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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 continue our coverage of the US role in Afghanistan with an interview featuring author and scholar Andrew Bacevich. He says part of the problem with US military action in Afghanistan is that most Americans simply dont care. Then, we speak with Neta Crawford of the Costs of War project based at … Continued
Today on Flashpoints, we continue our coverage and analysis of the US role in Afghanistan with two special segments: first we speak with Dr. Farid Younos the author of the book Democratic Imperialism and critic of US foreign policy in his home country of Afghanistan. He says he likes the new direction of Trump’s policy … Continued
Today on Flashpoints, we feature interviews with filmmaker Robert Greenwald about his prescient 2009 film Rethink Afghanistan, we are also joined by Dr. Jake Diliberto who is the co-founder of Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan. Then we take a look at the oxygen starved dead zones in our oceans with the world’s leading expert in the … Continued
Today on Flashpoints, we feature a discussion with Ajamu Baraka about American Exceptionalism and the failure of the Left to challenge US foreign policy, then we’re joined by Uncle Bobby Cephus for an update on the Love Not Blood campaign on behalf of the victims and survivors of police violence, next activist journalist Kiilu Nyasha … Continued
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: Kris Kobach and the uptown Klan: forcing the prosecution for the Nazi beating of a black man last weekend. No peace without justice in Palestine and Israel: Nora Barrows Freidman is back with The Electronic Intifada.
Today on Flashpoints: We’ll take a look at Trumps false moral equivalent with South Carolina based longtime civil rights organizer, Kevin Alexander Gray: an we’ll feature an update on the Korea-US stand-off with Flashpoints Special Correspondent, Kay Jay Noh
Today on Flashpoints: We’re proud to present highlights from a hip-hop musical based on the groundbreaking book by Martin Lee, Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana.
Today on Flashpoints: Two eye-witness accountants of white-supremacist neo Nazi violence in Charlottesville this weekend, including the brutal on-camera beating of a black man, in a public garage, where cops park their cars: Also Ai-Jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance speak out against the racist violence and the upsurge of violent … Continued
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.
