Best of Flashpoints – Sept. 7-11, 2009
This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Resistance to the coup in Honduras expands, we hear from one of many protests spilling into the streets of Tegucigalpa; also, environmental justice activists take on Massey Energy, a coal mining company responsible for devastating mountaintop removal; investigative journalist Bob Parry talks about the unraveling humanitarian situation against the backdrop of elections in US-occupied Afghanistan; plus, Ali Abunimah dissects Israeli and US policy in the context of ongoing illegal settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; and Anthony Fenton blows the lid off of Canada’s involvement and war profiteering in the colonial-privatization of US-occupied Iraq.
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