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 – September 23, 2005
We’re back at New College of California in a continuing live collaboration in the Mission District, on the eve of tomorrow’s antiwar march in San Francisco! We’ll have a report from a ghost town called Houston as Texans continue to flee Rita, we’ll hear from Houston and New Orleans where the levees are failing and … Continued
Flashpoints – September 22, 2005
Truth, Torture and the American Way by Jennifer Harbury. Source www.buzzflash.comToday on Flashpoints: Putting the Bush Adnministration on trial for torture, abuse and multiple violations of the Geneva Conventions; we’ll talk with Jennifer Harbury about her new book Truth, Torture and the American Way, and her plans this weekend in Washington, DC for holding a … Continued
Flashpoints – September 21, 2005
Nationally-noted poet Sharon Olds refuses to break bread with First Lady Laura Bush at the National Book Festival; we replay our recent interview with British parliamentarian George Galloway; and the Knight Report. Knight Report: Five Iraqis are dead in the aftermath of the British raid in Basra, where local authorities demand an apology, while Iraq’s … Continued
Flashpoints – September 20, 2005
British troops make war on their Iraqi allies, killing a number of US-trained police, we’ll examine why; also, tracking the vigilantes at the US-Mexico border; a hearing on the latest police shooting of an innocent youth in BayView-Hunters Point; Books Not Bars calls for an alternative to incarceration and more support for our youth; an … Continued
Flashpoints – September 19, 2005
A special report on the profound psychological impact of the flood on the poorest people of Louisiana; also, we continue our series of poets in a time of war, with the visionary teaching work of Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller; and the Knight Report.
Flashpoints – September 16, 2005
A people’s clinic pops up in the Algiers section of New Orleans, where people have started to rebuild their own community after being abandoned by the Federal government; plus, poetry through the floodwaters with Aurora Levins Morales; how to fight military recruiters from harvesting our kids for Bush’s illegal war; a celebration of 25 years … Continued
Flashpoints – September 14, 2005
We’ll hear from our Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina, who was released without charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; over 114 dead in Iraq after a series of car bombs, and many more killed in a US attack on Tal Afar, we’ll speak with Robert Fisk about the latest slaughter; plus, assessing the … Continued
Flashpoints – September 12, 2005
Our jailed Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina released without charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; also, we’ll have a special update on the situation in New Orleans and down South with Jeremy Scahill; on the Block Report, we feature the harrowing story of Fred Hampton, Jr.’s rescue of five families from Mississippi; Laila … Continued