Your Daily Investigative News Magazine

FLASHPOINTS


Blog Archives


Friday, November 6th, 2009 0

Posted on November 06, 2009 by Flashpoints

Gloria and Jacobo Arenas

Gloria and Jacobo Arenas

An in-depth look at yesterday’s Fort Hood shooting, with Dahr Jamail; also, American Indian Movement founder Bill Means joins us to talk about a major visit by the United Nations to the Pine Ridge Reservation yesterday; We’ll also get a report from the Brazilian embassy in Honduras where the talks between President Zelaya and the coup government have broken down, and the deal has unraveled; we’ll hear about the harrowing story of two Mexican revolutionaries who were just released from prison after spending a good chunk of their lives locked down for advocating the overthrow of the Mexican government; and news headlines from Project Censored.

————

LISTEN ONLINE:
Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:

Project Censored

Dahr Jamail, author and journalist

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now and Nonviolence International

John Gibler, reporter

Jimbo Simmons and Bill Means, American Indian Movement

FPLOGO1


  • Share/Bookmark

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 0

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Flashpoints

Brad Will. Shot and killed in Oaxaca, 2006

Brad Will. Shot and killed in Oaxaca, 2006

We continue our multi-part series, the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; plus, we’ll speak to John Ross in Mexico City about the murder or Brad Will in Oaxaca three years ago; and the Knight Report.

————

LISTEN ONLINE:
Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:

John Ross, historian, author and poet

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

FPLOGO1


Colonel Ann Wright (Retired), peace activist and former Army Colonel
  • Share/Bookmark

Monday, August 31st, 2009 0

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Flashpoints
Healthcare or Warfare?

Healthcare or Warfare?

A special report on Mexico: teetering on the economic brink; also, expanding resistance and repression in Honduras, we’ll feature a live report from “Coup City”; syndicated columnist Norman Solomon reports on destruction and refugee camps in Kabul; plus, the Democrats: spineless corporate rats on health care; and the Knight Report.

—————–
LISTEN ONLINE:

Download this clip

Play this clip in your Computer’s media player


Guests:

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

John Ross, Historian, author and poet

Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter and Single Payer Action

Norman Solomon, media critic, Executive Director of Institute for Public Accuracy



  • Share/Bookmark
  • Musicians!!

    We're searching for great new music produced by independent musicians and members of our global audience, so that we can be as non-corporate and copyright-free as possible. All genres -- from blues to electronica to world beats -- welcome!

    We like smart, political and well-produced music -- and are especially in search of possible new theme instrumentals. Please send it to Flashpoints, c/o KPFA, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, or email your Mp3s at flashpointsproducer@gmail.com with full descriptions and credits.



  • ↑ Top