Posted on
August 12, 2009 by
Flashpoints
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AWOL soldiers and Military Resisters
In our continuing coverage of the coup in Honduras and the growing resistance, we’ll feature an on-the-ground report and be joined by NarcoNews Bulletin founder Al Giordano with a breaking story on close ties between Hillary Clinton and a USAID agency corporation caught funneling money to five private contractors in Honduras; plus, the US military exposed for attempting to break the will of military war resisters through the use of draconian prison conditions; we’ll have Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Knight Report.
Guests:
Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News
Al Giordano, NarcoNews Bulletin
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network
Sarah Lazare, Courage to Resist
Read Lazare and Dahr Jamail’s piece about AWOL soldiers here on TomDispatch
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Corporate Crimes, Daily, GI Resistance, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iraq, Prison issues
Posted on
August 04, 2009 by
Flashpoints
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As rain fell, Honduran police officers blocked a road last week in Jacagalpa, near Nicaragua. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
We’ll have deep background on the current multiple struggles in Iran; also, Honduran coup leaders shut down the key radio station of the resistance, we’ll have a special report from Tegucigalpa; plus, Hillary Clinton takes Africa by storm, we;ll take a look at what her policies should be in the Congo; and the Block Report with an expose on the racist imprisonment of two Black women in Mississippi.
Guests:
Andres Thomas Conteris, Flashpoints correspondent and activist with Nonviolence International
Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of History at CUNY
Kambale Musavuli, National spokesman and student coordinator, Friends of the Congo
JR and the Block Report with Terrance Scott
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Congo, Daily, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Israel, Prison issues
