FLASHPOINTS

Brother Blue / design by Warren Lehrer

There’s no genius behind Disney’s Baby Einstein products, just a sales pitch for harmful material; also, a remembrance of one of this country’s most significant African-American storytellers, Brother Blue; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Dr. Allen Kanner, psychologist, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Warren Lehrer, book artist

Brother Blue

Pvt. Michael Kern

A Private at Fort Hood attempts to hand-deliver a letter against the expanding war to President Obama during today’s memorial service, we’ll speak to the active-duty veteran soldier who says that while Secret Service destroyed his letter, he’s determined to get it to the President; we’ll also be joined by Dahr Jamail, who has written extensively about the growing GI resistance movement; plus, Andy Worthington, the director of a troubling new film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo, live in the studio; on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, she’ll talk about the permanent war budget and its implications for the ongoing theft of people’s money; and the Knight Report.

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Private Michael Kern, Iraq Vets Against the War, active-duty Iraq veteran at Fort Hood

Dahr Jamail, journalist and Flashpoints special correspondent, author, The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Andy Worthington, co-director, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo

This week on the best of Flashpoints, internationally-renowned author and essayist Arundhati Roy talks about her new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers; also, an in-depth look at the national health care crisis, as single-payer becomes an endangered idea; Andy Bichlbaum of the corporate prankster activist group the Yes Men talks about the power of nonviolent creative civil disobedience against multinational companies, along with Antonia Juhasz of Global Exchange; and Jewish-American poet Josh Healey discusses why he was disinvited to the J-Street conference in Washington after they learned about his pro-justice views on Palestine.

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Single Payer Healthcare

An in-depth look at the health care reform package moving through the House; and why advocates of single-payer claim that the health care bill is not even close to what is really needed to transform the system;  also, we continue our series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Knight Report.

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Donna Smith, Community Organizer for CNA

Chuck Idelson, CNA Spokesman

Cindy Young, CSEA

Daniel Hodges, Access Single Payer

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Judge Richard Goldstone

The US Congress votes to condemn the Goldstone Report, which corroborates Palestinians’ accounts of massive war crimes during the massacres in Gaza earlier this year, we’ll speak to a poet and activist who was disinvited from a conference of the so-called alternative to the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, because of his views on Palestine; also, legendary economist Naomi Klein talks about California’s budget crisis, student fee hikes and disaster capitalism in a recent speech at UC Berkeley; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Josh Healey, poet and activist

Naomi Klein, author, The Shock Doctrine

(Thanks to Davey D for this audio recording at UC Berkeley)

"Dow Accepts Full Responsibility for Bhopal Disaster" - Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men

We continue our multi-part series on the anatomy of a financial coup d’etat, on a day when new revelations show that Goldman Sachs secretly bet on the US housing crash; also, environmentalists win a major victory in Oregon, in reversing a draconian law that restrained peaceful environmental activists from protesting the destruction of land and wildlife; plus, how The Yes Men Fix The World, an interview with corporate prankster Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men and Antonia Juhasz of Global Exchange’s Chevron Program; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Lauren Regan, Staff attorney and director of Civil Liberties Defense Center

Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men

Antonia Juhasz, Director, Chevron Program, Global Exchange; author, The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What we Must do to Stop It

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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Capitalism

Part three of our multi-part series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts, today, we’ll look at the role of banks and financial institutions, raiding agencies and various US government bodies; also, we’ll take an in-depth look at the logic and apparent racism that surrounded the Judge’s decision to change the venue for the trial of the police murder of Oscar Grant.

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Guests:

Larry Everest, author, historian and civil rights activist

Catherine Austin Fitts,  Solari Network