Today on Flashpoints: Puerto Rico absolutely devistated by hurricane Maria, with a total power outage and no end to the suffering in sight. We’ll speak to Aurora Levins-Morales, about the devistation. We’ll also feature sounds from the documentary “The Occupation of The American Mind”.
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Today on Flashpoints: We bring you another update from the ground in Mexico City. And, excerpts of a documentary film, The Great White Hoax, narrated by Tim Wise
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Today on Flashpoints: We feature a live report on the ground in Mexico City after another being hit by another powerful earthquake today. Also an update on the Koreas after Trump threatens to blow it out of the water. And Greg Palast joins us for another edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin.
Today on Flashpoints:Activists and filmmakers fighting to save the environment. We’ll speak with Kevin White & Stephan Most about their forthcoming project, Wilder Than Wild: Fire, Forests & The Future and more.
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Today on Flashpoints: We feature sound from a documentary film, part of a multi film series on Paul Robeson.
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Today on Flashpoints: Melvin Goodman & Daniel Ellsberg In
conversation about Goodman’s new book, Whistleblower at the CIA: An
Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence
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Today on Flashpoints: Have the New York Times gone collectively mad? We’ll hear what Consortium News editor, Robert Parry has to say about that. Also, a new speech by author Dan Kovalik.
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Today on Flashpoints: North Korea pushes it way into the
neuclear weapons club: What’s next in the Western Battle to shut North
Korea Down, by blaming it for everything that is bad in the world and
threatening to bomb it back to the stone age
Today on Flashpoints, the NY District Attorney’s office has dropped charges against Pedro Hernandez, an 18-year-old Bronx man who spent nearly a year in the infamous Riker’s Island prison. We speak with Wade McMullen Jr. , the managing Attorney for the Robert F Kennedy Foundation that raised $250,000 bail to release Hernendez from Rikers. He was also Mr. Hernandez lead attorney. Then we turn our attention to the question of violence during protests, the role and tactics of the ANTIFA movement with philosopher, cultural critic and activist, Gabriel Rockhill. Finally, we catch up with Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, who takes on the New York Times latest attempt to pin Hillary Clinton’s election loss on the Russians.
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Today on Flashpoints, a disturbing mathematical model is leading scientists to project a mass extinction event suffocating the planet within the next 83 years. Joining us from the United Kingdom to explain is the leading author of the study Dr. Sergei Petrovskii of the Applied Mathematics Department at Leicaster University. Then we look at the history of what is known as the deferred action for childhood arrivals or DACA and the decision by the Trump administration to rescind its protection affecting more than 800,000 children of undocumented persons in the United States. Next we talk Afghanistan with a veteran who served there and an upcoming week of national protests on the sixteenth anniversary of the US invasion. Finally, were joined by author Dan Kovalik to talk about the Trump administrations closure of the oldest Russian consulate in America and his new book The Plot to Scapegoat Russia.
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