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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.
A post-mortem on the Israeli occupation execution of another Palestinian youth in the West Bank; also, Barack Obama “has a feeling” that Israel will lead the attack if the US goes after Iran; Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen discusses Exxon-Mobil’s $11 billion dollar ripoff of the American people; and the Knight Report.
Israeli occupation snipers in the West Bank shoot a ten year old Palestinian in the head and kill him, we speak to an activist who saw the child’s body in the hospital; also, one of the leading investigators into voter fraud in Ohio sends out a warning about a possible next election steal; local activists … Continued
JR and the Block Report feature an interview with Mumia Abu Jamal, hosted by San Francisco BayView Newspaper’s Appolonia Jordan; then, JR interviews Appolonia about her personal experiences with the California foster care system; also, news headlines from occupied Palestine, as another Palestinian child is killed indirectly from the Israeli blockade against Gaza; and Jewish … Continued
Kristen Ess reports on the latest Israeli attacks against Palestinian families, in a widening process of ethnic cleansing; JR and the Block Report investigate police attacks on a Black neighborhood in West Oakland; a commentary by Death Row journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.
A new Grand-Jury report on the negative impacts of the collaboration between Ice and local law enforcement on undocumented workers and their families: A report from the Founder of the Border Angels on the deadly dangers of the expanded militarization at the US/Mexico border: An update on the case of the Cuban Five, and Flashpoints … Continued
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, we have a report on the multiple massacres in Indian-administered Gujarat, we speak to one of the key witnesses at a recent international hearing; also, Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail unmasks Obama’s pro-war policies in the Middle East, as the Senator makes his way from US-occupied Iraq to … Continued
An in-depth report on the recent ICE raid in Postville, IA, where 400 people were arrested and the entire town was turned upside down; also, a former Marine and current Iraq Vet Against the War boardmember Adam Kokesh illegally surveilled and attacked by an FBI agent; and news from Occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess documenting … Continued
Flashpoints features an historic broadcast from the first-ever rural day laborer center for immigrant workers in the country.
