
Flashpoints
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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.
Flashpoints – August 20, 2009
An in-depth interview with former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; we'll speak with her about her recent trip on the Gaza boat and the arrest by Israeli authorities, and Obama's expanding war policies throughout the Middle East; also, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges warns about the dangers of the expanding war and occupation policy; JR and the … Continued
Flashpoints – August 18, 2009
We'll have a live report on the latest struggle from the resistance movement in Honduras; also, we'll take a look at the expanding war in Afghanistan and the involvement of high-level officials in the expanding drug trade; we'll have an update on mountaintop strip mining, where protesters are battling with federal officials in Virginia and … Continued
Flashpoints – August 17, 2009
An exclusive interview with Army Sergeant Travis Bishop, the highest enlisted officer to resist deployment to Afghanistan, we'll hear the voice of the Sergeant before he was locked away in the brig and we speak to Dahr Jamail about the significance of the expanding GI resistance movement; also, 24 dead and over 120 wounded in … Continued
Flashpoints – August 14, 2009
We'll continue our live reports from the front lines of resistance in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; also, we hear the personal story of an ICE kidnapping and the impact on an entire family; plus, we'll continue our series on how ICE is misusing the Department of Motor Vehicles' bureaus to seize immigrant's cars; Flashpoints en Espanol has … Continued
Flashpoints – August 13, 2009
The son of a leading anti-coup human rights activist in Honduras is missing and may have been kidnapped and tortured, we'll feature a special report from San Pedro Sula on the expanding resistance in Honduras and the continuing violent crackdowns; also, JR and the Block Report look at attacks on Black media in the South; … Continued
Flashpoints – August 12, 2009
In our continuing coverage of the coup in Honduras and the growing resistance, we'll feature an on-the-ground report and be joined by NarcoNews Bulletin founder Al Giordano with a breaking story on close ties between Hillary Clinton and a USAID agency corporation caught funneling money to five private contractors in Honduras; plus, the US military … Continued
Flashpoints – August 11, 2009
Nobel Laureate and Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to 18 months in a Burmese dungeon after already spending 14 of the past 20 years in detention, we'll have a special report on the conviction; also, the situation heats up in Honduras, where marchers from all over the country are arriving in … Continued
Flashpoints – August 10, 2009
We'll have a live report from Honduras on the continuing repression from the coup leaders there; plus, a look at Obama care, which will cost $1 trillion dollars over ten years, and won't even cover 37 of the 50 million Americans who need health care; also, we'll look at what would single-payer mean as an … Continued