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.
Flashpoints – May 26, 2008
Today on a special holiday edition of Flashpoints, we’ll hear from people who have successfully fought back against government gag orders through the draconian Patriot Act; also, JR and the Block Report feature an in-depth interview with Alec Foge, author of Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial … Continued
Flashpoints – May 23, 2008
ICE raids Pottsville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrant workers; also, human rights attorney at the Mexico border receives multiple death threats; co-host Rene Saucedo reports from the National Day Laborer Organizing Conference; plus, we’ll have an update on the situation in Burma, where the dictator says he’ll finally let aid workers in; headlines from the … Continued
Flashpoints – May 22, 2008
UN Secretary visits the Burmese dictatorship but fails to convince them to let life and death aid flow into the country, meanwhile, in a breaking story out of Burma, reports say 7,000 people with swords and solid bamboo staffs are heading towards Rangoon to liberate food supplies; also, author and internationally-renowned lecturer on Black American … Continued
Flashpoints – May 21, 2008
An in-depth history of the bursting of the housing bubble with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll spend the entire hour talking about the bailout and the covert side of the national economy.
Flashpoints – May 20, 2008
We spend the entire hour listening to excerpts from the riveting new documentary film, The USA vs. Al-Arian, which documents the dark side of the Patriot Act in the context of the extreme federal persecution of a Palestinian-American university professor and political activist in Florida; we’ll also get an update in the case of Dr. … Continued
Flashpoints – May 19, 2008
National immigrants rights activists condemn the latest homeland security raids on immigrants; also, Cuba in the headlines again, we’ll speak to activists about a major breaking story; and noted Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, author of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, delivers a riveting speech on the 60-year old purge of Palestinians from their homeland.
Flashpoints – May 16, 2008
Noted international law scholar Francis Boyle demands that torture professor John Yoo be removed from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Law School immediately; also, a rally planned in support of death row political prisoner Mumia abu Jamal; an update on Burma; and stories of change by San Francisco youth.
Flashpoints – May 15, 2008
We devote the entire show to international coverage of the 60th anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine: we’ll speak with Palestinian refugees, from communities across the global diaspora about the last six decades of ongoing ethnic cleansing and dispossession; plus, we’ll hear excerpts from a brand-new speech by Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, author of the … Continued