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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 continues to pound Palestinians trapped inside the occupied Gaza strip with 300 tank shells a day, we’ll have a special report from Ali Abunimah on the unraveling disaster in Palestine; also, Flashpoints takes a look at leak-gate with a former CIA intelligence official; the battle to shut down one of the most toxic power … Continued
Greg Palast talks about his recent interview with Hugo Chavez, the immigrant revolution, and his soon-to-be-released book, Armed Madhouse: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War; also, Craig and Cindy Corrie talk about the ongoing investigation into the killing of their daughter by an Israeli bulldozer operator and an upcoming organizing event taking … Continued
15 Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in a 36 hour period in Gaza, we’ll have a report from the ground as the shells continue to fall; also, the immigrants’ rights revolution continues to spread as millions of undocumented workers, their families and supporters continue to take to the streets; we’ll have a series of … Continued
Today, Walkout, a new film by Edward James Olmos, remembers the Chicano student uprising of 1968 in East LA, and sets the stage for the current student uprisings that started in LA and have caught on across the country, we’ll speak to Paula Christosemos, the leader of the 68 student rebellion; also, we’ll speak to … Continued
We feature an hour with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail and independent journalist Jeremy Scahill in a recent talk on unending war, militarism and the failure of the bipartisan system of empire.
An exclusive interview with Haitian pro-democracy leader and priest of the poor, Father Gerard Jean Juste; also, on the road with the Zapatistas and the Other Campaign; an update on the burgeoning immigrants’ rights revolution in this country, which has called for a general strike and national student walkout on May 1st; and the Knight … Continued
As over a million Gazans face starvation, Israeli warplanes bomb a government building in Gaza City, we’ll have a report from Laila el-Haddad; also, a US-supported death squad leader in Honduras ordered to pay $47 million dollars for extra-judicial killings and torture; amidst spiraling scandals, Tom Delay, the once-powerful leader of the House pulls out … Continued
An in-depth interview with former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern; McGovern talks about his work as an advisor to Bush 1 and his belief that Bush 2 is a war criminal and should be tried for crimes against humanity.
Today, we feature the voices of a growing student rebellion protesting the attempts by Congress to criminalize millions of undocumented immigrants; we’ll hear from students, their teachers, immigrants right activists and leaders in this movement; joining the dialogue on the 79th anniversary of the birth of Cesar Chavez will be Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the … Continued
Author, scholar and 9-11 investigator David Ray Griffin tears the lid off the official story of the attack on the Twin Towers; plus, Flashpoints special correspondent Lyn Duff interviews a Haitian survivor of politically motivated mass rape as the international community fails to respond.
