Today on Flashpoints: Remembering Chicano and Mexician-American activist, Nativo Lopez, who passed unexpectedly this week. We celebrate his legacy and continue in the footsteps of his mission. Also, we try again to break open the extreme censorship on the Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine, with excerpts from the powerful documentary Occupation of the American Mind
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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.
Greg Palast Gives Us An Update. Venezuelan Embassy Update
Today on Flashpoints: Greg Palast returns for an extended edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin. And medical anthropologist, Adrienne Pine, tells us why she was willing to get arrested for defending the Venezuelan Embassy.
Max Blumenthal: The Management of Savagery
Today on Flashpoints: We continue our special investigation into the apparent police murder of an unarmed Indian Man in Nebraska. And we feature part two of The Management Of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS and Donald Trump. This is a powerful new speech given last Thursday in … Continued
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.
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.