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Oakland Institute director Anuradha Mittal talks about the global food crisis, African farmers and the so-called Green Revolution; our special correspondent Kevin Pina just back from Haiti, dissects current US policy there and the ongoing struggle for human rights in an increasingly repressive situation; also, Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the world’s most powerful investment bank, the so-called vampire squid, and the year in review for community business; and Sam Husseini talks about the Cairo protests against Israeli apartheid and the failure of mainstream media to cover the unraveling situation in occupied Palestine.

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Our Iraq correspondent Ahmed Habib takes a look back at the last year of the US occupation and further corporate privatization of his country; also, voices from delegates of the Gaza Freedom March, Ali Abunimah, Barbara Lubin, Hedy Epstein and Dr. Mona al-Farra report from Cairo, Egypt; Joe Sacco talks about his new book, Footnotes in Gaza; and Andres Thomas Conteris reports from inside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, as the coup in Honduras continues to launch lethal attacks against the people in the streets.

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Kevin Pina reports from the frontlines in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the 19^th anniversary of Jean Bertrand Aristide’s first election to the presidency as US policy continues to decimate lives and undermine democracy there, also, Haiti Action Network’s Pierre Labossiere is in the studio; also, Nativo Lopez, President of the Mexican-American Political Association, talks about immigration and health care reform, and the impacts on the immigrant community; Andrew Kadi talks about how to boycott Israeli apartheid while doing your holiday shopping; and Lars Haltbrekken of Friends of the Earth – Norway speaks out at the Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen.

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We continue our reporting on the multiple impacts of Obama’s war policy; we speak to an anti-war veteran on the 26th day of a hunger strike in front of the White House; we’ll revisit with a Native American anti-war mom and hear about her son’s struggle against a devastating case of PTSD, also, Kathy Kelly speaks out against Barack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo; and an update on the case of Kevin Cooper and the fight to end the death penalty.

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President Barack Obama lays out his plans for an expanded escalation of the occupation of Afghanistan; we’ll get analysis from Robert Knight and Dahr Jamail; also, we speak with Private Michael Kern, an active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Hood who is also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, who talks about the effect that repeated deployments and growing post-traumatic stress disorder has on the military; also, we speak with members of Military Families Speak Out about their sons and relatives sent to wage Obama’s war; and Rami al-Meghari reports from the occupied Gaza strip about recent Israeli invasions and shootings into Gaza as the suffocating blockade continues.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints: Students from UC Berkeley campus talk about the struggle for education as tuition fees hike up 32% and universities face privatization; also, Kevin Pina gives us an update on the critical situation in Haiti; 150 days of a coup in Honduras, civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart goes to jail, we’ll get special reports from inside the Brazilian Embassy and on the streets of Tegucigalpa; and Ali Abunimah delivers a keynote speech at the 2009 Campus – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference last weekend.

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Afghan politician and outspoken critic of the expanding warlord corruption and US occupation of her country, Malalai Joya, talks about the war being waged against women and democracy in Afghanistan; also, former political prisoner Alaa’ Jaradat from the occupied West Bank tells us about the ongoing suffering, including widespread torture, of Palestinians inside Israeli prisons and detention camps; plus, remembering one of this country’s greatest storytellers, Brother Blue; and Military Families Speak Out on Veterans’ Day.

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This week on the best of Flashpoints, internationally-renowned author and essayist Arundhati Roy talks about her new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers; also, an in-depth look at the national health care crisis, as single-payer becomes an endangered idea; Andy Bichlbaum of the corporate prankster activist group the Yes Men talks about the power of nonviolent creative civil disobedience against multinational companies, along with Antonia Juhasz of Global Exchange; and Jewish-American poet Josh Healey discusses why he was disinvited to the J-Street conference in Washington after they learned about his pro-justice views on Palestine.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Another innocent man is murdered by the state of Texas, we’ll hear from Reginald Blanton’s mother, uncle, and anti death penalty experts; also, over 150 dead in Baghdad, we’ll speak with Ahmed Habib of al-Jazeera about the continuing despair in US-occupied Iraq; and women’s rights leader Zoya of the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan debunks the myth that more troops and an entrenched US occupation will save the Afghan women; and the Knight Report.

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We launch our multi-part series, Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; Obama’s war in Afghanstan continues to unravel, we’ll speak with investigative journalist Gareth Porter; also, protesters in San Francisco disrupt a speech given by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, attempting citizen’s arrest for the massacres in occupied Palestine; and an attorney representing members of the Uighur community, detained inside the US torture prison camp at Guantanamo, talks about the Supreme Court finally agreeing to hear their case.

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