Today on Flashpoints: a frontline update from Standing Rock and a plea for support. Also, an in-depth look at Clinton and her latest encounter with the FBI. And a strong call for the leadership in south Korea to step down.
Best of Flashpoints for October 28, 2016: Campaign for the Extreme Energy and Just Transition w/the Indigenous Environmental Network. Jacqueline Mosset on the perpetuation of racist, Native American stereotypes, and a report back from the water protectors at Standing Rock.
Today on Flashpoints, police violently attack protesters at Standing Rock. Noted Israeli peace activist Miko Peled turns himself in after being convicted on trumped up charges for resisting Israeli apartheid. Also, noted author Nomi Prins on America’s feeble choices for president in 2016.
Today on Flashpoints: A powerful new lecture by author, activist and founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, speaking on the “Turning Point for the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Can Israeli Apartheid Really Be Defeated?”, Ali Abunimah was in the bay area speaking in honor of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, founder, the ever devoted and courageous Barbara Lubin.
Today on Flashpoints, we’ll put a spotlight on the World Series, as Native American Activists take aim at the Cleveland Indians for perpetuating racist stereotypes with its mascot Chief Wahoo: And we’ll feature an update and a series of in-depth reports from the front lines of North Dakota and the indigenous resistance to the pipeline.
Today on Flashpoints: Are the ‘White Helmets’ of Syria the human rights saviors they are cracked up to be, or are they playing a darker partisan role in the on-going destruction of Aleppo? Also, we’ll speak with author and scholar, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about her new book. “All The Real Indians Died Off, and Twenty Other Myths about Native Americans”. And trigger happy cops in Santa Cruz, CA gun down another emotionally troubled person, after the family calls the police for help.
Today on Flashpoints, former FBI Special Agent and agency whistle-blower, Coleen Rowley talks about proposed Clinton Policy in Syria could lead the US into Nuclear War with Russia. Also, desperation at the US Mexican border as Mexicans and Central Americans plea the aftermath of Draconian US Free Trade Policy.
Today on Flashpoints: AIM Co-Founder and international Indian Treaty Council Board memeber, Bill Means gives a legal, spiritual and cultural update on the growing resistance movement to the Dakota Access pipeline project. Also, did the US assist the disastrous bombing of the funeral in Yemen that killed 140 and wounded 600. And ou weekly Election Crimes bulletin with Greg Palast.
Today on Flashpoints: S free-wheeling discussion with award winning writer and Palestinian activist, Ali Abunimah, founder of The Electronic Intifada. Also, a new push to clear the name of Ethel Rosenberh, murdered by the state for selling secrets for the atomic bomb to the Russians. A crime she did not commit.
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