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 – January 23, 2008
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
Flashpoints – January 22, 2008
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
Flashpoints – January 21, 2008
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
Flashpoints – January 18, 2008
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
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