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 – February 13, 2008
Berkeley City Council caves under pressure and withdraws strong language refering to US Marine Recruiters in Berkeley as "unwelcome intruders," we’ll continue our discussion with members of a growing resistance movement against the intruders; also, former weapons inspector Scott Ritter with a new speech on the mainstream corporate media’s pro-war spin on Iran and Iraq.
Flashpoints – February 12, 2008
Hundreds of students from Berkeley High School join a growing movement of activists trying to run the Marine recruiters out of the city; also, National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn speaks out against Bush’s Guantanamo terrorist indictments; Maya Orozco with the Longest Walk as it arrives in Sacramento; Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West … Continued
Flashpoints – February 11, 2008
A violent early morning attack in East Timor critically wounds President Ramos-Horta, while the Prime Minister escapes serious injury; also, Israeli leaders debate the assassination of Hamas leaders and a major offensive in Gaza; we’ll have a report from Alcatraz on the kick-off of the Longest Walk; and Laura Flanders talks about grassroots action in … Continued
Flashpoints – February 8, 2008
A presentation of the documentary "The War on Democracy", about US intervention in Latin America, by author, journalist, and film maker John Pilger.
Flashpoints – February 7, 2008
Dennis Bernstein talks to David Ray Griffen about his new book "911 Contradictions".
Flashpoints – February 6, 2008
Former Alaska Senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel ignores Super Tuesday and addresses himself to the real issues of our time; and Michael Parenti in a recent speech at City Lights Books, in conjunction with the release of his new book, Contrary Notions: the Parenti Reader.
Flashpoints – February 4, 2008
Kristen Ess reports on the Israeli killing of three Palestinians in Gaza and a suicide operation in Israel; a radical leader in the immigrants rights movement throws his support to Obama; also, former UN special envoy to Haiti Juan Gabriel Valdez, referred to by Haitians as the Butcher of Cite Soleil, visits UC Berkeley tomorrow; … Continued
Flashpoints – February 1, 2008
On today’s program: Rene Saucedo, Day Laborer CenterLynne Stewart, civil rights attorneyNativo LopezHeadlines with Miguel PerezFlashpoints en Espanol Live broadcast from the SF Day Laborer Center in the Mission District!!
Flashpoints – January 30, 2008
An in-depth interview with Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess on over a half dozen invasions into the West Bank over the last forty eight hours; on the Block Report we’ll feature an eyewitness account to the murder of Gary King; also, High school students punished for not being objective about the use of torture by … Continued