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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.
Legendary Haitian pro-democracy leader Father Gerard Jean Juste beaten at a funeral for slain journalist Jacques Roche and then detained by Haitian police, we’ll have a report from Port-au-Prince, we’ll be joined by Kevin Pina in the studio and we’ll hear a report on this day of international protest against UN participation in Haiti’s killing … Continued
Protest planned around the world tomorrow against the US sponsored killing fields in Haiti; We’ll feature reports from Haiti, and a round table discussion on the ongoing massacres there with members of a recent fact finding tour: and on this week’s edition of earth matters, we speak with Green-Peace Russia about lingering toxic wastes from … Continued
Major invasions by Israel across the West Bank, at least two people are already dead; plus, Ken Lay, CEO of Enron and close Bush contributor, finally comes to trial, but will he really be prosecuted? Medicinal marijuana activist takes his own life rather than face hard jail time, we’ll remember him and talk about the … Continued
Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad after a weekend that claPatrick Cockburn – Authorimed the lives of over 150 people in Iraq; plus, Father Gerard Jean Juste under attack in Haiti; Israel amasses at the border for a siege against Gaza; and Barbara Lubin reports back from occupied Palestine.
Today on a special live edition of Flashpoints, we broadcast from the New College of California in the heart of the San Francisco Mission District. We’ll have a special report on the vigilantes who call themselves Minutemen; we’ll also report on the arrest of legendary pro-democracy Haitian leader Father Gerard Jean Juste; the UFW takes … Continued
One year after the International Court of Justice declares Israel’s apartheid wall illegal, an Israeli security guard shoots dead a fifteen year old boy tending to his grapes near the wall in the West Bank; also, legendary filmmaker John Pilger on the implications of what he calls Blair’s Bombs, the war on Iraq and the … Continued
Today on a special live edition of Flashpoints, we broadcast from the New College of California in the heart of the San Francisco Mission District. We’ll have a report-back on a bold action taken by immigrants rights activists in Sacramento this week; also, we’ll look at how the Zapatistas are counteracting Free Trade with non-GMO … Continued
