Flashpoints – May 17, 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.
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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.
Venezuelan Embassy Update
Today on Flashpoints: Four members of the Embassy Protection Collective, arrested after the US government raided the Venezuelan embassy in an apparent unprecedented move that legal expert described as an open violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. We’ll have an in-depth report on the arrests and who’s behind the pro-Guaido crowd besieging Venezuelan’s … Continued
Jesse Jackson @ The Venezuelan Embassy in DC. Alice Walker for Pacifica’s 70th B-Day
Today on Flashpoints: Rev Jesse Jackson delivers food aid to the embassy protection collective, sitting in at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC. Also, Alice Walker celebrates 70 years of Pacifica Radio
The Latest Electronic Intifada Podcast
Today on the Show we devote the entire hour to an extended new edition of the electronic intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman
Julian Assange: Countdown To Freedom, Continues …
Today on Flashpoints: We continue our multi year coverage of the persecution of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.
Flashpoints – May 10, 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.
Nick Estes “Our History Is The Future”
Today on Flashpoints: Our History is The Future author Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance through several hundred years.
Flashpoints – May 8, 2019
Today on the show: Mike Pompao and Bolton pushing for war with Iran and Iran pushes back. Also, Codepink founder, Medea Benjamin, at the Venezuela Embassy in Washington D.C.
Today on the show: Police in Nebraska tazer and then gun down an unarmed Native manon Easter Sunday. Also, noted poet and political activist Carolyn Forche speaks about her powerful new book of witness about the US death-squad war in El Salvador
Today on Flashpoints: We’re joined by Margaret Flowers, co-director of Popular Resistance, and a member of the Embassy Protection Collective. , now under siege at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC. Also, commemorating the Makba: Movement building for collective liberation. We’l be joined by Nick Estes, co founder of the Red Nation and author of … Continued