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 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
Flashpoints – February 12, 2009
Dahr Jamail continues his reports from Iraq, today reporting on the toxification of the Tigris river; also, Hampshire college in Massachusetts becomes the first US educational institution to divest from companies that do business with Israeli occupiers; Barbara Lubin reports back on her recent trip to Gaza, where she delivered 5 tons of medicine and … Continued
Flashpoints – February 11, 2009
US lawmakers reach an initial deal over Obama's stimulus package, joining us to talk about who gets the real good deal is Catherine Austin Fitts, on a special edition of Community Business; also, US banking executives cop a plea before Congress; and we hear excerpts of the film Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight … Continued
Flashpoints – February 10, 2009
We have a special report on the elections in Israel, but no matter who the victor is, Palestinians brace for more bloodshed and oppression; also, excerpts from the hard-hitting primer documentary on the Israeli dispossession of Palestine, Occupation 101.
Flashpoints – February 9, 2009
We feature a recent talk by John Gibler on his brand-new book, Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt; and JR updates the story of killer Oakland BART cop Johannes Mesherle who was set free on bail.