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  • Flashpoints: Day 3 of the Israeli Attack on Gaza

    December 30th, 2008 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Eyewitness reports from Gaza by Palestinians and international human rights workers. Ali Abunimeh joins Nora Barrows-Friedman and Dennis Bernstein.

    This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio on Monday, December 29.

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    Flashpoints: Journalist Mohammed Omer is beaten by Isreali Intelligence

    July 22nd, 2008 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Flashpoints Radio speaks with award-winning journalist and contributor Mohammed Omer, who was beaten and tortured by Israeli secret police, in his hospital bed; also, Ali Abunimah responds to the attack and speaks about the anti-Palestinian stance of the major presidential candidates; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges talks about the administration’s plans for war against Iran; and the Knight Report.

    This program was produced by FlashPoints Radio for Monday, June 30, 2008.

    For more information, visit:
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    rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm
    electronicintofada.net

     
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    Flashpoints: The Plight of Negev Bedouins

    September 28th, 2007 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Flashpoints spends the hour investigating the situation for the indigenous Bedouin communities of the Negev desert, inside Israel’s 1948 borders. Without electricity, running water, medical clinics or schools, over 76,000 Bedouins, Israeli citizens, face ethnic cleansing and subjugation by the state as home demolitions and civil rights violations continue on a near-daily basis; we’ll visit two communities under siege and talk with a leader of an organization working inside Bedouin villages, trying to bring much-needed attention to the troubling crisis. Also, the Knight Report.

    This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 4, 2007.

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    norabf.com

     
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    Flashpoints: Bilin wins a victory against the Occupation

    September 26th, 2007 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Flashpoints Radio looks at the Israeli High Court decision that hands back over a hundred acres of stolen Palestinian land in the village of Bili’in with Yonatan Pollack, an activist with the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall. Then, Nora Barrows-Friedman speaks with a Palestinian teenager about visiting her father in prison.

    This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 5, 2007.

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    awalls.org

     
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    Flashpoints: Economic resistance in Hebron

    September 9th, 2007 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Flashpoints talks to a Palestinian woman who is challenging the economic effects of the Israeli occupation of Palestine by establishing a women’s traditional embroidery collective inside the besieged city of Hebron in the West Bank; and we re-broadcast a special investigation into how illegal Israeli settlement colonies impact Palestinian villages. Later, Nora Barrows-Friedman files a special report from Hebron.

    This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 3, 2007.

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    norabf.com
    palestinesolidarityproject.org

     
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    Flashpoints: Jonathan Cook on Gaza and Ethnic Cleansing

    June 28th, 2007 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Flashpoints Radio has 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.

    This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for June 26, 2007.

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    jkcook.net

     
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    Flashpoints: Mahmoud Abbas and the Israelis put Gazans on an extreme diet

    June 23rd, 2007 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Flashpoints has a report from the occupied Gaza strip; also, a Palestinian health worker is 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.

    This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for June 21, 2007.

    For more information, visit:
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    pngo.net/pngo.htm (Palestinian NGO Network)
    nahrelbaredcampaign.org

     
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    Flashpoints: Abunimah, Bazian on the crisis in Gaza

    June 22nd, 2007 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cozies up with Israel and the Bush administration as occupation tanks amass at Gaza’s border, Flashpoints speaks 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.

    This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for June 19, 2007.

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    electronicintifada.net

     
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    Cages and Dreams: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession in Palestine

    June 21st, 2007 | Occupation | | Comments »

    Sunday, June 10th marks four decades of Israel’s illegal military occupation of Palestine, against a backdrop of nearly sixty years of ethnic transfer and displacement.

    On this national Pacifica special, producers from around the country investigate the cause and effect of Israel’s continuous military occupation policies toward the Palestinians, which permeates every aspect of life — from the suffocating checkpoints and land theft inside the West Bank to the violence and chaos inside a hermetically-sealed Gaza strip; to the issues of identity and culture in a widening diaspora.

    This program was produced by Pacifica Radio for June 10, 2007.

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    norabf.com (Host of the program.)

     
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    Flashpoints: Abbas appoints a new cabinet as US/Israel pledge their support

    June 18th, 2007 | Occupation | | Comments »

    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, Flashpoints gets a report from that city; also, in the North of Lebanon, 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.

    This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio.

    For more information, visit:
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    stopthewall.org
    nahrelbaredcampaign.org

     
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