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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.
Israeli occupiers murder a mentally unstable woman and two teens; Al Sharpton on the immigrant workers’ revolution and civil rights; a bilingual interview with the leader of the California Latino Caucus; and a survivor of military sexual abuse speaks out to the Democratic delegation; and sounds from the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
A new Iraqi Resistance Group raises the stakes with a bold kidnapping of an Egyptian Diplomat in Baghdad. We’ll take a look at the implications of the latest kidnapping as well as some background on Saudi connections. We’ll take an in depth look at what the critics are now calling the 9/11 Coverup Report. We’ll … Continued
The occupation of Palestine still goes unnoticed despite condemnations by the International Court of Justice and the United Nations general assembly; plus, the first in a series of celebrations of the life of Chilean poet and icon Pablo Neruda; we’ll rebroadcast a recent interview with Farouk Abdel-Muhti, who died just last night after delivering a … Continued
Haitian pro-democracy activists still being hunted and arrested by US-supported coup leaders; also Phyllis Bennis at the United Nations where she talks about today’s vote in the General Assembly condemning the Israeli Apartheid Wall; plus an in-depth expose on Bush’s phony military service that continues to be covered up and laundered; and the Knight Report.
A freewheeling conversation with Robert Fisk of the Independent of London. Fisk talks about his journey outside of Baghdad into the land of Muqtada al-Sadr, the failing occupation, and what is in store for the US if they continue to stay the course in Iraq. Plus, an in-depth report on the assault of the West … Continued
A deeper look into the unfolding crisis in Palestine with noted scholar and activist Jeff Halper; plus almost a million Sudanese people flee their homes as they face starvation and mass rape – we’ll speak with the executive director of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) for and update on the unfolding disaster in Sudan.
Did the new “democratic” leader of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, summarily execute six Iraqi prisoners days before he was handed power? We’ll speak with an investigative journalist who talked to eyewitnesses in Baghdad; San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Matt Gonzales continues the discussion on alternatives to the bankrupt two-party system; a special election edition of … Continued
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, a wide-ranging interview with Independent Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader, we’ll focus on Palestine, Iraq, NAFTA, corporate greed and immigrant rights; also, a special expanded Knight Report into the potential postponement of the 2004 election that could throw it into the House of Representatives and guarantee a Bush … Continued
Vice President Dick Cheney faces possible indictment in an international bribery scandal stemming from Halliburton’s collaboration in a Nigerian natural gas project; also, Catherine Austin Fitts on Cheney’s ongoing domestic scandals and Halliburton’s near-bankruptcy before it was given sweetheart no-bid contracts in Iraq; plus, the latest in the ongoing assault on the residents on Beit … Continued
An in-depth discussion and analysis on the situation in Iraq with award winning journalist Robert Fisk in Baghdad; American Peace Activists detained and deported by Israel, we’ll have an interview with one of the activists and her Attorney, the continuous Bush Administrations attacks on women’s reproductive rights and the Knight report with Robert Knight.
