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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 – January 16, 2008
Israeli warplanes continue their series of missile attacks against Palestinians inside Gaza, killing five more today, including a 14 year old boy; Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., President of the Hip Hop Caucus, talks about Martin Luther King in the context of the upcoming elections; also, we’ll look at the double standard of reproductive rights for … Continued
Flashpoints – January 15, 2008
Israeli tanks and armored vehicles besiege neighborhoods all over the Gaza Strip, killing nineteen Palestinians and wounding over 50, we’ll hear from a physician and a human rights worker on the scene in Gaza; also, international scholar Francis Boyle deconstructs the Bush visit and its devastating impact on the Palestinian Right of Return; Kathy Kelly … Continued
Flashpoints – January 14, 2008
Our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the border of the Gaza Strip as Israeli occupation forces kill three more Palestinians in the last 24 hours; also, how international human rights activists confront the colonization policies in the West Bank; Dahr Jamail dissects the latest policies by the US occupation military in Iraq, including … Continued
Flashpoints – January 11, 2008
Native American leader Bill Means responds to the recent cleansing of Native tribes at the border based on eminent domain; we go to the Mexican side of the US border to speak with an eyewitness to the ongoing ethnic cleansing there; we’ll hear about an upcoming conference in Tucson to hear about immigrant rights and … Continued
Flashpoints – January 10, 2008
George Bush ponders the fantasy of a Palestinian state as key cities in the West Bank are locked down for his visit, Kristen Ess reports from Bethlehem; also, we get reaction from the south of Lebanon with our special correspondent Chris Brown reporting from the squalor of the Palestinian refugee camps; Michael Parenti talks about … Continued
Flashpoints – January 9, 2008
Bush goes to Israel in the name of peace, even as the Israeli war machine continues killing innocent Palestinians; we”ll have a series of special reports from the west bank, which has been locked down and sealed tight in anticipation of the Bush Peace Train; also JR and Block Report with an important up date … Continued
Flashpoints – January 8, 2008
Hilary’s campaign goes negative as she struggles to stay in the race, we’ll speak to Bob Parry about the campaign and the politics around it, and will the US turn the alleged confrontation in the Gulf of Hormuz into another Gulf of Tonkin?; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank, on … Continued
Flashpoints – January 7, 2008
Investigative journalist Alan Nairn talks about the CIA kidnapping tortures, the real story behind the candidates and the upcoming elections, and Suharto on his death bed, maybe; also, fourteen Palestinians killed in one week as Israeli warplanes bombard the Gaza strip, Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank as George Bush prepares to swing into … Continued
Flashpoints – January 4, 2008
We speak with filmmakers of the groundbreaking documentary meeting resistance, that takes a look at the Iraqi Resistance in their own voices; Plus, U.S., Mexican and Canadian workers block the southern U.S. border in response to new NAFTA regulations; Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.