FLASHPOINTS

Today on the Show: Spy For No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World by award-winning investigative reporter, Dave Lindorff. Lindorff’s work Features in-depth research from recently declassified FBI documents, first-hand journals, and powerful personal interviews that uncover the story of the atomic spy who gave secrets away and got away with it too.

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Flashpoints 09-19-23

Today on the show: How the US and Ukraine are conspiring to turn the war with Russia into another “forever war “. Think Israel as the perfect model for the US on the Russian border. Also, Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, a walking crime scene, walks free into the sunset to strike again. And an update on California’s psychedelics decriminalization efforts with expert attorney Lauren Mendelsohn

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Flashpoints 09-18-23

Today on the Show: Israel’s renegade prime minister and crime boss, Bibi Netenyahu heads for San Fran for a sit down with Elon Musk.  And what do we think they’ll be chatting it up about? Also We explore the Homies Empowerment Project and its visionary Freedom School with its founder, Cesar Cruz. and our beloved troubadour, Francisco Herrera, helps us remember the life and times of Bay Area visionary activist, inspired missionary and spiritual leader, Father Louie Vitale who passed late last week

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Flashpoints 09-12-23

Today on a special edition of the show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, helps us remember and recall the events of 9/11/That’s 9-11-73, when the US overthrow of the duly elected socialist government of Salvador Allende sent tens of thousand of Chileans into exile. At least, the ones who were able and lucky enough to escape the brutal reign of General Augusto Pinnochet. And Camilo Perez Bustillo brings us up to speed on the battle for self determination that goes on right now in Chile and across the hemisphere.

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Flashpoints 09-11-23

Today on the show: Frontline Investigative Reporter, Arun Gupta, reports on the expanding US proxy War with Russia through Ukraine. And we feature the latest episode of the Electronic Intifada Podcast.

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Flashpoints 09-07-23

Today on the show: Part two of our dramatic reading of the Indictment of Donald J. Trump’s attempt to overthrow the election results and seize power of the US by extra judicial means. And we’ll speak to our brave reader, election protection activist, Wendi Lederman about the reading and the politics behind it

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Flashpoints 09-06-23

Today on the show: Frontline investigative reporter, , Arun Gupta, on the sentencing of Trump’s troops, and how the prosecutors stiffer sentencing recommendations are being rebuffed by the sentencing judges, And we present a dramatic reading of the Trump indictment for his Attempt to steal the 2020 presidential elections.

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Flashpoints 09-05-23

Today on the Show: Censorship, book-banning and the Texas racist crackdown on learning and free-speech. We’ll be joined by writer, activist, professor, Tony Diaz, founder of Libros Trafficante, and author of The Tip of The Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital.  Also, we’ll speak with Robert Buzzanco, professor of U.S. foreign policy at the University of Houston.

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Flashpoints 08-31-23

Today on the show: Pierre LaBossiere, founder of Haiti Action Committee speaks out against the latest brutal violence on the streets of Haiti, as a result of failed US destabilization programs, covert operations and a series of UN occupations: Also, Flashpoints senior producer Miguel Gavilan Molina offers another commentary on the life and times of frontline Latino journalist/truth teller Ruben Salazar, gunned down by and LA sheriff’s deputy. And we preview a new book: Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War.

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Flashpoints 08-30-23

Today on the show: Flashpoints celebrates the Chicano moratorium and the life and times of radical Chicano journalist, Ruben Salazar, who was murdered by an LA Sheriff’s deputy 53 years ago today, during the Chicano protests against the war.  We’ll feature a variety of interviews, including Ron Lopez, professor of Latino and Chicano studies at Sonoma State University.

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Flashpoints 08-29-23