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 – May 3, 2006
Brigadier General Janis Karpinsky, former head of the prison at Abu Ghraib, charges Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Gonzales with war crimes and crimes against humanity; also, a roundtable discussion with editors of Left Turn magazine on grassroots journalism and the global intifada.
Flashpoints – May 1, 2006
Miguel Molina reports from Los Angeles.
Flashpoints – April 26, 2006
We get an update on the plan for the Great May One Boycott-a national action in support of the new immigrant rights revolution. We’ll also look immigration crack down by the feds to take the steam out of this new movement. In Haiti, torture victims who fled the country after the US funded death squaders; … Continued
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