FLASHPOINTS

Today on flashpoints the interim ruling government of Egypt announces plans to open the Rafah Gate to the Gaza Strip. Also 79-year-old Father Louie Vitale talks about his latest visit to prison in protest of the use and teaching of torture by US government officials and interrogators. Also we’ll continue our reporting on the hunger strike of Yang Yoon-Mo, a Korean professor who has vowed to fast until the US and south Korea agree to ditch their plans for a naval base that will destroy the entire ecosystems of the Gangjeong village on the island of Jeju.
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Guests: Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Ziad Abbas, Journalist, Human Rights activist, and Associate Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, and Father Louie Vitale, peace activist.