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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.
Haitian death squad activists given the keys to the city of Port-au-Prince as the US-installed government continues to beat, kidnap, arrest and kill members of Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas movement for democracy, we’ll have an update on the arrest of leading pro-democracy activist and Aristide friend Father Gerard Jean Juste; also, an expanded report on … Continued
A nine year old Palestinian girl shot at her classroom desk at a UN school in Gaza dies overnight, we’ll speak to a high UN official about Israel’s targeting of children in school; also, breaking news from Haiti, we’ll speak with Lavalas activist and priest Jean Juste as he is arrested by masked gunmen while … Continued
Another eleven year old Palestinian girl shot at her school desk in Gaza, we’ll have a full report on the continued Israeli slaughter; plus, another nightmare of a day in Iraq, we’ll speak with Kim Sangupta of the Independent of London from Baghdad; a celebration and commentary on Indigenous People’s Day; we’ll play more excerpts … Continued
We kick off our series on what really happened on, during and after 9/11. We’ll feature excerpts from a recent, all-day 9/11 citizens commission hearing into the September 11th twin tower attacks; today, we’ll hear a statement from former FBI translator and whistle blower Sybil Edmonds, who has been silenced by the Bush administration, and … Continued
Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader on the Iraq war, and the importance of having open and free debates: Also True Lies and Battleground, a brand new book and hard hitting documentary on Bush war lies and press failures from the Guerilla News Network.
Exploitation and abuse of women working in the Maquiladoras just south of the Mexican border: Unconstitutional: the war on our civil liberties, a brand new documentary on the draconian Patriot Act by the producers of OutFoxed. And the knight report
Today on Flashpoints, A special report from the killing fields of Haiti: Free-trade and Slave labor over the southern border: And A new anti-Bush Documentary: There’s something about W. that Details Bushes biggest lies.
Bush Family Fortunes with Greg Palast: How the Bushies fixed an election and started a phony war on terror to invade iraq and steal the second riches oil reserves in the world. Also the knight report
Difficulties in providing healthcare in Palestine for victims of Israeli aggression. The California Govenor vetos the Drivers License Bill for the undocumented immigrants. Interview with the selection committee members of the Arab Film Festival. Ed Rosenthal’s report on medical marijuana. And Flashpoints en Español with Solange Escheverria. All this ahead with hosts Miguel Molina, Nor … Continued
International peace activists accompanying Palestinian children to school beaten by Israeli settlers near Hebron, we’ll have a report from one victim speaking to us from the hospital room; plus, Republicans in Ohio conspire to steal that swing state for Bush; an update on the severe humanitarian crisis in Haiti; and the Knight Report.
