FLASHPOINTS

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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Flashpoints 02-27-14

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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Flashpoints 02-26-14

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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Flashpoints 02-25-14

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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Flashpoints 02-24-14

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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Flashpoints 02-20-14

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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Flashpoints 02-19-14

Today on Flashpoints, we we proudly rebroadcast our recent interview with Academy Award filmmaker, Oliver Stone. We’ll also play an excerpt of his documentary Showtime series, “The Untold History of The United States”

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Flashpoints 02-18-14

Today on Flashpoints: We proudly present an encore broadcast of excerpts from a powerful documentary film “Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease”

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Flashpoints 02-17-14

Today on Flashpoints: Kidnapped anti-drone activist still missing in Pakistan. We’ll get an update from Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin. We’ll also talk to Medea about the ongoing resistance to illegal drone warfare. And we feature excerpts from a powerful documentary film “Unmanned: America’s Drone War”

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Flashpoints 02-13-14

Today on Flashpoints: Activists in Santa Rosa, California petition the state Attorney General to intercede in the case of Andy Lopez, and call for the local DA to step aside, based on conflict of interest. Also an anti-drone activist goes missing in Pakistan. Also, we’ll feature an excerpt of a speech by radical economist Richard Wolf.

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Flashpoints 02-12-14