FLASHPOINTS

Malik Rahim, Common Ground Relief

In our continuing series on New Orleans, four years after Katrina, we speak with Common Ground Relief founder Malik Rahim about his battle to rebuild the lower Ninth ward of the city; also, JR and the Block Report interview Martina Davis about recent decisions by the Supreme Court to allow crucial information in the death row case of her brother, Troy Anthony Davis; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Malik Rahim, Common Ground Relief

Martina Davis, activist and sister of Troy Anthony Davis

New Orleans, August 2005

The first in a series of special reports on New Orleans, four years after it was demolished by hurricane Katrina; also, former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern talks about the potential to jail Bush administration officials for torture and kidnapping; plus, on our regular segment, Community Business, we’ll look at the ongoing corporate bailout and the disappearance of tens of thousands of jobs every month; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Jordan Flaherty, editor, Left Turn Magazine; journalist and New Orleans activist – most recent article here

Ray McGovern, former high-level CIA analyst – most recent article on torture here

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Israeli PM Netanyahu with US President Barack Obama

A special report from Honduras on the ongoing investigation of the coup leaders by the Spanish judge who indicted Pinochet; plus, Israel bombs southern Gaza, killing at least three, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah about the attacks and Obama’s declaration in support of a “necessary war” in Afghanistan; also, we’ll have a special report from the United Native Americans on a pilgrimage to take back Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Ali Abunimah, editor and co-founder of Electronic Intifada

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

Quanah Parker Brightman, United Native Americans

Professor Lehman Brightman, President of UNA

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Eric Holder appoints special prosecutor / via HuffingtonPost.com

Foreign ministers from seven countries arrived in Tegucigalpa today and called for the restoration of democracy, we’ll have an update from Tegucigalpa on today’s politics and resistance actions that have been taking place in the streets over the last several days; also, US attorney general Eric Holder will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate CIA contractors and interrogators; we’ll be joined by our Haiti special correspondent Kevin Pina for an update on Haiti and the expansion of the Clinton free trade policy there; and the Knight Report.

Guests:

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

Stephanie Tang, World Can’t Wait

Sharon Adams, National Lawyer’s Guild

Kevin Pina, FP Haiti Correspondent

Farrah Juste, Haitian activist and musician

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Leonard Peltier

Native American spiritual leader and political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied parole, we’ll have a special report; also, President Barack Obama vows to prevent undocumented people from getting medical care under his new reform; we’ll remember the prison murder at San Quentin of George Jackson, and what he really stood for; plus, Flashpoints en Espanol and headlines from Project Censored.

Guests:

Students from Project Censored

Evelyn Sanchez, Flashpoints’ Immigrant Rights expert

Lyn Foster, spiritual advisor to Peltier

Jimbo Simmons, AIM National Spokesperson

Luis Bato Telemontes, one of the original San Quentin 6 with George Jackson, member of ANSWER’s Prison Project

Miguel Perez with Evelyn Sanchez

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Cynthia McKinney in Gaza

An in-depth interview with former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; we’ll speak with her about her recent trip on the Gaza boat and the arrest by Israeli authorities, and Obama’s expanding war policies throughout the Middle East; also, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges warns about the dangers of the expanding war and occupation policy; JR and the Block Report on the Troy Anthony Davis case, as the Supreme court will hear crucial information that was excluded in the initial trials; and the the Knight Report.

Guests:

Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and war correspondent

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

Martina Davis, sister of Troy Anthony Davis

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Sub-Prime Meltdown

A special report on the bloodiest day in Baghdad in 18 months, with over 100 people dead and 500 wounded; also, American Casino: a new, hard-hitting documentary by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn on the Sub-Prime ripoff and how it worked; on our regular weekly segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll look at the sub-prime meltdown, CalPers, and how JP Morgan Chase is putting the screws to California; and the Knight Report.

Guests:

Raed Jarrar, Iraqi-born blogger, architect, Al-Jazeera contributor and Iraq consultant with the American Friends Service Committee

Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, filmmakers: American Casino

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

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Example of mountaintop removal in Kentucky/West Virginia

We’ll have a live report on the latest struggle from the resistance movement in Honduras; also, we’ll take a look at the expanding war in Afghanistan and the involvement of high-level officials in the expanding drug trade; we’ll have an update on mountaintop strip mining, where protesters are battling with federal officials in Virginia and several other states; and we’ll take a look at a new book called Violent Gods, which examines Hindu nationalism in India and the impact, particularly on women, in Kashmir.

Guests:

Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent and FSRN reporter

Reese Erlich, author and journalist

Mike Roselle, environmental justice activist and author of TreeSpiker (forthcoming)

Angana Chatterji, professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and author of Violent Gods

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Protesting John Yoo

An exclusive interview with Army Sergeant Travis Bishop, the highest enlisted officer to resist deployment to Afghanistan, we’ll hear the voice of the Sergeant before he was locked away in the brig and we speak to Dahr Jamail about the significance of the expanding GI resistance movement; also, 24 dead and over 120 wounded in bloody internal clashes in Gaza between Hamas security forces and radical elements of a pro-Sharia Islamic cult, we’ll talk to al-Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza City; plus, Code Pink faces off again with pro-torture advocate John Yoo as he returned to shape the future of young law students at Boalt Law School in Berkeley, we’ll also speak with the President of the National Lawyer’s Guild about its actions to hold Yoo accountable for his justification of the Bush administration’s torture policy; and the Knight Report.

Guests:

Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent and author, The Will To Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse To Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

Sgt. Travis Bishop, Military resister

Ayman Mohyeldin, al-Jazeera English correspondent in Gaza City

Cynthia Papermaster, Code Pink

Marjorie Cohn, President of National Lawyer’s Guild and Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, author of soon-to-be-released “United States of Torture: America’s Past and PresentPolicy of Interrogation and Abuse”

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Mother's Day vigil at ICE detention facility, Oregon (courtesy of OregonSanctuary.org)

We’ll continue our live reports from the front lines of resistance in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; also, we hear the personal story of an ICE kidnapping and the impact on an entire family; plus, we’ll continue our series on how ICE is misusing the Department of Motor Vehicles’ bureaus to seize immigrant’s cars; Flashpoints en Espanol has headlines for the region and will also focus on the abuse of the DMV by ICE; and Headlines from Project Censored.

Guests:

Project Censored

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

Raphael Vasquez, Okily Ngubery and Sabrina Krauss

Molly Goss

Miguel Perez