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 – July 12, 2007
Today on Flashpoints: Bush claims success is possible in Iraq; we’ll have a special report from occupied Baghdad, and take a look at the daily struggle people face just to stay alive there; also, we’ll have an update from World Can’t Wait on their campaign to run the Bush administration out of the White House; … Continued
Flashpoints – July 10, 2007
Today on Flashpoints: Cindy Sheehan threatens to run the Speaker of the House out of office if Nancy Pelosi fails to endorse impeachment proceedings, we’ll speak with Sheehan, who is on a 13-day cross-country caravan to Washington DC; also, the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was murdered by Israeli occupation forces, start legal proceedings against … Continued
Flashpoints – July 9, 2007
Today on Flashpoints: In Iraq, the US military continues to use white phosphorus on the civilian population and the death toll continues to rise despite US claims to the opposite, we’ll have an in-depth report from Dahr Jamail; also, Day laborer and immigrants rights activists liberate a building in the Mission District in San Francisco … Continued
Flashpoints – July 6, 2007
Today on Flashpoints: We’ll go to the Arizona-Mexico border and the Tohono O’odam Nation for a report on the deaths of 19 migrants in the last 20 days; also, we’ll look at the commuting of the Libby sentence in the context of the treatment of indigenous Americans including political prisoner Leonard Peltier; we’ll hear about … Continued
Flashpoints – July 5, 2007
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli military death squads kill 11 Palestinians in the Gaza strip as food and medicine supplies run short; also we’ll take a close look at the Libby case in the context of mandatory minimums and who really goes to jail; and we’ll take a look at the anti-militarism movement in Japan and … Continued
Flashpoints – July 4, 2007
Today on a special July 4th edition of Flashpoints, We continue our reporting from the United States Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia. We’ll hear a moving speech from an indigenous leader on the history of US imperialism in North America, Ziad Abbas of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in the Dheisheh refugee camp talks about the … Continued
Flashpoints – July 3, 2007
Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have an in-depth report on the commuting of the sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, we’ll speak to a former high-level CIA analyst, a friend to Valerie Plame, and we’ll also speak with award-winning investigative reporter Robert Parry; also, we’ll have an update on … Continued
Flashpoints – July 2, 2007
Today on Flashpoints: We spend the entire hour listening to the first half of a riveting panel discussion on new paradigms for social change, one of the last sessions from the US Social Forum in Atlanta as we kick off a week of reports and voices from many different movements, collaborating at the Forum
Flashpoints – June 29, 2007
Today on Flashpoints: we broadcast live from New College of California in San Francisco’s mission district, We’ll feature a special report from the Atlanta social Forum, including a report from Nora Barrows Friedman on the children at the forum who really want to make a change. West Coast Students speak out about their hunger strike … Continued