Flashpoints

Flashpoints – April 25, 2006

Legendary actress Rita Moreno talks about her work on the screen and her struggle as a Latino actress to get respect and her strong support for the immigrant revolution; plus, we celebrate the 52nd birthday of death row journalist and political prisoner Mumia abu-Jamal; we continue our reporting on the Kurdish and Palestinian refugees imprionsed … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 20, 2006

We continue our in-depth coverage of the escalating US war rhetoric against Iran, Phyllis Bennis takes a further look at the ramifications of a potential attack and what the day after that war might really look like; news headlines from occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess; documenting systematic Israeli settler violence in occupied Hebron; and the … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 19, 2006

What would Iran and the region look like in the aftermath of US nuclear war? We’ll speak with internationally-renowned theoretical physicist and environmentalist Dr. Michio Kaku; also, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on the unraveling civil war in Iraq and the misreporting of the story by the US corporate media; smoking gun documents that … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 18, 2006

We hear from one voice among thousands of Iraqis now fleeing the violence in their US-occupied homeland; Israel expands its bloody occupation against Palestine, we’ll have an on-the-ground report; plus, an in-depth look at the forgotten refugees of the Iraq war, imprisoned inside refugee camps on the border between Iraq and Jordan; an interview with … Continued