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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.
Israeli occupation forces tightened the screws on Gazan’s, opening fire on civilian neighborhoods with helicopter gun ships and deafening aerial percussion bombs, while arresting over three hundred in sweeps through the West Bank; And A tribunal on Haiti condemns the US sponsored coup there. and the Knight Report.
Israeli helicopter gunships and warplanes continue to slam missiles into the occupied Gaza strip, we’ll speak with Kristen Ess about the latest from Palestine, with Uda Walker on the connections concerning the economic strangleholds and the systems of apartheid in Palestine and between the US and Mexico; plus, pro-independence activist Filiberto Ojeda Rios assassinated by … Continued
We’re back at New College of California in a continuing live collaboration in the Mission District, on the eve of tomorrow’s antiwar march in San Francisco! We’ll have a report from a ghost town called Houston as Texans continue to flee Rita, we’ll hear from Houston and New Orleans where the levees are failing and … Continued
Truth, Torture and the American Way by Jennifer Harbury. Source www.buzzflash.comToday on Flashpoints: Putting the Bush Adnministration on trial for torture, abuse and multiple violations of the Geneva Conventions; we’ll talk with Jennifer Harbury about her new book Truth, Torture and the American Way, and her plans this weekend in Washington, DC for holding a … Continued
Nationally-noted poet Sharon Olds refuses to break bread with First Lady Laura Bush at the National Book Festival; we replay our recent interview with British parliamentarian George Galloway; and the Knight Report. Knight Report: Five Iraqis are dead in the aftermath of the British raid in Basra, where local authorities demand an apology, while Iraq’s … Continued
British troops make war on their Iraqi allies, killing a number of US-trained police, we’ll examine why; also, tracking the vigilantes at the US-Mexico border; a hearing on the latest police shooting of an innocent youth in BayView-Hunters Point; Books Not Bars calls for an alternative to incarceration and more support for our youth; an … Continued
A special report on the profound psychological impact of the flood on the poorest people of Louisiana; also, we continue our series of poets in a time of war, with the visionary teaching work of Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller; and the Knight Report.
A people’s clinic pops up in the Algiers section of New Orleans, where people have started to rebuild their own community after being abandoned by the Federal government; plus, poetry through the floodwaters with Aurora Levins Morales; how to fight military recruiters from harvesting our kids for Bush’s illegal war; a celebration of 25 years … Continued
