FLASHPOINTS

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Another innocent man is murdered by the state of Texas, we’ll hear from Reginald Blanton’s mother, uncle, and anti death penalty experts; also, over 150 dead in Baghdad, we’ll speak with Ahmed Habib of al-Jazeera about the continuing despair in US-occupied Iraq; and women’s rights leader Zoya of the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan debunks the myth that more troops and an entrenched US occupation will save the Afghan women; and the Knight Report.

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The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

A benefit to save one of the most important Black churches in New Orleans; we’ll speak to Colonel Ann Wright about the bloody and explosive situations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan; also, legendary economist and author of The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, in a rabble-rousing speech on UC Berkeley campus; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Colonel Ann Wright (retired)

Naomi Klein, economist and author, The Shock Doctrine (Thanks to Davey D for this audio recording)

Sakura Kone, National Campaign Coordinator to Restore Wesley United in New Orleans

Brad Will. Shot and killed in Oaxaca, 2006

We continue our multi-part series, the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; plus, we’ll speak to John Ross in Mexico City about the murder or Brad Will in Oaxaca three years ago; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

John Ross, historian, author and poet

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Iraqis gather at the site of the massive bomb attack at the Ministry of Justice in Baghdad. Photo: AP

Over 150 people killed in twin suicide car bombings of several government buildings in Central Baghdad; also, Israeli police attack Palestinian protesters at the al-Aqsa Mosque, the site where Ariel Sharon provoked the second intifada; plus, leading Afghan women’s activist, Zoya, debunks the myth that entrenching the US occupation of Afghanistan will save women and children; on our continuing series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat, Catherine Austin Fitts talks about how crime pays on Wall Street; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Ahmed Habib, al-Jazeera reporter and spoken word poet

Jamal Jumaa, Stop the Wall Campaign in occupied Palestine

Zoya, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

We launch our multi-part series, Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; Obama’s war in Afghanstan continues to unravel, we’ll speak with investigative journalist Gareth Porter; also, protesters in San Francisco disrupt a speech given by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, attempting citizen’s arrest for the massacres in occupied Palestine; and an attorney representing members of the Uighur community, detained inside the US torture prison camp at Guantanamo, talks about the Supreme Court finally agreeing to hear their case.

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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

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

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

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Michel Shehadeh, director of the Arab Film Festival

Najwa Najjar, director, Pomegranates & Myrrh