Today on Flashpoints: Internationally renown documentary Filmmaker,
John Pilger, on the silencing of America as it prepares for war. And
Bernie Sanders supporters waiting to hear him speak out side the Allan
Baptist Church in East Oakland, talk about why they much prefer him to
Trump and Clinton
Today on Flashpoints: Whistle Blowing in the age of Snowden: We’ll
feature a brand new extended interview with Mark Hertsgaard about the
latest whistle blower to step out of the pentagon shadows and tell the
truth about government spying and the severe harassment whistle’s have
face under Obama and the right wing congress: And more from Noam
Chomsky on corporate greed and the American Dream
Today on Flashpoints: Hillary Clinton lied about her security breaches of top secret information in the use of her private email server. Also, our weekly Election Protection Bulletin with Greg Palast
Today on Flashpoints: We are proud to feature excerpts from Requiem
for the American Dream, the new moving film about Noam Chomsky, based
on four years of interviews with one of the most influential critics
of US foreign policy in the last 50 years.
Today on Flashpoints: How the Pentagon punished NSA whistle blowers. We’ll feature excerpts of the latest whistle blower to make headlines, features on Democracy Now. Also, more excerpts from documentary, Citizen Four.
An exclusive in-studio interview with Pablo
Alavarado, Executive Director of the National Day-Labor Organizing Network, which represents ten of thousands of undocumented day-laborers across the Country
The Flashpoints Election Protection
Section co-hosted by Best Selling Author and Investigative Reporter, Greg Palast. In this episode we’ll explore how many absentee ballots go by the wayside and never gets counted.
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Today on Flashpoints: Our weekly podcast, the Flashpoints Election Protection Bulletin with best selling author and investigative journalist, Greg Palast. And we feature an excerpt of the multi part documentary series, Capitalism.
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints: we feature extended excerpts from Laura Poitras ‘s Academy Award winning documentary “CITIZENFOUR”, an inside look at National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden
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