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Afghan politician and outspoken critic of the expanding warlord corruption and US occupation of her country, Malalai Joya, talks about the war being waged against women and democracy in Afghanistan; also, former political prisoner Alaa’ Jaradat from the occupied West Bank tells us about the ongoing suffering, including widespread torture, of Palestinians inside Israeli prisons and detention camps; plus, remembering one of this country’s greatest storytellers, Brother Blue; and Military Families Speak Out on Veterans’ Day.

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Aoki: The Film

On Veteran’s Day, Military Families Speak Out against the expanding war in Afghanistan; also, a remembrance about the bee that saved my veteran father’s life; the AFL-CIO expands its involvement in representing migrant day laborers; plus, a new film documentary about the only Japanese-American to rise through the ranks of the Black Panthers; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Nancy Lessin and Charlie Richardson, Military Families Speak Out

Eddie Acosta, AFL-CIO

Ben Wang, Director, AOKI

Music by: Jim Page, Matthew Owens and Adam Kathman

Malalai Joya

We’ll speak to a courageous, young Afghan parliamentarian suspended from Parliament for speaking out against the growing corruption and the rise of warlords in US-occupied Afghanistan; also, former Palestinian political prisoner speaks out against the ongoing and systematic torture meted out in Israeli prisons; plus, we’ll hear about an action by the American Indian Movement against the racist use of Indian names for mascots in professional sports; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Malalai Joya, former Afghan Parliamentarian, author, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Raise Her Voice

Ala’ Jaradat, program manager of Addameer Palestinian Prisoners’ Rights Organization

Jimbo Simmons, American Indian Movement

Gloria and Jacobo Arenas

An in-depth look at yesterday’s Fort Hood shooting, with Dahr Jamail; also, American Indian Movement founder Bill Means joins us to talk about a major visit by the United Nations to the Pine Ridge Reservation yesterday; We’ll also get a report from the Brazilian embassy in Honduras where the talks between President Zelaya and the coup government have broken down, and the deal has unraveled; we’ll hear about the harrowing story of two Mexican revolutionaries who were just released from prison after spending a good chunk of their lives locked down for advocating the overthrow of the Mexican government; and news headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Project Censored

Dahr Jamail, author and journalist

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now and Nonviolence International

John Gibler, reporter

Jimbo Simmons and Bill Means, American Indian Movement

Arundhati Roy

An in-depth interview with internationally-renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy, Roy is the author of a brand-new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. She speaks about the new book and the deterioration of real democracy around the world; also, we get an update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Arundhati Roy, Award-winning novelist and essayist

Jeff Mackler, Director, National Campaign to Free Mumia Abu Jamal

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)

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya

Has a deal been struck that will restore President Zelaya to power in Honduras? We’ll speak to our sources inside the Brazilian Embassy, where the President is still holding court; also, a roundtable discussion on coups and regional policy from Honduras to Venezuela to Haiti; news headlines from Project Censored; and Flashpoints en Espanol will also look at Zelaya’s possible return.

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Guests:

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! and Nonviolence International

Lisa Sullivan, SOA Watch in Caracas, Venezuela

Martin Sanchez, San Francisco Consul General to Venezuela

Kevin Pina, FP Haiti Special Correspondent

Miguel Perez, Flashpoints en Espanol

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