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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.
Over 100,000 people gather in Chicago to protest continued attacks on immigrant workers and their supporters; also, does God love war? We’ll take a look at faith and fanaticism with Hamza Yusuf and Chris Hedges; we report on the upcoming immigrant rights march from Tijuana to San Francisco; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en … Continued
Over 80 people incinerated inside a US-contracted garment factory in Bangladesh; also, the Pastor of the Galilee Baptist Church in rural Alabama talks about the capture of three white kids who burned the community’s 100-year old church; high school students in Oakland raise money to buy geiger counters for high schoolers in Chernobyl, 20 years … Continued
Interview with Amira Hass, leading Israeli journlalist with Ha’aretz, who reports from the occupied West Bank and consistently "monitors the centers of power" – Segment on Palestinian women’s issues, produced by youth students at the Ibdaa Cultural Center – Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, renowned anti-nuclear activist
Israeli drones fire missiles into Gaza, in a policy of targeted assasination against Palestinians, including resistance leaders and children; we’ll discuss how divestment from Israeli companies can stop the occupation policies in Palestine; also, women lose their right to choose in South Dakota; we’ll feature a report on academic freedoms after September 11th; plus, on … Continued
25 years after the Bhopal chemical disaster and the dying continues as the killers live free and in luxury; also, the ethnic cleansing of Black communities in America, today we’ll focus in on the expanding city-supported corporate raid in the BayView-Hunter’s Point neighborhoods of San Francisco, as we continue a special Flashpoints investigation series; and … Continued
Bush puts on his hat as a weapons salesman for his whirlwind trip to India, we’ll feature an open letter to George W Bush by Anuradha Mittal; plus, over 40 Palestinian children arrested in the Bethlehem area over the past three weeks, we’ll feature a report on the brutal conditions they face in Israeli prisons, … Continued
