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 – March 18, 2008
Activists mobilize from coast to coast on the fifth anniversary of the illegal war and occupation in Iraq; also, former US Army Privates who testified at the recent Winter Soldier investigation talk about the free-fire zones against civilians; on the Block Report with JR, Ramona Africa, one of the survivors of the aerial bombing of … Continued
Flashpoints – March 17, 2008
Former Wall Street banker Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the tanking of Bear Stearns and its multiple impacts on the US economy; also, we’ll feature an excerpt from the Winter Soldier 2008 investigations; an update on the upcoming anti-war protests on the fifth anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq; plus, Kristen Ess reports … Continued
Flashpoints – March 13, 2008
Israeli military death squads assassinate several Palestinians in Bethlehem, Kristen Ess reports from the ground; also, local national and international activists take on Chevron for its environmental destruction; Pierre Labossiere from the Haiti Action Committee calls for the City of Berkeley to act on the continuing human rights violations in Haiti; JR and the Block … Continued
Flashpoints – March 12, 2008
We look at displaced persons as a result of the Iraq War and the Failure of the US government to respond to Katrina. We talk to the president of the hip hop caucus about Iraq five years into the war and get an on the ground update from Malik Raheem in New Orleans. Also we’ll … Continued
Flashpoints – March 11, 2008
Presidential Hopeful Cynthia McKinny. Also a look at Iraq 5 years after the Bush Administration lied the country into a war there… The head of US forces in the Middle East resigns in contraversy. And The Block Report looks at gentrification of Black Owned Property.
Flashpoints – March 10, 2008
The feds expand their terrorist dragnet against radical environmental justice activists, we’ll talk about the case of Briana Waters; also, Kristen Ess reports on the expanding war against Palestinians, using the so-called peace process as a political front; Activist Nation goes to the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, where protesters expressed their outrage against the … Continued
Flashpoints – March 6, 2008
We catch up with Jimbo Simmons on the Longest Walk; we’ll be joined by Native American leader Tony Gonzales to talk about the walk and the battle to keep D-Q University, a radical indigenous college, alive; we’ll speak with Flashpoints co-host Rene Saucedo who is at the US-Mexico border on a human rights mission; Kristen … Continued
Flashpoints – March 5, 2008
Brattelboro, Vermont officials empower local police to arrest Bush and Cheney on war crimes; Greg Palast talks about his time with the new President of Ecuador and the current hostilities happening in the region, we’ll also talk about voter fraud and the next election; Kristen Ess reports on the condition of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli … Continued