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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.
Another live Friday edition of Flashpoints, the vigilantes threaten day laborers and immigrant workers in northern California; we’ll have a special report from Santa Rosa; we’ll also continue our dialogue on those who were forced to flee Lebanon after the Israelis and the US started destroying the country again; poetry with Aurora Levins Morales; headlines … Continued
Our special correspondent Bilal el-Amine reports on the continuing illegal Israeli drone surveillance over Lebanon; also, an Israeli warplane drops a bomb on another Palestinian home in Gaza, well speak with Laila el-Haddad about Gaza one year after the so-called disengagement; we start a new segment on Flashpoints featuring local musicians; and the Knight Report.
Beirut after the bombing: an extended interview with Beirut-based human rights activist Tina Naache; also, Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq, reports for duty against the war and calls for a "change of strategy" for the peace movement; and the Knight Report.
Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wildnerness reports from the wreckage of Lebanon, as people begin to return to the areas left in ruins by the month-long US-Israeli siege; also, British MP George Galloway challenges the media’s racism; Mexican federal police beat pro-Obrador parliamentarians bloody as the battle to uncover Mexico’s election steal continues; plus, … Continued
Thousands of Lebanese head south to assess the destruction following thirty-three days of Israeli bombings and shellings; also, the cease-fire does not include Gaza, where Israeli tanks and warplanes killed three members of the same farmer family, blown up in their own fields by Israeli attackers; an in-depth discussion with Dr. Helen Caldicott on the … Continued
Bilal el-Amine reports on the devastation of large parts of the south of Lebanon and on the bombing of an orphanage leaving a family stranded in the basement with no way out; also, a report from Beirut on the bombing of a civilian neighborhood that killed over 30 people; a report on the growing grassroots … Continued
