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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 welcome back Francisco Herrera and broadcast live from the San Francisco Day Labor Program with co-host Rene Saucedo! We’ll be focusing on recent ICE raids in the Bay Area; Rene will report back from a recent conference at the border; we’ll talk about the implications of the recent militarization of the border; we’ll speak … Continued
More rape allegations surface against Halliburton-KBR in US-occupied Iraq; also, excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King’s moving speech on April 30, 1967, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam, and we talk about his vision against what King called the triple evils of militarism, racism and economic exploitation; and the Knight Report.
Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues reporting on Land Day and one woman’s story about losing her home in 1948 when Zionist militias began to purge Palestinians from their land; also, UC Berkeley Law professor John Yoo exposed as the author of a newly-revealed torture memo; Bay Area Salvadorans protest the decision by San Francisco’s … Continued
Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on Israeli military shoot-to-kill orders on nonviolent protesters; also, a riveting documentary on the commemoration of Land Day in occupied Palestine, to bring attention to the continued theft of Palestinian land by the Israeli state; John Ross reports from Mexico on the killing of members of a Mexican family … Continued
Voices from War: a conscientious veteran who refused to load his gun in Iraq speaks out; also, Flashpoints special correspondent John Gibler reports on Mexico and free trade; and the Knight Report.
Juan Jose Gutierriez talks about a national day of action in Washington DC to call for the rights of immigrants and their families; also, we’ll hear about planned celebrations for Cesar Chavez weekend; headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol.
Special correspondent Dahr Jamail talks about the phenomenal upsurge in violence in US-occupied Iraq; also, Mumia abu-Jamal loses a major appeal in the courts, JR and the Block Report speaks with Pam Africa about what that means for his freedom; Greg Palast wonders what happened to Elliot Spitzer after he wrote his op-ed on the … Continued
Former CIA official and antiwar resister Ray McGovern talks about the media as cheerleaders for the war; also, we speak with Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess about the US-Israeli decision to send 700 Palestinian security servicemen to Jenin essentially as subcontractors of the Israeli occupation; plus, with a huge bailout of the Wall Street elite … Continued
Independent of London correspondent Patrick Cockburn reports on the Cheney visit to Baghdad and the 5 year old occupatio; former Marine Corps Sergeant Adam Kokesh and Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army testifiy during the recent Winter Soldier 2008 Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts to the Occupation; … Continued
We talk to the father of an Iraq war vet who took his own life after severe PTSD, amongst reports that 120 vets are committing suicide a week; a victim of Penny Pritzker’s Superior Bank speaks out; also, Kristen Ess reports on the Hamas-Fatah talks held in Yemen; an update on the case of Dr. … Continued
