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 – May 19, 2009
Bill Clinton, a consistent enemy of the people's Lavalas movement of Haiti, named as UN envoy, we'll feature a special report on the implications and a remembrance on UN and US slaughters in 2004 and 2005; also, the Block Report interviews Martina Davis on an international day devoted to saving the life of her brother, … Continued
Flashpoints – May 18, 2009
According to eleven Federal judges, the State of California is one step away from murdering an innocent Black man; an exclusive interview with death row prisoner Kevin Cooper.
Flashpoints – May 15, 2009
Live from Sonoma State University with Cindy Sheehan; talking about Immigrant Rights, the Torture Memos and much more!
Flashpoints – May 14, 2009
On the 61st anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from their land, ethnic cleansing continues apace in occupied Palestine. We spend the hour listening to excerpts from the hard-hitting documentary film, Occupation 101, which takes viewers through the brutal chronology of dispossession, exile and military occupation in Palestine even before 1948 and the creation of … Continued
Flashpoints – May 13, 2009
Award-winning independent journalist Dahr Jamail explains the accelerated collapse of security and infrastructure in US-occupied Iraq, as President Obama seeks to refuse to allow the public release of new torture photographs from US-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan; and as Palestinians mark 61 years of dispossession since their expulsion from historic Palestine in 1948, Israel … Continued
Flashpoints – May 12, 2009
Torture still happening under the Obama administration, we'll talk about why activists are gearing up to launch major protest around the country; also, JR and the Block Report talks about an innocent man who did 18 years in prison, and legal loopholes that prevent him from receiving compensation from the state; and a riveting speech … Continued
Flashpoints – May 11, 2009
In Gaza, Palestinian patients interrogated or blackmailed as Israel attempts to trade their access to medical care across the border in exchange for becoming informants for the state, we get a full report from the Gaza Strip with al-Jazeera correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin; plus, British member of Parliament George Galloway talks about his recent 100-vehicle convoy … Continued
Flashpoints – May 8, 2009
We'll have Francisco Herrerra our Troubadour Cultural worker and Co-Host joining us as we focus on recent developments in Mexico. And a live report from Mexico City on the recent federal indictments against members of the Zapatistas with Alejandro Reyes our foreign correspondent. We'll also listen to a speech by John Gibler author of the … Continued
Flashpoints – May 7, 2009
US airstrikes in Afghanistan kill an estimated 130 civilians, including many women and children, as the Pentagon scurries to cover up the massacre and Obama prepares to send 21,000 more troops to occupy the country; also, excerpts from the Pacifica Radio documentary, the Ballad of Pete Seeger, which chronicles the life and times of the … Continued