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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Listen D'load Podcast 
Audio links not active until 6:30pm Wednesday

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israel's air and land war continued today as the death toll rose to at least 640 and nearly 3,000 wounded; the latest Israeli strikes claimed the lives of 40 people who took refuge from the North at a UN school in Jebaliya; we'll report on the challenges facing doctors on the ground who not only don't have the medicine but are faced with dealing with wounds from unconventional weapons never seen before; we'll get reports from the Gaza City, the densely populated Meghazi refugee camp, and from Rafah in the south at the Egyptian border; also, Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children's Alliance gears up to deliver 5 tons of desperately-needed medical aid; and the Knight Report.

Images from UN school bombing in Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip (Reuters, and aljazeera.net)

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight

06:00 Day 11 of Israeli Airstikes Against Gaza: Heaviest Bombardment, 640 Killed Since 12/27
Sameh Habeeb, freelance journalist, humanitarian aid worker – www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
Rami al-Meghari, journalist with Free Speech Radio News, ElectronicIntifada.net, imemc.org

25:00 Bringing Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children's Alliance
Nora Barrows-Friedman - norahbf.com

32:00 Psychiatrist Describes Conditions in Gaza
Dr. Eyad Sarraj, Gaza Community Mental Health Committee

46:00 On Southern Gaza and Reporting from the Ground
Fida Qishta, freelance journalist and activist

Day 11 Summary of Israeli War On Gaza (www.gazatoday.blogspot.com)

Death toll 620, injured 3000 and most of them Civilians By Sameh A. Habeeb, A Photojournalist, Humanitarian & Peace Activist in Gaza Strip. *Numbers and Figures of Israeli War on Gaza: *Total death toll: 620 while Wounded: 3000. *Civilians: 220 children and 130 women killed since the start of this War. Many old men and young people were killed and the number is estimated of 80 and this is all according to the Medical sources. *Thus, we could say so far: Around 430 civilians killed and 190 are policemen and militants. * More than 1 thousand child among the wounded! *11 Ambulances bombed and 4 vans for civil defense hit. *30 paramedics wounded and 7 killed. Deadly Outcomes of Israeli Ground Military Operation: Bombings in Jabalia Refugee Camps, 5 killed and several wounded. Many houses were damaged in the camp while hundreds of people leave their houses into some schools and safer places. Israeli F16s bombarded two adjacent houses for Al Shorafa family in Toffah area. The houses were hit without previous notification. Many people killed and several wounded. A massacre against house of the Al Daya family southern east of Gaza City. The father was killed, the mother, his son Fayez, his daughter-in-law Rawans, 6-month-old baby Muhammad, 5-year-old Sharf Al Din, Ala' aged 8 years, Rania aged 12 and Doha 3 years. Other 5 people were killed in the same house while many still under the rubble of the 4-floor-house. Marzouq Family hit in Al Toffah area. Many wounded and no news if there are victims or not. Israeli drone killed 3 young guys refugee to one of the schools in Al Shati' Refugee Camp. They were hit by a rocket while they were drinking water inside the school. Medical sources: 13 palestinian women and children arrived to Al Shifa' hospital due to Israeli shelling in Al Toffah quarter. Gaza Local Radios: Thousands of Palestinians shelter to UNRWA schools mid of Gaza as Israeli army threatened of a genocide against them. Some of those at schools are wounded and unable to reach hospitals. F16s rebombarded Al Saraya security compound last night, now totally reduced to rubble. Bombings target Al Baurej central market. Many wounded and 2 killed. Bombings targeted Abu Ghanima family in Al Zaytoun area. The house includes around 12 people. Some injured, some killed and some others under rubble. A horrendous massacre! 45 civilians killed due to heavy Israeli bombings targeted them at Al Fakhora school in Jabalia town. The families and victims took shelter from Israeli strikes at this school. Around 100 wounded and many in critical condition now! A house for Shamalkh family bombed to rubble due bombings targeted a mosque in the area. Two Palestinains killed, 10 wounded and 5 in critical condition. A house destroyed due to air raid in Khan Yonis town of Abasan. Bombings in Al Shati' camp claimed the life of one civilian and left many wounded. Israeli rockets hit Qlaibo area north of Gaza - no wounded reported in the raid. A house for Isi family hit in Al Toffah area. A house hit near Mus'ab Bin Omair Mosque and many houses burnt due to the shelling north of Gaza. One Palestinian killed and 6 wounded in the Israeli air raids in Abasan town in Khan Yonis. Al Samouni Family: around 20 members of our family killed and another 25 under the rubbles of the house. Power transformers destroyed in the northern area. Artillary shell kills a child, Merwan Ubaid, in Abasan town east of Khan yonis. Around 25 houses damaged due to artillery shells in Rafah City. A house for Al Alool family destroyed at Bait Lahia town. Five wounded in a rocket attack on the Khoza'a family. Heavy bombings in the agricultural and farms in the northern areas. A woman from Ghomaida family killed and her husband wounded in the northern areas of Gaza. Mass bombings in Al Shijaya area and many wounded taken to Al Shifa' hospital. Rockets targeted a house in Al Sheikh Ridwan - 5 wounded, one in critical conditions. Psychiatrists: thousands of children traumatized due to the ongoing bombings. Palestinian militants fire 30 rockets into the Israeli settlements. Rockets hit the main Market of Gaza with heavy F116 rockets.

Monday, January 5, 2009 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: The Israeli killing machine continued its attack by land, air and sea, as the death toll rises to over 540, including 107 children; we'll have reports from Gaza, sound from a militant protest today in San Francisco; and an in-depth interview with noted filmmaker John Pilger, on the current situation and the history of Gaza; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report Robert Knight

04:00 Day 10 of Israeli Airstrikes Against Occupied Gaza: Cluster Bombs and White Phosphorus
Sameh Habeeb, freelance journalist, humanitarian aid worker – www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
Fida Qishta, journalist in Rafah and with ISM

27:00 SF Protests Against Gaza Massacres

34:00 On Gaza, US Policy and the History of Genocide in Palestine
John Pilger, award-winning film documentarian, journalist

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Friday, January 2, 2009 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israel's air, land and sea bombing siege of the Gaza strip continues for the 7th day, killing many more women and children and destroying civilian and government buildings; we'll have reports from Gaza City, Rafah, and the West Bank; and Ali Abunimah with a response to Condoleezza Rice's insistence that Hamas is to blame.

01:00 Day 7 of Israeli Airstrikes Against Occupied Gaza
Sameh Habeeb, freelance journalist, humanitarian aid worker – www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
Fida Qishta, journalist in Rafah and with ISM - diaries of Fida Qishta
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada 
Bekah Wolf, Palestine Solidarity Project , www.awalls.org
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 

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Thursday, January 1, 2009 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: The death toll in Gaza rises to 428 on the 6th consecutive day of Israeli airstikes; we'll feature a frontline report of an air attack on a densely-populated refugee camp and a children's park, and we'll hear about the extra-judicial killing of a senior Hamas leader, along with his wife, three children and ten family members whose home was blown to pieces by a US-made missile; we'll also report on continuing attacks on medical workers and grave shortages of medical supplies in key hospitals around Gaza.

01:00 Israel's Continuous Siege on Gaza: 428 Killed in 6 Days
Sameh Habeeb, freelance journalist, humanitarian aid worker - www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
Fida Qishta, journalist in Rafah and with ISM - www.palsolidarity.org
Jenny Linell, ISM activist - www.palsolidarity.org
Dr. Eyad Sarraj, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme - www.gcmhp.net

Destruction in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 1, 2009 (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)
source: electronicintifada.net

For updates from other sources, visit Electronic Intifada, the International Middle East Media Center and www.palcast.org  Read another first hand account from Gaza, Riding with Ambulances (01/01/09, Sharyn Lock)

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  As Israel's bombing of Gaza continued for a 5th day, we'll feature reports on an attack on the largest hospital in Gaza, wounding patients; we'll also feature a report on the targeting of ambulance drivers trying to deal with the dead and wounded; we'll speak to a young Palestinian journalist in Rafah, reporting on this morning's bombing attacks.








01:00 5th Day of Israeli Air Strikes: Israel Pounds Humanitarian Relief Missions, More Children Killed
Sameh Habeeb, freelance journalist, humanitarian aid worker – www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
Eva Bartlett, humanitarian aid worker
Khaled Khadoura, ICU nurse
Fida Qishta, journalist in Rafah and with ISM

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We continue our special reporting on the fourth day of the Israeli bombing siege of the Gaza strip; with the body count at 390 Palestinians now killed since Saturday, we'll hear an eyewitness account of the shredding of three young children; also we'll hear about the heaviest bombing so far that took place last night; plus we'll speak to a leader of the Free Gaza movement about Israel's ramming of their boat full of humanitarian supplies; we'll broadcast live from a militant protest in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco; and we'll have the Knight Report.

The damaged Free Gaza boat Dignity arrives in Lebanon after its encounter with the
Israeli navy.  Photograph: Ali Hashisho/Reuters  (UK Guardian article)

Also read more from photojournalist Sameh Habeeb about the plight of Palestinian children under the Israeli siege on gazatoday.blogspot.com

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Monday, December 29, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: On the third day of Israel's civilian bombing campaign of the Gaza strip,  350 Palestinians are killed, over a thousand wounded, and the death toll is expected to rise substantially;  we'll get a first-hand description of a major hospital in Gaza right after the first rounds of bombing and we'll hear from human rights activists, reporters and bloggers on the ground in Gaza, talking about the extent of the damage so far; we'll also have a report on an emergency action called in downtown San Francisco by the Palestinian community registering their outrage at the continued ethnic cleansing; and Ali Abunimah joins us for in-depth analysis of the current crisis.

01:00 Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
Sameh Habeeb, freelance journalist, humanitarian aid worker – www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
Dr. Haidar Eid, professor at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza City
Mohammed Ali, humanitarian aid coordinator for OXFAM
Safa Joudeh, blogger and journalist
47 Protests Against Massacres in San Francisco

04:00 Sounds from SF Protest on Powell and Market Streets, Sunday afternoon

51:00 Gaza in Context
Ali Abunimah, editor and co-founder, ElectronicIntifada.net
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Friday, December 26, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  The Apache Nation fights back against Homeland Security and the Federal Government who are trying to build a wall over their native lands; also, we'll get an update on national actions in support of undocumented workers' rights; we'll hear about the cultural significance of Aztlan from cutting-edge poet, performance artist and musician Estevan Zul; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Intro: live
Francisco, Dennis, Miguel

07:00 Apache Nation Fights Homeland Security and the US Government
Margo Temez, Humano Apache leader in Redford April Cotte, human rights activist and community organizer -
Arnoldo Garcia, Program Director of the Immigrant Justice & Rights Program at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights -

30:00 Aztlan
Estevan Zul, musician, poet, performance artist

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Arnoldo Garcia with Miguel Perez, host

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Thursday, December 25, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on a Special Christmas edition of Flashpoints: Kristen Ess takes us to occupied Bethlehem, where Palestinians struggle to survive; and we re-broadcast a free-wheeling interview with lawyer, civil rights activist, artist and the author of Up Against The Wall, Mother-bleeper, Osha Neumann, in conversation with Barbara Lubin and Dennis Bernstein.

01:00 Christmas in Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network

15:00 Music Break

 18:00 Up Against the Wall, Mother*%&(#!!
Osha Neumann, civil rights activist, lawyer, artist, author
Barbara Lubin, director, Middle East Children's Alliance

[audio links not active until 6:30pm Thursday]

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on a special Christmas Eve edition of Flashpoints: We focus on the victims of this country's draconian drug war, their suffering and what the new Obama administration might do to alleviate the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of victims of unfair laws.

01:00 Victims of the Drug War
Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of Drug Policy Alliance
Randy Credico, political activist, satirist, outgoing director of William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice

Ethan Nadelmann      Randy Credico
[audio links not active until 6:30pm Wednesday]

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: In another installment of The Rendition Report, a lawyer with firsthand experience talks about the brutal conditions inside Guantanamo Bay Prison; also a report on the massive spill of toxic coal ash sludge in Tennessee; our weekly edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight

05:00 500 Million-Gallon Spill of Toxic Coal Ash Sludge in Tennessee Rivers
Rick Hinde, legislative director of Greenpeace

Link to Free Speech Radio News coverage Massive Coal Sludge Spill Spreading in Tennessee


A retention pond wall collapsed early this morning at the Tennessee Valley Authority's
Kingston steam plant, releasing a mixture of water and fly ash that flooded 12 homes
and derailed a train.  Photo by J. Miles Cary.     © 2008 The E.W. Scripps Co.
www.knoxnews.com

19:00 Community Business
Catherine Austin Fitts
Solari.com
42:00 The Rendition Report: Guantanamo and Torture
Ahmed Ghappour, a lawyer with Reprieve UK representing clients at Guantanamo, received his JD from NYU School of Law where he was a Dean's Merit Scholar. Prior to that, he received a BSE from Rutgers University, with highest honours, and held numerous engineering positions in the high tech sector.

www.reprieve.org.uk

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Monday, December 22, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Today on Flashpoints:  Will President  Obama attempt to hold the Bush Administration Accountable for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity:Also Up Against the Wall MotherBleeps: a new memoir about the sixties, by People's Attorney and artist Osha Neuman, And the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight
  
05:00 Will he or Won't he? Obama and Prosecuting the Crimes of the Bush Administration
Marjorie Cohen

17:00 Remembering the Radical Sixties
Osha Newman and Barbara Lubin

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Friday, December 19, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  We feature a special report on the expanding wars in Mexico and the death of over 7,000 victims of the drug war; also, the San Francisco Consul General for the Chavez government in Venezuela talks about Chavez' plans for the
expanding Bolovarian revolution; circus performers who twirl fire at Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank
talk about creative resistance to the ethnic cleansing in Palestine; stand-up comedian Ahmed Ahmed joins us for a
few minutes to talk about the expanding comedy world in the Middle East; and the Consul General for Venezuela
joins us in Spanish for Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Intro: live
Francisco, Dennis, Miguel

05:00 Update on Mexico
John Gibler, FP Special Correspondent

20:00 Venezuela, the Bolivarian Revolution and US Policy
Martin Sanchez, Venezuelan Consul of San Francisco

32:00 Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians
Jonas Moffat and Katie Miranda, Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians
EVENT: Saturday, Dec. 20th, 7pm, Berkeley Unitarian Universalists Church
Cedar and Bonita streets

40:00 “Axis of Evil” Comedian Ahmed Ahmed
Ahmed Ahmed, comedian, actor
www.ahmed-ahmed.com

44:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Martin with Miguel Perez

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Thursday, December 18, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We'll have a report on major demonstrations in Haiti yesterday, calling for the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, and an update on the worsening human rights and food crisis enveloping Haiti; also, the United Nations forced to suspend food and supply deliveries to the 750,000 Palestinian refugees inside Gaza, as the borders remain sealed and as Israeli bombings continue, we'll have a full report on the Week in Review from Palestine; a debate on the future of progressive politics and whether Obama represents real change; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report

Robert Knight

05:00 Update on Haiti: Food Crisis
Brian Concannon, human rights attorney attorney, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

  Aristide
With Barak Obama elected on a promise of “Change,” impoverished Haitians are hopeful his administration can implement a more just Haiti policy that will help build a more stable and prosperous Haiti with justice for imprisoned political prisoners and the return of kidnapped President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
www.ijdh.org, www.haitiaction.net

18:00 Week in Review from Palestine: Israeli Bombings in Gaza, Christmas in Occupied Bethlehem
Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network
www.pnn.ps

32:00 Musical Break - I'm Gonna Say it Now - Phil Ochs

34:00 Debate: US Foreign Policy and Opposing Wars During the Obama Presidency
Norman Solomon, author and journalist
www.normansolomon.com, www.commondreams.net
Larry Everest, author and journalist
www.revcom.us, www.larryeverest.com

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Goldman Sachs takes a dive while interest rates by the Fed hit zero, we'll have a deep analysis of the implications and continue following the bailout money with Catherine Austin Fitts on Community Business; also, JR and the Block Report present part two of an in-depth look at the impact of western colonialism in the Congo and throughout the  African continent; also on the Block Report, a new interview with death row political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight

05:00 Community Business: Deflation and the
Continuing Downfall of the US Economy
Catherine Austin Fitts, www.solari.com

25:00 The Block Report: Interview with Mumia Abu Jamal;
In-Depth Report on Africa
Mumia Abu Jamal, death row political prisoner
Kambale Musuvuli, spokesperson and youth coordinator for Friends of the Congo; international organizer with Break the Silence Campaign
JR and the Block Report – www.blockreportradio.com

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Former New York Times reporter Steven Kinzer calls the Obama-Gates plan to expand the war and occupation in Afghanistan “delusional.” Also, a critique of the new pro-nuclear nominee for energy secretary; JR and the Block Report offer an update on the case of death row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis and interview the son of Stanley Tookie Williams on the third anniversary of his state-sponsored murder.

01:00 Expanding the War and Occupation in Afghanistan
Steven Kinzer, former New York Times reporter, author, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq


   Karl Grossman
20:00 Obama's Pro-Nuclear Pick for Energy Secretary
Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at State University of New York, author of Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know about Nuclear Power

Read Karl Grossman's article The Half-Life of the Lesser Evil, Dr. Chu's Nuclear Prescription on CounterPunch

34:00 The Block Report: Update on Troy Anthony Davis and Interview with Son of Tookie Williams
JR and the Block Report
www.blockreportradio.com

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Monday, December 15, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Frustrated Iraqi journalist chucks his shoes at George W. Bush and becomes an instant hero across the Arab world, we'll hear from Iraqi blogger and human rights activist Raed Jarrar; also, Cynthia McKinney reports back to Flashpoints from the International Human Rights Conference in Cuba; UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk on a mission to the West Bank and Gaza denied entry and deported by Israel, we'll have more headlines from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report

06:00 Cynthia McKinney's Reportback from Cuba
Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman from Georgia and Presidential candidate

31:00 Music Break

32:00 Iraqi Journalist Chucks Shoes at George W. Bush in Baghdad
Raed Jarrar, American Friends Service Committee, raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com

5:52 News from Occupied Palestine

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Friday, December 12, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: LA Police heavily fined for a May Day melee last year; also, Francisco Herrera reports on major spiritual and political actions happening around the Bay Area; we'll speak to AIM leader Bill Means about the 40th anniversary of AIM and what's next for the American Indian Movement; Evelyn Sanchez will update us on the latest ICE raids and various mobilizations against them; we;ll speak to the Vice President of UE about the six-day sit-in and their victory in Chicago this week; and on Flashpoints en Espanol, we'll also take a look at the victory with a shop steward from UE and we'll talk about the ICE raids as well.

01:00 Significance of Bay Area Protests; Punishment Against LA Police for May Day Riots in 2007
Francisco and Dennis and Nora

09:00 Update on Expanding ICE Raids; Elevation of Bill Richardson to Secretary of Commerce
Evelyn Sanchez, Outreach Coordinator for Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition -

21:00 40th Anniversary of AIM; Remembering Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Bill Means, American Indian Movement

31:00 Worker's Victory in Chicago
Melvin Macklin, Vice-President of Local 1110 of United Electrical Workers' Union

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Miguel Perez with Ricardo Caceras, UE Shop Steward
and Evelyn Sanchez

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Thursday, December 11, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Collective punishment against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank continues as settlers rampage and the UN warns of an unprecedented budget cut and a humanitarian crisis in Gaza; also, militant United Electrical workers sitting in in Chicago claim victory; we'll look at the attempt to destroy the career of Jesse Jackson Jr., by connecting him to the recent arrest of the Illinois Governor; we'll have an update on the worsening situation in Haiti; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report

• India and Pakistan are both on air and naval military alerts
• A major bombing in the ethnically-cleansed battleground city of Kirkuk kills 60 at a separatist political meeting for the Kurdish President of Iraq

Robert Knight
05:00 UE Workers in Chicago Claim Victory After 6-day Sit-In Strike
Ricardo, UE Local Shop Steward
Lee Sustar, labor reporter, SocialistWorker.org

Read Victory at Republic!

25:00 Illinois Scandal Continued: The Governor and Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Greg Palast, investigative journalist, author, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Watch Greg Palast on CNN Headline News in a lively discussion of Jesse Jackson Jr. and the Illinois Governor

33:00 Report on Worsening Humanitarian Situation in Haiti
Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee - www.haitiaction.net

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine
For more information visit Global Womens Strike and HaitiSolidarity.net

45:00 Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza; Israeli Attacks Against Palestinians in the West Bank
Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network - www.pnn.ps

Also read Letters from Bethlehem - recent first-hand accounts of conditions on the ground from northern California peace workers Patricia Dougherty and Maggie Coulter in Palestine (davispeace.org)

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  We'll feature a frontline report from Athens, Greece, which has been wracked by five days of a national protest; also, on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we take a closer look at the faltering bailout and where billions of US tax dollars are really going; we'll have an update from the sit-in workers' strike in Chicago and  their actions against the Bank of America for cutting them off; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight
03:00 Greece: Anarchist Riots Shut Down Country in General Strike
Peter Popham, correspondent, Independent of London

13:00 Community Business Report with Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts, solari.com

41:00 Corruption in Chicago; UE Workers Sit-In Struggle
Fran Tobin, Jobs With Justice
Leah Fried, UE

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Military recruitment up as the economy plummets and unemployment soars at record levels, we'll speak to an Iraq war and occupation veteran and also a youth organizer who are on a nationwide tour, speaking out in high school classrooms against militarism and recruitment; also, an impassioned speech by Berkeley City Councilmember Max Anderson during last night's city meeting focusing on UC Berkeley torture professor John Yoo; JR and the Block Report feature an in-depth interview with a Congolese scholar and activist as discusses the deadly results of Western colonialism in his country and across the African continent; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight


        Phil Aliff         Emma Kaplan
05:00 Resistance to Military Recruiters Preying on High Schoolers
Phil Aliff, National Board of Directors, Iraq Veterans Against the War, www.ivaw.org
Emma Kaplan, youth organizer, World Can't Wait, www.worldcantwait.org
www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org


16:00 Professor and Torture Architect John Yoo Leaving UC Berkeley: Berkeley City Reaction
Max Anderson, Berkeley City Council Member, recorded at last night's council meeting
Eric Klein, Flashpoints technical/content producer

24:00 In-Depth Report on the Congo, Western Colonialism and Corporate Theft of Resources
JR and the Block Report with Kambali Musavulim, www.blockreportradio.com
For more information, visit congoweek.org and friendsofthecongo.org

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Monday, December 8, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: UC Berkeley torture professor John Yoo heads south as the Berkeley City Council calls for his prosecution on war crimes for his role in the Bush administration torture program; also, we'll have an in-depth report on the ongoing workers' sit-in in Chicago; we'll have an expanded report on the Jewish settlers' pogrom against Palestinians in the West Bank; a troubling update in the case of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight

05:00 Professor and Torture Architect John Yoo Leaving UC Berkeley
Bob Meola, Berkeley City Council Peace and Justice Commission Member

15:00 Worker's Sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago
James Thindwa, Jobs with Justice

21:00 Worker's Sit-in continued
Bill Fletcher, co-founder, Center for Labor Renewal, executive editor of Black Commentator

28:00 Extremist Zionist Settler Pogroms Against Palestinians in Occupied West Bank
Hisham Sharabati, al-Haq Center for Palestinian Human Rights

54:00 Update and Action on The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Jeff Mackler, Nat'l Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Friday, December 5, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  We take an in-depth look at the prospects for a new immigration policy that respects the rights of millions of undocumented workers and their families; we'll feature reports from Los Angeles, Tuscon, Phoenix, and the Bay Area; in this context, we'll be exploring the record of the new director of Homeland Security who is the former Governor of Arizona; and Flashpoints en Espanol with headlines in Spanish, and we'll continue the discussion on immigrants rights and the new administration.

01:00 Procession in SF with Immigrant Community
Dennis, Miguel, Francisco

10:00 Update on ICE Raids and Militarization at US-Mexico Border
Salvador Reza, Puente, Organizer with Phoenix Day Labor Center
Raymond Michalowsky, Arizona Northern University, Border Action Boardmember

26:00 Bay Area Immigrant Rights' Struggle
Rene Saucedo, SF Day Labor Center, La Raza Centro Legal
Juan Jose Gutierriez, Latino Movement USA

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Miguel Perez with Salvador Reza

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Thursday, December 4, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Right-wing Jewish Israeli settlers besiege Palestinian homes, farms and vehicles as Israeli military and border police evacuate 250 illegal settlers from a stolen Palestinian home in Hebron; plus, Michael Parenti warns against an expanded war in Afghanistan; also, Labor leader and filmmaker Pedro Rivera talks about his new film, Operation Bootstrap about the recent teacher's struggle in Puerto Rico; and JR and the Block Report speak with political hip hop musician Boots Riley of The Coup about Obama-ism and his new collaboration with members of Rage Against the Machine.

01:00 Israeli Settlers Attack; Evicted from Stolen Palestinian Home in Hebron
International Middle East Media Center
www.imemc.org

07:00 Afghanistan: An Expanding War?
Michael Parenti, award-winning historian and author
www.michaelparenti.org

Read Michael Parenti's article Afghanistan, Another Untold Story on CommonDreams

22:00 Struggle for Teachers to Strike in Puerto Rico
Pedro Angel Rivera, Puerto Rican Teacher's Union
Steve Zeltzer, labor activist and Flashpoints contributor

MANOS A LA OBRA: THE STORY OF OPERATION BOOTSTRAP examines Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap, the highly vaunted economic development plan undertaken in the 1950s to provide a model for economic development throughout Latin America. Using newsreels, rare archival photos and footage, numerous interviews, and excerpts from government propaganda films, it examines the historical background to Operation Bootstrap, from the 1930s through the rise to power of Luiz Munoz Marin and the Popular Democratic Party in the 1940s, to the '60s when U.S. officials proudly displayed Puerto Rico as the `Showcase of the Americas.'  Source: www.cinemaguild.com

36:00 Block Report: Boots Riley from The Coup on Hip-Hop, Music and Politics
JR and the Block Report
www.blockreportradio.com

Check out The Coup on myspace.com and www.thecoupmusic.net

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A new congressional report states that a nuclear or biological attack is likely to occur during the Obama administration, we'll talk about the report in the context of the recent flare-up between nuclear powers India and Pakistan; also, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; an eyewitness report of Israeli settler and military violence against  Palestinians in the West Bank; plus, JR and the Block Report give an update in the case of death row prisoner  Troy Anthony Davis; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report                                                                                               
Robert Knight

06:00 Nuclear Weapons Policies: India, Pakistan, US, Israel and Obama
Jaqueline Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation

20:00 Community Business: Economic Free-Fall, Corporate Bailouts
Catherine Austin Fitts, solari.com

29:00 Settler and Military Attacks on Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
Judith Carlson, Michigan Peace Team

46:00 Block Report: Update on Death Row Prisoner Troy Anthony Davis
JR and the Block Report
www.blockreportradio.com

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli airstrikes kill two Palestinian teenagers in besieged and blockaded Gaza; also, an in-depth look at the private mercenary army that continues to savage the Iraqi landscape; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight

04:00 Israeli Airstrikes Kill 2 Teenaged Palestinians in Occupied Gaza
International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC.org
Rami al-Meghari and Husam Qassis

09:00 Big Boy Rules / Private Mercenaries in US-Occupied Iraq
Steve Fainaru, author, Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq, and Pulitzer Prize-winner for International Reporting is a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, where he covered the Iraq war from 2004 to 2007. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his stories on private military contractors.

A harrowing journey into Iraq's parallel war, part Mad Max, part Fight Club, Big Boy Rules describes a world filled with "private security contractors" - the U.S. government's sanitized name for tens of thousands of modern mercenaries, or mercs, who roam Iraq with impunity, doing jobs that the overstretched and understaffed military can't or won't do.

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Monday, December 1, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Phyllis Bennis talks about Obama's foreign policy appointments including Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and the current tragedy in Gaza; also, a well-known environmentalist invades the organization that her father founded, we'll tell you why; we'll take another look at Obama's economic team in the face of multiple corporate bailouts; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report
Robert Knight

04:00 On Obama's New Appointments, Mumbai, Pakistan and Gaza
Phyllis Bennis, fellow, Institute for Policy Studies and author, Ending the Iraq War: A Primer
and Understanding the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer

26:00 New Corporate Bailouts
Timothy Canova, Dean and professor at Chapman Univ. School of Law

46:00 Targeting Environmental Defense for Climate Change Position
Dr. Rachel Smolker, Global Justice Ecology Project

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