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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, violence continues to expand across Iraq as the US occupation grinds on, we’ll hear from our special correspondent Ahmed Habib; also, Israeli forces target Palestinian justice activists while empowered Israeli settler groups continue to attack Palestinian homes across the West Bank and inside Israel as well; novelist Susan Abulhawa talks about her novel which illustrates the ongoing struggle of Palestinian refugees; Evelina Molina speaks with Arnoldo Garcia about the federal crackdown on immigrants, focusing on draconian policies in Arizona at the US-Mexico border; and a transgender community activist speaks out about sexual assault by police and the criminalization of sexuality in New Orleans.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, JR and the Block Report speak to Kimbale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo for an important update on the human rights situation in the Congo; also, Dr. Evan Lyons reports from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the humanitarian disaster for hundreds of thousands of Haitians three months after the earthquake and currently into the rainy season; Francis Boyle analyzes the front-runners for possible appointment to the Supreme Court; and author Jeff Biggers dissects the Massey coal mine disaster and how the Obama administration misleads the American public in their support of so-called clean coal.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, a respected theologian and Catholic university professor calls for the Pope to resign; also, Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman returns from the West Bank and reports on the apartheid state inside Israel and the continuing violence against Palestinian children; and Flashpoints’ poet in residence Aurora Levins Morales returns from Cuba and compares the current healthcare system there to the system in the US.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, we speak with investigative journalist Alan Nairn on the run in Indonesia. Nairn just broke a major story on the killings of civil activists in Indonesia by the military. Also, Arundhati Roy speaks about her visits w/the Maoist rebels in central India as well as legendary enviornmental activist Mike Roselle and we’ll hear a report on the expanding militarization of the U.S./Mexico border and it’s lethal impact on migrant workers.

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Drumbeat coverage from our special correspondent Kevin Pina, on the ground in Port-au-Prince, as the rains pour down and as hundreds of thousands of people demand humanitarian aid, reparations from France and the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide; well also hear an excerpt from Kevin’s film, Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits.

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Kevin Pina continues his reports from Port-au-Prince, as hundreds of thousands of people remain homeless and in critical need of shelter and food as the rainy season approaches; also, Joanna Berrigan, a medical aid worker, describes the unraveling humanitarian crisis in Haiti; plus, Andres Thomas Conteris reports back from months inside the Brazilian embassy in Honduras where he was stationed with exiled President Manuel Zelaya; we report on a new, massive weapons stockpiling agreement between the US and Israel; and Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children’s Alliance talks about the disastrous collusion between the US and the Palestinian Authority as a new wave of internal repression hits the ground in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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Kevin Pina reports from the ground in Port-au-Prince, and civil rights lawyer Walter Riley talks about the historic and current struggle of the Haitian people; also, Anand Gopal talks about US secret prison sites in Afghanistan; and we hear from a leader in the popular nonviolent resistance struggle in Palestine as Israel continues to arrest, torture and imprison civil disobedience activists across the West Bank.

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Kevin Pina continues his drumbeat reporting from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as hundreds of thousands of people remain without basic medical care, food or water as US troops undermine relief efforts; plus, Andres Thomas Conteris reports from Tegucigalpa as President Zelaya prepares to leave the Brazilian Embassy, where he has been in exile for 129 days; also, we pay tribute to legendary historian, dissident and truth-teller Howard Zinn, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 87.

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We continue our drumbeat coverage on the unfolding crisis in Haiti, as hundreds of thousands of people are dead following the massive earthquake; we’ll speak to Walter Riley, Bay Area-based civil rights attorney, just back from Port-au-Prince, also, Bill Quigley, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York talks about the large US military presence in Haiti and the undermining of relief efforts that puts more lives in danger; we speak to a medical doctor in Port-au-Prince, who has set up a makeshift hospital to treat thousands of patients; Yvon Kerizan of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund gives his eyewitness account of the suffering; and Flashpoints’ Kevin Pina heads back to Haiti.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, We devote most of the broadcast to our coverage of the earthquake and devastation in Haiti; we’ll hear from activists and journalists in Miami and Port-au-Prince; our special correspondent Kevin Pina and Pierre Labossiere of the Haiti Action Network talks about the impact of current and historical US policy in Haiti during this crisis; also, nonviolent activist and organizer Jamal Jumaa talks about his month-long detention and psychological torture by Israeli security services in a Jerusalem interrogation center; and a special report with Palestinian academic and activist Haidar Eid in Gaza City.

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