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Wednesday, January 30,
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Today on Flashpoints:
An in-depth interview with Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess on over a
half dozen invasions into the West Bank over the last forty eight
hours. On the Block Report we'll feature an eyewitness account to the
murder of Gary King. Also, High school students punished for not
being objective about the use of torture by the U.S. Government. And
the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
Robert
Knight
06:00
In-Depth Interview with
Flashpoints Bureau Chief Kristen Ess
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Bureau Chief in Occupied Palestine
35:00
Block Report: An
Eyewitness to the Murder of Gary King
JR with Shelam
50:00
High School Students
Punished for Non-Objective Torture Stance
World Can't Wait and
Revolution Club
Tuesday, January 29,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Award winning journalist Robert Fisk talks about the war in Iraq, the
killings in Beirut,
and what's happening in Gaza; Also,
Flashpoints
Bureau Chief Kristen
Ess reports on the killing, by
occupation forces, of a 17 year old in Bethlehem; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- President Bush praises his troops' splurge in Iraq and
prepares to short-change the next President on war funding
- The Senate declines to give corporate immunity for
warrantless wire taps
- Egypt hardens its position along the Gaza border
Robert
Knight
(AP
photo) The coffins
of Amal official
Ahmad Hamzeh and a
comrade Mahmoud
Ajouz are carried during
their funeral
procession in Shiyah,
south of Beirut
Source: UK
Independent
www.independent.co.uk
05:00
War
in the Middle East
with Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk, author of
The Great War for Civilization,
journalist,
historian
www.robert-fisk.com
Read
Robert
Fisk: Eight dead, and echoes of Beirut's bloody history reverberate
around its streets in the UK
Independent
40:00
From the West Bank:
Invasion of Bethlehem
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Also visit
www.imemc.org for
late-breaking news and information
Monday, January 28,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints: Egyptians
attempt to tighten control at the Gaza border to restrain hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians
who refuse to be locked down in the prison of Gaza, we'll get a report from the ground in
Rafah. Kristen Ess reports
on the death of George Habash, resistance leader and political activist
as Israeli forces swarm into
Bethlehem, killing one Palestinian teenager. Also, remembering the bloody legacy of
General Suharto in Indonesia. Robert Parry nails CBS and 60 Minutes for
lying about the war. And the Knight Report.
05:00 Report from Occupied Gaza: Israel
and Egypt Tighten Control at Southern Border
Mohammed Omer, reporter with
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Inter Press
Service, www.rafahtoday.org
15:00 From the West Bank: George Habash,
Resistance Leader, Dies; Israel Siege in Bethlehem
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau
Chief
30:00 Remembering the Legacy of General
Suharto
Brad Simpson, director of
Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project
46:00 CBS Lying about the War
Bob Parry, investigative
journalist, www.consortiumnews.com
Friday, January 25,
2008
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Thursday, January 24,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
We get a frontline medical report on the situation in Gaza, as
Palestinians continue to cross the border by the thousands into Egypt
for necessary goods and medical care; also
Flashpoints' Palestine bureau chief
reports on the continuing seiges in the West Bank;
Activist Nation
reports on an
emergency
demonstration called by
International
ANSWER at the Israeli consulate to protest the genocide; Davey D of
Hard Knock Radio joins
us for an in-depth interview as the fireworks continue to fly between
Clinton and Obama in South Carolina; and the Knight Report.
Wednesday, January 23,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints: We devote the entire hour to the
genocidal actions of the occupation forces in Gaza; we'll get a report
from southern Gaza, Palestinians broke down the wall at the Egypt
border to obtain the life-sustaining supplies they could no longer get
under the draconian Israeli embargo; Ali Abunimah joins us to analyze
the current actions and to take your questions; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
Robert
Knight
05:00 Gazans Break Through Egypt-Gaza Border
Ali Abunimah, Electronic
Intifada, author, One Country
Mohammed Omer, Special
correspondent in Rafah - www.rafahtoday.org
Mark Turner, human rights
activist, founder, ResearchJournalismInitiative.net
Tuesday, January 22,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Israel continues its siege against Palestinians in Gaza, as food runs
out and raw sewage floods the streets, we'll have a report from the
ground in Gaza City as Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank; A
national speak-out against torture, we'll speak with Cindy Sheehan, a
key participant in the event; also, Deborah Sweet of World Can't Wait
discusses torture and impeachment; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- It's 17 more years of prison for Jose Padilla, the American
already psychologically tortured for four years under US military
detention
- Gaza Palestinians under Israeli sequestration and
collective punishment are now facing a water, food, fuel and power
crisis
- There's a refugee flood in Afghanistan
- 300 dead in Iraq over the weekend
Robert
Knight
Protesters
in Bethlehem 22 Jan 2008.
Photo by IMEMC's Ghassan Bannoura
05:00
Report
from Under Siege in Occupied Gaza
Amjad Shawa,
Palestinian
NGO Network Coordinator, Gaza City
Visit the website of the
Palestinian
International Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza for information on
upcoming actions
19:00
Report from the Occupied
West Bank: Voices from Gaza and West
Bank Village
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Visit the
International
Middle East Media Center for updates and breaking news
30:00
An Evening of Conscience:
Event Tonight at Grand Lake Theater in
Oakland
Deborah Sweet,
World
Can't Wait
44:00
Cindy Sheehan on
Elections and
Endless War
Cindy Sheehan,
Gold Star Families
For information on Cindy Sheehan's campaign for Congress, visit
http://www.cindyforcongress.org/
Monday, January 21,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: Israel cuts
fuel supplies to the occupied
Gaza strip, cutting power to over 800,000 Palestinians in another act
of illegal collective punishment as US-made warplanes continue to pound
civilian areas, we'll have a report from the ground in Gaza as Kristen
Ess also reports from the West Bank; plus, Israel and the UK steal
Gaza's natural gas reserves and use divisive fometing of political
splits in Palestine to secure a profit and control the Palestinian
economy; and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his own words as he spoke
out against racism, violence and war over forty years ago.
01:00 Israeli Sieges in Gaza Kill 37
Palestinians in 5 Days; Fuel Cut as Collective Punishment
Rami al-Meghari,
ElectronicIntifada.net, Free Speech Radio News
09:00 Natural Gas Deal Between Israel, UK
and Egypt: Stealing Gaza's Natural Resources
Mark Turner, human rights
activist, international director of Research
Journalism
Initiative
Event: Tuesday, January 22,
7pm
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian
Universalists
1924
Cedar St. at Bonita
Berkeley, California
27:00 Report from the Occupied West Bank
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau
Chief
42:00 Dr. King in His Own Words
Dr. Martin Luther King,
speaking against Vietnam War in 1967
Friday, January 18,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: Immigrants rights
activists converge in
Houston for a national conference on immigration rights, we'll hear
from Flashpoints correspondents Evelina Molina, Rene Saucedo and others
attending the conference; also, a preview of the upcoming Santa Cruz
Media Strategy Summit; Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan stands up against
torture and endless war; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en
Espanol.
01:00 Introduction
Dennis, Francisco
05:00 Report from Houston, TX: Immigrants
Rights Activists Speak Out
Evelina Molina, Rene Saucedo
With guests from conference –
Susan Alva, NNIRR, Christine Ramirez, AFSC San Diego
Conference sponsored by
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
22:00 Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit
Peter Phillips, Project
Censored
32:00 Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star
Families for Peace -
38:00 Headlines from the
Region
Miguel Perez
43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Guests from Houston, TX
Thursday, January 17,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: Two former
high-level CIA analysts speak
out against the genocide in Palestine; plus, buying the White House:
how campaign contributions undermine free and fair elections; Evelina
Molina reports on the continued cleansing at the US-Mexico border; and
the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
Robert
Knight
05:00
Former CIA Analysts Talk Genocide in Palestine
Kathleen and Bill Christison,
former CIA analysts
35:00 Music Break
36:00 Ethnic Cleansing at the US-Mexico
Border
Evelina Molina
46:00 Buying the White House
Craig Holman, Ethics Lobbyist
for Public Citizen
Wednesday, January 16,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: Israeli
warplanes continue their series
of missile attacks against Palestinians inside Gaza, killing five more
today, including a 14 year old boy; Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr.,
President of the Hip Hop Caucus, talks about Martin Luther King in the
context of the upcoming elections; also, we'll look at the double
standard of reproductive rights for the poor and for the rich; and the
Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
Robert
Knight
05:00 Israeli Occupation Forces Continue
Siege in Gaza;
Five More Palestinians
Killed, Including. One Child.
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints
Palestine Bureau Chief
23:00 Music Break
24:00 Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Looking at Election Politics
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.,
President of the Hip Hop Caucus
43:00 Music Break
44:00 Economic Double Standards for
Reproductive Rights
Loretta Ross, founder of
National Center for Human Rights Education and Sister Song
Tuesday, January 15,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Israeli tanks and armored vehicles besiege neighborhoods all over the
Gaza Strip, killing 19 Palestinians and wounding over 50, we'll
hear from a physician and a human rights worker on the scene in Gaza;
also, international scholar Francis Boyle deconstructs the Bush visit
and its devastating impact on the Palestinian Right of Return; Kathy
Kelly talks about the growing Iraqi refugee tragedy in Jordan and other
countries that border Iraq; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- Bombings and assymetrical skirmishes in Lebanon, Pakistan
and Gaza
Robert
Knight
A
Palestinian man wounded by Israeli
fire is
wheeled into a hospital in Gaza City (AFP photo)
04:00
Israeli
Tanks Kill 19
Palestinians and Wound 50 in Gaza
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief
Amjad Shawa,
Palestinian
NGO Network
Dr. Mona al-Farra,
Red Crescent
Society and
Middle
East
Children's
Alliance
24:00
Musical Break
25:00
Deconstructing Bush
Policy in Palestine and the Middle East
Francis Boyle, international law professor at University of Illinois. A
scholar in the areas of international law and human rights,
Professor
Boyle received a J.D. degree
magna cum laude and A.M. and
Ph.D. degrees in political science from Harvard University. Professor
Boyle, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, dissects Bush's Middle East
tour, its relevance for the Palestinian Right of Return, and parallels
with South Africa's apartheid creation of '
bantustans'.
Read UN General Assembly
Resolution 194 (11
December 1948) as posted on the
US
Dept of State website, which states that the Assembly, having
considered further the situation in Palestine:
38:00
Refugees at the Border of
US-Occupied Iraq
Kathy
Kelly,
Voices for
Creative Nonviolence,
interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, discusses the soaring infant mortality
statistics and appalling hardships experienced by Iraqi refugees. A
recent
UNICEF
report estimates two million children in Iraq "are paying far too
high a price", and continue to face threats including poor nutrition,
disease and interrupted education. As the US military drops 40,000-ton
bombs on Iraqi civilian neighborhoods and the lives of Iraqis are
destroyed, an increasing majority clearly wants the occupation to end,
and hatred of the US grows.
Visit
Voices for Creative
Nonviolence,
the
Occupation
Project, and read the December 21, 2007
UNICEF report.
Monday, January 14,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: Our Palestine
Bureau Chief Kristen Ess
reports from the border of the Gaza Strip as Israeli occupation forces
kill three more Palestinians in the last 24 hours; also, how
international human rights activists confront the colonization policies
in the West Bank; Dahr Jamail dissects the latest policies by the US
occupation military in Iraq, including the employment of over 80,000
militia contractors; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- The Pentagon gets queasy over Guantanamo
- Scores die in the latest assualt in Iraq
- Coalition opposes Kurdistan plan for expropriating Iraqi
oil.
- Sunnis vote no confidence on the de-baathification vote
Robert
Knight
05:00 Report from Occupied Gaza: Israeli
Control at the Border, Palestinians Trapped Inside
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints
Palestine Bureau Chief
23:00 Direct Action to Confront Israeli
Settlement Expansion
Bekah Wolf, Palestine
Solidarity Project – www.palestinesolidarityproject.org
42:00 Report on Iraq
Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints
Special Correspondent
Author, Beyond the Green Zone
Friday, January 11,
2008
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on Flashpoints: Native
American leader Bill Means
responds to the recent cleansing of Native tribes at the border based
on eminent domain; we go to the Mexican side of the US border to speak
with an eyewitness to the ongoing ethnic cleansing there; we'll hear
about an upcoming conference in Tucson to hear about immigrant rights
and immigrant labor; also, we're joined in New York city by Davey D in
dialogue with supporters of the Puerto Rican liberation movement;
headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol, this week with
Francisco Herrera and Rene Saucedo.
01:00 Introduction
Dennis, Francisco, Miguel, Rene
05:00 Ethnic Cleansing at the Border
Bill Means, American Indian
Movement
17:00 Continued Effects of NAFTA and
Homeland Security
Victor Quintana
27:00 Report from the Streets of NYC: Rally
in Support of Puerto Rican Independence Activists
Davey D, producer with Hard
Knock Radio on the streets of NYC
38:00 Headlines from the Region
Miguel Perez
43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Rene Saucedo
Thursday, January 10,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
George Bush ponders the fantasy of a Palestinian state as key cities in
the West Bank are locked down for his visit, Kristen Ess reports from
Bethlehem; also, we get reaction from the south of Lebanon with our
special correspondent Chris Brown reporting from the squalor of the
Palestinian refugee camps; Michael Parenti talks about the real
politics behind the campaigns and his new book,
Contrary Notions:
the Michael Parenti Reader; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- That Pentagon video from the Gulf was fabricated
Robert
Knight
06:00
Report
from the West
Bank: Palestine on Lockdown as Bush Visits
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Visit
imemc.org for more reports
26:00
Reaction from Lebanon; UN
Relief Agency Fails Palestinian
Refugees in Nahr el Bared
Chris Brown, Flashpoints correspondent and reporter for
ElectronicIntifada.net
ctl.lybsin.com
39:00
On The Real Story Behind
the Presidential Campaign; and
Remembering Philip Agee
Michael Parenti, author,
Contrary
Notions:
The Michael Parenti Reader
michaelparenti.org
Wednesday, January 9,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: Bush Goes to Israel
in the name of
Peace, even as the Israeli
War machine continues killing innocent Palestinians. We'll have a series of special reports
from the West Bank, which has
been locked down and sealed tight in anticipation of the Bush Peace Train. Also JR and Block with an
important up date of the case of the SF 8. And were remember fondly
former CIA whistle blower, Philip Agee, who died suddenly today at 72.
01:00 Bush in Palestine/West Bank Locked
down
Sam Bahour, Human Rights
Activist, Business Man
21:00 Kristen Ess Reports on the Bush
visits and the latest killings
44:00 Music break
45:00 JR and the Block Report:Update on the
SF8
52:00 INTRO to Philip Agee archive
54:00 Remembering CIA Whistle Blower,
Philip Agee, dead at 72
Tuesday, January 8,
2008
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on Flashpoints:
Hilary's campaign goes negative as she struggles to stay in the race;
we'll speak to Bob Parry about the campaign and the politics around
it. And will the US turn the alleged confrontation in the Gulf of
Hormuz into another Gulf of Tonkin? Also, Palestine Bureau Chief
Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank, on the eve of George W Bush's
visit, about the US-backed fomenting of Fatah-Hamas strife while
subverting the Palestinian democratic process. Evelina Molina
features an interview with a family whose property is being cut in two
by the proposed path of the separation wall at the US-Mexico
border. JR and the Block Report on the homeland security attack
on Puerto Rican anti-colonialist artists and activists; and the Knight
Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- More turmoil in Tehran, Washington, the Persian Gulf, and
Islamabad
Robert
Knight
05:00
New
Hampshire Primaries;
Alleged US-Iran Confrontation by Sea
Bob Parry, investigative journalist,
ConsortiumNews.com
Link to
BBC
story and video of the "confrontation"
Read
The Logic of
Obama-mania by Robert Parry
20:00
Report from the West
Bank: The US, Fatah and Hamas
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Also visit
imemc.org
for current
news and reports from occupied Palestine
32:00
Music Break
33:00
Militarizing the
US-Mexico Border: Families Losing Homes to the Wall
Evelina Molina with Daniel Garza, resident
42:00
Block Report: Puerto
Rican Anti-Colonialist Artists-Activists Subpoenaed in Grand Jury
JR and the Block Report -
BlockReportRadio.com
Monday, January 7,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: Investigative
journalist Alan Nairn talks about the CIA kidnapping tortures, the real
story behind the candidates and the upcoming elections, and Suharto on
his death bed, maybe; also, fourteen Palestinians killed in one week as
Israeli warplanes bombard the Gaza strip, Kristen Ess reports from the
West Bank as George Bush prepares to swing into Jerusalem; Ali Abunimah
and Jonathan Cook dissect Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's policies
of ethnic cleansing and apartheid; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
Robert
Knight
05:00 Alan Nairn on the Elections, the CIA,
and Suharto
Alan Nairn, award-winning
investigative journalist
20:00 Music Break
21:00 Report from the West Bank: Bush
Toward Jerusalem,
14 Palestinians Killed in
Gaza This Week
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau
Chief
33:00 Barak's “Generous Offer:” Eight Years
Later, Ethnic Cleansing Full Speed Ahead
Ali Abunimah, author, One
Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
and editor of ElectronicIntifada.net
One State Declaration: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9134.shtml
Jonathan Cook, author, Blood
and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic
State,
www.jkcook.net, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9181.shtml
Friday, January 4, 2008
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on Flashpoints: Today
on Flashpoints; We speak with filmmakers of the groundbreaking
documentary meeting resistance, that takes a look at the Iraqi
Resistance in their own voices; Plus, U.S., Mexican and Canadian
workers block the southern U.S. border in response to new NAFTA
regulations; Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.
00:00 Music and Billboard
01:00 Introduction
Nora Barrows-Friedman,
Francisco Herrera, Evelina Molina
06:00 Breakthrough film: Meeting Resistance
Molly Bingham and Steve
Connors- www.meetingresistance.com
28:00 Music Break
Francisco Herrera
30:00 Resistance to NAFTA
Carlos Marentes, director of
the Border Worker Agricultural Project
38:00 Headlines from the Region
Miguel Peres
43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Miguel Peres, Francisco
Herrera, Evelina Molina- Carlos Marentes
Thursday, January 3,
2008
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on Flashpoints: We
get an on-the-ground report from Nairobi, Kenya, where fighting has
broken out over the disputed Presidential election results as hundreds
of people are killed and over 70,000 are on the run; also, eight
Palestinians dead and dozens wounded in Gaza as Israeli tanks swarm
into Nablus in the West Bank, we'll get reports from the ground; Larry
Everest talks about Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Palestine, the Bush
administration's plans for 2008 and the role and responsibility of US
resistance movements; Activist Nation with Joe Tougas; and the Knight
Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
Robert
Knight
05:00 Crisis in Kenya
Muthoni Wanyeki, Executive
Director of the
Kenya Human Rights Commission
16:00 Report from the West Bank:
Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Major Invasions into Nablus
International Middle East
Media Center, www.imemc.org
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau
Chief
27:00 Middle East in 2008: Continued
Struggles, Continued Responsibility of US Citizens
Larry Everest, author, Oil,
Power & Empire
47:00 Activist Nation
Joe Tougas, World Can't Wait
Wednesday, January 2,
2008
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on Flashpoints: Israeli
tanks and warplanes re-invade the occupied Gaza strip, opening fire and
extra-judicially assassinating six resistance fighters, bringing the
weekly death toll to twenty; we'll get reports from both Gaza and the
West Bank; also, Chris Brown reports from Beirut, Lebanon, where he
investigates the ongoing displacement and dispossession of Palestinian
refugees; JR and the Block Report focus on the people's protests
against home demolitions in New Orleans; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
Robert
Knight
05:00 Six Palestinians Killed in Gaza, 68
Killed in December Alone
Mohammed Omer, freelance
reporter, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and
Inter Press Service – www.rafahtoday.org
13:00 Report from the West Bank:
Demonstrations Against the Wall
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau
Chief
24:00 Music Break
26:00 Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon:
Current and Historical Displacement
Chris Brown, Flashpoints
correspondent, producer, Crossing the Line
www.ctl.libsyn.com,
www.electroniclebanon.net
44:00 Music Break
46:00 Block Report: Update on Home
Demolitions and People's Protests in New Orleans
JR and the Block Report, www.blockreportradio.com
Tuesday, January 1,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: We take a look back at our top stories, in
part two of our New Years
special featuring the best of Flashpoints in 2007. U.S. Gunships attack Somalian citizens
in an escalation of the so-called'War on Terrorism' and a surge in
military spending; Israeli economic
sanctions worsen the humanitarian crisis in Occupied Palestine, while
gunbattles rage in the
streets of Gaza; and an eyewitness denies government accounts proving the innocence of Mumia
Abu-Jamal.
01:00 Best of Flashpoints 2007:
Part Two, July to December
Dennis Bernstein, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Emily Howard, Evelina Molina,
JR, Kristen Ess
