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 – November 29, 2005
Vice President Cheney linked to torture and international war crimes by a former high-level Bush administration official; also, an exclusive story from the Electronic Intifada that implicates British foreign secretary Jack Straw in violations of international law for lobbying on behalf of British corporations, helping to expand Israel’s illegal grip on East Jerusalem; plus, four … Continued
Flashpoints – November 28, 2005
United Nations peacekeepers again on the attack against unarmed civilians in the poor neighborhoods of Cite Soleil in Haiti; also, activists with the group No More Deaths protest the growing violence against immigrants coming over the Arizona-Mexico border; anti-death penalty advocate Michael Kroll widens the lens to look at death row as Stanley Tookie Williams … Continued