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 – March 1, 2006
Bush puts on his hat as a weapons salesman for his whirlwind trip to India, we’ll feature an open letter to George W Bush by Anuradha Mittal; plus, over 40 Palestinian children arrested in the Bethlehem area over the past three weeks, we’ll feature a report on the brutal conditions they face in Israeli prisons, … Continued
Flashpoints – February 22, 2006
Israeli Occupiers kill five more Palestinians in a brutal raid on the Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank: More damaging news on the NPR/Voice of America Collaboration: And the EPA’s New rule turns Humans into lab rats for the pesticide industry and of course the Knight Report.
Flashpoints – February 21, 2006
Murderer’s Row at San Quentin set to kick back into gear at 7:30 pm Pacific time with the state-sponsored homicide of Michael Morales; also, Starhawk reports back from the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where the community stands against the government’s attempts at an ethnic cleansing; plus, Israeli occupiers step up their program of … Continued
Flashpoints – February 20, 2006
The state of California prepares to murder Michael Morales at San Quentin tonight; also, an extended interview with award winning poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield about Poetry in a time of War.