Today on Flashpoints: The pen pal project between children in Berkeley and children in occupied Gaza. Also, a powerful new speech by Israeli anti-zionist activist, Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son: An Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: The Holy Land Foundation Five.
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Today on Flashpoints: Standing up against church sexual abuse. We’ll speak with the entire hour on the courageous work of Kevin Annett.
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Today on Flashpoints; We present an excerpt of a new speech given by Chris Hedges, hosted by Normon Solomon of RootsAction.org.
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll talk to state senator, Kevin DeLeon about Trump and the sanctuary state, and hear the senator’s thoughts on how to turn the clock back on global warming. Also, Alison Weir of If Americans Knew, on the massive new 38 billion dollar funding bill for Israel. Governor Scott Walker under fire in Wisconsin. And Professor Francis Boyle on the endangered Kavanaugh nomination for the supreme court.
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Today on Flashpoints: Greg Palast retuens with another edition of the Flashpoints Election Crimes Bulletin. Also, Flashpoints contributor, Randy Credico, gives emotional testimony to the Muller grand jury. And, an extended report from this mornings’s huge march to stand with communities and not corporations in the fight to turn back the clock on global warming.
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Today on Flashpoints: Remembering the September 11th 1973 US overthrow of the democratically elected government of Allende in Chile, and 911 2001. We’ll spend most of the hour with poet Martin Espada remembering both events in poetry. Later in the show we present an encore broadcast of our most recent interview with Professor Vijay Prashad.
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Today on Flashpoints: The Rohingya crisis continues unabated, as the situation continues to worsen with no solution in sight. We’ll speak with filmmaker Jeanne Hallacy, just back from the region, along with Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch Asia. Also, a massive hurricane looms off the southern coast of the US. We’ll get a special report from on the ground in Puerto Rico on the storm damage that still remains from last year’s hurricane season.
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Today on Flashpoints: We bring highlights from this past weekend’s “Rise For The Climate” march in San Francisco.
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Today on Flashpoints: We continue our bi-weekly collaboration, Consortiumnews on Flashpoints with a detailed look at the late senator, John McCain, who some remember as a war hero and proud American freedom-fighter, and others as a participant in over thirty years of potential US War Crimes and related mass murder. We’ll be Joined by Max Blumenthal whose August 27th piece for Consortiumnews was titled The Other Side of John McCain, and we’ll also speak to As’ad Abukhalil about his September 4th hard-hitting essay John McCain, “The View from the Middle East”. Also on the broadcast this week an in depth interview with Diana Johnstone about The Real Russian Interference in US Politics, which was also posted on August 27th.
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Today on Flashpoints: Noted law professor and legal scholar, Francis Boyle, on the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination. Also, Nora Barrows-Friedman with an update on the deadly violence of the expanding Israeli occupation. And, author/activist, Vijay Prashad, reports from Argentina on US hegemony and the declining dollar.
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