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 – February 1, 2006
Renowned Native American leader and co-founder of the American Indian Movement Dennis Banks talks about the new run for life, across the country from San Francisco to Washington DC; also, Dahr Jamail reports from the Al-Jazeera conference on media responsibility in a time of war and occupation; Palestinian refugee youth visit their original villages inside … Continued
Flashpoints – January 24, 2006
a European investigation documents the US government and the CIA in a wide-ranging program of rendition and third-country torture; also, Palestinian kids sneak into Israel to visit their stolen homeland and describe their experiences to senior producer Nora Barrows-Friedman; we rebroadcast a recent interview with outspoken and censored critic of US-Israel occupation policy Norman Finkelstein;
Flashpoints – January 23, 2006
Israel and the United States threaten to bomb Iran, we’ll speak to Phyllis Bennis about Israel as a nuclear renegade and the dangers of pursuing this policy of bombing Iran; also, Syria in the crossfire; a discussion on the Palestinian right of return; also, in Haiti, more government related killings and disinformation about the Lavalas … Continued