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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.
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.
US warplanes slam into Fallujah and Sadr City, and the kidnapped aid workers from A Bridge To Baghdad are released after three weeks in captivity, we’ll have a report from Baghdad on the latest news. Catherine Austin Fitts live in the studio talks about Bush, Enron and the continuing war on the poor. Indigenous people … Continued
Israeli troops storm into the West Bank and Gaza, killing several and invading a hospital, we speak to Kristen Ess about the latest attacks and the expanding settlements by the Israeli colonizers. How the Bush administration is planning to steal the Presidential election, we’ll speak with Greg Palast on why he’s concerned with New Mexico. … Continued
More Israeli invasions into Gaza, we discuss the latest in the attacks with a young journalist under siege in Gaza city; plus, a freewheeling discussion with noted author and scholar Michael Parenti on why he’s voting for John Kerry.
Dozens killed in car bomb attacks and escalating US aerial bombings, we’ll speak with Patrick Cockburn about the continuing disaster in Iraq; plus, deep analysis of the regional political crisis with Rahul Mahajan; Israel purchases 5000 so-called smart bombs in an unprecedented 319 million dollar arms deal with their main supplier, the United States; also, … Continued
