Today on Flashpoints: Growing grassroots resistance to Operation: Urban Shield. Also, 15 years after the illegal war against Iraq. And, the big story driving the Cambridge/Analytica Facebook scandal.
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Update on A New CIA Director? Empire On Blood
Today on Flashpoints: Will the US congress confirm a new pro torture CIA director? Also, new legislation to protect undocumented domestic workers. And “Empire On Blood” and the case of African-American prisoner, Calvin Buari, released today from prison after 22 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
Today on Flashpoints: General Colin Powell’s 50 years of mass murder from My Lai to Baghdad. Also, a report on the untold story of My Lai, how and why the official investigation covered up General Westmoreland’s responsibility. And will the spineless US congress cut off aid to the Saudid in their ongoing slaughter in Yemen?
Today on Flashpoints, we return to Haiti and the situation there as thousands are reportedly seeking ways to flee the country as a government corruption scandal grows over billions of dollars missing from the Venezuela sponsored PetroCaribe program. Poverty and illiteracy rates are reported to actually be on the rise as Haiti’s economy shrinks and … Continued
Flashpoints – March 16, 2018
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 Flashpoints: 50 years after the My Lai massacre. We’ll speak to Colonel Ann Right in Vietnam at the memorial. Also the latest edition of the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows-Friedman. And an encore broadcast of our interview on the cultural success of the the award winning film, Coco.
Today on Flashpoints: Kids in the streets speaking out against guns. Also, the aerospace industry poised to expand their profits big time by the creation of a new “Space Force”. We’ll also speak to an activist whose on a 30 day hunger strike to protest a corporate welfare bill for General Dynamics in Maine. And … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: A new Secretary of State, A new pro-torture director of Central intelligence. And the House intelligence committee says no Trump collusion with Russia and closes up shop. And how Disney/Pixar made “Coco” into an Oscar winning animated film, that has been embraced by the Mexican-American Community as well as a hit in … Continued
Today on a Special Edition of Flashpoints: War, Journalism and Whistleblowers: Thomas Drake, Katharine Gun, and other key 21st century whistle blowers featured in a special panel discussion sponsored last week by the Institute for Public Accuracy. The panel is lead by IPA founder, Norman Solomon.
Flashpoints – March 9, 2018
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.