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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 – 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 EPA’s New rule turns Humans into lab rats for the pesticide industry and of course the Knight Report.
Flashpoints – February 21, 2006
Murderer’s 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 government’s 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, we’ll 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 week’s election; Alfred McCoy on the US government’s use of torture for the last 50 years; and the Knight Report.
Flashpoints – February 13, 2006
The US coup government in Haiti moves to steal the election, meanwhile, UN forces open fire on protesters who have now taken to the streets all over Port-au-Prince; also, an in-depth analysis of the Palestinian political situation as the Israeli occupation expands and deepens; and the Knight Report.