Flashpoints – March 28, 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.
Flashpoints
5:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays To Fridays
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: Author, editor, visionary, Vijay Prashad joins us. Also, Berkeley Poet Laurate, Raphael Jesus Gonzalez will pay us a visit and read a poem or two and we’ll feature a radio mini-doc with voices and sounds from this weekend’s San Francisco March against out of control gun violence
Today on Flashpoints: Former UK Ambassador, Craig Murray, questions the details of the recent poising of former Russian spies in Great Britain and apparently become the butt of a major cyber warfare attack as a result of his opposition position. Meanwhile, the US and 20 other nations have expelled Russian officials, blaming Russia for the … Continued
Flashpoints – March 23, 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: 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.
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.