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Today on Flashpoints: Radical author and political analysis, Michael Parenti on US foreign policy in crisis. We’ll have an in-depth report back on the police killing in San Francisco’s Mission district. And the Palestine Advocacy Project confronts Israeli apartheid in Palestine with a series of billboards across the country.

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Flashpoints 03-10-15

Today on Flashpoints: We’ll take an in-depth look at how domestic military expansion is spreading through the US and what people are doing about it. Also, Governor Scott Walker turns Wisconsin into a “anti-union” right to work state. We’ll have a report from ground and what it means for workers in that state. And in California, immigration rights activists gather to push back against ICE and strengthen the Trust Act

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Flashpoints 03-09-15

Today on Flashpoints: US military talking about troops on the ground in Syria to fight ISIS, we’ll look at the extreme dangers of such an action. Also noted Chicano playwright Richard Montoya talks about his work in the theater, the power of the arts to change history, and the endless police killing of black and brown folks all over America. And organizing for social change in farm worker country.

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Flashpoints 03-05-15

Today on Flashpoints, General David Petraeus gets a mere slap on the wrist for funneling top secret government documents to his girlfriend and then lying about it to the FBI. Also, the cop who gunned down Michael Brownin Ferguson will not be prosecuted on civil rights charges. The daughter of a Jewish Holocaust survivor speaks out against the Israeli prime minister’s speech before Congress. And, we’ll feature our regular weekly broadcast of the Electronic Intifada w/Nora Barrows Friedman.

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Flashpoints 03-04-15

Today on Flashpoints: Robert Parry says the real current nuclear threat in the world may be in the Ukraine not in Iran’s nonexistent weapons program. Also, while the Israeli prime minister warns the US Congress against a deal on Iran’s potential nukes, Israel remains a global nuclear renegade according to a recent released secret government report that contains revelations about years of US knowledge and support for Israel’s renegade weapons program. Also, we rebroadcast our recent in-depth interview w/Gloria La Riva on the US’s relationship w/Cuba and Venezuela.

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Flashpoints 03-03-15

Today on Flashpoints:  The gunning down of another brown man in San Francisco’s Mission District. Eyewitnesses dispute the official police account. Also, we continue our drumbeat reporting on the volatile situation in Venezuela w/a conversation w/the former consul general of Venezuela for the US under Hugo Chavez.

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Flashpoints 03-02-15