Flashpoints – August 14, 2024
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Today on the Show: We update the actions of the “No Harbour for Genocide” Campaign which targets “Ships of Death” carrying fuel bound for Israel. Mobilizations across the Mediterranean have in fact disrupted Military fuel transit to Israel. Also a report on Afghanistan and the region with more deep background on the pro-democracy movement in … Continued
Today on the Show: Another Israeli slaughter in Gaza, killing over a hundred people. Many are women and children among the shredded, disemboweled bodies of the dead. Also, activists lobby UN members to take action against the genocide in Gaza. And, money in politics, fighting to end citizens united.
Today on the show: Pastor Munther Isaac, from occupied Bethlehem, on confronting the silence of the American church on the Palestine genocide. And the Election Crimes Bulletin returns with Greg Palast on the frontline-fight to protect your vote from a growing army of vote denyers
Today on the Show: U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, will skip the A-bomb Memorial Service in Nagasaki tomorrow because Israel was not invited. Also Spy for No Country: remembering the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World from Nuclear War: And on the liberation movement of Bangladesh, will it alter the future … Continued
Today on the show: Long time Flashpoints friend and American Indian Movement founder Bill Means, elevated to be the chief of all chiefs for North America. Also the liberation movement of Bangladesh, will it to alter the future of the country, the region, and world for the better, or are their darker forces behind it, … Continued
Today on the show: Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz make their debut together: And a new pesticide ban for parts of central and Northern California
Today on the Show: Governor Gav continues his violent encampment resolution that cruelly targets the homeless for massive regional evictions. We’ll look at the impact on San Francisco, where the mayor is helping to turn the screws on the homeless: We’ll also take a look at the city of Berkeley, and alternative policies for the … Continued
Today on the Show: On the front lines, fighting to elect Corey Bush, a real grass-roots people’s candidate fights to keep her seat in congress: also a brief history of the violent European settler movement: from Palestine and beyond, and deadly violence continues in US Occupied Haiti.
Today on the show: Genocide Joe goes silent on Israel’s high profile assassinations of Hezbollah and Hamas Leaders. What next for the growing war in the middle east? Also progressives warn that Shapiro VP choice would fracture Democratic Unity. And did the black Dems give trump exactly what he wanted; a place back in the … Continued
Today on the Show: Israel carries out bold assassinations of Hezbollah and Hamas Leaders; what are the implications for a wider war? also Filipino Front-line Activists protest expanding defense ties with the right-wing Marcos II regime. And frontlines headlines from the electronic intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman