Flashpoints – October 9, 2020
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.
Flashpoints
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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: Militia groups caught plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan. We’ll talk about the plot and the deeper roots of the militia as a part of the racist nature of police power in the USA. Also we’ll speak with Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs
Today on the Show:‘ A new inspector general’s report details how top department Justice Dept officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, but where are the children. Some 70 thousand of them and what is their status? What does a Biden administration need to do answer these life and death questions? … Continued
Today on the Show: Did California zionists pressure the governor to veto ethnic studies in the states High Schools: We’ll find out what the Council on American-Islamic Relations think about the Governor’s veto of the program. Also, a global petition for Biden to free the jailed Children from all ICE prisons
Today on the Show: Governor Newsome turns his back on ethnic studies and vetoes AB331, completing a trio of votes that will directly impact in a deeply negative way on the lives millions of people in California that make this a white-minority state, or better stated a majority state of color. Joining us for an … Continued
Flashpoints – October 2, 2020
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: Liberal Governor Newsom vetoes SB1257, a veto which denies domestic workers the right to health and safety protections–protections which are more crucial now than ever. We’ll spend most of the show on this devastating racist, classist blow to worker rights
Today on the Show: Fighting for farmworker rights as fieldworkers and pickers face off with the flames, smoke and Covid. And the latest edition of the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows-Friedman.
Flashpoints – September 29, 2020
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: Trump’s billionaire myth exploded by the revealations growing from Sunday’s release of his tax returns. What does this say about Trump and about the system that let him get away with it.