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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.
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
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
Could the explosive rise in childhood autism be linked to mercury in vaccines and a subsequent, massive cover-up by the US Government with ties to the Big Pharmaceuticals? We’ll investigate the mercury-autism link and the cover-up with legendary environmental warrior Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; plus, we’ll speak with a neurologist and mother of an autistic … Continued
Israel convicts the soldier who killed ISM activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot in the head in 2003 in Rafah, we’ll speak with al-Jazeera correspondent Laila el-Haddad about the situation in Gaza; also, Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter on the Bush plan for expanded military action in Iran; a commentary by Rahul Mahajan on … Continued
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, we launch our summer collaboration with La Onda Bajita and the New College of California; we’ll go to Chiapas, Mexico, where the Zapatistas have called a Red Alert based on military attacks and threats of wider attacks; we’ll also talk with our special guest host Francisco Herrera about … Continued
Dahr Jamail reports from the World Tribunal on Iraq, focusing on crimes of war and information by the Bush administration and the corporate press; also, we continue our series on drugs and the national security state; also, more fro Greg Palast on the Downing Street Memos; and from exile in Berkeley, the Knight Report.
Women activists in Eastern India under threat of attack, rape and murder speak out about continuing abuse; also, the unholy alliance between Wal-Mart and slave sweatshops of Bangladesh; and, an extended version of the Knight Report from exile.
The hidden costs of war: we feature an in-depth interview about how the war on Iraq is wreaking havoc on the environment; plus, this week’s news roundup from the Palestine News Network; the Block Report with JR on Assata Shakur and political prisoners; a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints en Español.
