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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.
Today on Flashpoints we are live from the New College of California in San Francisco’s Mission District!! We continue our reporting from Oaxaca, Mexico where paramilitaries are attacking grassroots activists every night. Also, we’ll visit a Methodist church in Chicago where a Mexican woman has been given sanctuary as she fights against deportation and separation … Continued
An in-depth expose on Iran Contra Criminal and Bush Middle East Point man, and Hit Man, Elliot Abrams: Also we continue our reporting on recent US/Israeli War Crimes against Lebanon: On Earth Matters-the devastation of Appalachia from Mountain Top removal strip mining, and a mini-concert with Earth First! Troubadour Dana Lyons and the Knight Report.
Today on Flashpoints, Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes based on the destruction of whole villages in Lebanon; also paramilitary death squads kill a grassroots activist in Oaxaca as activists occupy over eight private radio stations; We’ll hear from a military draft resister who said “no” after receiving orders to deploy in Iraq; and … Continued
A report from Southern Lebanon on Israel’s continuing violations of the cease-fire on the ground and the air space over Lebanon; plus, fighting back corporate censorship with grassroots low-power FM stations; JR takes the Block Report inside lockdown for a special interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.
Preschool teacher and human rights activist goes home to Southern Lebanon and finds both destruction and hope; Israeli snipers kill three more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as Gazans remain under siege; plus, the battle for a recount in Mexico continues to heat up as striking teachers in Oaxaca seize control of at least … Continued
Another live Friday edition of Flashpoints, the vigilantes threaten day laborers and immigrant workers in northern California; we’ll have a special report from Santa Rosa; we’ll also continue our dialogue on those who were forced to flee Lebanon after the Israelis and the US started destroying the country again; poetry with Aurora Levins Morales; headlines … Continued
Our special correspondent Bilal el-Amine reports on the continuing illegal Israeli drone surveillance over Lebanon; also, an Israeli warplane drops a bomb on another Palestinian home in Gaza, well speak with Laila el-Haddad about Gaza one year after the so-called disengagement; we start a new segment on Flashpoints featuring local musicians; and the Knight Report.
Beirut after the bombing: an extended interview with Beirut-based human rights activist Tina Naache; also, Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq, reports for duty against the war and calls for a "change of strategy" for the peace movement; and the Knight Report.
Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wildnerness reports from the wreckage of Lebanon, as people begin to return to the areas left in ruins by the month-long US-Israeli siege; also, British MP George Galloway challenges the media’s racism; Mexican federal police beat pro-Obrador parliamentarians bloody as the battle to uncover Mexico’s election steal continues; plus, … Continued
Thousands of Lebanese head south to assess the destruction following thirty-three days of Israeli bombings and shellings; also, the cease-fire does not include Gaza, where Israeli tanks and warplanes killed three members of the same farmer family, blown up in their own fields by Israeli attackers; an in-depth discussion with Dr. Helen Caldicott on the … Continued
