Archived Shows - June 2007

Friday, June 29, 2007

Today on Flashpoints we broadcast live from New College of California in San Francisco’s mission district, We’ll feature a special report from the Atlanta social Forum, including a report from Nora Barrows Friedman on the children at the forum who really want to make a change. West Coast Students speak out about their hunger strike in support of immigrant rights and we’ll have a response to the sinking of so-called immigrants reform legislation in Congress along with Headlines in the region, Flashpoints in español.

01:00 Dennis and Francisco

09:00 Live from Atlanta
Renée Saucedo, La Raza Centro Legal, www.lrcl.org
Davin Cardenas, Santa Rosa Day Laborer Center Director

24:00 Children at the Atlanta Social Forum
Nora Barrows-Friedman

32:00 Students Hunger Strike
Joel Aguiar, UC Berkeley student

40:00 Music Break
Miguel Gavilan Molina

41 Headlines from the Region
Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Guerrero

43:00 Flashpoints en Español
Renée Saucedo, La Raza Centro Legal,
Davin Cardenas, Santa Rosa Day Laborer Center Director

58:00 Outro live

Thursday, June 28, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: We'll feature a special report from the north of Lebanon on the plight of 3000 Palestinian refugees caught in the cross-fire; also we'll have a report from the World Social Forum in Atlanta, where we'll be joined by Flashpoints producer, Nora Barrows Friedman; we'll have a brand new edition with JR and the Block Report, and we'll have the Knight Report with Robert Knight in exile

01:00 The Knight Report

President Bush cops another plea for his war in Iraq - Robert Knight

06:00 Palestinian Refugees Caught in the Cross Fire in Lebanon
Rania Masri, human rights advocate and environmental scientist
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
For the latest on the situation in Lebanon, visit ElectronicLebanon and ElectronicLebanon

17:00 Musical Break

Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein

Hashmeya Mohsen al Hussein, President, Iraq Electrical Utility Workers Union - source http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/

18:00 A Report from the Atlanta Social Forum
Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, is the first woman to head a national union in Iraq, as president of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers' Union, and speaks about the privatization of Iraq's resources. Read about the Iraq Workers Solidarity tour when the tour stopped in SF on June 12.
Davey D, host of Hard Knock Radio on Pacifica Radio
Dave Welsh, Haiti Action Committee
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Producer
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

Mutulu Shakur - http://www.mutulushakur.com/

Dr. Mutulu Shakur

44:00 The Block Report
Mopreme Shakur interviewed by JR discusses the case of his father, political prisoner Dr. Mutulu Shakur, prisoner 83205-012.

Also visit daretostruggle.org, myspace/mutulushakur and the Bureau of Prisons

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: We'll feature a special report on Iraq-Gate and the arming of Saddam Hussein; also we'll take an in-depth look at the new, US Driven, Iraqi Oil Law: A License for US multinationals to steal Iraq's oil resources; and we'll have the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

A Israel invades the Gaza Strip killing at least a dozen
3 of 13 past coup prisoners are released in Grenada
Congress subpoenas the White House over illegal wiretaps.
Pres. Bush loses two more Rep. supporters of the Iraqi War
British PM Tony Blair leaves Downing St for the Middle East as the Bush poodle reinvents himself as a Trojan Horse

06:00 Iraq-gate Cover Up/CIA Family Jewels
Robert Parry, investigative journalist, www.consortiumnews.com
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

26:00 US Stealing Iraqi Oil
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize and founding coordinator of the
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Antonia Juhasz, author, www.thebushagenda.net, www.priceofoil.org

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: An in-depth update on the growing crisis in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine; we'll speak with Jonathan Cook; also a special report on so-called honor killings in US-occupied Iraq; Barbara Lubin honors Berkeley community leader and trusted politician Maudelle Shirek in anticipation of the unveiling of a mural devoted to her work; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

A Israel sends its favorite Palestinaian leader an olive branch and a fig leaf.
Somalian resistance under a US backed Ethiopian occupation
Occupation collaborators in Iraq get bombed in a Baghdad hote.
A conservative US Senator condemns the Bush Surge in Iraq
US mayors vote for a partial withdraw from Iraq

Monday, June 25, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints, We continue our reporting on a for-profitchildren's prison in Taylor, Texas, we'll feature a special report from a protest in front of the prison; also, Dick Cheney, the point man on the administration's wide-ranging program of torture; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

A US orchestrated death sentence for a former Iraqi Commander that the Pentagon concluded is not guilty of the gassing of Kurds in Hallelujah.
New details from Iraqi officials reveal a torturous decapatation rather than hanging of Saddam Hussein's brother
Iraqi puppet parlament decides to take a shorter summer vacation than Pres. GW Bush.

16:00 Report on a Children's Prison in Taylor, Texas
Jay Johnson Castro, longtime immigrants' rights activist

31:00 Cheney and the Future Structure of War
Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst

Friday, June 22, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Live from New College of California in San Franciso’s bustling mission district, We Go live to Taylor Texas, to hear about a major protest planned for tomorrow at the gates of the Hutto Jail, a privatized prison for profit, where many children of deported Immigrants are being held hostage underhorrific conditions: We move further south to Mexico City and talk toJohn Ross about the US Plan Columbia, for Mexico: We’ll here from a hunger striker for immigrant rights, we’ll have a commentary from Miguel Gavlan Molina, Flashpoints in Espanol

01:00 Introduction. Dennis and Francisco

09:00 Hutto Prison Jay Johnson-Castro

21:00 US Plan Columbia for Mexico John Ross, journalist

33:00 Students Hunger Strike, Joel Aguiar,student activist

43:00 Gavilan’s Commentary Miguel Gavilan Molina

48:00 Flashpoints en Español
John Ross, author and journalist

Thursday, June 21, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Mahmoud Abbas and the Israelis put Gazans on an extreme diet, we'll have a report from the occupied Gaza strip; also, a Palestinian health worker arrested and threatened on his way from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp; and a new documentary by Norman Solomon, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.

War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death - a film by Norman Solomon. http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org/

01:00 Israel's Collective Punishment in Gaza - Palestinians on the Brink of Humanitarian Crisis
Amjad Shawa, Gaza coordinator of Palestinian NGO Network

16:00 Report from Under Siege in Lebanon
Milad Salameh, nurse from Nahr el Bared refugee camp
For more information visit the Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign website.

30:00 War Made Easy
Norman Solomon, filmmaker
With a clip from the film
For more about War Made Easy visit www.warmadeeasythemovie.org

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: As Palestinian Authority President Mahmould Abbas colludes with the occupiers to overthrow democracy, Israeli death squads continue to kill Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Plus, a new report documenting the expanding violence of the US Occupation in Iraq. Anti landmine campaigners take on cluster bombs as an international movement gains momentum. Also an update on the Black Panter Trials on the Block Report and of course the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

President Carter - Peace - Not Apartheid

01:00 The Knight Report

The Israel reinvades Gaza while former President Carter condemns Israeli-American plans saying "The United States and Israel decided to punish all the people in Palestine and did everything they could to deter a compromise between Hamas and Fatah," he said.

Robert Knight

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cozies up with Israel and the Bush administration as occupation tanks amass at Gaza's border, we'll speak with Ali Abunimah and Professor Hatem Bazian about the current crisis in occupied Palestine; also, an in-depth look at the expanding war in Afghanistan as the Taliban now controls nearly half the country; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

The Israeli-American axis pursues a three-state solution in Iraq and in the mideast, where Olmert and Bush are contemplating aid for Fatah-stan at the expense of Hamas-stine
US troops battle militias in Iraqi Sunni-stan and southern Shia-stan while pursuing oil concessions in Kurdistan

Robert Knight

One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse by Ali Abunimah

06:00 How Mahmoud Abbas, Israel and the US Subvert Democracy in Occupied Palestine
Ali Abunimah, ElectronicIntifada.net

18:00 Report on Afghanistan
Christian Parenti, author and journalist provides the perspective on-the-ground in Afghanistan under spreading Taliban control.
Read recent articles by Christian Parenti in The Nation

The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq by Christian Parenti

37:00 Pulling the Strings: The US' Involvement in Palestine
Hatem Bazian, Lecturer at UC Berkeley, discusses the Palestinian political landscape and recent coup in the context of the Oslo agreement and subsequent intensified occupation humiliation and loss of human rights.

Monday, June 18, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: A US-Israeli supported coup in the West Bank: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas annuls elections and selects a pro-West cabinet to rule from Ramallah, we'll get a report from that city; also, we go back to the North of Lebanon, where human rights activist warn of growing human rights violations against Palestinians caught in the crossfire, including illegal arrests, detentions, torture and beatings; plus, the FBI, empowered by the Congress and the Patriot Act, illegally collaborates with major telecommunications corporations; an update on Scooter Libby as he prepares to go to jail; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

Israeli troops are massing in Northern Gaza and a new economic cessation in the Gaza strip is underway following Hamas military overthrow of Fatah and Abbas' unconstitutional creation of another new western backed government.
The Taliban conducts its most lethal bombing since the US invasion of Afghanistan in which the United Kingdom feared that the Bush Administration would use nuclear weapons.
United Nations gives up the ghost to find nukes or any other kind of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq where the Pentagon says the US will remain for at least a decade.

Robert Knight

06:00 Abbas Stages a Coup; Israel, the US and the EU Brand Him a “Partner for Peace”
Jamal Juma'a, coordinator, Stop the Wall Campaign, occupied West Bank

21:00 Update from Beirut, Lebanon
Rania Masri, environmental scientist, human rights activist –
www.nahrelbaredcampaign.org

34:00 FBI Collaborates with Telecommunications Corporations
Lisa Graves, Center for National Security Studies, www.cnss.org

44:00 Scooter Libby Prepares for Jailtime
Bob Parry, investigative reporter, editor at ConsortiumNews.com

Friday, June 15, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency, even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we'll have a series of reports on these crucial breaking stories; also, we'll have a report from Beirut on yesterday's deadly bombing that killedten people; and the Knight report.

01:00 An Update from Gaza
Tilal Abu Shweish, Teacher and Human Rights Activist

09:00 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe, Israeli author and historian

44:00 Flashpoints en Español
Vladimir Flores, FSRN correspondent, www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com

Thursday, June 14, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency, even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we'll have a series of reports on these crucial breaking stories; also, we'll have a report from Beirut on yesterday's deadly bombing that killed ten people; and the Knight report.

01:00 The Knight Report

Fatah loses its western front of the Gaza Strip following todays armed takeover of the new Hamas stand on the Mediterranean.
Neofascist Giulani treads on the edge of foreign finance law with his solicitation of Israeli funds for his American Presidential Campaign

Robert Knight

06:7:00 Palestinian Authority President Sacks Elected Hamas Government
Ali Abunimah, editor, ElectronicIntifada.net

Left Turn-Notes from the Global Intifada

26:00 Eighty Palestinians Dead Since Saturday – A Look At Gaza
Talal Abu Shwiesh, teacher and human rights worker in Nuseirat camp, occupied Gaza
Dr. Mona el-Farra, health worker and Director of Gaza projects,
Middle East Children's Alliance

44:00 Dark Clouds Over Lebanon, A Day After A Deadly Bombing Kills Ten
Bilal el-Amine, FP Special Correspondent, editor, Left Turn Magazine

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: A Deadly Bombing in Beirut Kills at least ten and wounds many more; Also Haitian death squad leaders directly linked to US supported opposition in Haiti; Music industry puts the squeeze on Internet radio broadcasters and the Knight report

01:00 The Knight Report

New fighting in Gaza and the US bombardment in Somalia.
New curfews and mosque bombings in Iraq
Same old Democrats say ending the war in Iraq was "setting the bar too high"

Robert Knight

06:00 Bombing Kills Ten in Beirut
Rania Masri, Scientist, Teacher and Human Rights Activist,
www.nahrelbaredcampaign.org

21:00 Death Squad Leaders Linked to US Supported Opposition in Haiti
Brian Concannon, Attorney, www.ijdh.org

41:00 The Block Report
Davey D, Radio Host

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Dahr Jamail nails the New York Times for lying about the United States use of white phosphorus in Iraq. Also John Pilger on the U.S. permanent occupation in Iraq. Twenty two Palistinians killed in factional violence in Gaza. A former CIA analyst talks about the CIA on trial for torture. A disscussion on the future of the peace movement and the Knight Report. The New Rulers, John Pilger

01:00 The Knight Report

A reprieve for Habeus Corpus.
Israeli American bombing practice
Iranian allegations about disinformation about Gulf retaliation.
US plan for Iraqi contras appears to be crumbling.
Pentagon puts plans for a gay bomb back in the closet.

Monday, June 11, 2007

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Today on a special edition of Flashpoints: We spend the hour listening to the national Pacifica broadcast, Cages and Dreams: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession in Palestine.

01:00 Cages and Dreams: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession in Palestine
Pacifica Producers, from a national broadcast this weekend
Hosted/coordinated by Nora Barrows-Friedman
Websites, links and more information on guests/topics covered
Photo by Nora-Barrows Friedman

Friday, June 8, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: We talk about the future of the immigrant’s rights movement in the face of Congress’s failure to take any substantial action that would guarantee some 12 million workers and their families fair treatment, wages, and the respect they deserve; Also, we continue our investigation into the U.S. Government’s wide ranging use of torture; We’ll have Flashpoints in Espanol; and a commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina.

01:00 Introduction
Dennis Bernstein, Francisco Herrera,
co-host and Miguel Gavilan Molina

06:00 Torture on Trial
Father Steve Kelley,
Witness Against Torture/Fort Huachuca
Francisco Herrera

Father Steve Kelley outside Fort Huachuca

24:00 What’s Next in the Battle for Immigrant’s Rights
Rena Saucedo, organizer La Raza Centro Legal and SF Day Labor Program
Alfredo de Avila, organizer Applied Research Center

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Francisco Herrera, co-host
Rene Saucedo, organizer La Raza Centro Legal and SF Day Labor Program
Alfredo de Avila, organizer Applied Research Center

Thursday, June 7, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: A leading US scholar once again makes the case against Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine; also, environmental activist Karen Pickett speaks out against the government's green scare attacks; an eyewitness account that refutes police claims against Mumia abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.

Palestine, Palestinians and International Law

01:00 The Knight Report

More mysterious developments along N. Iraqi and Turkey border.
Turkish Army continuted to amass along the Iraqi border where military officials declared a so called security zone.

06:00 On Israel's Illegal Occupation of Palestine
Professor Francis Boyle, University of Illinois school of Law
author, “Palestine, Palestinians and International Law”

25:00 Federal Government Targeting Environmental Activists, continued
Karen Pickett, activist discusses the government's green scare attacks.

34:00 New Testimony in the Case of Mumia Abu Jamal: Evidence that Exonerates
JR and the Block Report

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Rania Masri reports from the ground in Beirut, Lebanon, on the latest human rights nightmares growing out of the continued attacks across the country; also, Israeli death squads kill an elderly Palestinian man and kidnap two children in the West Bank; part three of our series on the torture training center at Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona; plus, radical environmentalists sentenced to hard jail time under new terrorist enhancement laws; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

Conflicting reports of a Turkish incursion into Iraq.
A reproachment between Sunni insurgent groups.
Conflict between Sunni and Shia militias.
The British ambassador calls for Anglo-American evacuation of Iraq.

06:00 Report from Lebanon
Rania Masri, environmental scientist and coordinator with
the Naher el Bared Relief Campaign

13:00 Israeli Death Squads Invade Hebron.
Israelis killing an elderly Palestinian man and kidnap children.
International Middle East Media Center,
occupied West Bank.

18:00 Torture on Trial at Fort Huachuca, part 3
Father Steve Kelly and Bill Quigley

43:00 Environmental Activists Deemed “Terrorists” by Bush Administration
Lauren Regan, attorney with Civil Liberties Defense Center

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: 40 years after the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the suffering remains with no end in sight, we'll speak with Diana Buttu in Ramallah for an in-depth look at Israeli policies of expanded military occupation and colonialism; plus, part two of torture in Tuscon, an investigation into Fort Huachuca, Abu Ghraib and the wide-ranging use of torture by the US Government; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

Conflict and compromise in Lebanon's refugee crisis
A sudden visit to Somalia by the leader of its foreign occupation
The Bush administration escalates air strikes to compensate for its lack of ground control in Iraq

Robert Knight

06:00 40th Anniversary of Israel's Illegal Occupation of Palestine
Diana Buttu, Ramallah-based attorney, legal advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, and the head of the PA's negotiations affairs department

Diana Buttu, legal advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, and the head of the PA's negotiations affairs department. source http://p10k.net

Diana Buttu

28:00 Torture at Fort Huachuca, part 2
Francisco Herrera, FP Special correspondent
Retired Colonel Ann Wright
Father Steve Kelly
Jack Cohen-Joppa

Monday, June 4, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: A second refugee camp struck by violence as the bombardment of Naher el Bared continues in Lebanon, we'll have a series of reports on the human rights situation in the camps as well as the continuing bombings around Beirut; also, anti-torture activists face off against torture trainers in Tuscon; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Fighting in Lebanon Spreads to the South; Activists Stage a "Die-In" at Naher el Bared
Dr. Marcy Newman, Rania Masri and Sharif Bibi, coordiators, NaherElBaredCampaign.org

25:00 Report from Beirut as Bombs Fall
Bilal el-Amine, FP Special Correspondent, editor, Left Turn Magazine

44:00 Protests in Tuscon Against Militarization of US-Mexico Border
Francisco Herrera, FP Producer
Fr. Louis Vitale, human rights activist

Friday, June 1, 2007

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Today on Flashpoints: Over 15,000 Palestinian refugees remain trapped under siege in the Naher el-Bared refugee camp, we’ll have a report from Lebanon; also, a leading immigration rights attorney arrested protesting the so-called immigration compromise; former Black Panther and founder of Common Ground in New Orleans, Malik Rahim, in the studio; a report from Venezuela on the shutting down of a US-funded right wing television station; and Flashpoints en Español.

01:00 Introduction by Dennis.

04:00 On the Ground Report from Lebanon – More Attacks on Refugee Camp
Dr. Marcy Newman, Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign

10:00 Protesting the New “Compromise” on Immigration
Rene Saucedo, activist and attorney

17:00 The State of New Orleans
Malik Rahim, Common Ground Relief Collective

35:00 Report from Venezuela
Gregory Wilpert, journalist

42:00 Flashpoints en Español
Gregory Wilpert

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