Best of Flashpoints – Week of August 3, 2009
THIS WEEK’S BEST OF FLASHPOINTS!
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This week on the Best of Flashpoints, the Nation’s Jeremy Scahill rips the lid off of a breaking story about the founder and owner of Blackwater, implicated in serious murder and weapons smuggling charges; also, Israel’s expanding ethnic cleansing programs in occupied East Jerusalem makes more Palestinian families homeless; Hillary Clinton’s Africa strategies, we’ll talk to Kimbale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo about US policies in that country; and South Bronx activists win a people’s victory and make a stand for immigrant rights.
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