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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.
we go to Port-au-Prince, where Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina witnessed the killing of peaceful demonstrators; a report from Rafah refugee camp, which is under unbelievable siege and where the situation is worsening by the minute; an on the ground report from occupied Baghdad; and the Knight Report.
We go to occupied Baghdad where our special correspondent met with Iraqi government officials and witnessed more US attacks on holy sites; a look at Donald Rumsfeld the impeachable war criminal; the education hunger strikers in Oakland continue their battle against the Governator; a conversation with Gore Vidal and Laura Flanders on the eve of … Continued
A report from Rafah refugee camp where Israeli apache helicopters are slaughtering civilians in a continued rampage; the United States attacks holy sites in Najaf, we’ll have a report from our special correspondent on the ground in Baghdad; Robert Fisk contextualizes the current occupations in the Middle East; and a speech by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti … Continued
Israeli colonizers continue their slaughter of Palestinians living in the Gaza strip; we’ll talk about Donald Rumsfeld the war criminal visiting the scene of the crime in a surprise visit to the Abu-Ghraib prison; a look at the war profiteering in Iraq; a new speech by Tariq Ali; and the Knight Report.
Occupied Middle Eastern countries Palestine and Iraq continue to be engulfed in colonialist flames; we take a look at the historical incidents of torture courtesy of the United States; a report from Haiti on the ongoing human rights abuses; we’ll play excerpts of an evening with Kevin Pina, Pierre Labossiere and Congresswoman Barbara Lee discussing … Continued
A report from occupied Baghdad on the continuing massacres on the ground; Activists, teachers and kids pay the price of Americas war on education; Biddu: Roots and Resistance, a documentary by Nora Barrows-Friedman direct from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.
A special roundtable discussion with the Flashpoints on-air team as we discuss the state of the world and the future of Flashpoints; Biddu: Roots and Resistance, a documentary by Nora Barrows-Friedman direct from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.
Back to Baghdad where the violence at the hands of the U.S. occupies continues. Kofi Annan’s pro Israel stance in the context of the growing brutal occupation of Palestine. We focus on the new labor struggles in California. A discussion of Bush’s revamped attack on Cuba, and its right to self determination. Nora Barrows Friedman … Continued
Today on Flashpoints More heartache and destruction in Iraq as the US continues it’s brutal occupation of it’s people. And moving words from on the ground in Palestine. Author David Ray Griffen asks the painful questions on 911 and a fresh report from the flames of resistance of U.S.occupied Haiti. And of course the knight … Continued
We celebrate the struggles and triumphs of the Battle of Puebla AKA Cinco deMayo, historically a festive celebration which now reclaims it’s force as a struggle against oppression. A conversation with UC Berkeley Professor David Montejano on the changing American landscape, plus live coverage of the Cinco de Mayo actions in Sacramento. And a Mothers … Continued
