5:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays To Fridays
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 focus on a Palestinian woman and her child in an Israeli prison, featuring an interview with the husband and father, as his family fights for justice; also, an update on military recruitment on public school campuses, how you can keep them off your kids; plus, a commentary on Bolivia by Rahul Mahajan; how the … Continued
The first shots have been fired in Bolivia as the Congress tries and fails to convene to choose a new president; plus, the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was killed by a US-made Caterpillar bulldozer in the Rafah refugee camp two years ago, in the Flashpoints studio, with members of the Nasrallah family, whose home … Continued
3 million children under the age of five will die in sub-Saharan Africa unless the United States and other rich nations honor their promises at the G-8 summit, we’ll speak with Bill Fletcher, President of the TransAfrica Forum about Africa’s debt and Bush’s inaction; plus, military recruiters kidnap teenagers and force them to sign up … Continued
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa resigns after hundreds of thousands take to the streets in the nation’s capital, we’ll get the latest from Luis Gomez in La Paz; also, eighteen Iraqis killed and seventy wounded as car bomb attacks sweep the country, we’ll get a full update from Dahr Jamail; also, Israel continues its ethnic purging … Continued
We speak with Human Rights activist Van Jones about environmental justice and visions of a more just and peaceful future. Also this weeks edition of Flashpoints en Español which hones in on Environmental Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
