FLASHPOINTS

We continue our coverage of the Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen; we’ll talk to a leader in the Indigenous Environmental Network and hear from a food aid activist about Russia’s decision today to gut the Kyoto Protocols; also, Noam Chomsky confronted on his claims that a two-state solution is still possible in Palestine.

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According to secret documents, The G-8 supports
climate policies that Jeopardize the entire African
Continent; We'll feature and in-depth interview with
the Sudanese Chairman of the G-77 about the secret
document and its potentially deadly impact on
hundreds of millions of Africans: we also speak to a
Kenyan food aid worker who helped lead a march at
the Climate Summit to protest the secret document.
We'll get a report from Honduras confirming fraud in 
the recent sham election: JR and the Block Report 
and extensive violence by the coup-government during
talk to Mumia Abu Jamal plus the Knight report.

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cartoon by Khalil Bendib

We continue our reporting on the multiple impacts of Obama’s war policy; we’ll 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, we’ll talk to a radical comedian who is challenging Charlie Schumer for the US Senate seat in New York; we’ll have a preliminary report on the sentencing of the Cuban Five in Miami; and we’ll also hear about the victory of a local activist who was beaten, arrested and indicted on felony charges for standing against the endless wars; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Thomas Mahaney, Veteran

Georgia Stillwell Bissionette, anti-war mom

Stephanie Tang, World Can’t Wait

Walter Riley, attorney

Randy Credico, New York Senate Candidate

Gloria La Riva, Free the  Cuban Five

Nativo Lopez

We’ll devote most of the show to Latino civil rights and worker activist Nativo Lopez; we’ll evaluate the Obama administration and hear about what’s happening in the workplace and at the border for immigrants; we’ll also have reports from Francisco Herrera on the battle to close down the torture training center at Fort Huachuca, the Green Card Campaign for real immigration reform, and a recent anti-war protest at a nuclear weapons base in Washington; plus, Flashpoints en Espanol; and news headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Francisco Herrera

Nativo Lopez, National President of Mexican-American Political Association

Project Censored

Randy Credico

The US-backed government of Haiti bans the participation of the largest pro-democracy party, the Lavalas party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; also, New York State Senate candidate and political satarist Randy Credico joins us in studio to talk about the new William Kunstler film, the war, and his comical race for Senate; JR and the Block Report weigh in on the Angola 3 case; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent to Haiti

Maryse Narcisse , Official Representative of Lavalas Political Party, designated by President Aristide

Randy Credico, New York Senate candidate, political satarist

Iraq Vets Against the War

A Native American mom speaks out against the war as her military son suffers from PTSD; also, we’ll continue our investigation into the military’s cover-up of suicide and soldier breakdowns inside Forts across the country; we’ll have a report from one of many protests taking place in opposition to the expansion of the war in Afghanistan; also, an on-the-ground report from the Gaza strip, as Israeli occupation forces continue to destroy everyday life and attack Palestinians; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Richard Becker, ANSWER Coalition

Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent and author, The Will to Resist

Pvt. Michael Kern, active-duty Army soldier, member of Iraq Veterans Against the War

Georgia Stillwell Bissomette, mother and relative of soldiers in Iraq

Lisa Lietz, Board member of Military Families Speak Out

Rami al-Meghari, FP Special Correspondent, Free Speech Radio News and Electronic Intifada

cartoon by Khalil Bendib

Today on a special bi-coastal edition of Flashpoints, We go to West Point for a live broadcast of US President Barack Obama’s intentions to escalate the war in Afghanistan; with co-host Robert Knight, we’ll have analysis of the speech, a look at the possible parallels in policy between Afghanistan and Vietnam, and we’ll be joined by award-winning independent journalist and Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail to assess the impact the war is having on soldiers and their families and to report on the growing military resistance movement.

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Guests:

Dahr Jamail, award-winning independent journalist and the author of The Will To Resist

Kevin Cooper

We’ll have a report from the resistance caravan on the ground in Honduras, as well as a report from inside the Brazilian Embassy where the current President of Honduras remains in internal exile; also, the Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal by Kevin Cooper, putting him on the fast track to the death house; we’ll speak to Greg Palast on the ten year anniversary of the Battle in Seattle, and ongoing corporate attempts to sell the Third World on derivatives and other risky financial instruments; also, Catherine Austin Fitts continues with our ongoing series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Andres Conteris, Democracy Now and Nonviolence International

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

Norman Hile, lead attorney for Kevin Cooper

Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Ali Abunimah

Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, Editor and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, delivers the keynote speech last weekend at the National Campus Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; Abunimah lays out the strategies and the tactics of the growing international movement against Israeli apartheid policies in Palestine.

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Guests:

Ali Abunimah, editor and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada

Keynote Speaker at the 2009 National Campus BDS Conference at Hampshire College, MA

— Music Break: Invincible – “The Emperor’s Clothes” —

40th Anniversary of Indian Occupation of Alcatraz

Today on a special Un-Thanksgiving edition of Flashpoints, We devote the entire hour to the continued struggle of the indigenous peoples of this continent; we’ll be joined in-studio by AIM founder Clyde Bellecourt and Bill Means, founding member of the International Indian Treaty Council and a leading expert on the history of broken treaties.

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Guests:

Clyde Bellecourt, American Indian Movement

Bill Means, International Indian Treaty Council