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 22, 2006
Israeli Occupiers kill five more Palestinians in a brutal raid on the Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank: More damaging news on the NPR/Voice of America Collaboration: And the EPAs New rule turns Humans into lab rats for the pesticide industry and of course the Knight Report.
Flashpoints – February 21, 2006
Murderers Row at San Quentin set to kick back into gear at 7:30 pm Pacific time with the state-sponsored homicide of Michael Morales; also, Starhawk reports back from the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where the community stands against the governments attempts at an ethnic cleansing; plus, Israeli occupiers step up their program of … Continued
Flashpoints – February 20, 2006
The state of California prepares to murder Michael Morales at San Quentin tonight; also, an extended interview with award winning poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield about Poetry in a time of War.
Flashpoints – February 17, 2006
Today, well have an update on the situation in Colombia where human rights activists, unionists, and indigenous farmers face sure death if they resist the US-supported military and their associated death squad paramilitaries; also, here in the wine capital of the country, the spigots are flowing but those who pick the grapes are facing repression … Continued
Flashpoints – February 14, 2006
A leaked UN report calls for the US to close its torture center at Guantanamo Bay; also, Haiti Presidential frontrunner Rene Preval says there was massive fraud in last weeks election; Alfred McCoy on the US governments use of torture for the last 50 years; and the Knight Report.