FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints:  Will fracking cause our next nuclear disaster? Also, Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city of nearly two million, falls into the control of “ISIS”, the key rebel group leading the bloody war against the current government of Syria. And we’ll feature excerpts from a whisleblower press conference held by Exposefacts this week in Washington D.C.

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Flashpoints 06-10-14

Today on Flashpoints: A bold attack by the Taliban on Pakistan’s busiest international airport. We’ll features an interview with a columnist from Dawn, Pakistan’s largest English language newspaper. Also, remembering Andy Lopez on what would have been his 14th birthday. Another young Latino, this time an 18 year old woman, gunned down by law enforcement on the outskirts of the quiet sea town of Half Moon Bay. And a hip-hop lawyer takes on the NSA.

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Flashpoints 06-09-14

Today on Flashpoints: How the corporate press grossly misreports the situation in the Ukraine: Also, “Expose Facts”, a new whistle-blowers support group unveils its first street sign at a bus stop facing the US State Department. It been a year to the day since Edward Snowden’s first massive release of Secret NSA documents hit the streets. We’ll talk about that, and we will also have our regular weekly feature from the Electronic Intifada, with Nora Barrows Friedman.

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Flashpoints06-05-14

Today on Flashpoints: We feature an exclusive report from Mexico City, on a series of people’s caravans calling for the protection of Central Americans migrating through Mexico to the US. Also, It been one year since Edward Snowden’s first massive release of secret NSA documents. We’ll speak to a former high level CIA analyst about the multiple impacts of Snowden’s actions. And police violence and shootings in Northern California reach epidemic proportions

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Flashpoints 06-04-14

Today on Flashpoints: Food and politics. We feature an extended talk with Food Not Bombs founder, Keith McHenry. Also new information on US involvement in the destabilization of Chile and the overthrow of Allende, even before he was elected. And we rebroadcast our recent interview with Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, Jose Antonio Vargas, about his new film “Documented”.

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Flashpoints 06-03-14

Today on Flashpoints: Secretary of State John Kerry tells Edward Snowden to “Man-Up”. Also, New York Times reporter James Risen’s first amendment rights not to reveal confidential sources rejected by the supreme court without comment. Does Opbama’s war on coal really mean anything? And Japanese revolutionary activist, writer, visionary, Yuri Kochiyama, dies at 93

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