FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints, we feature interviews with filmmaker Robert Greenwald about his prescient 2009 film Rethink Afghanistan, we are also joined by Dr. Jake Diliberto who is the co-founder of Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan. Then we take a look at the oxygen starved dead zones in our oceans with the world’s leading expert in the field Dr. Nancy Rabalais. The largest dead zone is in the Gulf of Mexico and now covers an area of nearly 9000 square miles. Finally, we feature special coverage by senior producer Miguel Gavilan Molina about the California Cannabis Banking Working Group chaired by California State Treasurer John Chang.

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Flashpoints 08-22-17

Today on Flashpoints, we feature a discussion with Ajamu Baraka about American Exceptionalism and the failure of the Left to challenge US foreign policy, then we’re joined by Uncle Bobby Cephus for an update on the Love Not Blood campaign on behalf of the victims and survivors of police violence, next activist journalist Kiilu Nyasha joins us to honor the memory of George Jackson who was assassinated at San Quentin prison 46 years ago today. Finally, poet, essayist and novelist Ishmael Reed pays tribute to the legacy of Dick Gregory who passed away this weekend at the age of 84.

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Flashpoints 08-21-17

Today on Flashpoints: Kris Kobach and the uptown Klan: forcing the
prosecution for the Nazi beating of a black man last weekend. No peace
without justice in Palestine and Israel: Nora Barrows Freidman is back
with The Electronic Intifada.

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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll take a look at Trumps false moral
equivalent with South Carolina based longtime civil rights organizer,
Kevin Alexander Gray. And we’ll feature an update on the Korea-US
stand-off with Flashpoints Special Correspondent, Kay Jay Noh

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Flashpoints 08-16-17

Today on Flashpoints: We’re proud to present highlights from a hip-hop musical based on the groundbreaking book by Martin Lee, Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana.

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Flashpoints 08-15-17

Today on Flashpoints: Two eye-witness accountants of white-supremacist
neo Nazi violence in Charlottesville this weekend, including the
brutal on-camera beating of a black man, in a public garage, where
cops park their cars. Also Ai-Jen Poo, Executive Director of the
National Domestic Workers Alliance speak out against the racist
violence and the upsurge of violent attacks against domestic workers
and day laborers: and Miguel Molina interviews California State
Treasurer, John Chaing, on the formation of a Cannabis Banking
structure

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Flashpoints 08-14-17

Today on Flashpoints: Is the US on the brink of an all out war with North Korea? We’ll devote the entire hour to an interview with journalist and Korean policy expert, Tim Shorrock.

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Flashpoints 08-11-17

Today on Flashpoints: The beconing of nuclear war: an interview with legendary award winning filmmaker, author and investigative reporter, John Pilger. And we’ll feature excerpts from a panel organized by Rootsaction.org, held today in Washington D.C, calling for the withdrawal of US military aircraft from Syrian airspace.

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Flashpoints 08-08-17

Today on Flashpoints: A former British Ambassador calls for the freeing of Julian Assange and weighs in on “Russia Gate” madness. And a new short film, Locked In, about the plight of political prisoner refugees in Great Britain.

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Flashpoints 08-07-17

Today on Flashpoints: Fighting against the cleansing of the Mexican American studies program in Arizona and across the country. Also, more excerpts of a conversation between whistleblowers Melvin Goodman and Daniel Ellsberg

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Flashpoints 08-02-17