Today on Flashpoints: We feature Pulitzer-prize winning author Chris Hedges’ key-note speech at the most recent Earth At Risk Conference
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have a round table speak out on the federal conviction of African-American CIA whistle blower, Jeffrey Sterling. Also, a recent speech given by Naomi Klein.
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Today on Flashpoints: A new leftist government in Greece threatens to end the austerity budget for Greece and purge the euro. Also Google admits giving over all info on wiki leaks accounts to US national security agencies, and never revealing it until now. And an activist convicted of committing Eco-terrorism is released after the government admits to withholding key information relevant to the defenses claim of entrapment
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Today on Flashpoints: The CIA whistle blower trial of Jeffrey Sterling went to the jury earlier today. We’ll have a report from Norman Solomon, who has been covering the case. Also, how elite power brokers corrupt our finances, freedom, and security. Also, killer cops indicted in New Mexico for gunning down a homeless man who was trying to surrender. And Ohio’s nuke owners put the screws to the tax payers
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Today on Flashpoints: Was the Charlie Hebdo white power rally in Paris a celebration of Western Hypocrisy? Also the history and motivating forces of Boko Haram. Kathy Kelly, on her way to jail, talks about war and peace and Obama’s state of the union. And Nora Barrows Freedom returns with Electronic Intifada
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Today on Flashpoints: The frontline struggle to keep abortion safe, affordable and accessible, and what Obama needs to do about it. We’ll also look back on a year of mass murders by the presidential assassination team. We’ll look at Obama record on education and over testing of school kids, as a failed strategy. And we’ll here from a radical Mexican priest who goes head to head with the US empowered Mexican cartels
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Today on Flashpoints: Massive crackdowns against the pro-democracy movement continue in South Korea. We’ll have a report from our special correspondent just back from the region. Also the pope is in the Philippines today, where political prisoners are under attack while in the middle of a multi-day hunger strike. And day 3 of the government’s prosecution of CIA whistle blower Jeffery Sterling; we’ll speak with former high-level CIA Analyst, Ray McGovern
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Today on Flashpoints: Day two of the whistle blower trial of CIA officer, Jeffery Sterling. Ww’ll get an update from the courthouse on today’s proceedings. Also the former director of the banned Mexican studies program in Tucson talks about the multiple impacts of the banning. And we’ll get a brief history of Mexican culture and the people of the corn, in the context of the banning.
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Today on Flashpoints: A special report on whistle blower, Chelsey Manning, now serving 35 years for blowing the whistle on US targeting of civilians in Iraq, including children. A Protest on the University of California law school campus against professor John Yoo, for his roll in enabling the bush torture machine and the continuing torture going on at Guantanamo Prison. And CIA whistle blower Jeffery Sterling goes on trial today.
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Today on Flashpoints: All hell breaks loose on the streets of Haiti in response to a plethora of political corruption at the highest levels. Also an extended field report on the battle, now in federal appeals court, to restore the Mexican American Studies program to the Tucson Public school system, and un=ban dozens of books by Latino authors
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