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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.
We speak with a doctor who treated the victims of Israel’s crowded beach attack last Friday, which wiped out a picknicking family of seven; also, Patrick Cockburn reports on the situation in Iraq; Michael Berg blames the US government for the beheading of his son, Nick; Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights talks … Continued
The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi aids and abets the US killing fields in Iraq; the Center for Constitutional Rights sues a former high-level Israeli official for war crimes and human rights violations; on Earth Matters, Karen Pickett of Earth First! talks about the Green Scare, the latest FBI witch hunt for environmental activists; and … Continued
Another victim of the attack on the people of San Salvador de Atenco dies after going into a coma; also, we’ll feature a special report on the first Army lieutenant to refuse service in Iraq; veterans and human rights activists educate the public on the real story in Iraq; updates on the cases of death … Continued
Utah governor sends troops to the Arizona border, we’ll have a report from Tucson; also, an international human rights group condemns the Mexican government for their bloody attacks on the people of San Salvador De Atenco; Mahmoud Abbas sets up death squads as US and Israel continue their ethnic cleansing of Palestine; Flashpoints celebrates the … Continued
Israel kills eleven Palestinians in the last week and vow to intensify their shelling attacks on Gaza, we’ll speak to a doctor who is trying to treat those victims of Israeli attacks; we’ll also have news headlines from Palestine; military families speak out against the scapegoating of soldiers for US massacre policy; and the Knight … Continued
Common Ground founder Malik Rahim talks about the battle to beat back the ethnic cleansers in New Orleans; also, the struggle for the thousands of displaced New Orleanians cut off by FEMA and facing evictions; fighting on-campus recruiters and pro-war politicians; a report from South Central Farm; Palestinian gay activists fight for personal freedom and … Continued
The mainstream corporate media slowly picks up on last November’s Haditha massacre in US-occupied Iraq, in which US Marines slaughtered Iraqi children, women and men, but what are they continuing to leave out of the story? A report from our special correspondent Dahr Jamail; also, voices from the recent Bush War Crimes commission at UC … Continued
