Today on Flashpoints: We bring you our drumbeat coverage on the situation in Puerto Rico, as the Governor has resigned after days of mass protests. Also, an excerpt of a speech given in the Bay Area recently by author and poet, Carolyn Forche.
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Coleen Rowley on Muller Testimony. Puerto Rico Update.
Today on Flashpoints: We have another update on Puerto Rico from the streets of San Juan. Also, former FBI Agent, Coleen Rowley on the Muller testimony. And later, an encore excerpt of a recent speech given by Max Blumenthal.
Today on Flashpoints: We bring you another update on Puerto Rico from the streets of San Juan. Also, excerpts of a new powerful documentary, “From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet?”
Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have an update from San Juan, Puerto Rico where more than 3/4 of a million peo[le have taken to the streets to call for the immediate resignation of the corrupt governor of the poverty stricken US occupied territory.
Flashpoints – July 19, 2019
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.
Ajamu Baraka Returns To Discuss Trump’s Latest Racist Rally
Today we bring Ajamu Baraka back to the program to talk about the meaning of last night’s Trump rally in Greenville, North Carolina where the audience began chanting for Minnesota Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar to leave the United States and return to Somalia. Then, we feature a discussion between Leona Amosah who works as a … Continued
Today we speak with Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson of the Love Not Blood Campaign about yesterday’s decision by the Department of Justice to drop charges against the police officer who choked and killed Eric Garner 5 years ago. Then, we catch up with Shahid Buttar who is trying to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in … Continued
US Foreign Policy & The Central American Refugee Crisis.
Today we take a closer look at the connections between US foreign policy, US economic policy and the fight of political refugees from Central America and the Caribbean to enter the United States. Then, we speak with an immigrants rights organization in San Francisco, California about the chilling impact the threat of immigration raids by … Continued
Another Look at Trump’s Racist Immigration Policy
Today we continue our coverage of the racist and xenophobic turn of US immigration policy under the Trump administration with another look into the conditions facing children imprisoned by the US Border Patrol and increasingly in what are euphemistically being called Private Detention Centers. Dr. Warren Binford, the director of the clinical law program at … Continued
Flashpoints – July 12, 2019
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.