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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 – June 4, 2009
Barack Obama heads to Cairo in an attempt to build unity between the West and the so-called Arab-Muslim world while US weapons fire in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine, Ali Abunimah reports from Amman, Jordan; plus, Robert Knight with Sam Husseini on Israel's ongoing nuclear program; how defenders of women's reproductive rights are mobilizing in … Continued
Flashpoints – June 3, 2009
Robert Knight continues his coverage on the breaking crisis in Pakistan as the American diplomatic team arrives on the ground; plus, an in-depth, critical look at the situation in Darfur and the Save Darfur movement with Professor Mahmoud Mamdani, author of Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War On Terror; and the Knight Report. … Continued
Flashpoints – June 2, 2009
Millions of Pakistanis caught in US-backed army escalation against the Taliban in the western border with Afghanistan, Robert Knight speaks with Pakistani attorney Ali Ahsan; also, Obama nominates a new Bush-era head of the US army as Dick Cheney admits that there is no connection between 9-11 and Iraq, Ahmed Habib reports from Doha on … Continued
Flashpoints – June 1, 2009
6 Palestinians dead in armed clashes between a Hamas resistance group and US-trained Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank, former PLO advisor Diana Buttu talks about how the PA is subcontracting the Israeli occupation and turning against its own people; also, an update with the Block Report on preliminary hearings in the San Francisco … Continued
Flashpoints – May 29, 2009
Taking the global battle for indigenous and environmental rights to the Chevron shareholder's meeting, we'll talk to Mitch Anderson of Amazon Watch about the largest environmental case in history; also, Palestinian Authority quisling president Mahmoud Abbas goes to Washington as Israeli forces and settlers continue to lay siege to occupied Palestine, we'll have a report … Continued
Flashpoints – May 27, 2009
After years of racist railroading by Federal prosecutors, a Texas court sentences five Arab-Americans on a combined 69 counts for their charitable work serving Palestinians, we'll speak to one of the defense attorneys whose client was just sentenced to 65 years in prison; also, Dr. Mads Gilbert, who treated and documented victims of US weaponry … Continued
Flashpoints – May 26, 2009
The California Supreme Court upholds the discriminatory and draconian Proposition 8, continuing the ban on gay marriage, we'll talk to a gay pastor risking arrest as demonstrators hit the streets of San Francisco in protest of the ruling; also, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approves the construction of a new illegal colony in the Jordan … Continued
Flashpoints – May 25, 2009
Today on a special Memorial Day edition of Flashpoints, We re-broadcast the full hour of death row prisoner Kevin Cooper, in an in-depth interview about his case, and the criminal injustice system.