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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.
We spend the hour with acclaimed professor Norman Finkelstein on his hard-hitting new book, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, in which he confronts the contrived controversy of anti-Semitism and the misrepresentation or falsification of facts on the ground to suit Israeli and Zionist policy; and the Knight Report.
Immigrants rights activists call for a boycott against Greyhound Buses for their dangerous, extra-legal collaboration with Homeland Security; also, the Presbyterian Church USA speaks out about border violence; the fight to name the Berkeley Post Office after legendary civil rights activist Maudelle Shirek; comic-activist Randy Credico, featured in the new film 60 Spins Around the … Continued
Remembering the bloody 1965 CIA coup forty years ago today in Indonesia; also, House speaker Tom Delay steps down after being indicted for interfering in Texas State elections; news headlines from occupied Palestine as Israel continues its siege against Gaza; immigrants rights activists call for a boycott of Greyhound Bus because of their alleged racism … Continued
Israeli occupation forces tightened the screws on Gazan’s, opening fire on civilian neighborhoods with helicopter gun ships and deafening aerial percussion bombs, while arresting over three hundred in sweeps through the West Bank; And A tribunal on Haiti condemns the US sponsored coup there. and the Knight Report.
Israeli helicopter gunships and warplanes continue to slam missiles into the occupied Gaza strip, we’ll speak with Kristen Ess about the latest from Palestine, with Uda Walker on the connections concerning the economic strangleholds and the systems of apartheid in Palestine and between the US and Mexico; plus, pro-independence activist Filiberto Ojeda Rios assassinated by … Continued
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
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
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
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
