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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.
Today on Flashpoints: As Palestinian Authority President Mahmould Abbas colludes with the occupiers to overthrow democracy, Israeli death squads continue to kill Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Plus, a new report documenting the expanding violence of the US Occupation in Iraq. Anti landmine campaigners take on cluster bombs as an international movement gains … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cozies up with Israel and the Bush administration as occupation tanks amass at Gaza’s border, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah and Professor Hatem Bazian about the current crisis in occupied Palestine; also, an in-depth look at the expanding war in Afghanistan as the Taliban now controls nearly … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: A US-Israeli supported coup in the West Bank: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas annuls elections and selects a pro-West cabinet to rule from Ramallah, we’ll get a report from that city; also, we go back to the North of Lebanon, where human rights activist warn of growing human rights violations against Palestinians … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency, even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we’ll have a series of reports on these crucial breaking stories; also, we’ll have a report from Beirut on yesterday’s deadly bombing that killedten … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Hamas government and declares a state of emergency, even as Hamas overruns a main Fatah headquarters in Gaza; we’ll have a series of reports on these crucial breaking stories; also, we’ll have a report from Beirut on yesterday’s deadly bombing that killed ten people; and … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: A Deadly Bombing in Beirut Kills at least ten and wounds many more; Also Haitian death squad leaders directly linked to US supported opposition in Haiti; Music industry puts the squeeze on Internet radio broadcasters and the Knight report.
Today on Flashpoints: Dahr Jamail nails the New York Times for lying about the United States use of white phosphorus in Iraq. Also John Pilger on the U.S. permanent occupation in Iraq. Twenty two Palistinians killed in factional violence in Gaza. A former CIA analyst talks about the CIA on trial for torture. A disscussion … Continued
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints: We spend the hour listening to the national Pacifica broadcast, Cages and Dreams: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession in Palestine.
Today on Flashpoints: We talk about the future of the immigrant’s rights movement in the face of Congress’s failure to take any substantial action that would guarantee some 12 million workers and their families fair treatment, wages, and the respect they deserve; Also, we continue our investigation into the U.S. Government’s wide ranging use of … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: A leading US scholar once again makes the case against Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine; also, environmental activist Karen Pickett speaks out against the government’s green scare attacks; an eyewitness account that refutes police claims against Mumia abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.
