
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 – February 26, 2009 at 5:00pm
Internationally-renowned Middle East reporter Robert Fisk talks about Afghanistan, Iraq and the recent attacks in Gaza and the way in which the Western press continues to fail in covering these stories; also, dozens of organizations release a statement urging Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special council to investigate alleged crimes of the Bush … Continued
Flashpoints – February 25, 2009 at 5:00pm
We feature a special in-depth interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, who treated victims of Israel's DIME bomb attacks in Gaza last month; Catherine Austin Fitts and Greg Palast will kick around the stimulus and bailout packages; also, Rene Saucedo reports on a national action taking place this weekend to protest the violent vigilante actions of … Continued
Flashpoints – February 24, 2009 at 5:00pm
Hollywood Actors and US Hegemony In Central Africa: We Look at the recent “Arrest” of General Laurent Nkunda and what Ben Affleck is really doing in the Congo: Also we takeanother look at the Bank Bailout and how journalists should really be covering it: And Citizens take action against the Dime Bomb, and their recent … Continued
Flashpoints – February 20, 2009 at 5:00pm
We continue our reporting on Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his expanding racist attacks on undocumented workers and their families in Arizona; also, an update on the private immigration detention dungeon in Pecos, Texas; we take a legal look at the attacks happening against undocumented workers both in Phoenix and locked in these private prisons; and … Continued
Flashpoints – February 19, 2009 at 5:00pm
NYU students seize their student center and call on their University to stop doing business with war profiteers and military occupiers; also, former radical student activists from the 1960s, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, founders of the Weather Underground, talk about their plans to build a movement of peace in our time; BBC reporter Greg … Continued
Flashpoints – February 18, 2009 at 5:00pm
We take an in-depth look at the stimulus and bailout package as Obama takes his economic roadshow to Phoenix; first, we speak with our regular Wednesday guest for Community Business, Catherine Austin Fitts, and then we are joined by the author of the best-selling book Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loan; also, … Continued
Flashpoints – February 17, 2009 at 5:00pm
US-made Israeli warplanes strike the Southern Gaza strip, we have an update from Gaza City; also, Marjorie Cohn makes the case against rendition by the Obama administration; and Amanda Bellerby with Mike Roselle for an in-depth look at the recent devastating massive coal ash spill in Tennessee.
Flashpoints – February 16, 2009 at 5:00pm
We present a Stolen Lives speak-out in the wake of the cold-blooded police murder of 22 year-old Oscar Grant and on the anniversary of the police murder of Anita Gay; we speak to Anita Gay's sister; you hear the voice of Justine Wahnee, the sister of Andrew Moppin, a 20 year old Commanche native youth … Continued