Flashpoints
5:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays To Fridays
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 – 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
Flashpoints – April 19, 2006
What would Iran and the region look like in the aftermath of US nuclear war? We’ll speak with internationally-renowned theoretical physicist and environmentalist Dr. Michio Kaku; also, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on the unraveling civil war in Iraq and the misreporting of the story by the US corporate media; smoking gun documents that … Continued
Flashpoints – April 18, 2006
We hear from one voice among thousands of Iraqis now fleeing the violence in their US-occupied homeland; Israel expands its bloody occupation against Palestine, we’ll have an on-the-ground report; plus, an in-depth look at the forgotten refugees of the Iraq war, imprisoned inside refugee camps on the border between Iraq and Jordan; an interview with … Continued
Flashpoints – April 17, 2006
Pratap Chatterjee reports from Northern Iraq on the ongoing corporate ripoffs and the total breakdown of the reconstruction of Iraq; also, the cycle of violence continues with a Palestinian suicide bombing in Tel Aviv on the heels of two weeks of the most intense Israeli occupation violence seen yet; Los Angeles students speak out for … Continued
Flashpoints – April 13, 2006
Is president Bush planning another war to keep the Republicans in power and insulate himself from impeachment proceedings? Also, will Peru elect another populist in the tradition of Hugo Chavez? Israel kills two more Palestinians in Gaza and continues its massive tank shelling barrage of civilian populations; an interview with Robert Parry on leak-gate; and … Continued
Flashpoints – April 12, 2006
Israel continues to pound Palestinians trapped inside the occupied Gaza strip with 300 tank shells a day, we’ll have a special report from Ali Abunimah on the unraveling disaster in Palestine; also, Flashpoints takes a look at leak-gate with a former CIA intelligence official; the battle to shut down one of the most toxic power … Continued
Flashpoints – April 11, 2006
Greg Palast talks about his recent interview with Hugo Chavez, the immigrant revolution, and his soon-to-be-released book, Armed Madhouse: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War; also, Craig and Cindy Corrie talk about the ongoing investigation into the killing of their daughter by an Israeli bulldozer operator and an upcoming organizing event taking … Continued