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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.
We devote the entire hour to the genocidal actions of the occupation forces in Gaza; we’ll get a report from southern Gaza, Palestinians broke down the wall at the Egypt border to obtain the life-sustaining supplies they could no longer get under the draconian Israeli embargo; Ali Abunimah joins us to analyze the current actions … Continued
Israel continues its siege against Palestinians in Gaza, as food runs out and raw sewage floods the streets, we’ll have a report from the ground in Gaza City as Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank; A national speak-out against torture, we’ll speak with Cindy Sheehan, a key participant in the event; also, Deborah Sweet … Continued
Israel cuts fuel supplies to the occupied Gaza strip, cutting power to over 800,000 Palestinians in another act of illegal collective punishment as US-made warplanes continue to pound civilian areas, we’ll have a report from the ground in Gaza as Kristen Ess also reports from the West Bank; plus, Israel and the UK steal Gaza’s … Continued
Immigrants rights activists converge in Houston for a national conference on immigration rights, we’ll hear from Flashpoints correspondents Evelina Molina, Rene Saucedo and others attending the conference; also, a preview of the upcoming Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit; Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan stands up against torture and endless war; headlines from the region; and … Continued
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
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
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
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
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
