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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.
US Marines storm Fallujah as the Iraqi puppet Prime Minister authorizes the killings, we’ll have a report from Dahr Jamail in Baghdad and up-to-the minute analysis with Rahul Mahajan; plus, settler violence and land confiscation continues in the occupied West Bank; and renowned human rights activist Van Jones live in the studio talks about Our … Continued
US occupation forces attack Fallujah, signaling the beginning of the anticipated all-out siege; plus, Palestinian President Yassir Arafat in critical condition as Israeli colonizing forces kill two children in Gaza; Kevin Pina live in the studio to talk about the ongoing purge of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti; the Block Report on the California Youth … Continued
Greg Palast lays out how Bush claimed victory in Ohio and his overall win of the Presidential election; plus, international and Palestinian activists in the West Bank attacked by Israeli soldiers, we’ll hear firsthand what went on; also, another world is possible: Kathy Kelly on how we move forward toward a just and sustainable future; … Continued
Today on an election day edition of Flashpoints: As Americans head to the polls, we take a look at the human toll of the Bush administration and discuss concerns about the future with Phyllis Bennis; plus, the use of depleted uranium weapons up ten-fold in Iraq, we’ll speak to Major Doug Rokke about the silenced … Continued
US bombing of Fallujah intensifies in preparation for a major strike, meanwhile, kidnappings and resistance attacks multiply; also, a primer on how Bush is going to steal the 2004 election with Greg Palast; plus, was Bush wired for the debates with Kerry? Post-election protests in San Francisco no matter who wins; and the Knight Report.
Osama Bin Laden releases a videotape claiming responsibility for the September 11th attacks and warns of more to come; plus, will there be a draft? What is the real status of re-instituting the draft in America; Haiti’s pro-democracy movement under siege, we’ll talk about the continuing nightmare with Kevin Pina; and Flashpoints en Español.
A nine year old Palestinian girl shot in her head by Israeli snipers while she stood on her front porch, we’ll speak to our correspondent in Gaza about the latest attacks and the Sharon disengagement plan; also, in studio with Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina on the ongoing purge of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti, … Continued
We continue our reporting on a growing number of US soldiers refusing to go to Iraq or do battle once they get there, we’ll speak to the leader of the movement of military families resisting the war; also, former high-level Bush 1 official Catherine Austin Fitts interviews 9-11 researcher Michael Ruppert on his new theories … Continued
Greg Palast catches the Florida Republicans red-handed trying to disenfranchise the African-American community in the upcoming vote; plus, Israeli occupying forces swarm into the Gaza strip, killing Palestinians with new Hellfire missiles, we’ll have an eyewitness account from on the ground in Rafah; also, an analysis of Sharon’s decision on the Gaza so-called disengagement plan; … Continued
