FLASHPOINTS

Food Security / Anuradha Mittal

Internationally-renowned expert on trade and development Anuradha Mittal talks about the politics of food and has a good deal to say about what’s happening between African farmers and the so-called Green Revolution; also, we rebroadcast an interview with legendary South African poet and leading anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus, who passed away December 26^th.

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Guests:

Anuradha Mittal, Founder/Executive Director of the Oakland Institute

Dennis Brutus, legendary South African poet/freedom fighter (passed away December 26th, 2009)

In Cairo, plainclothes government thugs clash with demonstrators protesting Israel's assault on Gaza. (Photo © 2009 Mohamed Boraie)

Sam Husseini reports from Amman, Jordan, on ten days of protests in Cairo; also, Catherine Austin Fitts returns with Community Business, we’ll take a look at the year that just passed and what’s up ahead economically; and Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina, just back from Haiti, joins us in the studio for an update.

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Guests:

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

Sam Husseini, Institute for Public Accuracy

John Ross

Award-winning Independent of London reporter Patrick Cockburn responds to Hillary Clinton’s statements on Yemen and assesses the expanding war in Afghanistan; also, John Ross reviews the year in Mexican politics and takes a look forward at some of the key issues as the Mexican economy continues to crumble; and Andres Thomas Conteris reports on a breaking story regarding high US officials meeting with President Zelaya in the Brazilian Embassy at this hour.

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Guests:

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now and Nonviolence International

John Ross, author, historian and poet

Patrick Cockburn, Independent of London

Leonard Peltier

Jewish Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist Heddy Epstein, 
is the First to sign the Cairo Declaration to End Israeli
Apartheid: In her on-going dialogue with Flashpoints,
Heddy Epstein explains why; Also, a special report from 
Chiapas on the anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising: 
and American Indian Movement Founder, Bill Means, 
remembers Wounded Knee on the hundred and tenth 
anniversary of US Calvary Slaughter there, and calls for 
the release of Leonard Peltier.
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Guests:

Heddy Epstein
Bill Means
Alejandro Reyes 

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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Stop AIPAC

An encore presentation of our in-depth interview with Jefferey Blankfort, a leading investigator into the pervasive powers of AIPAC, the US-Israeli lobby; and we’ll rebroadcast our interview with exiled Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya, who talks about the ongoing impact of US occupation policy in her country.

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Guests:

Jefferey Blankfort, investigative journalist

Malalai Joya, author, A Woman Among Warlords

...from Footnotes in Gaza (Joe Sacco)

A year of corruption, privatization and violence in US-occupied Iraq, we’ll get a full report from our correspondent Ahmed Habib; also, we continue our speak-out from Cairo and hear why Holocaust survivor and hunger striker Hedy Epstein refused to get on the bus to Gaza today; and award-winning cartoonist and reporter Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza, talks about his new book and the story of two massacres in 1956 that still echo throughout the Gaza strip.

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Guests:

Ahmed Habib, journalist and spoken word artist

Hedy Epstein, Holocaust survivor and Gaza Freedom March delegate

Joe Sacco, award-winning cartoonist/reporter, author of Footnotes in Gaza

Gaza Freedom March

Voices from Cairo as over 1500 people gather for a Gaza Freedom March; also, legendary comedian, satirist and lead writer for Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney live in the studio with JR and the Block Report.

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Guests:

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Dr. Mona al-Farra, physician and director of Gaza Projects with Middle East Children’s Alliance

Hedy Epstein, Gaza Freedom March delegate

Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada

Paul Mooney, legendary comedian

Dennis Brutus

Our special correspondent in the occupied West Bank, Jamal Juma, jailed by Israel for his nonviolent activism; also, a Holocaust survivor goes on hunger strike in protest to Egypt’s lockout of the Gaza Freedom March, we’ll also speak to Barbara Lubin in Cairo; plus, Andres Conteris reports on the upsurge of death squad violence under the coup regime in Honduras; we remember noted South African poet and freedom fighter Dennis Brutus; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Hindi Mesleh, anti-apartheid wall activist and organizer with Stop the Wall Campaign

Hedy Epstein, peace activist and Holocaust survivor

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!

Excerpts from an interview in 2007 with Dennis Brutus

Israeli attacks on Gaza

Holiday Special, Part 3:

Today on Flashpoints: We rebroadcast part three of our three part series on the massive US/Israeli carpet bombing of the Gaza Strip, A year ago: During more than three weeks of US/Israeli bombing, by land, air and sea, over 1400 Palestinians were killed, including three hundred children. There was no where to hide: Schools, UN compounds, mosques, Hospitals, entire neighborhoods were leveled, using the latest in advanced weaponry, including the infamous DIME bomb.

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