FLASHPOINTS

We continue our drumbeat reporting from inside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with our special correspondent Andres Conteris; also, award-winning investigative reporter Dahr Jamail talks about the troop surge and GI resistance against militarism and US occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan; legendary journalist Robert Fisk talks about Obama’s expanding wars; and Catherine Austin Fitts takes a look at the ongoing financial coup d’etat on Wall Street and in Washington DC.

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Andres Conteris reports from his post inside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, for an update on the continued standoff as President Zelaya remains inside the compound; also, the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, reaches a new and disturbing level of complicity with Israel and the US, we get striking analysis from Ali Abunimah; new revelations on the police murder of Oscar Grant; plus, a new biography on the life and work of eco-activist Rod Coronado and a close look at the struggles inside the environmental movement; and Arnoldo Garcia discusses a new report on growing human rights violations of anti-immigrant policies.

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We continue our drumbeat reporting from the streets of Tegucigalpa and inside the Brazilian Embassy, where a military coup standoff continues in Honduras; also, author and journalist Max Blumenthal dissects the inner workings of the religious right wing in his new book, Republican Gomorrah; and Jimbo Simmons of the American Indian Movement talks about the ongoing fight for indigenous rights in North America.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, We hear from four days of drumbeat coverage from the Honduran capital as President Manuel Zelaya returns to the country; Our special correspondents Tim Russo and Andres Conteris report from inside the Brazilian embassy and out in the streets as Zelaya and his supporters take refuge while Honduran military and police surround and attack the building; We’ll also get an exclusive from President Zelaya himself; and a new documentary film spotlights the Chevron-Texaco destruction of the Ecuadorian rainforest and how indigenous communities are fighting back.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, award-winning investigative journalist Max Blumenthal takes on the religious right wing in his book, Republican Gomorrah; UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in occupied Palestine, Dr. Richard Falk, analyses the UN report condemning Israel for war crimes in Gaza; also, the Knight Report investigates the US bombings in Somalia; an update on the case of political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal; and an in-depth look at the 2001 US anthrax attacks and the dark secrets of the shadowy world of modern-day germ weapons research.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Resistance to the coup in Honduras expands, we hear from one of many protests spilling into the streets of Tegucigalpa; also, environmental justice activists take on Massey Energy, a coal mining company responsible for devastating mountaintop removal; investigative journalist Bob Parry talks about the unraveling humanitarian situation against the backdrop of elections in US-occupied Afghanistan; plus, Ali Abunimah dissects Israeli and US policy in the context of ongoing illegal settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; and Anthony Fenton blows the lid off of Canada’s involvement and war profiteering in the colonial-privatization of US-occupied Iraq.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Continuing resistance to the coup on the ground in Honduras; Israeli snipers shoot at children in the occupied West Bank, killing a 15 year old Palestinian boy; the Knight Report with special analysis on Obama’s expanding war in Afghanistan; Reese Erlich on the Afghan elections and the widening drug trade; Eva Golinger talks about the regional move to close US bases in Latin America; plus, Ahmed Habib discusses the situation in US-occupied Iraq; and Catherine Austin Fitts delivers Community Business.

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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Jordan Flaherty and Malik Rahim, activists and journalists in New Orleans, reflect on the 4^th year since hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the continued inaction and injustice perpetrated by the Federal Government; also, Native American leaders prepare to reclaim Mt. Rushmore and other sacred sites across the country; Ali Abunimah talks about the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza and Obama’s policies in Palestine; plus, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern talks about the potential to jail Bush administration officials for torture and kidnapping; and the Knight Report returns from exile.

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Listen Online: Best of Flashpoints: 8-21-09.  Download the complete show by clicking here. (On this webpage at Radio4All.net, click the red and white arrow button at the bottom of the page for the complete Mp3, or click the podcast link to download through iTunes.)

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Raed Jarrar responds to the increasing violence in US-occupied Iraq; Dahr Jamail in an exclusive Flashpoints interview with Sergeant Travis Bishop, who was court martialed for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan; Al-Jazeera correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Gaza on last weekend’s bloody internal battles as the Israeli siege continues; also, we take an in-depth look at the sub-prime meltdown with documentary filmmakers Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, joined by our Community Business expert Catherine Austin Fitts.

Listen Online: Best of Flashpoints: 8-14-09.  Download the complete show by clicking here. (On this webpage at Radio4All.net, click the red and white arrow button at the bottom of the page for the complete Mp3, or click the podcast link to download through iTunes.)

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Tim Russo in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, reports on the expanding resistance to coup repression; a report by Jon Elmer in Palestine on the Israeli-US and EU partnership in creating economic ghettos in the West Bank and passing them off as so-called model cities; also, a critical look at Obama’s healthcare plan with Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action; Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi convicted for another 18 months; and the US military warehouses AWOL soldiers, pressuring some of them to go back to Iraq and Afghanistan as PTSD and suicide rates skyrocket.

Music Break: Street Sweeper Social Club, “Fight! Smash! Win!”