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the ground in the occupied West Bank, where she attends a funeral for a man shot and killed by Israeli forces, and documents the plight of Palestinian workers' struggles; also, here come the thought police: a new threat to the constitution in a Homeland Security bill that passes in the House of Representatives and heads for the Senate; Naomi Klein, author of the Shock Doctrine, in a speech about Burger King, immigrant rights and the anti-sweatshop movement; plus, George W Bush says he'll help homeowners in a new plan to address the sub-prime mortgage crisis, we'll talk about who exactly he intends to help and how sub-prime has impacted poor and immigrant communities; a commentary by Rahul Mahajan on the Pentagon's so-called good news from US-occupied Iraq; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007 Venezuelan democracy proves to be alive and well as Hugo Chavez concedes a temporary setback; plus, Israeli occupation forces kill another three Palestinians in Gaza with illegal weapons, we'll get a report from the ground in Gaza City and Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on another extra-judicial assassination by Israeli undercover forces; also, JR and the Block Report feature an update on the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007 US intelligence agencies conclude what the Bush administration does not want to hear, that Iran has no nuclear program, yet Bush, along with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert continue to press for aggression and sanctions against Iran; also, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on the ongoing Israeli repression and killing in Palestine; the state of Maryland forces parents to immunize their children under threat of imprisonment; the Block Report features a speech by Chairman Fred Hampton on the 38th anniversary of his murder in his bed by Chicago police; and the Knight Report.

Monday, December 3, 2007  Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights takes Guantanamo back to the US Supreme Court this week, we'll have a full update from him on the continued torture of detainees and the widening scope of the Bush administration's surveillance program; also, Israeli occupation force kill four Palestinians in Gaza; Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on the Palestinian political prisoners who were released from Israeli torture camps; JR and the Block Report speak with legendary human rights activist Yuri Kochiyama about her work with Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and how she's organizing the Bay Area Asian-American community to support the San Francisco 8; and the Knight Report.

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Friday, November 30, 2007 We hear from Cristina Lopez, an American Latina activist with Barrio Unido, who recently returned from a tour in occupied Palestine and connects the struggles of indigenous peoples on both continents; also, a Bay Area filmmaker talks about the new socialism in Venezuela in the context of this weekend's referendum vote; California Poet Laureate Al Young, live in the studio, reads a few poems; leaders of the American Indian Movement and the International Indian Treaty Council talk about their re-opening of a West Coast office to support immigrant struggles; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, November 29, 2007  George W. Bush and puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki racketeer in occupied Iraq, trading security for American corporate investments, we'll speak with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail about the latest corporate plundering of Iraq; also, Kristen Ess reports from the ground in the occupied West Bank on the unfolding reaction in the streets and at the checkpoints to Annapolis; plus, father and son Frank and Martin Espada discuss Puerto Rican diasporic art, poetry and culture as a movement to resist colonialism and celebrate tradition; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007Hand shakes in Annapolis as U.S-made Israeli weapons kill Palestinians in Gaza, We'll get a full report from the streets in the Occupied West Bank by our Palestine Bureau Chief, Kristen Ess on civilian reaction to another sham peace summit; Also, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' security services attack and beat journalists in anti-Annapolis demonstrations; Plus, a report from the ground in the Occupied Gaza Strip; Commemorating 60 years and counting of the partition of Palestine; And the Knight Report.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Pacifica Archives Fund Drive
From poetry to protest, from studio to the streets, Pacifica Radio Archives documents the last half of the 20th century in sound. From WBAI in New York

Monday, November 26, 2007 Empty promises and loaded missiles: We take a hard look at the Mideast peace summit in Annapolis, as US-made Israeli F16s kill three more Palestinians in occupied Gaza; we'll speak to Ali Abunimah about the sham conferences; also, we'll have a report from on the ground in Gaza about the unraveling humanitarian disaster, as Israel prepares to once again inflict collective punishment against the 1.5 million people trapped inside; Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on the internal politics and the state of journalism; and the Knight Report.

Friday, November 23, 2007 Revolutionary activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs, at 92 years old, talks about social evolution and radical change from the community roots; also, Internal Exile: From Palestine to the USA to Mexico, an art exhibition in San Francisco that takes a deep look at the experiences of indigenous people in colonized nations; and The War Comes Home, a segment by KPFA producer Aaron Glantz, speaks with Iraq war resister Augustin Aguayo.

Thursday, November 22, 2007 Today on a special Thanks-Taking edition of Flashpoints, We spend the hour with Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover, talking about war, empire, indigenous resistance and global justice at an event called the Gathering for Justice last week in Oakland.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 We feature an in-depth interview with legendary author, linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky; also, our correspondent Joe Tougas submits to being waterboarded, a key instrument of torture used by the US government, he describes in detail what it's like to be nearly drowned; plus, activists with Code Pink continue to take on Marine recruitment in Berkeley; and the Knight Report.                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Well-known author and anti-nuclear activist, Jonathan Schell talks about the dangers of a nuclear Pakistan; Also, a new report documents the making of crucifixes under horrific sweatshop conditions in China; and news headlines from Occupied Palestine.

Monday, November 19, 2007 We continue our drumbeat coverage of the San Francisco oil spill; We'll feature an interview with a leading ecologist whose been in the middle of the bird rescue; Also, we begin our multi-part series on the sub-prime meltdown and its particular impact on the poor, working class and people of color; Our Palestine bureau chief Kristen Ess reports on the various economic, political, and social impacts of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank; and the Knight Report.

Friday, November 16, 2007 Cleanup workers in the longshoreman's union blow the whistle on the lack of oil companies preparedness for oil spills. Also a hip hop performance that explores the history of Thanksgiving and to acknowledge the history and legacy of US colonialism and genocide against Native Americans. Plus indigenous activitsts continue their protest against UC Berkeley and their refusal to release the remains tens of thousands of native people.  Flashpoints in Espanol presents a mini documentary on the recent border patrol attack on Immigration Rights protestors. 

Thursday, November 15, 2007 A noted naturalist and artist talks about the devastating impact that the recent oil spill has had on the pristine beaches at Stinson and Bolinas, where dozens of species of birds have been affected as well as other wildlife; also, we'll hear about the impact of the spill on the people of color in the Bay View-Hunter's Point neighborhood of San Francisco; Kristen Ess provides a primer on the upcoming so-called peace talks and background on the Hamas-Fatah split; we'll also have an update on the situation in Pakistan and its impact on the war in Iraq and possibly war with Iran; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007  Longtime Mexico correspondent and award-winning author John Ross talks about Blackwater's invasion at the Southern US border, corn and the impacts of free trade in Mexico; also, we'll have an update on the devestating environmental impacts of the recent oil spill in the Bay Area; and a special edition of the Knight Report into recent revelations regarding Rudy Giuliani and the former police chief, Bernard Kerik of New York City.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 How oil companies and their lawyers insulate themselves after toxic oil spills, we'll take a look at the continuing trauma faced by victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill 18 years ago; also, Public Citizen weighs in on oil addiction and the lack of Congressional action to protect people from spills; the US Border Patrol beat peaceful protesters at a rally on the culminating day of a five-day No Borders Camp at the US-Mexico border; our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank, on the anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death, as seven Palestinians are killed in fomented factional violence in Gaza; and the Knight Report.

Monday, November 12, 2007 Today on a special Veterans Day edition of Flashpoints, author and Middle East scholar Phyllis Bennis gives an in-depth analysis from Pakistan to Iraq as well as the possibilities of war against Iran; also, an update in the case of Lieutenant Ehren Watada, an active duty resister who continues his anti-war fight from inside the military; poetry by Aurora Levins-Morales; and Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank.

Friday, November 9, 2007 Pre-empted by FCC hearings in Seattle. Click here for the KPFA archive page for these hearings
FCC: The Battle In Seattle (Part 1)
Seattle is ready for the FCC, but is the FCC ready for Seattle? The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled its final public hearing on media ownership in one of the strongholds of the media democracy movement. The hearing will clear the way for the FCC to make dramatic increases in the amount of broadcast and print media one company can own. The hearing has been called on five business days' notice, prompting a sharp critique from the Commission's Democratic minority, who wrote: "Clearly, the rush is on to push media consolidation to a quick and ill-considered vote. It shows there is a preordained outcome." Larry Bensky hosts live coverage of the protests in the streets and the hearing chamber, with expert guests and listener call-ins.

Thursday, November 8, 2007 Local residents of eastern San Diego organize against Blackwater; also the US maneuvers at the United Nations to continue its illegal war in Iraq; a closer look at Israeli ethnic cleansing policies, as nearly 400 Palestinians are forced off their land by Israeli bulldozers and soldiers; JR and The Block Report give an update on the assassination of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey; and the Knight Report

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Feinstein and Schumer tip the balance despite Mukasey's refusal to call waterboarding torture; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess documents the release of a young Palestinian woman after four years of imprisonment and torture in an Israeli prison; plus, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail updates the situation in US-occupied Iraq, which now includes over 2,000 Iraqis fleeing their homes every day; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail on his new book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq; and JR and the Block Report focuses in on the case of Aaron Patterson, political prisoner, speaking with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and a close supporter of Patterson.

Monday, November 5, 2007Our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from occupied Palestine in two special documentary pieces on daily life in the West Bank, from stories with families of political prisoners to daily struggles of resistance; and hip hop musician and political activist Invincible in the Flashpoints studio talks about music as a weapon of resistance and integrating justice and solidarity movements from Detroit to occupied Palestine.

Friday, November 2, 2007 We speak with State Senator Gil Cedillo on California's official response to the fires in Southern California and the attacks and deportations of immigrants and undocumented workers who sought emergency help; also, local organizers talk about this weekend's conference on prisoners' rights; American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks speaks about the secon anniversary of the Longest Walk; activists explore new models of revolutionary change; and Flashpoints en Espanol talks with William Rodriguez, a survivor of September 11th who saved over 200 people during the attacks in New York and talks about the continued attacks against immigrants rights in this country.

Thursday, November 1, 2007 Michel Shehadeh, a member of the LA8, talks about his 20-year ordeal under attack and baseless threats of deportation by the Federal government, and yesterday's vindication as a court drops all charges; also, we get a special report from our Palestine Bureau Chief on the ground in the occupied West Bank, plus news headlines from the region; and excerpts from the film Occupation 101.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 A hundred courageous monks defy Burma's violent narco-dictatorship and take to the streets again despite the recent slaughter of their brothers; also, Frank Morales talks about Bush's moves towards martial law; and Robert Parry discusses the destruction of Habeas Corpus in the US system of criminal justice.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 We turn our attention to Haiti once again, as two leaders of the largest political party and the Lavalas movement are disappeared, raising fears of a campaign against their leadership; also, a report from Southern California where immigrants perished as second-class citizens during the fires; our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank as five more Palestinians are killed by Israeli air strikes; and Peter Dale Scott talks about his new book, The Road to 9-11.

Monday, October 29, 2007 Outed covert CIA officer Valerie Plame in an in-depth interview on her new tell-all memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House; and Plame's co-author, Laura Rozen, fills in the blanks after CIA censors leave half the pages redacted.

Friday, October 26, 2007 Immigrants fleeing from the Southern California fires denied assistance, turned away, attacked and deported, we'll have a special report from the ACLU in southern California; also, Cindy Sheehan speaks out against the war in preparation for tomorrow's massive protest in San Francisco; and historian Tariq Ali on the Bolivarian revolution and the impacts of President Hugo Chavez.                                                                   
Thursday, October 25, 2007 Our special correspondent Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank as two Palestinian kids are shot down in front of her; also, Israeli forces attack their own prison camp in the desert, opening fire on Palestinian prisoners and killing a detainee, we'll speak to a human rights activist who interviewed an eyewitness inside the prison camp during the attack; and excerpts from the hard-hitting documentary film about Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine, called Occupation 101.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Protestors from Code Pink directly confront Sec. of State Condilezza Rice with symbolic blook on their hands representing a million dead Iraqis. Also we'll get an update on the situation in Iraq with journalist Dahr Jamail and hear excerpts from a speech he made based on his newly released book: Beyond The Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on the violence surrounding expanding illegal settlements near a Palestinian village; also, part two of JR and the Block Report's news-breaking interview about the police torture and murder of a black teen in Oakland; and political cartoonist and essayist Khalil Bendib live in the studio to talk about holocaust denial and other aspects of US-Israeli policy.

Monday, October 22, 2007 Student activists organize to confront David Horowitz and his right-wing racists on college campuses; also, JR and the Block Report feature a harrowing interview with the father of Gary King, a teenager beaten, tortured and murdered by Oakland police in September; and a brand-new speech by Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater and the privatization of US proxy wars. Friday, October 19, 2007 Remembering Native American leader Vernon Bellecourt, we'll feature one of his last speeches given in the Bay Area at a peace rally; also, we'll feature excerpts from Greg Palast's new film on New Orleans; and on Flashpoints en Espanol, guest host Alejandro Reyes will be interviewing the editor of the Mexican progressive daily, La Jornada. Thursday, October 18, 2007  The House fails to override Bush's brutal veto of S-CHIP, leaving ten million kids to fall through the healthcare net; we'll talk with Dr. David Himmelstein, the leading advocate for the single-payer health plan; also, we'll feature excerpts from Michael Moore's hard-hitting documentary on the medical industry called Sicko.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007Jailtime for two priests arrested while praying against torture at Fort Huachuca in Tucson, we'll speak with Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly, anti-torture activists from Tucson, and we'll hear from Father Steve Kelly and Father Louis Vitale in their own words; also, the anti-war community confront recruiters on the street in front of their Berkeley, California headquarters and are assaulted by a gaggle of pro-war conservative groups on the streets; and Kristen Ess reports from occupied Bethlehem on Condoleezza Rice's visit to the Nativity Church.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Two anti-torture activists facing jail sentences for speaking out about the torture training center at Fort Huachuca in Arizona; also, Flashpoints special correspondent Kristen Ess reports from the streets and a hospital room in Nablus, where she interviews a Palestinian journalist who was just shot four times in the back by the invading Israeli military this morning; plus, Bill Means remembers his close friend and comrade Vernon Bellecourt of the American Indian Movement; and Naomi Klein talks about The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

Monday, October 15, 2007 The Burmese military continues its bloody crackdown against Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists; also, Ali Abunimah deconstructs Condoleezza's vision for a Palestinian state; we'll have an update on the human rights nightmare now facing four million Iraqis on the run; JR and the Block Report celebrate the 41st anniversary of the founding of the Black Panthers with an interview with one of the SF Eight; and the Knight Report.

Friday, October 12, 2007  We will go live to Sonora, Mexico, where Flashpoints correspondent John Gibler is covering the second annual Zapatista indigenous gathering; also, Latino law students in the fifth day of a hunger strike to call attention to deadly anti-immigrant policies; we’ll also hear about a series of actions being taken along the Texas-Mexico border to protest the billion-dollar, 700-mile separation fence; plus, live hip hop with members of the Arab Summit; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, October 11, 2007 Holocaust denier George W Bush opposes the recognition of the Armenian genocide; also, an update on the continuing roundup, torture and slaughter of Burmese monks and pro-democracy leaders; Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on Israeli occupiers who attack Palestinian children with tear gas and dogs; and the Block Report features an interview with Martina Davis, the sister of Georgia Death Row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Nancy Pelosi attacks her own base, we'll speak to activists who are fed up with Democratic party inaction and centrist politics; also, dragonflies with a byte: we'll take a look at the new spy insects being used to surveil antiwar protests across the country; plus, David Horowitz and his right-wing racist groups expand their attack against Muslims and Arab-Americans on university campuses; Israeli occupation squads extra-judicially assassinate a Palestinian in the West Bank, we'll have a news report from the ground; and the Knight Report.\
 
Tuesday, October 9, 2007  The Bush administration intimidates Costa Rica into passing CAFTA, we'll have a special report on the implications of the latest free trade debacle; also, an exclusive interview with the editor of the Oakland Post on the killing of journalist Chauncey Bailey and the misreporting in the mainstream press; and the Knight Report.

Monday, October 8, 2007 We'll feature a news-breaking update on the situation in Burma, including an eyewitness account from an international activist who spent the last year in the country; we'll also be joined by a leading member of the Burmese pro-democracy movement in the United States; plus, Israeli airstrikes pound the Gaza strip as Israeli officials continue to seize control over Jerusalem, we'll have news headlines and an on-the-ground report from Kristen Ess in the West Bank; and the Knight Report. Friday, October 5, 2007 Immigrants Rights activists prepare for a national boycott next week; also, we’ll have a report from El Paso on the militarization at the US-Mexico border and the fight against the 700-mile apartheid wall; plus, immigrant workers fired and beaten by ICE and Homeland Security fight back; we’ll have a report on the solidarity gatherings on Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Alcatraz Island; and Flashpoints en Espanol. Thursday, October 4, 2007  Private contract torturers for the US Government go on trial for their alleged atrocities at Abu Ghraib; also, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in a freewheeling discussion on politics, war, peace and social justice; and the Block Report talks about continuing police terrorism against the Black community.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 An in-depth look at Hilary Clinton's corporate-based health plan; also,
US plans for full-spectrum dominance in space; three Palestinians killed in Gaza, we'll have a report from the ground; Labor activists protest violent racist attacks by police at the Sacramento docks; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007  The US Supreme Court weighs in on the racist crack-powder cocaine sentencing guidelines, we'll speak to the former legislative aide who wrote the law and has spent the rest of his life trying to unwrite it; also, we'll speak to Reese Ehrlich about US threats to go to war against Iran; a new story from Bob Parry on secret US sniper death squads in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the Knight Report.

Monday, October 1, 2007 We'll feature an in-depth interview with Dr. Sein Win, the Prime Minister in exile of Burma and a first cousin of Nobel Laureate Aun San Suu Kyi; we'll also feature an eye witness account from the streets of Burma's capitol by a Salvadoran human rights activist who witnessed the junta's crackdown; also, a report from occupied Palestine on the continued confiscation of landsaround Jerusalem; JR and the Block Report updates the case of the Jena 6; and the Knight Report.

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Friday, September 28, 2007  Seven former high-level intelligence agents call for a new investigation into 9-11; also, Greg Palast talks about Dan Rather's lawsuit for covering up the Bush AWOL story; and JR and the Block Report interviews the son of political prisoner Mutulu Shakur and also updates Assata Shakur's case

Thursday, September 27, 2007  A speech by Project Censored's Director Peter Phillips,
about censorship and the most mis-reported and un-reported stories of the last 18 months.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007Jeremy Scahill spends the hour giving deep background on Blackwater, the largest mercenary operation going on in the world and subject of his most recent book. Federal prosecutors are now investigating Blackwater for smuggling US weapons into Iraq and then selling them to the resistance. It was widely reported that Blackwater killed a dozen or more people in a street incident and have been outlawed from doing security work since the attack.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007  Harvard professor Sara Roy talks about the human cost of Israel's policies of collective punishment towards the Palestinians inside the occupied Gaza strip; we'll also have news headlines from Palestine; we'll focus on the Iranian President's visit to New York and the Bush administration's designs on a US-Israel attack on Iran; and the Knight Report.

Monday, September 24, 2007 Buddhists in Burma rebel against the narco-dictatorship, we'll have a special report on the pro-democracy movement fighting back in Burma; also, John Stauber talks about pro-war democrats betraying their anti-war constituencies; Kristen Ess reports from occupied Palestine, speaking with people in Gaza and the West Bank about the tightening of Israel's occupation; and the Knight Report.

Friday, September 21, 2007 We broadcast live from the north campus of New College in Santa Rosa, California in the wine country and not far from the home of Project Censored. We'll be talking about the first ever Rural Day Labor Center in Graton Calif. This is the first rural day labor center in the country.We'll talk about the significance of the openning of this new center that protects the rights of workers and really sets the tone for the future in terms of workers and immigrants rights and treating all people with the same respect. With me is Evelynb Molina, welcome back to Flashpoints.

Thursday, September 20, 2007 We'll take a ride with the Harlem Revolution Club on the bus coming back from Jena, Louisiana where tens of thousands gathered to protest the local racist injustice system there; also JR and The Block Report, with another exclusive, speaks to the mom of one of the Jena Six still in jail; we'll look at the implications of the San Francisco gang injunction; plus two reports on the occupied West Bank, including an update from the Nablus area where Israeli forces are continuing to besiege the Al Ain refugee camp; and environmental activist Rod Coronado freed by a hung jury in favor of acquittal

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Legendary freedom fighter for South Africa and founder of TransAfrica
Randall Robinson on his new book on Haiti and the current state of affairs; also, Israeli military death squads besiege a Palestinian refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank, we'll get an on-the-ground report; high school students on their way to protest the racist trials in Jena, Louisiana; and the Knight Report.

Monday, September 17, 2007  Another Attorney General poised to gut the Constitution, we'll speak with the head of the National Lawyers' Guild about the latest pick for the top cop; also, Israeli military death squads execute a 16 year old Palestinian boy during an illegal invasion in the West Bank; Richard Brown and Harold Taylor, two former Black Panthers and members of the San Francisco 8, speak with JR and the Block Report upon their recent release from prison; and the Knight Report.

Friday, September 14, 2007 We broadcast live from the New College of California in the San Francisco Mission District! Alejandro Reyes reports back on Zapatista activity and his motorcycle trip to Brazil; also, Betita Martinez updates us on 500 years of Chicana and Chicano history; we’ll have the Labor Chorus of San Francisco in for a sing; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, September 13, 2007 We get a live report from under siege by occupation forces and the violence of poverty in the occupied Gaza strip; a look at identity and freedom in the context of the Israeli occupation, we'll feature a short piece on Palestinian identity cards; also, five decades of US nuclear weapons domination continues; and the Block Report talks with the wife of Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who remains locked in a super-maximum security prison in Colorado; a commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Gold Star anti-war mom and congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan speaks out against the war; also, on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip locked down in anticipation of the Jewish holidays, we'll have news headlines from Palestine; plus, a hip hop musical exclusive on the police crackdown against the Black Panthers; we'll speak to political cartoonist Khalil Bendib; we honor the 63rd birthday of imprisoned Native American leader Leonard Peltier; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., reserve officer and president of the Hip Hop Caucus talks about his brutal arrest and attack by Capitol police during the Petreaus hearings; also, a delegation of grassroots radio journalists and producers from Peru talk about their work, Free Trade, the earthquake and their lives; and the Knight Report.

Monday, September 10, 2007 We'll take a look at today's testimony in Washington through the eyes of Nobel Laureate Kathy Kelly and key national antiwar organizers including Adam Kokesh, co-chair of Iraq Veterans Against the War, who was forcibly removed from the hearing room today, and Nancy Lessin of Military Families Speak Out; plus, the Block Report gives an update on the case of the Jena 6; and the Knight Report.

Friday, September 7, 2007 Sorry no runsheet for this date.

Thursday, September 6, 2007 We'll take an in-depth look at the possibilities for a US war against Iran; also, Project Censored releases its top twenty-five under-reported stories for 2008; Homeland Security continues its crack-down against radical environmentalists as the prosecution of Earth Firsters continues in LA; and the Block Report visits with Goldie, Mumia abu-Jamals' daughter and a talented hip hop activist.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Tuesday, September 4, 2007 We spend the hour investigating the situation for the indigenous Bedouin communities of the Negev desert, inside Israel's 1948 borders. Without electricity, running water, medical clinics or schools, over 76,000 Bedouins, Israeli citizens, face ethnic cleansing and subjugation by the state as home demolitions and civil rights violations continue on a near-daily basis; we'll visit two communities under siege and talk with a leader of an organization working inside Bedouin villages, trying to bring much-needed attention to the troubling crisis. And we'll also have the Knight Report.

Monday, September 3, 2007  Today on a special Labor Day edition of Flashpoints, we talk to a Palestinian woman who is challenging the economic effects of the  Israeli occupation of Palestine by establishing a women's traditional embroidery collective inside the besieged city of Hebron in the West Bank; and we re-broadcast a special investigation into how illegal Israeli settlement
colonies impact Palestinian villages.

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Friday, August 31, 2007  US authorities close the border at Tijuana in response to major protests,
we’ll speak to Juan Jose Gutierrez at the border; Also, the first rural Day Laborer Center in the country opens in northern California; Nora Barrows-Friedman is back in the studio after a three week tour in occupied Palestine; Housing activists seize government offices in New Orleans; And of course, Flashpoints in Español.

Thursday, August 30, 2007  The Governor of Texas commutes the death sentence for Kenneth Foster: JR and the Block Report talk to the family about his 11th hour decision to spare Foster's life ; immigrants' rights activists speak out around the country about the expanding crack-downs on undocumented workers and their employers; a noted novelist and Philippine-born activist speaks out about the arrest in Holland of founder of the Communist party of the Philippines; Save the Oaks activists facing off with the UC Berkeley Police: we'll visit one of the sitters in her tree-house, on a fault line at the perimeter of the football stadium; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 We explore the situation on the ground in New Orleans two years after Katrina hit, the Flashpoints team joins  Malik Rahim and other activists on the bus to a major rally in support of the rebuilding of New Orleans; and the Knight Report.                    

Tuesday, August 28, 2007  Legendary Haitian leader Father Gerard Jean-Juste on the return from his first visit back to Haiti since being forced out of the country two years ago; also, we'll feature an interview with former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; JR and the Block Report explore the meaning of Black August; and the Knight Report.

Monday, August 27, 2007 Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez Quits and head for the Texas Hills; Nora  Barrows Friedman reports from inside Israel's 1968 borders on life under Jim-Crow Israeli style; Also Locked up in New Orleans, a Special Report from the Nation Magazine.

Friday, August 24, 2007  Immigrants rights activists plan a national economic boycott, we speak with Nativo Lopez; Also, John Ross and John Gibler give us an update on Mexico
and talk about the disappearance of over forty people, mostly children, from mountainous communities in Chiapas; Also, writer and activist Grace Paley is remembered; a commentary from Miguel Molina; A mini-concert with Francisco Herrera and la familia Pena-Govea; And of course, Flashpoints in Español.                                                                      

Thursday, August 23, 2007  Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the war-torn city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank; she'll be reporting on a former Israeli torture chamber and childrens' prison; also, an Iraq update with Dahr Jamail; a report on the case of the Cuban Five with one of their lawyers and a leading activist on the case; and we'll hear about the Friends of Sabeel Conference; and the Knight Report

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Nora Barrows Friedman in a extended interview with Omar Barghouti,
Founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; A new documentary expose on the 40 year cover-up of the Israeli sinking of the USS Liberty; And the Knight Report.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007  When Israeli occupation gets really filthy: Nora Barrows Friedman on the ground in Palestine; in Chicago, Aaron Patterson tells the judge and the system where to get off: The Block Report was in the courtroom to bear witness; also, we'll take a close look at the case of the San Francisco 8, through the eyes of family members directly affected by this ongoing program of state-sponsored terrorism; and the Knight Report.

Monday, August 20, 2007 32-year-old Elvira Arellano captured by ICE in L.A. and deported to Mexico, leaving behind her eight-year old son, Saul, a U.S. citizen; former CNN news honcho defends his cozy working relationship with the Pentagon: we'll talk to two prominent media critics about the implications; JR reports on his recent visit with death-row journalist, Mumia Abu Jamal; we'll find out what happens to a black leader, behind bars, when he refuses to capitulate, and the Knight Report.

Friday, August 17, 2007 Homeland Security implements its final immigration solution: tens of thousands of arrests are expected, we'll speak with a leading member of the immigrants rights movement; Also, the Cuban Five are back in court; Flashpoints special correspondent John Gibler just back from Chiapas and Oaxaca with a report; The Block Report continues its dialogue with Death Row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal; Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, August 16, 2007 Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the West Bank on the continuing tragedies of Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. We'll spend the entire hour with Nora and meet the real victims of occupation. And we'll have the Knight Report.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Nora Barrows-Friedman interviews a leading Palestinian negotiator and attorney about the life and times of Elliot Abrams; Leaders of the Gabriella Network for women's solidarity in the
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Nelson Mandela's daughter Dr. Maki Mandela comes to town for the first annual Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Summit; also we'll speak with the founder of the Common Ground Collective about a SF Bay Area benefit with noted slam poets; and the Knight Report.

Monday, August 13, 2007 Karl Rove Jumps from Bush's Sinking Ship of State;also Nora Barrows Friedman reports from Occupied Palestine, on the arrest of a fourteen year old sheepherder and on a new phony Peace Plan; also an update from Louisiana on the racist trial of the Jena Six, and the knight report.

Friday, August 10, 2007 We broadcast live from New College of California in San Franciso’s mission district, We’ll feature a special report from Nora Barrows Friedman in Occupied Palestine, where Israeli soldiers shower anti-wall protesters with sound-bombs, tear gas, and rubber-coated steel bullets; Native Americian leaders Dennis Banks and Floyd Westerman remember the Longest Walk; we’ll have a visit from the Labor Chorus and we’ll hear about a Cultural Gathering that explores the differences and common ground between Mexicians and Palestinians, and of course Flashpoints in Español with Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, August 9, 2007 We'll feature a special report from the UN on the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima; We'll also take a look at nuclear proliferation in the context of Iran, Iraq and Israel; And we'll remember the life and times of slain Oakland journalist, Chauncey Bailey.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the occupied West Bank on more phony talks regarding a Palestinian state; John Ross reports from Mexico City on the failure of the government to investigate the murder of a U.S. Journalist; We'll have a report from our special correspondent in Chiapas; And a poetic look at the abandonment of Katrina victims, dead and alive.

Monday, August 6, 2007 Democrats buckle on bugging laws and amnesty Bush  buggers thousands of illegal wiretaps in the disasterous President G. W. Bush. We'll spend the entire hour deconstructing George W. with the award winning journalist Robert Parry.

Friday, August 3, 2007  Day Laborer activists from all over the country converge in Washington DC to confront the expanding crack-down against immigrant laborers; also, award-winning Xicanapoet, essayist and novelist Ana Castillo documents both the tragedy and the exalted struggle to fight back by immigrants struggling for dignity and human rights; and excerpts from the film The Power of  Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Thursday, August 2, 2007 A funny, fascinating and chilling commentary on the state of motherhood in the US: We'll feature excerpts from this hard-hitting documentary, The Motherhood Manifesto, that exposes the systematic undermining of mother's work in this country.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007  We continue our covrage of the Bush Administrations's $50 billion weapons package to Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. We'll speak with the Angry Arab Abu Kahlil about the implications. Also, George Bush says he will veto any expansion in the State Childeren's Health Insurance Program which provides insurance for low income families. And we'll hear excerpts of the moving documentary: Buying The War with Bill Moyers.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007  The United States proposes a $50 billion dollar arms package for the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, despite three hot wars in progress, we'll feature an in-depth analysis on the arms trade and the implications; and War Made Easy: A new documentary narrated by Sean Penn and featuring the media work of Norman Solomon.

Monday, July 30, 2007 An in-depth look at the US torture chamber at Guantanamo; also, an Iraq  vet and his wife speak out about his resistance to the war and his treatment as a result of it; an Israeli military warplane attacks a car in Gaza while Palestinian employees take their government to court; and the Knight  Report

Friday, July 27, 2007 We celebrate San Francisco’s International Poetry Festival with our own series of readings by members of the Flashpoints team; we’ll also be joined by slam poet champion Ramona Webb; we’ll talk about the criminal injustice system and the case of Leonard Peltier versus Libby the Liar; plus, an update on the battle for a Day Laborers Center in the Mission District, and much more!

Thursday, July 26, 2007  Senate Democrats subpoena top presidential advisor and Bush brain Karl Rove; we'll have a frontline report from Baghdad on the worsening security situation; also, Congresswoman Barbara Lee introduces legislation to restrict permanent military bases in Iraq; we'll speak to Phyllis Bennis about the legislation and the situation in Iraq.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 Author and National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn takes on the Administration's claims of executive privilege; also, a report from Beirut on the continuing attacks by the Lebanese army on the Nahr el Bared refugee camp; JR and the Block Report speak with Hip Hop legend, poet and actor Mos Def about the case of Aaron Patterson; plus, Israeli occupation forces swarm into Gaza while soldiers and settlers beat Palestinians in the West Bank; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007  Cindy Sheehan, arrested last night at John Conyers' office, declares her candidacy against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; we'll be joined by Cindy Sheehan and also by former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who was arrested with Sheehan; and also joining in the discussion and arrested last night is Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., a lieutenant in the military and an Air Force chaplain; plus, we'll also feature a special report from the Nation magazine on the growing number of serious wounds and civilian killings in Iraq by US forces; and the Knight Report.

Monday, July 23, 2007 US expanding air war in Iraq kills and wounds thousands of civilians, we'll have a special report from Dahr Jamail; also, while there is a surge in Iraq,  military families also have a surge in their ranks as more and more relatives of soldiers fight against Bush policy; Israeli settlers and Zionist extremists attack Palestinians and the al-Aqsa Mosque, we'll have a full report from the occupied West Bank; an update on the battle for a Day Laborer Center in the San Francisco Mission District; and the Knight Report.      
 
Friday, July 20, 2007  Broadcast live from New College in Santa Rosa here up in the North Wine Country we will have an update on the Impeachment Movement with Peter Philips. He works with Project Censored, he's put together a book and we're talk about impeachment. We'll be meeting with the Cop Watchers they're keeping an eye on police restraining the police as they over react  in some of the poorer and immigrant communities around the Bay Area, up and down this West Coast. We'll talk about the battle to keep corporations out of the classroom. We'll talk to some of the teachers who are trying to keep education to learning rather than becoming corporate flaks. We'll hear about stories that are crucial to farm country. In addition some poetry.

Thursday, July 19, 2007 Theoretical physicist and author Michio Kaku talks about the dangers of nuclear releases after the earthquake in central Japan; also Ali Abunimah deconstructs the real politics behind the US sopport for Mahmoud Abbas; news headlines from occupied Palestine; JR and the Block Report speak with chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. about the continued persecution of death-row political prisoner Aaron Patterson; and the Knight Report focuses on the steam explosion in New York City yesterday.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 We'll have a special report from Baghdad on how women and children are bearing the brunt of the US war and occupation of Iraq; also, we'll have a report from John Ross in Mexico City about the growing drug and campaign scandal as well as major organizing meetings called by the Zapatistas; plus, Israeli occupation forces continue their sweeping arrest campaigns in the West Bank as another Palestinian dies at the closed-off border between Gaza and Egypt; and the Knight Report
Tuesday, July 17, 2007  US-supported Haitian death squad leader arrested by the DEA for trafficking; also we'll speak with the sister of Troy Davis, who would have been murdered today by the state of Georgia if his sentence had not been stayed for 90 days; also Palestinians remain stranded at the Gaza-Egypt border, and Israel plans to wipe out a Palestinian neighborhood south of Tel Aviv; Irish-American author Danny Cassidy talks politics and language as a tool of resistance; and the Knight Report.

Monday, July 16, 2007  Thousands of Haitians march throughout the country yesterday demanding the return of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide, we'll be joined by internationally-renowned activist and founder of Trans-Africa forum and the author of a new book on Haiti, Randall Robinson, we'll also feature live reports from Haiti and Miami; also, the Block Report takes a look at the impending state murder of Troy Davis in Georgia; and our regular news report from the International Middle East Media Center in occupied Palestine.

Friday, July 13, 2007 The battle for a day laborer center in the Mission District continues as activists get arrested trying to liberate private property for the people; also, we’ll feature a teach-in speak-out sponsored by World Can’t  Wait asa part of their Mission of a Generation conference this weekend; and we’ll hear about a conference in Oakland to galvanize against police violence.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 Bush claims success is possible in Iraq; we'll have a special report from occupied Baghdad, and take a look at the daily struggle people face just to stay alive there; also, we'll have an update from World Can't Wait on their campaign to run the Bush administration out of the White House; human rights activists set sail to Gaza in protest against continuing illegal Israeli occupation; the International Middle East Media Center reports that Israeli occupation forces were met with stiff resistance in their attempt to invade a refugee camp in central Gaza; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Sorry, no writeup for this broadcast, but audio is available.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007  Cindy Sheehan threatens to run the Speaker of the House out of office if Nancy Pelosi fails to endorse impeachment proceedings, we'll speak with Sheehan, who is on a 13-day cross-country caravan to Washington DC; also, the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was murdered by Israeli occupation forces, start legal proceedings against the Caterpillar bulldozer corporation; a news summary of the latest Israeli violence in occupied Palestine; how Canadians are supporting US military resisters seeking political refuge; and the Knight Report.

Monday, July 9, 2007  In Iraq, the US military continues to use white phosphorus on the civilian population and the death toll continues to rise despite US claims to the opposite, we'll have an in-depth report from Dahr Jamail; also, Day laborer and immigrants rights activists liberate a building in the Mission District in San Francisco to be used as a center for a hiring hall for day laborers; JR and the Block Report speaks with a couple whose teenage son was shot in the face by Oakland police for no reason; plus, John Ross talks about Mexico one year after the election steal; and the Knight Report.

Friday, July 6, 2007 We’ll go to the Arizona-Mexico border and the Tohono O’odam Nation for a report on the deaths of 19 migrants in the last 20 days; also, we’ll look at the commuting of the Libby sentence in the context of the treatment of indigenous Americans including political prisoner Leonard Peltier; we’ll hear about two youth speak-outs coming up next week in the Bay Area; Nora’s report back on the US social forum; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol remembers Frida Kahlo on what would have been her 100th birthday.

Thursday, July 5, 2007 Israeli military death squads kill 11 Palestinians in the Gaza strip as food and medicine supplies run short; also we'll take a close look at the Libby case in the context of mandatory minimums and who really goes to jail; and we'll take a look at the anti-militarism movement in Japan and Asia.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007 We continue our reporting from the United States Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia. We'll hear a moving speech from an indigenous leader on the history of US imperialism in North America, Ziad Abbas of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in the Dheisheh refugee camp talks about the history of US involvement in occupied Palestine, and South African activist, poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus in an intimate discussion on the forum, the movement and what keeps him motivated to continue the fight.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007 We'll have an in-depth report on the commuting of the sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, we'll speak to a former high-level CIA analyst, a friend to Valerie Plame, and we'll also speak with award-winning investigative reporter Robert Parry; also, we'll have an update on the case of Mumia abu-Jamal, 25 years after his false conviction, JR and the Block Report will speak with Pam Africa about the case.

Monday, July 2, 2007  We spend the entire hour listening to the first half of a riveting panel discussion on new paradigms for social change, one of the last sessions from the US Social Forum in Atlanta as we kick off a week of reports and voices from many different movements, collaborating at the Forum

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Friday, June 29, 2007 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. Headlines in the region, Flashpoints in español.

Thursday, June 28, 2007 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

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 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.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007  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.

Monday, June 25, 2007  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.

Friday, June 22, 2007 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

Thursday, June 21, 2007 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.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007  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.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 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.

Monday, June 18, 2007 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. Friday, June 15, 2007 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.

Thursday, June 14, 2007 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.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 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

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 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.

Monday, June 11, 2007  We spend the hour listening to the national Pacifica broadcast, Cages and Dreams: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession in Palestine.

Friday, June 8, 2007 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.

 Thursday, June 7, 2007 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. 

Wednesday, June 6, 2007 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.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007  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.

Monday, June 4, 2007  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.

Friday, June 1, 2007 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.

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Thursday, May 31, 2007 Corporations complicit in torture: the ACLU files a lawsuit against Boeing corporation for their contracts with the CIA to transport detainees to countries in the US government's illegal program of extraordinary rendition; also, Palestinian American activists talk about the 40/60 Campaign to call international attention to the 40 years of Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and nearly 60 years of ethnic cleansing; plus, the state of journalism in a time of war: we re-broadcast an excerpt of award-winning filmmaker and journalist John Pilger, talking about the press and his new book, Freedom Next Time; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 An in-depth look at the unraveling situation for Palestinian refugees who remain displaced inside Lebanese refugee camps; also, Israeli war planes continue to attack Gaza, killing two Palestinians; two young boys from Gaza, both of them seriously wounded from recent Israeli attacks, join us in the Flashpoints studio as we talk about Israel's continuous shredding of childhood in occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007  Over 20,000 Palestinians have now fled refugee camps in northern Lebanon as food and medical aid is restricted by constant attacks by the US-backed Lebanese army; plus, Israeli warplanes continue to pound the Gaza strip; gas gouging in a time of war - why oil profits are soaring and Bush's allies are making a killing; also, military mothers continue to speak out against the war; and the Knight Report.

Monday, May 28, 2007 We spend the hour listening to a riveting speech by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, on the Zionist project to purge Palestinians from their homeland from 1948 through today, and his new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Friday, May 25, 2007 The United States rushes millions of dollars in military equipment to support the Lebanese military attack on refugee camps in Northern Lebanon, we'll have two reports from the ground on the condition of the refugees and the widening political involvement of the US; In the Margins: poetry with Carolyn Norr; and Flashpoints en Espanol, staff sergeant Camilo Mejia talks about becoming a conscientious objector and activist against Bush's war in Iraq. Thursday, May 24, 2007  We continue our reporting from northern Lebanon, where the Lebanese army continues to besiege the densely-populated Nahr El-Bared refugee camp; also, Ali Abunimah talks about US-backed Palestinian counter-revolutionaries fomenting violence and suffering in Lebanon and Palestine; plus, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on Bush's presidential finding to destabilize Iran through the CIA; JR reports back on the crucial Mumia abu-Jamal hearing in Philadelphia; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Over 2,000 Palestinian refugee families uprooted again and fleeing for their lives, we'll have a special report from the Bidalwi camp in Northern Lebanon; Ali Abunimah talks about corporate media's response to the refugee issue; also, Samar Assad of the Palestine Center in Washington DC talks about the refugees and the arger political background; plus, BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast talks about the latest Bush scams; and the Knight Report.
 
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 A report from the Bidalwi refugee camp, where hundreds of Palestinians are streaming in from the nearby camp under siege now for three days in northern Lebanon; also, environmental activist and scientist Rania Masri reports from Beirut on the real origins of the Fatah al-Islam group and the implications of the recent bombing inside the city; plus, CIA asset Toto Constante ordered to stay in the US and face legal proceedings regarding his US-supported war crimes in Haiti; and the Knight Report.

Monday, May 21, 2007 Lebanese security forces continue shelling for a second day the Nahar al-Barad refugee camp, killing over 40 and wounding many more, we'll have a report from an eyewitness and commentary from our special correspondent in Beirut, where two bombings shook the city in the last 24 hours; also, Israeli war planes pummel the Gaza strip, as ground troops prepare what may be a massive ground invasion, we'll speak with Mohammed Omer in Rafah. Friday, May 18, 2007 An in-depth interview with former Army staff sergeant, conscientious objector and anti-war activist Camilo Mejia, we talk about the torture and the killing of civilians he was asked to carry out in US-occupied Iraq, his emerging from the war as a truth-teller and war resister, and his brand-new book, the Road from ar-Ramadi, the Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia; also, Israeli historian Ilan Pappe talks about the escalating ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the expanding occupation policies that continue to destroy Palestinian life.

Thursday, May 17, 2007  Internationally-renowned investigative reporter and filmmaker John Pilger talks about the limitless occupation in Palestine, the war in Iraq, the current pathetic state of mainstream journalism, and his new book Freedom Next Time; also Israeli air strikes kill two and injure at least thirty Palestinians in occupied Gaza, while Israeli occupation death squads kidnap more Palestinians inside the West Bank; we'll have a report from the courtroom where political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal is appealing his death row conviction.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 An in-depth report on homeland security and Boeing's “Project 28” to build endless hundred-foot towers along hundreds of miles of the US-Mexico border;  23 Palestinians dead in Gaza today as factional violence intensifies while Israel launches a series of air strikes; a call to action as Mumia abu-Jamal awaits a pivotal hearing tomorrow; noted historian Tariq Ali on the Bolivarian revolution in Latin America; and the Knight Report.
 
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 The Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House gone Wild, we'll hear from BBC reporter Greg Palast, who spoke in San Jose recently; also, at least ten Palestinians killed in factional fighting in Gaza as Israeli occupation forces attack and injure Palestinians in the West Bank, on this 59th anniversary of the beginning of Israel's ethnic cleansing project; and the Knight Report.
Monday, May 14, 2007  Buying the War; we'll hear excerpts from Bill Moyer's new documentary on the way in which the US corporate media was complicit in selling the war to the world; also, Laila el-Haddad reports from the imploding occupied Gaza strip, here factional violence claimed the lives of eight Palestinians in a 48 hour period,as Israel plans its next offensive.

Friday, May 11, 2007 A new speech by Michael Parenti on political perception and deception; also liberation theology is alive and well whether the current pope likes it or not; we'll have a commentary by Miguel Gavalan Molina.

Thursday, May 10, 2007  US Secretary of State and former Chevron board member Condoleezza Rice refuses to answer questions about her actions on behalf of Chevron; also, we play excerpts of the hard-hitting film, Occupation 101, which lays out the bare facts of the illegal Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007  A US Federal judge dismisses all immigration charges against right-wing Cuban-American terrorist and CIA asset Luis Posada Carriles; also, former  President Jimmy Carter takes on apartheid, Israeli-style; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007 A fiery speech by Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater and the corporate privatizing of police power; and the Knight Report

Monday, May 7, 2007 We’ll feature a special in-depth interview with Chicana writer, activist, and teacher, Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, whose social justice work around racism and multiculturalism is legendary and Ali Abunimah talks about the tragic case of high-profile Palestinian political prisoner, Azmi Bishara.

Friday, May 4, 2007  A special report after a year the Mexican police and security forces attacked, raped and killed the people of San Salvador Atenco; also a personal account of the revolutionary changes in Venezuela under the leadership of Hugo Chavez and Flashpoints en Español.

Thursday, May 3, 2007 A freewheeling interview with the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States, we'll take an in-depth look at the new Bolivarian revolution being led by Hugo Chavez, and some of the key programs that have already changed the lives of the Venezuelan people; also, the Block Report interviews a member of the Angola 3, 35 years after he was wrongfully arrested and convicted; and the Knight report.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Police in L.A. Open fire on immigrants rights activists with tear gas and rubber bullets; we''ll feature an eye-witness account of the police riot and how movement leaders plan to respond to the on going government repression of undocumented workers and their supporters; Also the dems cave in to Bush and the endless war in Iraq; And we'll have the Knight report with Robert Knight

Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Live from the Mission District at New College of California, we'll report on the new immigrants' rights revolution and the battle to protect the rights of millions of undocumented workers and their families and supporters; we'll be joined by leaders in the movement to talk about the ongoing ICE raids and the battle to restrain the federal government from criminalizing the entire undocumented and immigrant worker population; and the Knight Report.

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Monday, April 30, 2007 Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail continues his reporting from on the ground in Lebanon, where he delves into the heart of Lebanese politics and the Israel factor; also, noted radical scholar and author Michael Parenti talks about the stealing of elections, taking a close look at 2006; and the Knight Report continues its focus on Somalia.

Friday, April 27, 2007 We feature an interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s most Powerful Mercenary Army; also, we’ll have an update on the ICE immigration raids being carried out across this countryand terrorizing millions of people and entire communities and Flashpoints en Español.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports from southern Lebanon as people try to rebuild their lives after last summer's Israeli-American siege; also, Greg Palast talks about the stealing of the 2008 election and the battle between Hugo Chavez and the Bush Administration; and the Knight Report focuses in on the expanding US-supported war in Somalia.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 After a bloody weekend in the occupied West Bank, is Israel preparing to once again re-invade and destroy Gaza? We'll speak with the executive director of the International Middle East Media Center, George Rishmawi; also a report on the continuing economic and ethnic cleansing of New Orleans' poor and working class; Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich breaks the silence in Congress and introduces articles of impeachment for vice president Dick Cheney; we'll speak to a former prosecutor and the head of Project Censored about the significance of this action; and the Knight Report.

Monday, April 23, 2007  Former high-level CIA analyst speaks out against the Democrats and their unwillingness to restrain Bush against the expanding war and occupation of Iraq; Nora Barrows-Friedman reports back on her three-week visit to Palestine; award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry talks about the release of extreme right-wing Cuban-American terrorist Luis Posada Carilles, the mastermind of the 1976 mid-air bombing of an Air Cubana commercial flight; and the Knight Report.

Friday, April 20, 2007 We broadcast from our New College of California studios in San Francisco’s Mission District; We continue our in-depth coverage of the immigrants rights revolution, we look at the upcoming May 1st mobilizations, and speak with Alfredo DeAvila from the Applied Research Center and other community organizers; Also, after the release of known terrorist Louis Posada Carrilles from a Texas jail, Gloria LaRiva joins us to analyze the aftermath of this tragic decision; Details on an upcoming concert by labor singer George Mann and our very ownFrancisco Herrera; Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints in Español.

Thursday, April 19, 2007  Political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal's last appeal is less than one month away, We'll hear from the Chairwoman of the Free Mumia Campaign on this last appeal and the backlash faced by supporters from the police; We'll have commentary from Death Row by Mumia Abu Jamal; Also, as the oil war rages on in the Middle East, we look at the oil war in Nigeria and air part two of a two part interview with Nigerian activist and investigative reporter Omoyele Sowore; and In the Margins we feature the poetry of June Jordan.


Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Nora Barrows-Friedman continues her reporting from the occupied West Bank; she documents the ongoing destruction of the city of Nablus and the Balata Refugee Camp by the Israeli occupation military and speaks with a human rights activist who videotaped the Israeli military using Palestinian children as human shields; also, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad speaks about politics, Palestine and poetry; and the Knight Report.

Monday, April 16, 2007 A keynote address by physicist, ecofeminst, activist and author Dr.  Vandana Shiva, a civic, ethical, and moral response to the global environmental emergency, from the 25th annual Public Interest and Environmental Law conference at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, Oregon,; Plus a few words from the late author Kurt Vonnegut; And In The Margins, we feature the spoken word poetry of Filipino-American writer/performer Aimee Suzara; And, the Knight Report.

Friday, April 13, 2007We'll speak with Laila Al-Arian for an update on the health of her father Dr. Sami Al-Arian, who has been a political prisoner for over 1500 days; Also, the United Nations is sending a special investigator on the Human Rights of Migrants to the Bay Area to investigate the recent ICE raids,
 
Thursday, April 12, 2007  Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the occupied West Bank on the ongoing illegal Israeli settlement colony expansion and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land; she speaks with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions as he explains the policies, and spends time with residents of a village south of Bethlehem who are losing their land to an encroaching settlement colony; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Nineteen months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast half of the
African American population remains displaced, The Block Report speaks with New Orleans matriarch Mama D; Also, your tax dollars at work, the U.S. State Department privatizes the War Machine, we speak with Jeremy Scahill on his new hard-hitting book; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007  We speak with Nora Barrows-Friedman from the Occupied West Bank on media censorship by the United States and the current situation on the ground for Palestinians; Also, the humanitarian crisis in Syria grows as more Iraqis flee from U.S. invasion, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports from Damascus; The Bush administration's secret immigration proposal was leaked last week, we talk about indentured servitude with an activist working on policy issues; Also, calls to halt ICE raids; we hear sounds from last weekend's L.A. protest; and the Knight Report.


Thursday, April 5, 2007  We continue our series of panels from the third annual Al Jazeera Media Conference with part two of a two-part panel featuring Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail on the viability of in-depth reporting in a time of war; legendary media critic, journalist and author, Bill Moyers, speaks on widening class inequalities and the privatization of America; also, In the Margins features the spoken word poetry of chairman Fred Hampton, Jr; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Minister of Information JR speaks with Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. on Barak Obama's run for the Presidency, Chicago Mayor Daly's twenty years in power,  and the domestic war; Also, we continue our series of panels from the Third Annual Al-Jazeera Media Conference with part one of a two part panel  featuring Flashpoints Special Correspondent Dahr Jamal on the viability of in-depth reporting in a time of war. Tuesday, April 3, 2007 We speak with Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho, she uncovered the involvement of high level Mexican government officials in a child pornography and prostitution network and recently received the 2007 Amnesty International Sagan award for Women and Children's Rights. Also, we continue our series of voices from the Third Annual Al Jazeera Media Conference. Today we feature keynote speach given by Pulitzer Prize winning publisher and journalist Seymore Hersh. And the Knight Report. I'm Emily Howard with Miguel Guerrero, all this straight ahead on Flashpoints - stay tuned.                                  
                                                                         
Monday, April 2, 2007 Part one in a week long series of panel discussions from the Third Annual Al-Jazeera Media Conference, the panelists discuss in-depth, the role of the media and citizen journalism leading professional journalism to the stories affecting people's lives, while connecting struggles across borders, class and race lines; and the Knight Report.
                                                                         

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Friday, March 30, 2007 While the volatile situation on immigration rages across the country, we are joined by members of the International Indian Treaty Council and the American Indian Movement to talk about the U.N. Resolution on Indigenous Rights; Also, The Chavez Code author and international human rights lawyer Eva Golinger on indigenous land struggles in Venezuela; Headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español. Thursday, March 29, 2007 A hard-hitting interview with Peter Eisner, author of The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build Its Case for War In Iraq; also, Bill Moyers in a recent speech on the current political climate in the United States; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007  Resisting the Israeli occupation through photography, we'll speak to activists putting cameras into the hands of Palestinian refugee youth; also, Australian journalist and author Antony Lowenstein takes the occupation head-on and challenges Zionist policy and Jewish nationalism in his new book; a commentary by a sophomore at Stanford University on the role and responsibility of Jewish Americans in the context of Israeli policy in Palestine; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007  A sewage treatment plant in bad need of repair bursts and floods an entire Bedouin village in the northern occupied Gaza strip, killing at least six Palestinians, we'll get a report from Dr. Mona al-Farra on the ground in Gaza; also, Israeli anarchist and feminist scholar Dr. Dalit Baum talks about direct actions to target the corporate profiteering of the illegal occupation of Palestine; a look at the univestigated serial mass murders of women in Juarez, at the US-Mexico border; and the Knight Report.

Monday, March 26, 2007 We'll get an update on the health condition of Dr. Sami al-Arian, professor and Palestinian-American activist after he temporarily suspended his life-threatening hunger strike in protest against the US
Friday, March 23, 2007 We broadcast live from Sonoma State University at the ninth annual  Labor and Social Action Conference! The theme of tonight's program is in the context of Immigrant Rights In North Bay and Beyond. With live guests and musicians, including Peter Phillips of Project Censored.

Thursday, March 22, 2007 Dr. Sami al-Arian, professor and Palestinian-American activist on his 60th day of a life-threatening hunger strike to protest the US government's continued attacks against him, including deportation to nowhere, we'll speak to his daughter, Laila; also, muckraker Alexander Cockburn talks about the downfall of US journalism; our special correspondent Sarah Olson reports from a traveling caravan with veterans protesting the Iraq war; poetry with award-winning slam poet Mark Gonzalez; and news headlines from occupied Palestine.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Congress moves to subpoena Bush officials in the Gonzales-Gate scandal, we'll speak with Greg Palast and Bob Parry about the unfolding scandal; also, Israeli occupation forces re-invade Nablus in the West Bank, killing one Palestinian; we'll speak with a former state department diplomat about the unfolding wars in the Middle East; and the Knight Report.       

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill exposes Blackwater, the new Christian right-wing private police force, that's pushing the Bush agenda from New Orleans to Falluja; also, Alison Weir of If Americans Knew reports on a special investigation of an Israeli policy of strip-searching Palestinian and Palestinian-American children at checkpoints, borders, and airports; Michael Ratner talks about the implications of the US Attorney General's political attacks on prosecutors; and the Knight Report.

Monday, March 19, 2007 

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Friday, March 16, 2007 Kathy Kelly speaks out against four years of bloody war and occupation; also, leading Palestinian rights activist Huwaida Arraf talks about what solidarity looks like in the context of the unending Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine while commemorating the fourth anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie; direct actions planned against Chevron and other war profiteers; and Flashpoints en Español.

Thursday, March 15, 2007 We're back in the San Francisco Mission District at New College of California with an immigrant youth speak out against the war; we'll also have a report from Washington, DC, where a number of activists were arrested at the Capitol for protesting the failure of Democrats to cut off funding for the war and occupation; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007  The White House and the Attorney General under fire for firing eight prosecutors based solely on their political views; also, protesters occupy the Congressional offices in Maryland and Washington DC of Senior Democrat and Dean of the Women's Caucus Barbara McCulskey; plus, more violence in occupied Palestine as Israeli death squads continue to round up innocent Palestinians; the former attorney for the government of Haiti unmasks phony attacks on President Aristide and legendary Haitian folksinger So Anne; and the Knight Report

Tuesday, March 13, 2007  A special Block report on the San Francisco Black Panther trial, and 25 years of oppression of Black liberation; also, military mom Tina Richards confronts David Olby, the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee about her son's treatment and the illegal war in Iraq; plus, in violation of all previous agreements, Israel continues to wipe out Palestinian villages and cleanses the West Bank with illegal settlement colonies; Native Americans score a victory against dam builders in California; and the Knight Report.

 
Friday, March 9, 2007  Alfred McCoy talks about torture, psychological warfare and the CIA;
also, 361 Latin American women arrested in Massachusetts and separated from  over 100 of their children; Nane Alejandrez, director of Barrios Unidos, talks about the real causes of youth violence in the context of the attacks on the immigrant communities; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Thursday, March 8, 2007  Today on a special International Women's Day edition of Flashpoints, we hear the words of 27 year old Iraqi blogger Riverbend; looking at Palestinian refugee women's rights and resistance under Israel's brutal occupation and ethnic cleansing program; and Lebanese women document their lives through film, celebrated this week at a Bay Area film festival; and the Block Report also celebrates the work of Black Panthers, community activism and youth culture through film.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
Tuesday, March 6, 2007  Former chief of staff for vice president Cheney faces up to 25 years in jail, being convicted on 4 felony counts, will this be the end of the road for the Plame investigation or will it open the door for bigger fish?  Also, Israeli occupiers shoot two Palestinians in another lockdown in the West Bank in anticipation of the building of further illegal settlements; and an update on the national battle for immigrants' rights.

Monday, March 5, 2007 Active-duty soldiers speak out against the war; we’ll speak to a former sniper, a career military sergeant, and feature several panels of vets engaged in different forms of resistance against the expanding war in Iraq, including redressing Congress to cut off funds; we’ll also be joined by a mother whose son has been psychologically devastated by his duties; and we’ll speak with independent journalist Sarah Olson about the case  of Ehren Watada.

Friday, March 2, 2007 An update on the militarization of the US-Mexican border and the battle for immigrants’ rights in the border states; also, immigrants’ rights activists are arrested at the San Francisco Federal Building at the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; we’ll have an in-depth report on the continuing battle by the grassroots activists in Oaxaca, Mexico; and we’ll speak to an artist who is curating an exhibit on resistance poster art in Oaxaca; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol. 

Thursday, March 1, 2007  Israeli occupation force death squads continue their illegal invasions into the northern West Bank, we'll get a report from the ground in Nablus amidst an ongoing bombing of the city; also, military families challenge the Democrats to take a real action to stop the war; Reese Ehrlich reports on Israeli and US training of revolutionary Kurds in a program to destabilize Iran; and the Knight Report.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Israeli death squads re-invade Nablus and extra-judicially assassinate
four Palestinians in Jenin, we'll have a full report from the International Middle East Media Center; also, the other side of Iraq: we hear the story of Suzanne Swift, a US soldier sexually assaulted by her commanding officers while serving in Iraq; plus, as George W Bush prepares to visit Latin America, his administration expands the so-called war on terror against Colombian guerrilla activists; envisioning a world without armies; poetry in our new segment, In the Margins; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Despite the continuing deadly violence against Iraqis, the US and Western corporations move in on the controlling of Iraqi oil, we'll speak with Dahr Jamail about this and other stories coming out of US-occupied Iraq; also, Israeli occupation death squads retreat from Nablus, leaving the city in shambles while residents fear their return; also, eyewitness accounts of the United Nations' December massacre in Haiti; a major victory against a member of the US-supported Haitian military; and the Knight Report.

Monday, February 26, 2007 We come to you live from the New College of California in San Francisco’s Mission District! Israeli occupation death squads invade the West Bank city of Nablus, imposing curfew and turning Palestinian homes, hospitals and schools into Israeli military outposts, detention and torture centers, we’ll get a report from the streets of Nablus as the siege tightens; also, we’ll have a student speak-out and anti-war teach-in, featuring youth from all over the San Francisco Bay Area and the state of California; and the Knight Report.

Friday, February 23, 2007  We’ll speak to a youth worker and student detained by police in Santa Rosa; We’ll also hear about the killing of a day labor in Oakland and a national crackdown on day laborers; Also, we’ll have interviews with Lynn Stewart and other members of the West Coast Anti-torture tour; Headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español.

Thursday, February 22, 2007 Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on US policy that now results in a collapse in food supplies for Iraqis; also, the Block Report visits with Mumia Abu Jamal and Pam Africa; Flashpoints goes in the margins with blues singer Musashi; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Cynthia McKinney talks about impeachment, New Orleans and expanding wars; also, immigrants' rights activists gear up for a week of action; and the Knight Report.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007  Israel and the United States once again punish Palestinians for exercising democracy under illegal military occupation; we'll speak with Ali Abunimah about yeaterday's talks in Jerusalem with Condoleezza Rice as she presses for Bush's vision of the Palestinian State; also a report back from a national impeachment conference in New York City; we'll also speak with director of Project Censored, Peter Phillips, about the coverup of torture in the 'mainstream' press, and a national boycott coming up in April; plus, we'll be joined by the filmmaker of a new documentary on impeachment and organizers of a panel with Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney coming up Thursday; and the Knight Report

Monday, February 19, 2007 We spend the hour broadcasting a riveting and important speech by noted Israeli historian and author Ilan Pappe, who documents Israel's long term plans for ethnically purging the Palestinian people from their land, from the 1940s through today.

Friday, February 16, 2007 Immigration sweeps across the country terrorize millions of undocumented workers; also, a move by day labor organizers to link up with major unions to fight the expanding repression against undocumented workers and their supporters; plus, a live performance by La Familia Son, a revolutionary Cuban band; and Flashpoints en Español.

Thursday, February 15, 2007  Israel ethnically cleanses Palestinian Bedouins from villages in the occupied West Bank, we'll also get a report from Gaza on the ongoing humanitarian crisis; Lynne Stewart, falsely convicted civil rights attorney, joins Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights in a tour to fight back against torture and anti-democratic actions of the US government; JR and the Block Report update the Black Panther re-arrest case, speaking with the son of a Panther who has been impacted by the attacks; and the Knight Report.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007  Legendary filmmaker John Pilger talks with Flashpoints about the US' war planning against Iran, the war in Iraq, the genocide in Palestine, and  the current state of journalism. Also, excerpts from his film, Stealing A Nation.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 A new feature film, The Road to Guantanamo, documents in brutal detail the US' use of kidnapping and torture in its so-called fight against terror. We'll spend the entire hour with this riveting and terrifying film that documents the administration's culpability of war crimes.

Friday, February 9, 2007  An extended interview with American Book Award winner John Ross, who h