Today on Flashpoints: Massive Israeli air assaults continue against the occupied Gaza Strip. The death toll is over a hundred, including at least 22 children. Also, Nora Barrows-Friedman and The Electronic Intifada returns with their weekly podcast. And the battle for justice for Andy Lopez continues.
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Today on Flashpoints: We devote the entire show to the massive Israeli air assault on the Gaza Strip, the most densely populated place in the world. We’ll have a front line report on the ground. Also, we’ll be joined in studio by Ziad Abbbas of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, and Nora Barrows Friedman of the Electronic Intifada
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have a extended Report from the Gaza strip, where Israel launched a major military offensive that killed at least seven children and wounded dozens more. Also, we’ll examine the various elements of US policy toward Honduras. that has caused so many kids in that poverty stricken nation to head north toward the US. Also, a close look and analysis at the Andy Lopez verdict, from an African-American perspective.
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Today on Flashpoints: An exclusive interview with the attorney for the Andy Lopez family, who responds to the Santa Rosa’s DA decision not to prosecute. A troubling report from a medical doctor in the Gaza strip, after days of Israeli bombing and killing of innocent civilians there. Also, a front line report on expanding Israeli vigilantism against Palestinians living inside the greenline. And poet Jack Hirshman remembering Left Curve editor and poet Csaba Polony
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Today on Flashpoints: Is misguided US foreign policy courting violence over negotiation in the Ukraine? Also, an update on fighting tar sands in Idaho. And our regular weekly broadcast of the electronic intifada Hosted by Nora Barrows Friedman.
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Today on Flashpoints: US pushing successfully for the re-militarization of Japan. Native Americans roughed up and detained at AT&T Park in San Francisco, get an apology and a pair of tickets, but they want much more. More on the anti-choice implications of recent decisions made by the supreme court. And a report from the Gaza strip on the devastating and deadly impacts of continuing Israeli bombing
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Today on Flashpoints: Obama sending more troops to Iraq, and more drone attacks expected. Also, a massive air strike against Gaza by Israeli occupiers, as Israeli vigilantes threaten to kill elected Arab politicians in Israel. And Native Americans, arrested at AT&T Park, where the San Francisco Giants play, during Native American heritage night.
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Today on Flashpoints: Obama nominates a corporate insider to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Also, the Supreme Court limits the collective voice of Illinois home care workers and sharply restricts access to reproductive healthcare for women. Sean Penn continues to blunder into Haitian political affairs, while Aristide’s enemies continue their vendetta against Lavalas. And civil disobedience in Sacramento California to protest big money in politics.
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Today on Flashpoints: Will the 21st Century be the Kurdish Century? What’s next for Iraq and the rest of the region? And the city of Detroit denies water, the life blood of human existence, to thousand of its poor and working class residents.
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Today on Flashpoints: An exclusive report from Beirut, Lebanon on yesterday’s bombing, as people were watching the World Cup. Also, Andy Lopez attorney, Jonathan Melrod, just appointed to the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Commission for Northern California. And we’ll replay our mini-documentary of the police killing of 18 year old Yanira Serrano in Half Moon Bay
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Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. From Baghdad to the US-Mexico border, Palestine to San Francisco, Port-au-Prince to Washington DC, Flashpoints monitors the centers of power as an uncensored platform of independent media.
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