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 – August 3, 2006
Our daily war summary from the South with Bilal El Amine: A view from Congresswoman Barbara Lee on US backed war against Lebanon: Eight more dead in Gaza; We speak to Dr Mona Al- Farra about the killings and the latest Israeli seige of Gaza: Lebonese Writer, Elmaz Abinader, counteracts the war with poetry; JR … Continued
Flashpoints – August 2, 2006
An in-depth look at the continuing destruction of Lebanon by Israel and the United States; we speak to a human rights activist and preschool teacher who fled her home in the South and is trying to care for some of the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese fleeing the war zones; Dahr Jamail tours the infamous … Continued
Flashpoints – August 1, 2006
Our special correspondent Bilal el-Amine tours the destroyed south of Lebanon, where thousands still remain trapped and many dead lie along the highway; also, a report from Beirut on the human rights nightmare presented by hundreds of thousands of displaced Lebanese; we’ll also hear about the emerging environmental nightmare as a result of Israel’s bombing … Continued
Flashpoints – July 31, 2006
We spend the hour looking at US-supported Israeli massacre policy in Lebanon and Palestine. Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports from on the ground in Beirut, Lebanon, where he describes the scene after the Israeli massacre yesterday in Qana, in which over 50 people were killed, including 37 children, and the Israeli targeting of ambulances; … Continued
Flashpoints – July 28, 2006
Today on Flashpoints: We devote most of the show to the ongoing destruction of Lebanon and the battle raging at the south border of lebanon between Hezbollah and Israeli invaders; We begin the coverage with a report from our special correspondent Bilal El-Amine from the south of Lebaon; We move from the south to Beirut … Continued
Flashpoints – July 27, 2006
Israel says it will intensify its bombing campaign on the south of lebanon and consideres anyone there now a member of Hezbollah; we have our daily report from Bilal El-Amine from the south then we speak to a woman who fled the south with her family and lost some of her frineds in the bombing; … Continued
Flashpoints – July 26, 2006
Israeli Invaders in South Lebanon take heavy casualities: we feature a frontline report from Bilal El Amine in the south; also Ali Abunimah on the breakdown of diplomacy in Rome and on the latest Isreali slaughters in Gaza; and an outraged panel on the Block Report, as JR and the crew confront police brutality head … Continued
Flashpoints – July 25, 2006
We continue our Frontline reports from the south of Lebanon where Israeli invaders continue to meet stiff resistance from Hezbollah: We also speak with Nora Barrows Friedman in the Palestine, where Israeli occupation forces continue to lay siege to the Gaza strip and have killed at least fifteen Palestinians in the last three days: Nora … Continued