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 – May 26, 2008
Today on a special holiday edition of Flashpoints, we’ll hear from people who have successfully fought back against government gag orders through the draconian Patriot Act; also, JR and the Block Report feature an in-depth interview with Alec Foge, author of Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial … Continued
Flashpoints – May 23, 2008
ICE raids Pottsville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrant workers; also, human rights attorney at the Mexico border receives multiple death threats; co-host Rene Saucedo reports from the National Day Laborer Organizing Conference; plus, we’ll have an update on the situation in Burma, where the dictator says he’ll finally let aid workers in; headlines from the … Continued
Flashpoints – May 22, 2008
UN Secretary visits the Burmese dictatorship but fails to convince them to let life and death aid flow into the country, meanwhile, in a breaking story out of Burma, reports say 7,000 people with swords and solid bamboo staffs are heading towards Rangoon to liberate food supplies; also, author and internationally-renowned lecturer on Black American … Continued
Flashpoints – May 21, 2008
An in-depth history of the bursting of the housing bubble with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll spend the entire hour talking about the bailout and the covert side of the national economy.