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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.
A special report from the martyrs cemetery on the West Bank of Palestine, with Nora Barrows Friedman and Babak Tondre; also powerful voices from the world social forum, a new alternative global meeting place for activists trying to make a difference, among the most powerful of those voices, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Flashpoints Associate producer Nora Barrows Friedman is on the ground in the Dheisheh Refugee camp in occupied West Bank. She brings us her first report with the voices of the Palestinian refugees. Also we continue with the documentary, Dispatches; The Killing Zones, ISM activists killed by Israelis, and the knight report.
Flashpoints Associate producer Nora Barrows Friedman is on the ground in the Dheisheh Refugee camp in occupied West Bank. She brings us her first report with the voices of the Palestinian refugees. Also we continue with the documentary, Dispatches; The Killing Zones, ISM activists killed by Israelis, and the Knight Report.
Violence and heartache continue to explode in Haiti as the anniversary of the kidnapping of President Jean Bertrand Aristide nears, a conversation with Kevin Pina and Tom Griffin on the latest of Regimes Human Rights abuses; also an evening with Naomi Klein as we excerpt her talk on "War, Fleece."
Locked out workers in Argentina take back their jobs and their dignity. We talk with activist film maker Avi Lewis on his new documentary. We celevrate the life and times of Howard Zinn author of A People’s History of the United States.
Right wing talk show hosts call for the execution of Native American activist Ward Churchill: we’ll feature part two of our interview with Churchill on his new book and the growing call for his sacking, also “the Forest for the Trees, Judi Bari vs. the FBI, a new documentary about the life and times of … Continued
A filmmaker just back from Fallujah with original footage has his hotel room and car broken into simultaneously and his footage stolen, and Native American scholar and activist Ward Churchill under fire for telling the truth about 9/11 and the Knight report.
A report from Beirut on the car bomb assassination of the former Prime Minister; plus token gestures and empty promises by the occupying Israeli government as Palestinians continue to suffer; the US-installed government uses former brutal military to justify slaughter of Aristide’s popular Lavalas movement Haiti; and the Knight report.
Radical independent folk-rocker and visionary Ani DiFranco speaks on politics, music and finding hope in these times, we’ll hear from her new CD, Knuckle Down; plus, excerpts from the hard-hitting documentary The Corporation, which charts the spectacular rise of institutions aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also recounts victories against this apparently invincible … Continued
House democrats unite with right-wing republicans to pass anti-immigrant legislation that prevents workers from getting a drivers license; celebrating the new grassroots journalism remembering those who died trying to tell the world about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
