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 – November 3, 2009
The US Congress votes to condemn the Goldstone Report, which corroborates Palestinians' accounts of massive war crimes during the massacres in Gaza earlier this year, we'll speak to a poet and activist who was disinvited from a conference of the so-called alternative to the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, because of his views on Palestine; also, legendary … Continued
Flashpoints – November 2, 2009
We continue our multi-part series on the anatomy of a financial coup d'etat, on a day when new revelations show that Goldman Sachs secretly bet on the US housing crash; also, environmentalists win a major victory in Oregon, in reversing a draconian law that restrained peaceful environmental activists from protesting the destruction of land and … Continued
Flashpoints – October 30, 2009
Has a deal been struck that will restore President Zelaya to power in Honduras? We'll speak to our sources inside the Brazilian Embassy, where the President is still holding court; also, a roundtable discussion on coups and regional policy from Honduras to Venezuela to Haiti; news headlines from Project Censored; and Flashpoints en Espanol will … Continued
Flashpoints – October 26, 2009
Over 150 people killed in twin suicide car bombings of several government buildings in Central Baghdad; also, Israeli police attack Palestinian protesters at the al-Aqsa Mosque, the site where Ariel Sharon provoked the second intifada; plus, leading Afghan women's activist, Zoya, debunks the myth that entrenching the US occupation of Afghanistan will save women and … Continued
Flashpoints – October 23, 2009
The Latino-Indigenous community goes green, we'll speak to David Escobar, one of the key organizers of a major conference dealing with this issue in Marin County this weekend; also, we'll get an update from the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, on stalled negotiations to restore President Zelaya; and militant activists confront and disrupt former Israeli Prime … Continued
Flashpoints – October 22, 2009
Noam Chomsky takes on Obama's policies in the Middle East, we'll hear from a recent speech he made at the Paramount Theater in Oakland; also, supporting the GI resistance movement through the opening of a cafe and outreach center near Fort Hood, Texas; and JR and the Block Report investigate some of the trumped-up charges … Continued