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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, the International Court of Justice rules that the Israeli apartheid wall is illegal and must be abolished; and reports of resistance from both sides of the wall; a Palestinian activist and headmistress of a school in East Jerusalem, and an Israeli refusnik who was a former high-ranking Israeli Air force Captain dismissed … Continued
More sweeping attacks on the people in Gaza, we’ll have a report from the ground; Knessit Member Azmi Bishara on hunger strike to protest the Israeli apartheid wall; and the indictment of Ken Lay, a full report with Catherine Austin Fitts on the Enron swindle and the implications for the Bushies; plus the Knight Report.
We spend the entire hour with our special correspondent just back from three months in occupied Iraq, Dahr Jamail. We’ll take your calls and we’ll also be joined by a very special guest, plus the Knight Report.
A look at the true cost of the Iraq war, with an in-depth discussion with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies; the intensified brutality of occupation and the reality of water resources in Palestine, a conversation with noted Palestinian scholar Dr. Marwan Haddad; and Nuclear weapons and WMDs found in the Middle East
Today on a special so-called Independence Day Edition of Flashpoints, we look at a world in bondage, from the Iraq war to the continued attack on women in this country. We’ll broadcast a recent speech by author and historian Larry Everest, and we’ll talk about the state of battered women in US prisons who killed … Continued
A report from Christian Parenti on the trial of Saddam and Iraqi Resistance; The Peace and Dignity Run, a journey through American conscience from Alaska to Argentina; and the Knight Report.
A look at Palestine through the eyes of film; we’ll speak to Bay Area peace activists about the upcoming Palestine/Israel film festival and broadcast an excerpt of John Pilger’s Palestine is still the issue; and the Knight Report.
Another fake transfer of power in a destroyed Haiti; an eerie quietness sweeps Baghdad, we’ll go back to Christian Parenti for a report from Iraq; remembering the Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri; and the Knight Report.
Christian Parenti reports on the situation in Iraq a day after the secret pseudo-power transfer ceremonies; detainees in Guantanamo finally get their day in court; Israeli scholar and peace activist Tanya Reinhart in the studio in a freewheeling discussion on solutions to the ongoing illegal occupation in Palestine; a call to action against the continued … Continued
Iraq and the new façade of oil-drenched, US-fashioned freedom, we’ll have an in-depth discussion with Larry Everest; Gaza under attack by Israeli forces as Nablus suffers days of extremely bloody invasions, we’ll have on-thr-ground reports from both cities.
