Today on Flashpoints: We’ll spend the entire hour talking about the future of US/Cuban relations and we’ll feature an update on Venezuela w/Gloria La Riva.
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Today on Flashpoints: Obama vetoes the tar sands pipeline but continues his cheer leading for fracking and related oil infrastructure adventures. Also, we have a visit with longtime peace activist and attorney for the poor, Osha Newman. And, we’ll speak to Tony Diaz on the fight against the banning of books and ethnic studies in Arizona and Texas.
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Today on Flashpoints: The real American exceptionalism and its roots in Nazi Germany and the Third Reich cheerleader, Carl Schmitt. Also, the national mobilization of nonviolent resistance to shut down killer drone operation everywhere. And, Miguel Gavilan Molina takes on Sean Penn’s blatant racism at the Academy Awards.
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Today on Flashpoints: Rolling Jubilee erases over $13 million of student debt as 15 former students of Corinthian colleges launch the first ever student debt strike. We’ll talk to the debt strikers and the organizers. Also, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A People. And, new revelations about earthquake dangers shake the future of California’s Diablo Canyon nukes.
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Today on Flashpoints: Remembering Malcolm X, fifty years after his assassination. Also, American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe.
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Today on Flashpoints: Netanyahu prepares to address the US Congress on March 3rd, right before Israel’s elections, in a bid to sink the US’s nuclear deal with Iran. Also a researcher has won the release of a decades-old defense department report detailing the U.S. government’s extensive help to Israel in that nation’s development of a nuclear bomb. And Israel s Supreme Court exempts the Israeli defense ministry from liability for actions by its forces. The parents of Rachael Corrie, who was run over by a US made Israeli bulldozer/tank, speaks out against the decision.
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Today on Flashpoints: We take a closer look at the recent spate of violent attacks against Muslims in several communities across the United States. Then, we try to understand what impact of the election of the leftist Syriza party in Greece may have on our economy. Next, we take a look at increasing occurrences of self-immolation by Buddhist monks in Tibet. Finally, we feature an update on Haiti with Pierre Labossiere of the Haiti Action Committee.
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Today on Flashpoints: A Federal Judge in Texas temporarily blocks Obama’s executive action on immigration. Also, a report back from the Black Women’s Lives Matter Caravan to free Marissa. Also, a report on the latest toxic oil train derailment and fire storm. And the good fight against unnecessary and racist school testing
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Today on Flashpoints: Obama leading the charge into endless war in the middle east. And The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy: A new investigative work and new lecture by professor Peter Dale Scott
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Today on Flashpoints: Bankers who are too big to fail and too big to jail: we’ll examine the implications of a whistle blowers revelations on how HSBC, the second largest bank in the world, was deeply engaged in criminal activity but never criminally prosecuted. Also Netanyahu’s plans for ethnic cleansing continue a pace in Palestine. We’ll here the violent, illegal and deadly details, as the Israeli Prime Minister prepares to address the US congress on March 3rd, right before Israel national elections
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