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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.
We continue our fight against another state-sponsored murder as former gang leader, children’s book author and Nobel laureate nominee is given a date to be murdered by the state, we’ll be joined by the leader of a movement to save the life of Stanley Tookie Williams; also, new revelations in the widening White House leak … Continued
The vigilantes plan to converge in Sacramento, California, where they were invited by the Governor who applauds their work; also, a new documentary, Chavez Ravine, with music by Ry Cooder, that depicts the destruction of an East Los Angeles neighborhood to make room for major league baseball; and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta honored … Continued
A special report on children rotting and left to die and starve to death in Haiti’s prisons as the US plans another phony election in the hemisphere; also, we’ll feature a full-length documentary: Aristide and the Endless Revolution tells the behind-the-scenes story of the US attack on the Aristide government that forced him into exile; … Continued
US forces bomb innocent civilians, including women and children as US officials put the final touches on fixing the Iraq election; we’ll take a look at the war and what many believe are sham elections with Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail and warfront filmmaker Mark Manning; and we’ll feature hard-hitting excerpts from two documentaries, one … Continued
Former CIA officer Philip Agee addresses the Valerie Plame-Karl Rove case and the continuing US attempts to overthrow Hugo Chavez in Venezuela; plus, Norman Finkelstein takes on the Israeli lobbies and the disinformation campaigns; and the Election Fraud Goes GlobalKnight Report.
Today on Flashpoints, we broadcast live from the SomArts Gallery in San Francisco in a special celebration of the Day of the Dead! We’ll be talking about the Day of the Dead and the powerful, political significance that it has now taken on; Plus, mudslides and hurricanes from Guatemala to Southern Mexico wreak havoc and … Continued
The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East: we feature the new, 1300-page book of award-winning journalist Robert Fisk, along with excerpt of a prescient interview we did with Fisk in January; also, a Texan runs for president of Haiti as the Bush administration attempts to put the final touches in its … Continued
We are proud to feature a brand-new, hard-hitting documentary called The Oil Factor. The Oil Factor tears the lid off of the Bush lie and shows that the war on terror is really a war of terror to control oil and gas resources in the Middle East; and the Knight Report. .
We feature the work of Norman Finkelstein, one of the most outspoken and articulate critics of the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine; plus, Ali Abunimah speaks out against the continued killing of Palestinian teens as Israelis open fire again in Gaza while in the West Bank, arresting over a hundred more Palestinians; and the Knight … Continued
