FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints: a special report-back on free and fair elections in Venezuela and what comes next for the country that Trump would like to invade: And we’ll feature and in-depth update on the situation in Puerto Rico as the Governor of the US colony meets with Trump in Washington D.C. today.

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Israeli Palestinian peace talks reconvened in Egypt today, but will they be in vain without the U.S. taking a strong stand against Israeli Settlement Building in the West Bank. Also, Disaster in San Bruno: we have a special Upfront on the deadly explosion and speak to several concerned residents from the area, including one who would probably be dead today if his house wasn’t foreclosed on.

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Guests:

The Utility Reform Network

Khalila Sabra: U.S. campaign to end Israeli Occupation

Ray McGovern

Fred Nesbit

Dianna Gilbert

Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six by Jordan Flaherty

We bring our focus to New Orleans, 5 years after hurricane Katrina powerfully ripped up much of the city and destroyed the levees, devastating the entire community; worst hit were the poor and Black communities, more because of governmental negligence than anything else; we’ll speak with community activists and organizers who have been struggling to reconstruct the city on a grassroots level; also, we’ll speak to New Orleans-based investigative journalist and author Jordan Flaherty about his experiences during Katrina and the more recent re-emergence of cultural growth in New Orleans.
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Guests:

Jordan Flaherty, Investigative Reporter, Author and Editor of Left Turn Magazine, and featured speaker in the Community and Resistance Tour

Thom Pepper, Director of Operations for Common Ground

Viola Washington, Organizer with Welfare Organization

Jenga Mwenda, Founder of the Backyard Gardener’s network in the Lower 9th Ward

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

Is Wikileaks founder the butt of a US disinformation campaign?; Rapper/musician Wyclef Jean forbidden from Running for President in Haiti; Rapper Immortal Technique on SB1070; and comedian-turned-political run out of the Democratic primary ticket by Schumer.
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Guests:

Immortal Technique

Ray McGovern

Randy Credico

Kevin Pina

The "Media Pornography" Described by Eva Golinger

We feature a major breaking story on the direct business connections between Trans Ocean and the legendary Burmese heroine trafficking family of Lo Sing Han and his son, Stephen Law; also, Eva Golinger reports from Venezuela on a story she is labeling mass “media pornography.”
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Guests:

Thomas Maung Shwe, Reporter for Mizzima News Service speaking from Chiang Mai

Eva Golinger, Investigative News and author of the Chavez Code

Dylcia Pagan, Former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner

We will rebroadcast the compelling interview with Flashpoints’ Special Correspondent Jon Gibler on the expanding involvement of the Mexican Military and State Police in the country’s deadly drug trade; also, JR and the Block Report sit down for an extended interview with the legendary revolutionary Dylcia Pagan; and we’ll examine the decision of the 9th circuit to put an indefinite stay on same sex marriage in California.
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Guests:

Dylcia Pagan, Former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner

Dennis Herrera, San Francisco City Attorney

Leland Traiman, long time activist in the LGBT community

Elizabeth Gill, Lawyer with the ACLU of Northern California

John Gibler, Independent Reporter in Mexico

POCC Minister of Information JR and the Block Report

TIME Magazine's Recent Propaganda Cover

The Global Women’s Strike calls for support of twenty thousand Haitian women demanding the return of ousted president Jean Bertrand-Aristide; also, a look at TIME magazine’s pro-war disinformation; JR and the Block Report update the bloody wars and the growing resistance to them in the Congo.

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Guests:

Ziad Abbas, Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance and former political prisoner in Israel

Lucinda Marshall, Founder and Director of the Feminist Peace Network

Selma James, Coordinator of Global Women’s Strike and former collaborator and wife of the late CLR James

Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

POCC Minister of Information JR and the Block Report

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, who was Kidnapped and Dissapeared in Haiti August 12th, 2007

We mark the three year anniversary of the kidnapping and disappearance of Hatian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine; also, oil giant BP back in the news as they lose a 50 million dollar lawsuit for the explosion at their refineries in Texas; we feature an in-depth interview with Efia Nwangaza, the Founding Director of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self Determination on her presentation to the United Nations of human rights violations regarding the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program of the 1960′s and 70′s as well ; and on an expanded Up Front we’ll take a look at the federal judges decision today to reject a stay on last week’s Proposition 8 ruling.
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Guests:

Dahr Jamail, Investigative Reporter Focusing on the Gulf and Friend of Flashpoints

Anzel Herz, Investigative Reporter in Haiti

Wadner Pierre, Investigative Reporter in Haiti

Brian Concannon, Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

Robert Roth

Efia Nwangaza, Founding Director of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self Determination. Links to the documents discussed: POLITICAL REPRESSION – POLITICAL PRISONERS; and POLITICAL REPRESSION: CONTINUUM OF DOMESTIC REPRESSION

Thousands Protesting Section 8 Housing Failures in Atlanta Today

The economy takes another turn for the worse as thousands in Atlanta riot over housing shortages; on today’s extended Community Business, we’ll take a look at the state of today’s economy as it continues to unravel; also, an update on the case of the Scott Sisters who are serving two life sentences for an 11 dollar robbery eye witnesses say they didn’t do; and we’ll have a report on BP’s cash supporting academic apartheid at the University of California.
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Guests:

Will Evans, Investigative Reporter with California Watch

Tyson Slocum, Director of the energy program at Public Citizen

Miguel Altieri, Professor of Entemology at UC Berkeley and critic of the BP-University deal

Kambiz Mostofi, Spokesman for the family of the Scott Sisters

Catherine Austin-Fitts, Editor of Solari and Community Business contributor

A Bedouin woman sits in front of her rebuilt home in al-Araqib after it was destroyed by Israeli forces, again. (Joseph Dana)

Ali Abunimah talks about the third attempt to bulldoze a Bedouin village in apartheid Israel in two weeks; also, New Orleans-based investigative reporter, Jordan Flaherty, talks about his new book Floodlines, and gives an in-depth analysis of police corruption in New Orleans; and we’ll have a special report from Arizona on life after SB1070 and how the Tucson community is resisting.
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Guests:

Jordan Flaherty, Editor of Left Turn Magazine, Investigative Journalist and Author

Ali Abunimah, Co-founder of the Electronic Intifada and Contributing Author to Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How it Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Barni Qaasim, Phoenix Activist and Flashpoints Special Contributor (see her full video HERE)

Dan Froomkin’s video, highlighted in Up Front