Flashpoints

Flashpoints – May 3, 2006

Brigadier General Janis Karpinsky, former head of the prison at Abu Ghraib, charges Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Gonzales with war crimes and crimes against humanity; also, a roundtable discussion with editors of Left Turn magazine on grassroots journalism and the global intifada.


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – April 25, 2006

Legendary actress Rita Moreno talks about her work on the screen and her struggle as a Latino actress to get respect and her strong support for the immigrant revolution; plus, we celebrate the 52nd birthday of death row journalist and political prisoner Mumia abu-Jamal; we continue our reporting on the Kurdish and Palestinian refugees imprionsed … Continued


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – April 20, 2006

We continue our in-depth coverage of the escalating US war rhetoric against Iran, Phyllis Bennis takes a further look at the ramifications of a potential attack and what the day after that war might really look like; news headlines from occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess; documenting systematic Israeli settler violence in occupied Hebron; and the … Continued