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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’ll feature a breaking story on how the federal government has vetoed a crucial microtransmitter radio project for the Astrodome; we’ll hear the stories of two Bay Area survivors who were shot at by local police in New Orleans; we’ll speak with a young man who is doing what the feds should be doing, re-establishing … Continued
Bush’s Flood-disaster death count may rise to well over ten thousand, as First Mother Barbara Bush, visits and insults thousands of victims still stranded inside the Astro-Dome – We’ll have reports from New Orleans, Houston, and we’ll hear eye-witness accounts from those just back from the hardest hit areas: Also students protest Bush’s racist response … Continued
Today on a special Labor Day edition of Flashpoints, we feature voices from New Orleans, with special reports from Pacifica and community radio producers; we’ll hear from people in the streets, community leaders, activists, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ordinary people who are all fed up with the deliberate abandonment by the Bush … Continued
The deliberate abandonment of hundreds of thousands of stranded Southerners left floating and hungry in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we’ll feature a special report from the ground in New Orleans; plus, author and attorney Eva Golinger talks about her new, explosive book, The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela; we’ll also feature headlines … Continued
We’ll feature an in-depth report on the Iraqui Bridge slaughter massacre; and an update on the bloody and endless US occupation; we’ll talk about what the Louisiana National Guard should be doing instead of kill and be killed in Iraq; we’ll feature an interview with Michael Parenti on the hurricane and its aftermath; and from … Continued
An update for Haiti’s US Sponsored Killing Fields: And we continue our Series, poets in a time of war, with notes Palestinian poet and Writer, Naomi Shihab Nye: And from exile the Knight Report.
We’ll feature a round-table discussion on how best to stop the Bush war machine and end the bloody occupation of Iraq and Palestine; Also how to deal with the sell out democrats; And from exile the Knight Report.
Activists in El Paso call for the extradition of CIA asset and known terrorist Luis Posada Carilles; also, the Texas judicial death machine gets ready to execute another innocent victim in the name of Frances Newton; poet and historian Aurora Levins Morales reads poetry in a time of war; and the Knight Report.
5000 soccer fans in Haiti witness a machete massacre of up to 50 victims by national police, we’ll have a special report from Kevin Pina on the ground; also, we’ll visit the Peace House on the perimeter of the Bush Ranch, where the alternative media has been getting the word out about Cindy Sheehan and … Continued
Bush Supreme Court Nominee tied directly to the Administration’s wide-ranging program of illegal detention, abuse and torture, we’ll have a special report on what appears to be an illegal conflict of interest on the part of Judge Roberts; plus, Ali Abunimah on today’s Israeli undercover attack that left five young Palestinians dead; a reading of … Continued
