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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.
Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from inside an illegal Israeli settlement; Also, In the last year there have been significant reports about the expansion of global hunger and the dangers of mass starvation around the world; Today on Flashpoints we begin a multi part series on hunger and how to deal with it. We’ll be joined by … Continued
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
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
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
