Today on Flashpoints: We’ll spend the entire hour on a special Fukushima update, three years after what many experts have called the worst nuclear accident in history.
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll continue our drum beat coverage of the situation in the Ukraine with former high level CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Answer Coalition founder, Richard Becker.
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Today on Flashpoints: The Situation remains tense in the Ukraine. We feature an in-depth discussion with a former high level CIA Analyst. Also, right-wing police groups try and scuttle an Obama justice department nominee, because of alleged connections to Mumia Abu Jamal. Palestinians stranded in refugee camps in Syria facing extreme life and death conditions, as Israel’s apartheid prime minister heads to cut a deal with Jerry Brown and movers and shakers in Silicon Valley
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Today on Flashpoints: Russia moves forces into the Ukraine. Also, the founder of the American Indian Movement speaks out against the dangers of tar-sands. And American Indian political prisoner Leonard Peltier gets a special visit from the United Nations
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Today on Flashpoints: Holding the Roman Catholic church accountable for mass child molestation. Also, we’ll feature an update on the situation in Ukraine, as Russia weighs in with military exercises. We’ll have our weekly report on occupied Palestine with Nora Barrow Friedman and the Electronic Intifada.net. And the Biggz Beat offers a bit of a different perspective on recent veto of anti gay legislation in Arizona
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Today on Flashpoints: Newly obtained documents confirm the Navy knew Fukushima releases dangerously contaminated US sailors on the USS Reagan, off shore from Japan. Also, we’ll have a report on the volatile situation in Venezuela. And we’ll feature an in-depth up date on the delicate nuclear negotiations going on now between the US and Iran, and the Israeli’s on-going attempts to sabotage them
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Today on Flashpoints: Who is in charge in Kiev? What will be the fate of the Russian speaking population, whic makes up about thirty percent of the country? Also, we remember Latino photographer and activist, Frank Espada, through the eyes of his son, award winning poet, Martin Espada.
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Today on Flashpoints: Anti-war resister, Colonel Ann Wright reports back on the geopolitical struggle against US hegemony in the Koreas. Also, Colonel Wright talks about her anti-drone battles here in California. Also joining us is anti-Jeju activist K-Jay. We’ll have a report from Miguel Gavilan Molina on an action this past weekend at a Santa Rosa shopping mall that tied to illegally forbid Andy Lopez’s parents and supporters from wearing t-shirts in support of justice for the slain 8th grader. And we’ll have an extended conversation with Dr. Victor Rios, author of “Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys”.
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Today on Flashpoints: We feature excerpts from a forum with Oscar Award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, on the making of Stone’s Untold History of The United States.
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Today on Flashpoints: AIDS activists offer an example to the Lyme on how to fight back. We’ll speak to the director of the Oscar nominated Documentary “How to Survive a Plague” about AIDS activism, as we continue our discussion about the parallels between the AIDS and Lyme epidemics. We’ll also feature excerpts from How to Survive a Plague”
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