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 – July 11, 2005
One year after the International Court of Justice declares Israel’s apartheid wall illegal, an Israeli security guard shoots dead a fifteen year old boy tending to his grapes near the wall in the West Bank; also, legendary filmmaker John Pilger on the implications of what he calls Blair’s Bombs, the war on Iraq and the … Continued
Flashpoints – July 8, 2005
Today on a special live edition of Flashpoints, we broadcast from the New College of California in the heart of the San Francisco Mission District. We’ll have a report-back on a bold action taken by immigrants rights activists in Sacramento this week; also, we’ll look at how the Zapatistas are counteracting Free Trade with non-GMO … Continued
Flashpoints – July 7, 2005
Noted author and novelist Tariq Ali on today’s multiple bombings in Britain; we’ll also feature an account from street level on one of the bombings; plus, we hear from an eyewitness to yesterday’s slaughter in the streets of Cite Soleil in Haiti; we’ll take a look at Africa in the context of the G8, will … Continued
Flashpoints – July 6, 2005
Another Lavalas leader gunned down in Cite Soleil, also on the Haitian front, international activists petition the US and Haitian officials for the release of legendary Haitian folk singer Annette Auguste; plus, a California Senator flips the script again and joins the Republicans again in support of CAFTA; Miguel Molina reports from Sacramento on a … Continued
Flashpoints – July 5, 2005
Life and death stories from Haiti as our special correspondent returns to the studio for a report back on the worsening situation in one of the poorest countries in the world; also, three diplomats and two wounded in the last three days of fighting in Iraq, we’ll feature an in-depth discussion of where the war … Continued
Flashpoints – July 4, 2005
We re-broadcast a special investigation into the autism-mercury link with Robert Kennedy Jr., he’ll explain the massive coverup by US Congressmen, the CDC and the FDA, intimidated and paid off by big pharmeceutical companies, to inject our children with high levels of mercury in childhood vaccines; also, we’ll hear from a psychologist and a mother … Continued
Flashpoints – July 1, 2005
We’ll speak with immigrants rights activist Juan Jose Gutierrez about the Dream Act; a local Mission District shopowner and entrepreneur who specializes in crafts and goods from Chiapas and other areas in Mexico talks about the importance of supporting the work of Zapatistas and transcending the brutalities of free trade; plus, immigrants rights attorney Rene … Continued
Flashpoints – June 30, 2005
Israel bombs Southern Lebanon, we’ll speak with As’ad Abu-Khalil in Beirut about the implications and George Bush’s expanding war; plus, the People’s Tribunal on rape and other abuses in India reports to that country’s national human rights commission, we’ll speak with our special correspondent Angana Chatterji in New Delhi; also, Kathy Kelly finishes a 15-day … Continued
Flashpoints – June 29, 2005
Today on Flashpoints, An expose on task force 121, the Pentagon’s top secret kidnapping and assassination team–funded by drug money?:also Bush Ag. Secretary continues to cover-up the multiple dangers posed by Mad-Cow Disease:Noted political performance artist and playwright, Sherry Glazer talks about tomorrow’s Breasts not Bombs protest in San Francisco; and from exile, the Knight … Continued