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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.
Today on Flashpoints: We’ll feature a special report on Iraq-Gate and the arming of Saddam Hussein; also we’ll take an in-depth look at the new, US Driven, Iraqi Oil Law: A License for US multinationals to steal Iraq’s oil resources; and we’ll have the Knight Report.
Today on Flashpoints: An in-depth update on the growing crisis in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine; we’ll speak with Jonathan Cook; also a special report on so-called honor killings in US-occupied Iraq; Barbara Lubin honors Berkeley community leader and trusted politician Maudelle Shirek in anticipation of the unveiling of a mural devoted to … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints, We continue our reporting on a for-profitchildren’s prison in Taylor, Texas, we’ll feature a special report from a protest in front of the prison; also, Dick Cheney, the point man on the administration’s wide-ranging program of torture; and the Knight Report.
Today on Flashpoints: Live from New College of California in San Franciso’s bustling mission district, We Go live to Taylor Texas, to hear about a major protest planned for tomorrow at the gates of the Hutto Jail, a privatized prison for profit, where many children of deported Immigrants are being held hostage underhorrific conditions: We … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Mahmoud Abbas and the Israelis put Gazans on an extreme diet, we’ll have a report from the occupied Gaza strip; also, a Palestinian health worker arrested and threatened on his way from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp; and a new documentary by Norman Solomon, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: As Palestinian Authority President Mahmould Abbas colludes with the occupiers to overthrow democracy, Israeli death squads continue to kill Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Plus, a new report documenting the expanding violence of the US Occupation in Iraq. Anti landmine campaigners take on cluster bombs as an international movement gains … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cozies up with Israel and the Bush administration as occupation tanks amass at Gaza’s border, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah and Professor Hatem Bazian about the current crisis in occupied Palestine; also, an in-depth look at the expanding war in Afghanistan as the Taliban now controls nearly … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: A US-Israeli supported coup in the West Bank: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas annuls elections and selects a pro-West cabinet to rule from Ramallah, we’ll get a report from that city; also, we go back to the North of Lebanon, where human rights activist warn of growing human rights violations against Palestinians … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency, even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we’ll have a series of reports on these crucial breaking stories; also, we’ll have a report from Beirut on yesterday’s deadly bombing that killedten … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency, even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we’ll have a series of reports on these crucial breaking stories; also, we’ll have a report from Beirut on yesterday’s deadly bombing that killed ten people; and … Continued
