Today on Flashpoints: We take a look at some of the headline issues of 2012. We start our recap by looking at our environment and the issue of climate change. We then look at events in the Middle East. Finally we discuss the economy and ask the question, who’s fiscal cliff is it anyway?
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll feature a special report on deadly violence and the US supported destabilization of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Also a minor victory in the fight to ban the use of the deadly cancer-causing chemical of BPA. And AIPAC, the the powerful Israeli Lobby is back on the attack
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Today on Flashpoints: Newly obtained secret FBI documents show the Fed’s treated the occupy movement as a criminal terrorist threat even though the occupy movement rejected violence as a tactic. Also a look at what kind of Secretary of State pro-war Senator like John Kerry will make. And our regular weekly report on occupied Palestine from the Electronic intifada, with Nora Barrow Friedman
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll feature a report by Mother Jones on why oil company subsides seem to be immune from cutting in a time of great austerity. We’ll also have an update on the attempt by the current pope, and the Roman Catholic Church, to cover-up the pandemic of child molestation by catholic priests. And Robert Parry Joins us to talk about his new book America’s Stolen Narratives
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Today on Flashpoints: USB and HSBC banks, the latest corporate criminals too big to indict. Also Obama and the Republicans are getting ready to push the working class off the Fiscal Cliff. We’ll have a radical response to the new film Zero Dark Thirty, which glorifies and justifies torture. And a new commentary from Miguel Gavilan Molina on the future of the brown revolution.
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Today on Flashpoints: Two gun America arms the world. Newton is only the tip of the ice berg and nothing new to citizens around the globe, being targeted by US weaponry. Also, we’ll hear about Governor Grinch Brown, who canceled Christmas for many immigrants. We’ll have an update on the foreclosure pandemic, and our weekly report on Israeli Occupied Palestine, with Nora Barrows Friedman and the Electronic Intifada.net
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Today on Flashpoints: American Violence, at home and abroad: America’s two gun, hair-trigger society visit’s a sleepy town named Newton. The NRA shoots from the hip in support of automatic attacks weapons for the masses, as copycats open fire all over America. Also, Obama’s sadness and outrage for American kids only: Will hear about kids who were being targeted by US made advanced weaponry even as the president was mourning the terrible loss of innocents in Connecticut.
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Today on Flashpoints, we’ll feature a speech by David Cay Johnston, journalist and economics author talking about how the corporations legally steal your money. But first we’ll have a surprise mini concert w/David Rovics.
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Today on Flashpoints: Seven dead in the Streets of Cairo, as pro-democracy activists continue to hold their ground in front of the presidential palace. We’ll have report from ground zero in Cairo, and we’ll speak with a human rights activist, who represents twenty one human rights groups, that have come together to outline the steps that the President can take to stem this expanding crisis. Also, we continue to celebrate the work of Emmy award winning filmmaker, John Pilger, with sound excerpts from his hard hitting mini-doc, The Quiet Mutiny, on the rebellion of US soldiers refusing to fight in Vietnam.
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Today on Flashpoint: We feature excerpts from a moving new documentary “Where Should The Birds Fly”, on the 2008/2009 Israeli slaughter known as Operation Cast Lead. Later on we continue to celebrate the work of Emmy Award winning filmmaker John Pilger, with a rebroadcast of an interview we did with on the latest Israeli slaughter in Gaza.
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Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. From Baghdad to the US-Mexico border, Palestine to San Francisco, Port-au-Prince to Washington DC, Flashpoints monitors the centers of power as an uncensored platform of independent media.
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