"Best of Flashpoints" is a weekly, one-hour digest featuring the hottest segments of the week.
Music clip: Michael Franti and Spearhead, "Rock the Nation"
Poem: "The Pledge" by Saul Williams
This week on Flashpoints:
Empty promises and loaded missiles: We take a hard look at the Mideast peace summit in Annapolis. Nora Barrows Friedman interviews Ali Abunimah of ElectronicIntifada.net
Iran has no nuclear program? What's the coalition of the willing to do? Nora Barrows Friedman interviews Reese Ehrlich, investigative journalist and author, "The Iran Agenda."
The Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" is already headed for the senate, yet most of us have never heard of it. Evelina Molina interviews Kamal Hamilton, Center for Constitutional Rights.
The state of Maryland forces parents to immunize their children under threat of imprisonment. Emily Howard interviews Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and director of National Vaccine Information Center.
And the Block Report features an update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal. JR interviews Pam Africa of International Concerned Family and and Friends of Mumia Abu jamal, and Linn Washington Jr., professor of Journalism at Temple University.
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