FLASHPOINTS

Protesters outside St. Francis Hotel, SF

The Latino-Indigenous community goes green, we’ll speak to David Escobar, one of the key organizers of a major conference dealing with this issue in Marin County this weekend; also, we’ll get an update from the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, on stalled negotiations to restore President Zelaya; and militant activists confront and disrupt former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s speech last night in San Francisco; we’ll have news headlines from Project Censored; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

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Guests:

Project Censored

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now

Dave Welsh, social justice activist

David Escobar, Latino-Indigenous Green Movement

Miguel Perez

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky takes on Obama’s policies in the Middle East, we’ll hear from a recent speech he made at the Paramount Theater in Oakland; also, supporting the GI resistance movement through the opening of a cafe and outreach center near Fort Hood, Texas; and JR and the Block Report investigate some of the trumped-up charges of defendants in the Oakland 100 case, activists who were arrested during the rebellions against the cop murder of Oscar Grant in January.

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Guests:

Noam Chomsky, legendary historian and linguist

Mike Wong, Veterans for Peace and Asian-Americans Against the War

Capitalism

Part three of our multi-part series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts, today, we’ll look at the role of banks and financial institutions, raiding agencies and various US government bodies; also, we’ll take an in-depth look at the logic and apparent racism that surrounded the Judge’s decision to change the venue for the trial of the police murder of Oscar Grant.

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Guests:

Larry Everest, author, historian and civil rights activist

Catherine Austin Fitts,  Solari Network

Guantanamo Bay Prison

We’ll feature part two of our multi-part series, the Anatomy of a Financial Coup d’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; also, the US Supreme Court agrees to hear the case of 13 Uighurs who are still being held at Guantanamo, five years after they were to be released; plus, we’ll speak to the filmmaker of The Road to Fallujah, who is kicking off a national tour of US universities, attempting to build bridges of communication between American and Iraqi college students; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Mark Manning, filmmaker, The Road to Fallujah, and Global Access Media

Financial Coup D'Etat

We kick off our multi-part series, The Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat, with Catherine Austin Fitts; also, high-level US Generals contradict General Stanley McChristol’s logic in a call for more troops and say the policy will likely strengthen the Afghan insurgency; JR and the Block Report talk to the father of one of Oscar Grant’s friends who was witness to his murder about Oakland’s decision to change the venue for the killer cop’s trial; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Gareth Porter, investigative historian and journalist; author, Perils of Dominance

Jack Bryson, father of two of Oscar Grant’s friends, who were witness to Grant’s murder

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

As we go to air, Flashpoints sources tell us
that a deal may have been struck to restore deposed Honduran President
Maunel Zelaya to power; we’ll have a report from inside the besieged
Brazilian Embassy, where the president is still surrounded by heavily
arm security forces loyal to the coup government: Also will speak two
to the leadings advocates for the rights of undocumented workers in
the US, now under attack by Janet Napolitano, and the Department of
Homeland Security…and on Flashpoints in Espanol, we”ll have an
update on the Mexican government’s military operations to bust the
Electrical workers Unions.
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Guests:

Andres Thomas Conteris,  Democracy Now
Angelica Salas, Exec. Dir. , CHIRLA: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Richard Hobbs, SIREN: Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network
Francisco Herrera
John Ross

New Orleans, October 2009 (via AP)

Greg Palast talks about healthcare and the corporations that are trying to kill it; also, a report from a protest in Santa Clara, California, against Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and the continuing draconian policies against undocumented workers and their families; we’ll also go to the devastated Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans where President Obama visited today; plus, gearing up for a massive mobilization against US wars and occupations in the Middle East; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Jacques Morel, Louisiana Justice Institute

James Perry, New Orleans Mayoral candidate

Greg Palast, investigative reporter

Jeff Mackler and Kathy Lipscomb, co-leaders of October 17th Anti-War Coalition

MARCH AND RALLY: Saturday, Oct. 17, 12noon at UN Plaza, San Francisco

Miguel Gavilan Molina, Flashpoints’ roving producer/reporter

Israeli soldiers fire on Palestinians in Qalandiya, West Bank (courtesy of Getty/The Independent)

Internationally-renowned, award-winning journalist Robert Fisk talks about the recent takeover of central military headquarters in Pakistan, the recent corrupt elections in Afghanistan, and the situations in Iraq and Iran; also, on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll continue our discussion of the financial coup d’etat in Washington and on Wall Street; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Robert Fisk, award-winning author and journalist with the Independent of London

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Sgt. Travis Bishop, who served a tour in Iraq, is now considered to be a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. (Photo: courtesy of Travis Bishop)

Award-winning reporter and author Dahr Jamail talks about the expanding wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the growing GI resistance movement; also, we’ll have a report from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with Andres Conteris; plus, we focus on the Arab Film Festival in the Bay Area, we’ll speak to the director of the event and one of the filmmakers included in the festival; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent, author, The Will to Resist; see his new piece on GI resistance here

SPEAKING EVENTS: click here for Bay Area event calendar

Michel Shehadeh, director of the Arab Film Festival

Najwa Najjar, director, Pomegranates & Myrrh

Indigenous People’s Day Special!

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