
Flashpoints
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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 – September 15, 2006
We broadcast both from our studios in Santa Rosa and from our homebase at KPFA in Berkeley. On the show tonight, we’ll feature a young, new investigative unit of bilingual producers and hear some of their maiden voyages into radio with an emphasis on the immigrant revolution; also, an interview with the filmmakers of Occupation … Continued
Flashpoints – September 14, 2006
Authors of the Lancet study on mass killing and rape in Haiti under the US-installed regime receive death threats, a phony bomb and rats in the mail; a new study led by the director of Project Censored finds the Associated Press to be a biased voice for the state department and against Middle Easterners; also, … Continued
Flashpoints – September 13, 2006
A special report by Patrick Cockburn on the deadly conditions in occupied Gaza and the West Bank; also, the situation in Mexico intensifies as both sides intend to greet their supporters in the same Zocalo this weekend; we’ll take a look at the psychological impacts of migration and immigration, particularly focusing on women and children; … Continued
Flashpoints – September 12, 2006
An Israeli commander publicly says his own actions in the Israeli bombing of Lebanon were quote “insane and monstrous,” we’ll have responses from Lebanon on this public admission of a war crime; a news report from occupied Palestine where another 14 year old is gunned down by Israeli occupiers; also, the Cuban 5 face another … Continued
Flashpoints – September 11, 2006
In the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks five years ago, Bush has launched a global war against Muslims and people of the Middle East; today, on this fifth anniversary, we’ll talk about how 9-11 has been used as a tool to expand Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the US hegemony in the Middle East; … Continued
Flashpoints – September 8, 2006
Human rights investigation published by the Lancet Medical Journal under attack; an update on the situation on the ground in Haiti with our special correspondent Kevin Pina; Salvadoran deportations continue with a bizarre twist; also, the US stranglehold on clean water puts Mexicans at risk; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.
Flashpoints – September 7, 2006
We spend the hour talking about the tenth annual Arab film festival and we’ll broadcast excerpts of a brand new documentary on the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the Knight Report.
Flashpoints – September 6, 2006
Dahr Jamail reports on the killing fields in US-occupied Iraq, where officials are running out of morgue freezers to put the over 800 bodies a week that are pouring in; also, how Israel begins another round of ethnic transfers of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and their family members out of Palestine; plus, we’ll take … Continued
Flashpoints – September 5, 2006
John Ross reports from Mexico City on the decision to make Calderon the next President of Mexico despite massive fraud; also, a free-wheeling discussion with former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern, focusing on the neo-cons’ drumbeat towards war with Iran, the bombing of Lebanon and the continued use of torture by the US government; and … Continued