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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.
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
Piece, Propaganda and the Promised Land , a brand new documentary on the US media coverage of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. We’ll feature an interview with the film maker and excerpts from the film; also, our weekly commentary with Roving Producer Miguel Molina. And Flashpoints En Español on the one year anniversary of the … Continued
On a special edition of Flashpoints, Dahr Jamail reads from his journals in conversation with Dennis Bernstein and an audience in Oakland CA.
Grass roots activists continue to rook the government of Bolivia: we’ll have reports from La Paz and Los Altos. Aso Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman on a special mission of mercy in the Gaza Strip; Earth Matters, our weekly environmental report, hones in on Global Warming in Nepal. And of course The Knight Report.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters pleads for the life of Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, now on a second week of a life or death hunger strike in Haiti’s National Penitentiary. We’ll speak with the Congresswoman just back from Haiti, and with an attorney for the Artistede government, who was prevented from entering the country. Also, we … 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. Weâ
A seasoned covert officer for the CIA defends Negroponte and claims to be a critic of the agency, but is she really? Or is she still working for the Company? And on Flashpoints en Español we continue with our recorded reports from the recent World Social Forum in Brazil.
