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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 Flashpoints: We’ll analyze and reflect on the weekends massive national protests against racist police violence in response to the choke-hold murder of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police office on May 25. Unbelievable scenes of massive protests rocked over 20 cities including the capital Washington DC where streets burned this weekend and … Continued
Today on the Show: We’ll talk to the president of the Georgia NAACP about the latest unchecked chain of police murders of black people, and how local prosecutor often times cover them up. Also a new poem by the award winning, Latino Bard, Martin Espada
Today on the Show: Today we’ll spend most of the hour with human rights activist, Kevin Alexander Gray, author of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence:
Today on the Show: A special edition of the Electronic Intifada as Israel still evades accountability for their Mavi Marmara massacre, 10 years after it took place.
Today on the Show: Are disaster capitalists weaponizing COVID-19 in the battle to privatize public education? Also we’ll look at the deadly implications of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s possibly illegal decision to funnel US weapons to Saudis to support and expand their murderous war against Yemen.
Today on the Show: A sobering assessment of the fight against covid19 on Memorial DAY, as Trump goes golfing and declares the USA open for business. We raise the question:Can we be more like Vietnam? Is this the critical covid-19 question we should be asking? Also Food-fight With Keith McHenry will celebrate Food Not Bombs … Continued
Today on the Show: H-2A visa guest workers facing off with covid 19 and the US Government. Also we remember Earth First activist and Wobbly Organizer, Judi Bari and we’ll took to a tree-sitter up in Humbolt, defending the last of the Redwoods
Today on the Show: Bolsonaro presses Brazilians back to work, despite the fact that people in that huge resource rich country are dying at an accelerating rate. Also A brand new Election Crimes Bulletin with best selling muckraker, Greg Palast. We’ll look at the ongoing vote heist in Texas and Michigan: and we continue our … Continued
Today on the Show: Pandemic break in South Dakota as we feature a frontline update on the South-Dakota Stand-off: between Sioux Tribes and the Governor of South Dakota. Also the Navajo Nation takes the lead in the number of new viral infections per thousand, surpassing New York.
Today on the Show: Low-wage Latino meat-packers still being forced to risk their lives or lose their jobs. Also, The U.S. Taliban treaty signed just a few weeks ago in tatters. We’ll have a special report from LaHore Pakistan on this and also how covid 19 is impacting Pakistan
