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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.
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.
Thirty people killed in twin car bomb attacks in Baghdad, we’ll have an on-the-ground report from Dahr Jamail; plus, the Union Carbide Chemical disaster and the horrific twenty-year aftermath; a closer look at other environmental catastrophes; and an interview with John Ross on Flashpoints en Español.
As Israeli military forces demolish homes and a kindergarten in Dheisheh refugee camp, bulldozers attack Palestinian land in Jayyous in preparation for illegal settlement building, we’ll speak with Palestinians directly affected by these Israeli assaults; plus, an on-the-ground report from Dahr Jamail in Iraq; an update on the situation in Haiti; and the Knight Report.
An exclusive interview with Father Gerard Jean Juste following his release from prison in Haiti, we’ll talk about the ongoing Haitian killing fields and the US-supported purge of democracy; plus, an on-the-ground report from Baghdad; and lauded activist and independent journalist John Ross on the changing tides in Latin American politics; and the Knight Report.
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail in occupied Baghdad reports on the mounting resistance and US war crimes in Iraq; plus, Israeli snipers kill a four year old girl in Rafah; Kevin Pina reports on murders of street children in Haiti by the US backed Haitian police; and the Knight Report.
An in-depth discussion on art, politics and resistance with Salvadorean filmmaker Daniel Flores and Dr. Robyn Delugan of UC Berkeley; plus, the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish; and Flashpoints en Español takes a look at the 10 year anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas with a speech by Subcommandante Marcos.
Today on a Special Thanks-taking Edition of Flashpoints: A look at the rights and struggles of native peoples of the Americas; we take you back to the Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island three decades ago; and poetry from Naomi Shihab Nye.
We continue our drumbeat coverage of the purging of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti by US-backed coup leaders; Kathy Kelly speaks on the suffering in Iraq and visions for justice and change; and the Knight Report.
