Today on Flashpoints: Trump The US continues to back the Saudi escalation of starvation in Yemen. Also, we speak with the nephew of Berta Caceres about new information on her assassination. And finally an update on Puerto Rico which has experienced yet another power outage.
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Today on Flashpoints: Trump in Asia for quadrilateral talks with South Korea, Japan and China. Also, major protest in Catalonia today: we have a live report back from the ground, from inside the Free Catalonia Movement
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Today on Flashpoints: Powerful words and a new poem from Award-Winning Puerto Rican poet, Martin Espada, on the racist US Government failure to come to the aid of the Puerto Rican people after the hurricane. Also, an autopsy of the Democratic Party in crisis with RootsAction.org founder, Norman Solomon. And a small victory for those fighting against the spraying of dangerous pesticides near public schools.
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Today on Flashpoints: The Lebanese prime minister resigns in absentia from a hotel in Saudi Arabia amidst a massive shake-up in the Saudi Government. Also, well be joined by Palestinian human right leader, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti about the devastating effects of the Balfour Declaration, signed a hundred years ago this month. And the New York times and the New McCarthyism with Robert Parry.
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Today on the Best of Flashpoints, we bring you highlights from interviews with American Indian Movement co-founder Bill Means on the transition of the beloved warrior Dennis Banks and author and photojournalist activist David Bacon on his latest “The Workers Scorecard on NAFTA”.
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Today on Flashpoints, an in-depth update on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya People from Myanmar formerly known as Burma. We’ll be joined by human rights activist, Ko Myo Win and award-winning filmmaker Jeanne Hallacy, who has a new SHORT, HARD-HITTING documentary called SITTWE about the history and the plight of the Rohingya people. Also, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in protest today marking a century since the Balfour Declaration, and the illegal annexation of Palestine. We’ll speak to the filmmaker of a new documentary on the life and times of former US Attorney General and human right attorney, Ramsey Clark.
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Today on Flashpoints we’ll speak to award winning Uzbeki documentarian Shahida Tulaganova-Yakub live from Britain and Live on the Fly’s Randy Credico live from New York City discussing yesterday’s terror attack in lower Manhattan. And author, freelance photojournalist and immigration activist David Bacon on his book, “The Right To Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration” on his latest piece, “The Workers Scorecard on NAFTA”.
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