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.
We have a live report from Chiapas on an emerging coffee cooperative and continuing attacks on community broadcasters; Also, Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina offers background on the new prime minister of Haiti and the resurgence of the dreaded Haitian military; Plus, Project Censored’s Peter Phillips about the 2009 Most Censored Story: A Million Iraqi’s … Continued
Presidential candidate Ralph Nader talks about immigrants rights and the militarization of the U.S/Mexico border; Also, a youth speak out by undocumented students; Plus, the Salvadorian Congress takes action in support of U.S. Immigrants; And Flashpoints en Espanol.
A post-mortem on the Israeli occupation execution of another Palestinian youth in the West Bank; also, Barack Obama “has a feeling” that Israel will lead the attack if the US goes after Iran; Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen discusses Exxon-Mobil’s $11 billion dollar ripoff of the American people; and the Knight Report.
Israeli occupation snipers in the West Bank shoot a ten year old Palestinian in the head and kill him, we speak to an activist who saw the child’s body in the hospital; also, one of the leading investigators into voter fraud in Ohio sends out a warning about a possible next election steal; local activists … Continued
JR and the Block Report feature an interview with Mumia Abu Jamal, hosted by San Francisco BayView Newspaper’s Appolonia Jordan; then, JR interviews Appolonia about her personal experiences with the California foster care system; also, news headlines from occupied Palestine, as another Palestinian child is killed indirectly from the Israeli blockade against Gaza; and Jewish … Continued
Kristen Ess reports on the latest Israeli attacks against Palestinian families, in a widening process of ethnic cleansing; JR and the Block Report investigate police attacks on a Black neighborhood in West Oakland; a commentary by Death Row journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.
A new Grand-Jury report on the negative impacts of the collaboration between Ice and local law enforcement on undocumented workers and their families: A report from the Founder of the Border Angels on the deadly dangers of the expanded militarization at the US/Mexico border: An update on the case of the Cuban Five, and Flashpoints … Continued
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, we have a report on the multiple massacres in Indian-administered Gujarat, we speak to one of the key witnesses at a recent international hearing; also, Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail unmasks Obama’s pro-war policies in the Middle East, as the Senator makes his way from US-occupied Iraq to … Continued
