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.
Flashpoints – May 27, 2009
After years of racist railroading by Federal prosecutors, a Texas court sentences five Arab-Americans on a combined 69 counts for their charitable work serving Palestinians, we'll speak to one of the defense attorneys whose client was just sentenced to 65 years in prison; also, Dr. Mads Gilbert, who treated and documented victims of US weaponry … Continued
Flashpoints – May 26, 2009
The California Supreme Court upholds the discriminatory and draconian Proposition 8, continuing the ban on gay marriage, we'll talk to a gay pastor risking arrest as demonstrators hit the streets of San Francisco in protest of the ruling; also, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approves the construction of a new illegal colony in the Jordan … Continued
Flashpoints – May 25, 2009
Today on a special Memorial Day edition of Flashpoints, We re-broadcast the full hour of death row prisoner Kevin Cooper, in an in-depth interview about his case, and the criminal injustice system.
Flashpoints – May 19, 2009
Bill Clinton, a consistent enemy of the people's Lavalas movement of Haiti, named as UN envoy, we'll feature a special report on the implications and a remembrance on UN and US slaughters in 2004 and 2005; also, the Block Report interviews Martina Davis on an international day devoted to saving the life of her brother, … Continued
Flashpoints – May 18, 2009
According to eleven Federal judges, the State of California is one step away from murdering an innocent Black man; an exclusive interview with death row prisoner Kevin Cooper.
Flashpoints – May 15, 2009
Live from Sonoma State University with Cindy Sheehan; talking about Immigrant Rights, the Torture Memos and much more!
Flashpoints – May 14, 2009
On the 61st anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from their land, ethnic cleansing continues apace in occupied Palestine. We spend the hour listening to excerpts from the hard-hitting documentary film, Occupation 101, which takes viewers through the brutal chronology of dispossession, exile and military occupation in Palestine even before 1948 and the creation of … Continued
Flashpoints – May 13, 2009
Award-winning independent journalist Dahr Jamail explains the accelerated collapse of security and infrastructure in US-occupied Iraq, as President Obama seeks to refuse to allow the public release of new torture photographs from US-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan; and as Palestinians mark 61 years of dispossession since their expulsion from historic Palestine in 1948, Israel … Continued