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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.
Genetically modified corn invades the ancient strains in its birthplace of Mexico, we’ll speak with a U.C. Berkeley professor under fire for his outspoken opposition to GMO proliferation; Plus, art under occupation: we’ll speak with an artist and Israeli anarchist on creative ways of resisting Israel’s colonial policies; A statewide boycott of gas stations in … Continued
15,000 pro-democracy supporters take to the streets of Cap Hatien despite the continuing repression of the Lavalas movement. We’ll have a full report from Kevin Pina on the ground in Port-au-Prince. Plus Kevin Cooper, live from Death Row. We’ll play the entire interview, plus interviews with his attorney and an anti-death-penalty activist. And of course, … Continued
UN forces occupy Cite Soleil, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphere as part of the ongoing purge of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti; also, Michael Ratner discusses new revelations about US torture in Iraq, including electrical shocks and setting prisoners on fire; plus, human rights activist Chris Brown on Israeli settler violence … Continued
Canada does the post-coup bidding for the United States in Haiti; also, excerpts of Gary Webb on stage with Flashpoints in a 1996 interview after the release of his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion was released, we’ll have an in-depth interview with investigative journalist Robert Parry about Gary … Continued
Patrick Cockburn reports on the latest occupation violence in Iraq on the year anniversary of the capture of Saddam Hussein; plus, Palestinian resistance forces in Gaza attack an Israeli occupying military post; also, Augusto Pinochet indicted for mass murder and war crimes more than thirty years after his Chilean coup; Gary Webb remembered on the … Continued
More on the exclusive photographic evidence of US war crimes in Fallujah with Dahr Jamail in Baghdad; also, we look at the human cost of war and dissidence in Sudan on International Human Rights Day; how you can protest right-wing American-Israeli lobby groups; a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints en Español.
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail acquires exclusive photographic evidence of the killing fields in Fallujah, he’ll talk about how these images implicate the US military in egregious war crimes; plus, taking direct action to stop the corporate plunder of Iraq; also, instituting the Orwellian nightmare of national ID cards as the plan goes to the … Continued
An exclusive interview with Kevin Cooper, a year after his eleventh-hour stay of execution at San Quentin; plus, violence against women reaches epidemic proportions in Guatemala, where 500 women have died viciously this year; a report from the ground in occupied Baghdad as the US military prepares to re-shuffle the troops; we’ll also get reaction … Continued
After the US marines lay siege to Fallujah, they turn it into a high-tech police state where nobody moves outside of the crosshairs of US weaponry; also, a look at why the recent attack on the US consulate in Saudi Arabia is the United States’ worst nightmare; Maria Suarez comes home after 21 years in … Continued
Patrick Cockburn reports from the ground in Baghdad on one of the bloodiest weekends in the war; an eleven year old boy is shot by Israeli soldiers while he sat at his classroom desk; Kevin Pina live in the studio to give us the latest news from Haiti; and the Knight Report.
