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Today on Flashpoints: An-in depth look at how the US Pentagon uses NGO’s for spying, covert action, and intelligence gathering. And the dangers of this wide-ranging program. Also we’ll take a close look at the proactive incursion of the US Destroyer, Larsen into the South China Sea. And we’ll have a rare in-studio visit from our anti-police violence warrior and resident satirist, Randy Credico

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Flashpoints 10-29-15

Today on a Special Edition Flashpoints: The future of Marijuana: Medicinal, and recreational. We’ll feature some of the leading experts on all aspects of the use of cannabis, including breakthroughs in its healing powers, the use of CBD, the importance of organic cultivation, knowing what your buying when you head out for your local dispensary, and the current and future legal issues that will naturally follow legalization

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Flashpoints 10-28-15

Today on Flashpoints: An in depth look at the new speaker of the house to be, Paul Ryan. Also, a week of Code Pink anti drone protests under way in Nevada. We’ll have an anti drone speak out. Also Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electronic Intifada brings us their weekly podcast.

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Flashpoints 10-27-15

Today on Flashpoints: An in depth discussion and report back on yesterday’s elections in Haiti. We’ll feature a series of reports from election observers and human rights activists in Haiti, Florida and San Francisco

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Flashpoints 10-26-15

Today on Flashpoints: Politically motivated mass murder in Haiti, a week before the presidential elections? Will the elections be fair? We’ll have a series of reports from the ground in Port au Prins and from around the country. Later, The Biggz Beat on Star Wars: The Racism Awakens.

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Flashpoints 10-22-15

Today on Flashpoints: The Israeli campaign of Terror against the Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem continues unabated. We’ll speak to a Palestinian activist from Jerusalem, who works with traumatized children and women there. Also hundreds of Korean families, separated for more than 60 years, are briefly reunited. We’ll talk to the co-founder of the National Campaign to end the Korean War, about the significance of the meeting that took place yesterday on Diamond Mountain in North Korea. And Nora Barrows-Friedman and The Electronic Intifada brings us their latest podcast.

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Flashpoints 10-21-15

You can now listen to our multi-part series The Battle For Public Education in The 21st Century by logging on to the Teachers 4 Social Justice website at www.t4sj.org

All episodes now available and full interviews will be up shortly.

Today on Flashpoints: Israeli occupiers kill, maim, demolish and steal Palestinian land at an accelerated rate. Meanwhile all hell is breaking loose in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and Kurdistan. In a powerful new speech given recently in a benefit for the middle east children’s alliance, noted author, professor radical historian, Vijay Prashad takes on the entire region, and ties it all together underneath.

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Flashpoints 10-20-15

Today on Flashpoints: A report from Beirut Lebanon on the death, chaos and destruction being caused by 25 years of failed US Policy in the region. Also, an in depth report on the decision by the US to stay in Afghanistan

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Flashpoints 10-19-15

Today on Flashpoints: San Francisco Poet Laureate, Alejandro Murguia, live in studio. The Other Barrio is loosely based on the deadly arson fire that destroyed the Mission s Gartland Apartments in 1975 killing 12 people. Alejandro Murguia will also read from his poetry

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Flashpoints 10-15-15