FLASHPOINTS

Canada's Outsourced War for Iraq's Oil Riches

We continue our focus on the resistance to expanding mountaintop removal in Appalachia, we’ll speak to Mike Roselle of Climate Ground Zero; also, an in-depth investigation into Canada’s role in the occupation and colonial-privatization of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine; ongoing Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, we’ll have news headlines from Palestine; Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; and a commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Guests:

Mike Roselle, Climate Ground Zero (also check out I Love Mountains)

Anthony Fenton, investigative journalist

International Middle East Media Center

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Mumia Abu Jamal

The Cuban Five

An exclusive report from a militant anti-coup protest and march through the poor neighborhoods through Tegucigalpa; also, an update on the case of Bay Area activist Tristan Anderson, who was shot in the head with a tear-gas canister by Israeli occupation forces six months ago; plus, the Cuban Five file suit in Federal Court against the US government for paying professional journalists to write anti-Cuba stories during their trial; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Grahame Russel, Rights Action

Gabby Silverman, girlfriend of Tristan Anderson

Mara Verhayden-Hillard, Partnership for Civil Justice

Gloria LaRiva, Committee to Free the Cuban Five

Illegal Israeli settlement colony construction in the occupied West Bank

Venezuela and the United States nose-to-nose on regional and hemispheric policies, we’ll speak to the Consul General to San Francisco from Venezuela; also, continuing US-related atrocities in Afghanistan paint a dark picture for the future of that country; plus, the Israeli government starts issuing hundreds of new building permits in illegal settlement colonies in the West Bank as the “settlement freeze” becomes meaningless; a leading war resister decides to run for Congress on the Republican ticket; and a special edition of the Knight Report focuses on the expanding war in Afghanistan.

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Guests:

Martin Sanchez, Venezuelan Consul General for San Francisco

Tom Englehardt, TomDispatch

Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada

Tina Richard, Military Families Speak Out

Adam Kokesh, GI Resister and Congressional candidate

Bob Parry, Consortium News

Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Parry takes issue with whether the Iranian elections were stolen, and whether the convicted Lockerbie bomber was really the mass murderer who blew up Pan Am flight 103 in 1988; Bob Parry also talks about real journalism and what it takes to tell the truth in the mainstream.

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Guests:

Robert Parry, Consortium News

Naomi Klein

Alaskan fishermen take action to save the ocean, we’ll talk to the organizers in Homer, Alaska; also, radical economist Naomi Klein makes the case for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel; and headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Allan Parks, Alaska Marine Conservation Council

Brad Warren of Sustainable Fisheries Partnership

Naomi Klein, economist and activist, speaking in Ramallah, occupied West Bank, June 2009

The Death Penalty

12,000 people march through the streets of Tegucigalpa to protest the ongoing coup in Honduras, we’ll have a report from the ground; also, drug dealing and phony elections in Afghanistan, we’ll speak to Reese Erlich, just back from Kabul; a new survey shows that more people oppose the death penalty than ever before, yet the state keeps executing innocent people; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Tim Russo,  FSRN

Reese Erlich, author and journalist

Stephanie Faucher, Death Penalty Focus

US National Debt

We’ll look at the Obama administration’s decision to expand its military presence in Colombia and a 12-Nation declaration to oppose the US in the region; also, Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the report from the Atlanta Fed that the unemployment rate is well over 18%; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Eva Golinger, The Chavez Code

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

…check out the National Debt Clock!

Israeli occupation soldier in West Bank (Courtesy of Maan News Images)

We continue reporting on Bush and torture as the Washington Post comes out four-square pro-torture; also, Israeli occupation forces inside a sniper tower in an illegal settlement shoot and kill a 15 year old Palestinian boy in the West Bank, we’ll have a report from Palestine; and Ahmed Habib talks about the unraveling humanitarian disaster in US-occupied and besieged Iraq.

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Guests:

Ray McGovern, former high-level CIA analyst

Bekah Wolf, Palestine Solidarity Project

Ahmed Habib, journalist, poet, blogger

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Healthcare or Warfare?

A special report on Mexico: teetering on the economic brink; also, expanding resistance and repression in Honduras, we’ll feature a live report from “Coup City”; syndicated columnist Norman Solomon reports on destruction and refugee camps in Kabul; plus, the Democrats: spineless corporate rats on health care; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

John Ross, Historian, author and poet

Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter and Single Payer Action

Norman Solomon, media critic, Executive Director of Institute for Public Accuracy

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Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of AIM (via CSULB)

In the wake of the denial of parole to Native American spiritual leader Leonard Peltier, and an ongoing action to retake Mt. Rushmore, we celebrate the life and remember the history of genocide against Native Americans; a special look at the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Young Lords in East Harlem in New York City; and headlines from the students at Project Censored.

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Guests:

Jaisal Noor, reporter with Indypendent NYC Newspaper and Free Speech Radio News

Students at Project Censored

Clyde Bellecourt (introduced by Tony Gonzales), AIM co-founder

Recorded in July 2008 at the San Francisco SomArts Cultural Center, at AIM 40th Anniversary Exhibit