Flashpoints – October 23, 2015
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Flashpoints
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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.
Today on Flashpoints: Politically motivated mass murder in Haiti, a week before the presidential elections? Will the elections be fair? We’ll have a series of reports from the ground in Port au Prins and from around the country. Later, The Biggz Beat on Star Wars: The Racism Awakens.
Today on Flashpoints: The Israeli campaign of Terror against the Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem continues unabated. We’ll speak to a Palestinian activist from Jerusalem, who works with traumatized children and women there. Also hundreds of Korean families, separated for more than 60 years, are briefly reunited. We’ll talk to the co-founder of the National … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli occupiers kill, maim, demolish and steal Palestinian land at an accelerated rate. Meanwhile all hell is breaking loose in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and Kurdistan. In a powerful new speech given recently in a benefit for the middle east children’s alliance, noted author, professor radical historian, Vijay Prashad takes on the … Continued
Attacks in Lebanon and The U.S. Staying In Afghanistan
Today on Flashpoints: A report from Beirut Lebanon on the death, chaos and destruction being caused by 25 years of failed US Policy in the region. Also, an in depth report on the decision by the US to stay in Afghanistan
Flashpoints – October 16, 2015
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
]Today on Flashpoints: San Francisco Poet Laureate, Alejandro Murguia, live in studio. The Other Barrio is loosely based on the deadly arson fire that destroyed the Mission s Gartland Apartments in 1975 killing 12 people. Alejandro Murguia will also read from his poetry
Today on Flashpoints: An in depth report on rampant racism and extreme violence against black non Jews in Israel. Also another two nukes about to bite the dust: We’ll speak with noted anti-nuclear activist, Harvey Wasserman about the violence
Today on Flashpoints: All arrows seem to point to the Turkish government, as the motivating force behind this weekends horrific bombing there, as that country lurches forward toward civil war. Also an extended report on the battle of the so-called comfort women of Korea to have their suffering internationally recognized, even as the right wing … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: We proudly present audio clips from this morning’s Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco