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Gloria and Jacobo Arenas

An in-depth look at yesterday’s Fort Hood shooting, with Dahr Jamail; also, American Indian Movement founder Bill Means joins us to talk about a major visit by the United Nations to the Pine Ridge Reservation yesterday; We’ll also get a report from the Brazilian embassy in Honduras where the talks between President Zelaya and the coup government have broken down, and the deal has unraveled; we’ll hear about the harrowing story of two Mexican revolutionaries who were just released from prison after spending a good chunk of their lives locked down for advocating the overthrow of the Mexican government; and news headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Project Censored

Dahr Jamail, author and journalist

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now and Nonviolence International

John Gibler, reporter

Jimbo Simmons and Bill Means, American Indian Movement

Arundhati Roy

An in-depth interview with internationally-renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy, Roy is the author of a brand-new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. She speaks about the new book and the deterioration of real democracy around the world; also, we get an update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Arundhati Roy, Award-winning novelist and essayist

Jeff Mackler, Director, National Campaign to Free Mumia Abu Jamal

Single Payer Healthcare

An in-depth look at the health care reform package moving through the House; and why advocates of single-payer claim that the health care bill is not even close to what is really needed to transform the system;  also, we continue our series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Donna Smith, Community Organizer for CNA

Chuck Idelson, CNA Spokesman

Cindy Young, CSEA

Daniel Hodges, Access Single Payer

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Judge Richard Goldstone

The US Congress votes to condemn the Goldstone Report, which corroborates Palestinians’ accounts of massive war crimes during the massacres in Gaza earlier this year, we’ll speak to a poet and activist who was disinvited from a conference of the so-called alternative to the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, because of his views on Palestine; also, legendary economist Naomi Klein talks about California’s budget crisis, student fee hikes and disaster capitalism in a recent speech at UC Berkeley; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Josh Healey, poet and activist

Naomi Klein, author, The Shock Doctrine

(Thanks to Davey D for this audio recording at UC Berkeley)

"Dow Accepts Full Responsibility for Bhopal Disaster" - Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men

We continue our multi-part series on the anatomy of a financial coup d’etat, on a day when new revelations show that Goldman Sachs secretly bet on the US housing crash; also, environmentalists win a major victory in Oregon, in reversing a draconian law that restrained peaceful environmental activists from protesting the destruction of land and wildlife; plus, how The Yes Men Fix The World, an interview with corporate prankster Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men and Antonia Juhasz of Global Exchange’s Chevron Program; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Lauren Regan, Staff attorney and director of Civil Liberties Defense Center

Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men

Antonia Juhasz, Director, Chevron Program, Global Exchange; author, The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What we Must do to Stop It

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya

Has a deal been struck that will restore President Zelaya to power in Honduras? We’ll speak to our sources inside the Brazilian Embassy, where the President is still holding court; also, a roundtable discussion on coups and regional policy from Honduras to Venezuela to Haiti; news headlines from Project Censored; and Flashpoints en Espanol will also look at Zelaya’s possible return.

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Guests:

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! and Nonviolence International

Lisa Sullivan, SOA Watch in Caracas, Venezuela

Martin Sanchez, San Francisco Consul General to Venezuela

Kevin Pina, FP Haiti Special Correspondent

Miguel Perez, Flashpoints en Espanol

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

A benefit to save one of the most important Black churches in New Orleans; we’ll speak to Colonel Ann Wright about the bloody and explosive situations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan; also, legendary economist and author of The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, in a rabble-rousing speech on UC Berkeley campus; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Colonel Ann Wright (retired)

Naomi Klein, economist and author, The Shock Doctrine (Thanks to Davey D for this audio recording)

Sakura Kone, National Campaign Coordinator to Restore Wesley United in New Orleans

Brad Will. Shot and killed in Oaxaca, 2006

We continue our multi-part series, the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; plus, we’ll speak to John Ross in Mexico City about the murder or Brad Will in Oaxaca three years ago; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

John Ross, historian, author and poet

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Anna Terrell Blanton, Reginald Blanton's mother, at the state-sponsored execution

As we go to air, the state of Texas may have just murdered Reginald Blanton, another innocent man, we’ll feature a series of interviews from the death house in Huntsville, Texas, including an interview with Blanton’s uncle and a last-minute plea from his mother, Ana Blanton, for the state to spare her son’s life; also, we’ll look at a project to restore a key activist church in New Orleans that was destroyed by Katrina; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Gloria Rubeck, anti death penalty activist

Reginald Blanton’s uncle and mother (thanks to Davey D for pre-recorded interviews and sounds from the protest in Austin)

Sakura Kone, National Campaign Coordinator to Restore Wesley United

Iraqis gather at the site of the massive bomb attack at the Ministry of Justice in Baghdad. Photo: AP

Over 150 people killed in twin suicide car bombings of several government buildings in Central Baghdad; also, Israeli police attack Palestinian protesters at the al-Aqsa Mosque, the site where Ariel Sharon provoked the second intifada; plus, leading Afghan women’s activist, Zoya, debunks the myth that entrenching the US occupation of Afghanistan will save women and children; on our continuing series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat, Catherine Austin Fitts talks about how crime pays on Wall Street; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Ahmed Habib, al-Jazeera reporter and spoken word poet

Jamal Jumaa, Stop the Wall Campaign in occupied Palestine

Zoya, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network