FLASHPOINTS

US bombs Somalia using attack helicopters

A special report by Robert Knight on the recent US bombing and extra-judicial assassinations in Somalia; also, Temple University professor and Mumia Abu Jamal expert Linn Washington updates the case of Mumia and reveals further government misconduct; and our regular weekly segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts.

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Linn Washington,  Professor of Journalism at Temple University in Philadelphia and a weekly columnist for The Philadelphia Tribune

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Continuing resistance to the coup on the ground in Honduras; Israeli snipers shoot at children in the occupied West Bank, killing a 15 year old Palestinian boy; the Knight Report with special analysis on Obama’s expanding war in Afghanistan; Reese Erlich on the Afghan elections and the widening drug trade; Eva Golinger talks about the regional move to close US bases in Latin America; plus, Ahmed Habib discusses the situation in US-occupied Iraq; and Catherine Austin Fitts delivers Community Business.

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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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Eva Golinger, The Chavez Code

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

…check out the National Debt Clock!

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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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