Today on Flashpoints: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate. A new blockbuster book and brand new speech by Naomi Klein
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
If you’d like a copy of this speech and book, we’re offering it as a thank you gift for donating to KPFA & Flashpoints. Please visit www.kpfa.org to donate.
Today on Flashpoints: With the upcoming biopic of the late great investigative reporter Gary Webb, set to be released on October 10th, we discuss Webb’s life and legacy with Robert Parry. Later, we play excerpts of the documentary film, “Spies of Mississippi”.
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
Today on Flashpoints: We devote the entire hour to the battle against Lyme disease, the raging epidemic that the US medical establishment does not want to recognize. We’ll dig into the Flashpoints archives for key interviews from our past broadcasts on this crucial and under covered issue.
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
Today on Flashpoints: War in Syria! The US and ISIS partners in overthrowing the Assad government. Also, a special report from the United Nations as Obama chair and the security council today pushing his expanding war in the Middle East. And a long time peace activist and member of the Raging Grannies get arrested in front of the White House, resisting Obama’s latest war.
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
Today on Flashpoints: The US commander and chief illegally bombs Syria, as the US and Syria become partners in the war against ISIS. We’ll talk to celebrated peace activist Kathy Kelly, and we’ll speak to organizers for the anti-war protest that took place in front of the White House this morning
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
Today on Flashpoints: Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network on global warming and communities of color. Also American Indian Movment founder, Bill Means on A.I.M New York, fighting global warming and Native American land royalties. And sounds from occupation Wall Street protesting against big businesses role in climate change.
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
Today on Flashpoints: An Interview with MaCarther Genius Award Winner Ai Jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Also we’ll have a series of reports from the TRUST ACT State-wide strategy conference. And we’ll have a report-back from Members of the American Indian Movement at the UN to Strengthen and upgrade The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
Today on Flashpoints: An in-depth look at the escalating involvement of the US war in Iraq. Some Scottish history behind today’s vote for or against independence for Scotland. Also CNA and the United Nurses speak out against Casino Medicine and the potential Closure of a key hospital in Richmond
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have a live report and a mini documentary recorded by Flashpoints special correspondent, Matthew McHale, on the cross country train headed for the Global People’s Climate rally in New York this weekend. Also we continue our multi-part investigation series on Lyme disease. We’ll have a report back from an action today that took place in front of the New York Times building, in which Lyme patients called for more media coverage of their troubling plight
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
Today on Flashpoints: A report on the upcoming people’s climate rally’s in New York and San Francisco. Also we continue our multi-part investigative series on Lyme disease, an infectious disease that many are comparing to the AIDS epidemic. We’ll talk to Lyme activist and psychologist, Dr Jessica Bernstein, about her own debilitating struggle with the disease, and about the demonstration happening tomorrow in front of the New York Times, in which Lyme patients will be uniting to call for more media coverage of their troubling plight. And, war and more war: We’ll be talking to media activist and anti-warrior Norman Solomon, about an event he and Dan Ellserg will be a part of later this week.
Click on the link below to listen to today’s show
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.
Stats: 2,806 Posts, 118 Comments
Inter Press Service Common Dreams Maan News