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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.
Bullets fly as US backed assassins attempt to kill Haitian pro-democracy leader Father Jean Juste, a heart stopping report on the ground. Also Palestinian Noted Poet talks about her work bringing young Jews and Palestinians together, and Flashpoints en Español on the re-instatement of US aid to Guatemalan Death Squads.
An extended interview with former CIA officer Phillip Agee on the US program to destabilize Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, also remembering Archbishop Oscar Romero, 25 years after his assassination by US supported killers; we’ll also take a look at El Salvador with it’s economy on the verge of collapse. We’ll feature our weekly environmental segment; … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Poetry In a time of War, the work of the great German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke with Special guests Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows. Nora Barrows Friedman reports back from Palestine.
We pay special attention to the Southern Hemisphere as Washington DC neo-conservatives gear up to invade the region with Unfair Trade Agreements and military intervention.
Hindu protests flare up in Gujarat and other parts of India in response to the state departments barring the visit of Nurandra Modie, Chief Minister of Gujarat and the architect many believe of the 2002 massacre. Greg palest exposes the battle between BIG OIL and the Neo-Cons, and what it means for the future of … Continued
An update on attempts to jail the popular mayor of Mexico City, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leading contender for the Mexican presidency. Also the price Mexico pays for the war against Iraq, a small victory fighting to call attention to the slaughter in the Indian Province of Gujarat, and Flashpoints en Español also hones … Continued
Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu is indicted today for granting interviews to KPFA’s Flashpoints show and other international media: We’ll feature a follow-up interview with Vanunu in which he again uses Flashpoints as a platform to defy Israel’s restrictions on his speech; also Nora Barrows Friedman documents the accelerated building of the Apartheid Wall on … Continued
Israeli Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechi Vanunu, speaks out against nukes, his own brutal treatment by the Israelis, and the wide-spread Israeli torture of Palestinians: Also former US Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter says the Iraqi elections were fixed; our weekly segment, Earth Matters features the key-note speech at Last weeks Environmental Law Conference by Jeffrey Luers … Continued
Iraqi Veterans speak out against the war: A front line doctor speaks out about the medical horrors on the Gaza Strip; also a look at the Rumsfeld terrorism solution: that’s all war all the time. And a benefit to Remember Rachel Corrie on the second anniversary of the bull-dozer murder by Israeli occupiers. And of … Continued
We spend the entire show in the Gaza Strip, with senior producer Nora Barrows Friedman and Pacifica team. Nora takes us to burned up neighborhoods and the devastating Rafah refugee camp. We’ll also visit the site were Rachel Corey was executed two years ago by a US made Israeli Bulldozer. And of course The Knight … Continued
