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 – May 8, 2008
Over a million and a half Burmese in life-threatening conditions as the narco-dictatorship refuses outside aid; also, we get a report under fire from the streets of Beirut, where six people have been killed in violent political clashes; plus, the US occupation military seals of Sadr City in preparation for a wide-scale assault, we’ll speak … Continued
Flashpoints – May 7, 2008
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faces corruption and bribery charges, as Palestinians continue to face the brunt of his ethnic cleansing policies, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank; also, in a special expanded edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll explore the darker side of secret government and also how communities … Continued
Flashpoints – May 6, 2008
Twenty-two thousand dead, forty thousand missing, and a million on the run in Burma, we’ll have an update on the wake of the cyclone that devastated the country over the weekend; also, ICE raids all over the Bay Area, we’ll talk with Flashpoints special co-host Evelyn Sanchez about the latest roundups and terror; and we’ll … Continued
Flashpoints – May 5, 2008
Public Citizen speaks out against oil price gouging and the Bush administration’s support for Big Oil; also, award-winning author and lecturer Michael Parenti dissects the plan to aerial spray the people of northern California with pesticides to benefit Big Ag; and Fred Hampton Jr. speaks about political prisoner Aaron Patterson and why the feds transferred … Continued
Flashpoints – May 2, 2008
Labor activists and union organizers reflect on yesterday’s international May Day actions and protests, as workers continue their struggles for justice, from the post office to the biotech industry; also, JR and the Block Report feature an interview with the parents of a 15 year old Oakland boy shot in the back by cops; and … Continued
Flashpoints – May 1, 2008
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, We broadcast live from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, where workers and immigrants rights activists, students, teachers, and antiwar coalitions have converged on this May Day!
Flashpoints – April 30, 2008
We air the hour-long pilot program, If You Love This Planet, hosted by Dr. Helen Caldicott, author, anti-nuclear physician and activist; she explores environmental crises, the state of climate change and nuclear weapons proliferation, and offers important solutions to effect change on behalf of the planet.
Flashpoints – April 29, 2008
We get an on the ground report from Gaza City, where Israeli attacks continue despite Hamas’ offer of a ceasefire; plus activists lose a lawsuit against the EPA for post 9/11 health disasters; JR and the Block Report focus in on the political crisis in Zimbabwe; and the Knight Report.
Flashpoints – April 28, 2008
Israeli attacks kill seven Palestinians in Gaza, including a mother and her four children, who were sitting around the breakfast table this morning when a missile landed on their home, we’ll have an on the ground report from Gaza City; also, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on the ongoing ethnic cleansing there, … Continued