Flashpoints – February 5, 2021
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.
Today on the Show: Hundreds of Haitians including children and whole families continue to be deported by the planeload, without out a word from the Biden Administration. Also, delayed and denied; a new report documents farmworkers’ expanded risks and suffering in the age of Covid19: Also, our new joint column with the the San Francisco … Continued
Flashpoints – February 3, 2021
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: Mass murder of immigrants in Mexico. Also, hundreds of Haitians being deported under Trump’s title 42 deportation order, which is still in place. And the new Editor of the San Francisco Bayview National Black Newspaper files suit against the Geo Group’s Half-way House in the Heart of San Francisco
Today on the Show: UFW President, Teresa Romero joins us for an update on how the farmworkers are doing in their fight to stay healthy in the age of 19. Also, reigning in Israel’s uncontrolled proliferation of nuclear weapons. Because of a coup in Myanmar Aung Sung Su Kyi is taken into custody. And the … Continued
Today on the show: we feature FlashForward a regular new roundtable segment where my guests recap and discuss the major issues of the week with an eye towards what it means for progressive politics and organizing for change. My guests today are former Telsur correspondent Camila Escalante who is currently on assignment in Bolivia with … Continued
Today on the Show: McCarthy sucking up to Trump, giving the extreme right another shot in the arm. Also on our Flashpoints Bayview Report, we’ll look at the Executive Directive from Biden instructing the D.O.J not to re-new any contracts with Private Prison Corporations. And Food Not Bombs founder, Keith McHenry, has a special report … Continued
Today on the Show: Migration emergency/death in Mexico. Also, Investigative reporter, Dave Lindorff asks, why can’t we just get along with Putin: And a look at what can we expect in terms of US policy towards Iran under the Biden Administration
Today on the Show: California Governor, Gavin Newsom continues to bungle the state Covid response. Antony Blinken, a longtime aide to Joe Biden has confirmed today by the Senate to be America’s next top diplomat: What does it portend for the future of US foreign policy. And President Biden directs the attorney general not to … Continued
Today on the show: a national action kick off to end the ongoing US/Saudi slaughter in Yemen. Native Americans fighting the battle for Bear Ears. And a new nuclear power policy that puts us all at risk.