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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 the Show: Greg Palast joins us for a special report into the ongoing congressional investigation of Trump’s attempt to overthrow the US electoral system and rule by decree. Also hate goes on trial in Charlottesville, and JFK assassination investigators backed up by the Kennedy family are demanding that the Biden Administration follows through … Continued
Today on the show: Colonel Ann Wright on the latest illegal US military threats against China; Retired Superior Court Judge Julie Tang on the general China bashing in the US; And Norman Solomon advises us to Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles – Eliminate Them. photo: Egor Myznik via Unsplash
Today on show: Biden’s False Statement on China “Emboldens” the Taiwanese Independence Movement and risks War with China; Also We’ll feature a special report on the treatment of drone-whistleblower Daniel Hale, the first person accused of an unauthorized disclosure of information to be imprisoned in a Communications Management Unit by the United States government.
Today on the Show: We spend the hour in conversation with internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist, Alice Walker. Walker is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer prize, the National Book Award, and the Mahmoud Darwish Literary Prize for Fiction. Alice also has a delightful new children’s book Sweet People Are Everywhere, illustrated … Continued
Today on the Show: We’ll have an update from Flashpoints’ senior producer, Kevin Pina, on the ongoing turmoil continuing on the ground in Haiti. Also, we’ll be joined by staunch Julian Assange defender Randy Credico, who is fighting for the freedom of Wikileaks’s publisher. Finally, we’ll be joined by Bay Area Assange organizer, Jeff Mackler, … Continued
Today on the Show: Tragedy continues to unfold at the US/Mexico border as Haitians and Central American continue to amass and face hunger, exploitation and instant deportation under Title 42. We ask, where is this deadly and inhumane policy leading us? Also Cold War Long Island,” a new book that shows how post WW2 long … Continued
Today on the Show: Church workers kidnapped in Haiti. What’s New? They’re white!!: Also Filipino activists mourn death squads and lost lives under Duterte regime. And saving the life of Julian Assange: Protests and teach-ins are planned in support of the Assange here in the Bay Area and around the country and world
Today on the show: We present more sound from this past Monday’s Sunrise Ceremony at Alcatraz Island on Indigenous People’s Day
Today on the Show: A former FBI special Agent and division council speaks out against the imprisonment of Julian Assange, Also, fighting the upstream battle to save the endangered salmon as Indigenous communities lead the resistance. Also the fledgling Facebook Users Union launches a #FireZuck campaign. And they plan to take the protest to Zuckerberg’s … Continued
Today on Flashpoints, we’ll have a live frontline report from the US border. Also, we’ll speak to award-winning historian James Bradley about the expanding US war on China. photo: Jannik Kiel via Unsplash
