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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.
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.
Cynthia McKinney talks about her vision for the future as the first Green Party president of the United States, also joining the discussion is her vice presidential running mate, Rosa Clemente; plus, internationally-renowned Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk comments on the prisoner exchange, the Iraq war and the potential war against Iran; and the Knight … Continued
