FLASHPOINTS

Is the Obama Administration really moving on Immigration reform, or is he just tossing out a few pre-election crumbs to garner the brown vote int time for midterm elections: Also we’ll have an up date on the Andy Lopez case, as activists in Santa Rosa win the right to table for their case. And we’ll feature an encore presentation of our special Aztec New Years Celebration coverage

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Flashpoints 03-14-14

Today on Flashpoints: An in-depth look at overt fascist influences in the US supported government in the Ukraine. Also Wall Street bonuses doled out this year, could double all full time minimum wage pay. And National Nurses United, the nation’s largest organization of nurses, demands that Sec. Of State John Kerry, certify that that the massive Keystone XL pipeline will not adversely impact the health of Americans.

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Flashpoints 03-13-14

Today on Flashpoints: Today we celebrate the Aztec New Year. We’ll feature an in-depth on location report from San Francisco’s historic City College in the Mission. And we’ll feature our weekly report with Nora Barrows Friedman and the Electric Intifada.net

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Flashpoints 03-12-14

Today on Flashpoints: We’ll feature the second of two reports from Fukuashima Japan, three years after the meltdown and tsunami. Also, a new report strongly suggests that people living around the San Luis Obispo based reactors in California are suffering substantial negative health impacts. And we’ll Feature a special report from Robert Parry on the real politics driving the Ukraine, and the US’s involvement in what may have been a soft coup.

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Flashpoints 03-11-14

Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have a live report from Japan on the third anniversary of the tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima Japan. We’ll hear about the plight of dozens, if not hundreds of sailors on the USS Reagan who were exposed to heavy radiation off shore from Fukushima. And we’ll hear from the people’s advocate, that the title of a new autobiography by Daniel Sheehan, whose legal work included The Pentagon Papers, Wounded Knee, the Silkwood Case and an Iran-Contra investigation that almost brought down Ronald Reagan.

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Flashpoints 03-10-14

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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Flashpoints 03-06-14

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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Flashpoints 03-05-14

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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Flashpoints 03-04-14

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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Flashpoints03-03-14