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Friday, December 28, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: As the U.S. Border Patrol fires gas cannisters at Mexican citizens in Tijuana, Mexico, we get a response from the American Friends Service Committee working on the ground; Plus, we speak with Bill Means on the decision by the Lakota Nation to declare independence from the United States; Also, Activist Nation features the work of the White Rose Collective in Southern California; JR and Block Report talk about the impact of gang injunctions and gentrification in San Francisco; Headlines from the Region with Miguel Peres; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Border Patrol Attacks on Mexican Citizens
Pedro Rios-American Friends Service Committee

11:00  Lakota Nation Secession from the U.S.
Bill Means-American Indian Movement
American Indian Movement

21:00  Activist Nation
Joe Tougas with Eva from White Rose Collective, www.bcimpeach.com
Impeach Bush & Cheney

30:00  Block Report: Gang Injuctions in San Francisco
JR featuring Alicia Swartz- alicia@peopleorganized.org

42:00  Headlines from the Region
Miguel Peres

46:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Juan Jose Gutierrez, Latino Movement USA


Thursday, December 27, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints, Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto assassinated as the country falls further into political collapse. Plus, three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza as illegal settlement colonies expand in the West Bank; our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess investigates. Also, a Haitian human rights leader goes into hiding following a new wave of threats; Kevin Pina speaks with Selma James of the Global Women's Strike. The Block Report features a discussion with legendary comedian Paul Mooney; and the Knight Report.
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)            
(AFP Photo/Amir Qureshi. Copyright AFP/Corbis)

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto - (AFP Photo/Amir Qureshi. Copyright AFP/Corbis) source http://www.achievement.org01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

 5:06 Benazir Bhutto Assassinated in Pakistan
Junaid Ahmad, National Muslim Law Students Association

5:18 Report from Palestine: Israeli Attacks in Gaza and Settlement Colony Expansion
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Also visit the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org

5:42 Update from Haiti: Human Rights Worker Goes into Hiding
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent – www.haitiaction.net
Selma James, Global Women's Strike

5:48 The Block Report
JR and the Block Report with legendary comedian Paul Mooney
www.blockreportradio.com

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the occupied city of Bethlehem, as Israeli forces continue to kidnap, arrest, attack, and shoot Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza strip during Christmas celebrations; also, JR and the Block Report feature an update on police terrorism in Chicago; and activists in Santa Cruz and Berkeley, California, talk about why tree-sits are necessary actions to defend the environment, native land and the community from University collaborations with nuclear and military corporate contractors.

01:00  Report from Palestine: Christmas Under Occupation
Kristen Ess, FP Palestine Bureau Chief

14:00  Music Break

15:00  Police Terrorism in Chicago
JR and the Block Report

22:00  Tree-Sits Against University Ties with Military Industrial Complex;
Protecting Indian Sacred Sites

Air, Berkeley tree-sitter and local Native activist
Jono and Vernon Rodriguez, UC Santa Cruz student activists

Research Journalism Inititiative

54:00 PSA – Palestine Human Rights Activist from Coming to Speak in Berkeley
Mark Turner, Flashpoints correspondent – ResearchJournalismInitiative.net
To arrange for an event – email ripplescross@yahoo.com

Tuesday, December 25, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
The official website of Dr. Ilan Pappe - www.ilanpappe.orgToday on Flashpoints: Dr. Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, in a speech on the history and ongoing reality of Israel's colonization program.

01:00 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe, historian and author, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine



Special thanks to www.electronicintifada.net for this audio



Monday, December 24, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Naomi Klein, acclaimed author of The Shock Doctrine, in conversation with filmmaker Robert Greenwald; they discuss the war and occupation in Iraq, the ongoing disaster in New Orleans, the ongoing privatization of war by mercenary contractors, and much more.

01:00 Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein, author, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, in conversation with Robert Greenwald, founder, Brave New Films

Produced by Global Voices for Justice – www.globalvoicesforjustice.orgThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein - www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein - www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

Also see scenes from Robert Greenwald's IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers directed by Robert Greenwald on DVD from Brave New Films - http://iraqforsale.org/
"The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.

Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq (Blackwater, Halliburton/KBR, CACI and Titan) and the decision makers who allow them to do so.


Friday, December 21, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A new report documents severe human rights abuses by the US border patrol; plus, the 9th circuit court denies death row prisoner Kevin Cooper his appeal, despite overwhelming evidence confirming his innocence in a 1983 trumped-up murder charge, which could mean his return to facing murder by the state of California; Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina and Selma James of the Global Women's Strike talk about the abduction of human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre Antoine and how they're fighting for his return home; a commentary by Miguel Molina on the recent passing of Indian activist and leader Floyd Red Crow Westerman; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol focuses on the attacks on Mexican families' homes by US border patrol agents at the border.
Border Action Network Abuse Documentation Campaign - www.borderaction.org
01:00 Human Rights Abuses by the Border Patrol
Jennifer Allen, Border Action Network
Read the report (pdf, 33 pgs)

17:00 Kevin Cooper Denied Appeal by 9th Circuit
Rebecca Doran, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu Jamal
www.myspace.com/freekevincooper
Kevin Cooper - www.myspace.com/freekevincooper

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine - Global Women's Strike, http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/27:00 Human Rights Activist Remains Abducted in Haiti
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent – www.haitiaction.net
Selma James, Global Women's Strike in UK

42:00 Commentary on the life of Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Miguel Molina
Read more in the Indian Country Times
Floyd Red Crow Westerman - source wikipedia

47:00 Headlines in Español
Nauthal

52:00 Flashpoints en Español: US Border Patrol Tear-gassing Mexican Homes
Benito Arias, resident in Tijuana at US-Mexico border, La Colonia Libertad, 9ft from wall
Read the article (in English) on San Diego's 10news.com

Thursday, December 20, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Police attack protesters, including elderly women, with taser guns and pepper spray in New Orleans as the City Council votes unanimously to destroy 4500 public housing units, favoring profit over the people's needs; also, Israel invades the Gaza strip, killing at least seven Palestinians; at the US-Mexico border, US patrol agents fire tear gas at Mexican families' homes, we'll talk about the increase of violent attacks due to the militarization of the border; and Kevin Pina, our special correspondent on Haiti, discusses US policy and the political climate nearly four years after President Jean Bertrand Aristide's US-backed ouster.

01:00 Protesters, Including Elderly Women, Tasered by Cops in New Orleans as HUD Plans Demolition of Public Housing Units
Kali Akuno, People's Hurricane Relief Fund in New Orleans
www.peopleshurricane.org
Suppression of dissent in New Orleans caught on video - www.peopleshurricane.org
(includes links to vidoes of polics actions)

Senate Bill 1668 Keeps People in Their Homes!

This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process where the bill is considered in committee and may undergo significant changes in markup sessions. The bill has been referred to the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committee.

17:00 Palestinians Killed as Medicine Runs Out in Gaza
International Middle East Media Center
www.imemc.org

21:00 Border Police Fire Tear Gas Into Mexican Families' Homes
Nancy Conroy, Editor and publisher of Gringo Gazette North
www.gringogazettenorth.com

44:00 Report back from Haiti
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
www.haitiaction.net


Wednesday, December 19, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Immigration agents raid an Oakland Elementary School yesterday and attempt to separate yet another mother from her son, we'll speak to a school official and Arnoldo Garcia about the intensification of ICE raids and racist anti-immigrant attacks across the country; Also, JR and the Block Report speak with a member of the San Francisco 8 for an update on that case; Activist Nation takes a look at torture paid for by American tax dollars; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

05:00  ICE Raids at Oakland Elementary School
Moyra Contraras, Principle at Melrose Leadership Academy
Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

23:00  Human Rights Activist Documents Israeli War Crimes; PSA
Mark Turner, Flashpoints Correspondent
Interested in hosting an event?
Contact 510-848-6767 ext.241 or
ripplescross@yahoo.com


26:00  Block Report: San Francisco 8
JR and the Block Report and Richard Brown, San Francisco 8

50:00 Activist Nation: A Very Merry Torture Holiday
Joe Tougas and Rafael Malik, World Can't Wait- www.worldcantwait.org


Tuesday, December 18, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: The UN plans to extend its mandate in Iraq for another year placating the Bush Administration and the puppet regime in the Iraqi Parliament, we'll speak with Raed Jarrar about what that means for the ordinary Iraqi on the ground; Also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on the Israeli killings in Gaza; Plus, Kevin Pina, on the ground in Haiti, escorts freed political prisoner Rene Civil home from jail; An update on Blackwater's defeat in Southern California; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight
Raed Jarrar - Iraq consultant with the American Friends Service Committee - source http://afsc.org
 05:00 Iraq Spending Bill and UN Mandate Extension
Raed Jarrar, an Iraq consultant with the American Friends Service Committee
http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com

12:00 Music Break

Israeli sources reported on Tuesday midday that the Israeli government has decided to step up attacks on the Gaza strip. Palestinian sources said that the death toll in the coastal region by midday Tuesday had reached 12. source http://www.imemc.org
Injured palestinian victim of daily shelling in
the north of gaza Source - www.imemc.org


13:00 Israeli Military Kills Palestinians in Gaza
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Also visit the International Middle East Media Center at IMEMC.org

21:00 Music Break

23:00 Report from Haiti: Political Prisoner Rene Civil Freed
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent in Haiti
www.haitiaction.net

Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill - http://www.blackwaterbook.com/35:00 Music Break

36:00 Update on the Blackwater Defeat in Southern California
Jeremy Scahill, journalist and author Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Congressmen Bob Filner, Representative of California's 51st Congressional District
Congressmen Bob Filner, Representative of California's 51st Congressional District - source http://www.house.gov/filner/

Monday, December 17, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Kevin Pina back on the ground in Haiti, describes the latest situation with political prisoners and how the Lavalas party remains steadfast in its rebuilding; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank, as five Palestinians are killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza while European governments pledge millions of dollars to back PA President Mahmoud Abbas and further undermine the elected Hamas leadership; plus, as fighting intensifies inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, leaders continue to ignore the use of rape as a weapon of war, we'll speak with a reporter on the ground about the unraveling situation there; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

05:00 Report from Haiti
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

imemc.com





23:00 Factionalism and Bombs: Reports from Occupied Palestine
International Middle East Media Center – www.imemc.org
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

37:00 Music Break

38:00 Violence Erupts in Congo; Rape becomes an Epidemic Weapon of War
Jefferey Gettleman, New York Times Nairobi Bureau Chief

Friday, December 14, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Education rights activist and author Jonathan Kozol talks about the school system and education as a human right; also, we talk about the political rhetoric that is being used to dehumanize Latinos and immigrants while rallying voters TOWARD racist immigration policies; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Education as a Human Right: Part One of a speech by Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol, author, Letters to a Young Teacher Produced by GlobalVoicesForJustice.org

27:00 Rise in Violence Against Hate Crimes Against Latinos and Racist Labeling as “Illegals”
Ivan Roman, Executive Director of the Nat'l Association of Hispanic Journalists

44:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Evelina Molina with Jennifer Allen, Border Action Network and Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Thursday, December 13, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: The Bush Administration and HUD send bulldozers to New Orleans, where they plan to demolish thousands of housing units as tens of thousands of people still remain homeless or waiting for federal assistance, over 2 years since Hurricane Katrina; also, Kristen Ess reports from occupied Palestine; Activist Nation, a new segment that focuses on direct actions taking place across the country, features a story on the expanding threats to women's reproductive rights; JR and the Block Report; and a commentary by Mumia abu Jamal.

01:00 Bush Administration and HUD Set to Demolish Public Housing in New Orleans
Bill Quigley, lawyer
Demolition and resistance began Wednesday at the B.W. Cooper Public Housing Project in Midcity - source http://neworleans.indymedia.org/ Photos by Edwin Lopez
A bulldozer at the B.W. Cooper public housing complex tears down complex and sets off residents and organizers to protest and stop the demolition - http://neworleans.indymedia.org/
Visit www.defendneworleanspublichousing.org for events, petitions, contact phone numbers and a call to action.

10:00 Report from Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

20:00 Activist Nation: Attacks on Women's Reproductive Rights
Joe Tougas, World Can't Wait, hosting Activist Nation – a new segment on Flashpoints that documents various direct actions taking place across the country

29:00 Block Report
JR and the Block Report – www.blockreportradio.com

54:00 Commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal – www.prisonradio.org

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: In the aftermath of another Israeli siege we speak with Dr. Mona Al-Farra inside occupied Gaza about the ensuing humanitarian catastrophe; We get an update from the West Bank on Israel's blatant violations of international law as it prepares to build more illegal settlement colonies; Also, Blackwater defeated in Southern California as the community of Potrero recalls the planning group that voted in favor of the Blackwater Mercenary Camp; Plus, new developments in the case of revolutionary journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

05:00 Reports from Occupied Palestine: Aftermath of Gaza Attacks, Settlements Expand In W. Bank
Dr. Mona al-Farra, Director of Gaza Projects, Middle East Children's Alliance www.mecaforpeace.org
Bekah Wolf, Palestine Solidarity Project, www.palestinesolidarityproject.org

23:00 Bay Area Protests Against AIPAC
Jim Harris, International Solidarity Movement
www.mecaforpeace.org

27:00 Blackwater Defeated in San Diego
Raymond Lutz, Coordinator for Citizens' Oversight Project – Stop Blackwater

40:00 Update on Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Jeff Mackler, National Mobilization to Free Mumia - www.freemumia.org

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli tanks, bulldozers, helicopters and US-made F16s invade the occupied Gaza strip from all sides, our special correspondent Mohammed Omer has an on-the-ground report on the ensuing bloodbath in the streets as the international community once again turns its back on the people; also, Cathy Wilkerson, infamous member of the Weather Underground and community activist speaks about the legacy of that revolutionary movement and the future of grassroots resistance; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
FP Special Correspondent Mohammed Omer - source www.rafahtoday.orgRobert Knight

04:00 Israeli Siege in Occupied Gaza
Mohammed Omer, FP Special Correspondent in Rafah
In addition to killing Palestinian civilians, Israeli forces destroy houses, streets and infrastructure, and olive groves.
www.rafahtoday.org

12:00 Music Break - Sweet Honey in the Rock

13:00 Portrait of a Revolutionary: From the Weather Underground to Today's Movements
Cathy Wilkerson, author, Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman
Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist and filmmaker, author Made Love Got War, Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman by Cathy Wilkerson - source Seven Stories Press, www.sevenstories.com  MADE LOVE, GOT WAR: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State includes accounts of the author's controversial trips to Baghdad and Tehran with Sean Penn as well as televised showdowns with Judith Miller and other pro-war journalists before the invasion of Iraq. Made Love, Got War blends personal reflections with social commentary and firsthand accounts of Solomon's activism and reporting from the late 1960s to present-day Tehran. http://www.madelovegotwar.com

Monday, December 10, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  We focus our attention on several stories from across the country of civil rights under attack: At the gates of Fort Huachuca, Arizona, The US Army continues to jail nonviolent protesters who demonstrate against the military's teaching of torture and interrogation tactics; in New York City, we hear the case of the New Jersey Seven, a group of women assaulted and imprisoned in a sexist and homophobic attack; also, from Chicago, JR and the Block Report with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. feature an update on the case of political prisoner Aaron Patterson; plus, the CIA destroys evidential tapes of US torture tactics, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal reports on that story; in San Francisco, student and youth organizers fight to keep the JROTC off high school campuses; and the Knight Report.

01:00
The Knight Report Stop The Torture!
Robert Knight

08:00 Torture on Trial
Jack Cohen-Jappa, TortureOnTrial.org

17:00 Anti-Gay Attacks in New York
Emily Howard with Susan Tipograph-
Criminal Defense Attorney

Bran Fenner- co-director FIERCE www.fiercenyc.org

36:00 Block Report: Chicago and Aaron Patterson Case Update
JR with Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr.
Answer SF
48:00 Commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal
www.prisonradio.org

52:00 Kicking the JROTC and Military Recruiters Out of San Francisco High Schools
Maya Nabjieli, Youth & Student ANSWER Coalition – www.answersf.org

Friday, December 7, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Immigrants continue to organize against the wave of racist anti-immigrant legislation, we'll speak with a community activist; headlines from the region with Miguel Perez; and we'll get an update on the hunger strike out of Chicago on Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00   Intro

08:00   Day Laborer's update with Francisco Herrera and Rene Saucedo, Friday co-hosts

33:00   Headlines from the Region
Miguel Perez

38:00  Flashpoints en Espanol
with Evelina Molina, Francisco Herrera, Rene Saucedo, Miguel Perez, Miguel Molina

58:00   Outro

Thursday, December 6, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the ground in the occupied West Bank, where she attends a funeral for a man shot and killed by Israeli forces, and documents the plight of Palestinian workers' struggles; also, here come the thought police: a new threat to the constitution in a Homeland Security bill that passes in the House of Representatives and heads for the Senate; Naomi Klein, author of the Shock Doctrine, in a speech about Burger King, immigrant rights and the anti-sweatshop movement; plus, George W Bush says he'll help homeowners in a new plan to address the sub-prime mortgage crisis, we'll talk about who exactly he intends to help and how sub-prime has impacted poor and immigrant communities; a commentary by Rahul Mahajan on the Pentagon's so-called good news from US-occupied Iraq; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

04:00 Report from Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Also visit the International Middle East Media Center for the latest news and information from occupied Palestine at www.imemc.org

16:00 Homeland Security Bill
Kamal Hamilton, Center for Constitutional Rights, www.ccr-ny.org
Read the CCR Factsheet on HR1955, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act of 2007. Visit ccrjustice.org to read the bill and analysis of its consequences and learn how CCR is challenging other attacks on constitutional rights.
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. www.ccr-ny.org

28:00 Naomi Klein on Burger King and Workers' Rights
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. source: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/the-bookNaomi Klein, author, The Shock Doctrine, speaking at Immokalee Workers' march

38:00 Music Break - Sweet Honey in the Rock, "State of Emergency"

40:00 Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis
Ellen Shloemer, exec. Vice president, Center for Responsible Lending
Belinda Andrews, Coldwell Banker

54:00 Commentary: The “Good News” from Iraq
Rahul Mahajan, EmpireNotes.org


Wednesday, December 5, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Venezuelan democracy proves to be alive and well as Hugo Chavez concedes a temporary setback; plus, Israeli occupation forces kill another three Palestinians in Gaza with illegal weapons, we'll get a report from the ground in Gaza City and Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on another extra-judicial assassination by Israeli undercover forces; also, JR and the Block Report feature an update on the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

05:00  Hugo Chavez' Referendum Fails in National Vote
Greg Wilpert, author

21:00  Israeli Forces Bomb Gaza; Execute Political Official in the West Bank
Mohammed Omer, freelance journalist in Gaza
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

38:00 Update on Mumia Abu Jamal's Case
JR and the Block Report


Tuesday, December 4, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: US intelligence agencies conclude what the Bush administration does not want to hear, that Iran has no nuclear program, yet Bush, along with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert continue to press for aggression and sanctions against Iran; also, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on the ongoing Israeli repression and killing in Palestine; the state of Maryland forces parents to immunize their children under threat of imprisonment; the Block Report features a speech by Chairman Fred Hampton on the 38th anniversary of his murder in his bed by Chicago police; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

04:00 No Nuclear Program in Iran; US and Israel Still Call for Aggression, Sanctions
Reese Erlich, Foreign Correspondent. While the debate on Iraq focuses on developments in Baghdad and the security situation in the country’s center and south, the next crisis may well break out in the Kurdish areas of the north. There, an alliance of anti-Turkish and anti-Iranian Kurdish terrorists receive aid and comfort from the U.S.-backed Kurdish Regional Government, to the great annoyance of our Turkish ally. Reese Erlich has visited this dangerous area several times and has interviewed many of the key players. He found that corruption is rampant in the Kurdish administration and has accumulated strong evidence that Washington is using Kurdish terrorists in “regime change” operations against Iran. http://www.itsyourworld.orgReese Ehrlich, investigative journalist and author, The Iran Agenda
www.TheIranAgenda.com
20:00 Report from Occupied Palestine: Israeli Occupation Forces Attack and Kill Palestinians
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

Also visit www.imemc.org for news and audio updates

37:00 Maryland State Officials Round Up Parents for Mandatory Children's Vaccinations
Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and director of National Vaccine Information Center
www.nvic.org

49:00 38th Anniversary of Police Execution of Fred Hampton
JR and the Block Report with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., POCC


Monday, December 3, 2007 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights takes Guantanamo back to the US Supreme Court this week, we'll have a full update from him on the continued torture of detainees and the widening scope of the Bush administration's surveillance program; also, Israeli occupation force kill four Palestinians in Gaza; Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on the Palestinian political prisoners who were released from Israeli torture camps; JR and the Block Report speak with legendary human rights activist Yuri Kochiyama about her work with Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and how she's organizing the Bay Area Asian-American community to support the San Francisco 8; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

04:00 Taking Guantanamo to the US Supreme Court
Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights, www.ccr-ny.org

17:00 News from Occupied Palestine
International Middle East Media Center – www.imemc.org

21:00 Report from Occupied Palestine: Israeli Repression and Continued Shootings of Palestinians
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

30:00 Yuri Kochiyama on Malcolm X, the Black Panther Movement and the SF 8
JR and the Block Report