Today on Flashpoints: Multi award winning poet, Martin Espada, on the murder of Chilean folks singer, Victor Jara, and reading from his new collection, “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed”.
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Today on Flashpoints, the Israeli government attacks and captures a boat belonging to a peace flotilla bound for Palestine. Activists are calling it a military attack and kidnapping, which are both unlawful under the international Convention of the Law of Sea.Then we continue our drumbeat coverage of Trump’s enforcement of immigration law and the plight of families caught in his net.
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Today on Flashpoints: Hundreds of Central American families still separated and suffering from Trump’s racist family destruction program. We’ll feature a special report on the situation at the border and around the country in the face of a court order to reunite the families. Also, we feature excerpts of a powerful documentary on the devastation impact Chiquita Banana, with the support of the CIA had on democracy and human rights in Guatemala.
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Today on Flashpoints: A few solid reasons from Consortium News Editor, Joe Lauria, to doubt the corporate media on the Russia collusion frenzy, or anything else having to do with national security and US foreign policy. And, we feature excerpts of The People’s History of The united States, read by the late great Howard Zinn.
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Today on Flashpoints, we go to Managua, Nicaragua and celebrations of the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. We talk with Dan Kovalik about the intense misinformation campaign currently underway in the international press concerning Daniel Ortega and the opposition there. Then activist Tony Diaz joins us from Houston Texas to discuss the lasting effects of Hurricane Harvey as well as organizing by the Chicano community to support immigrant families separated by current US immigration policy. Finally we end with a freewheeling discussion of the state of politics in the United States with Ajamu Baraka.
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Today on Flashpoints, the war of words continues to escalate between the Trump administration and Iran in the aftermath of the US decision to abandon the Iran nuclear deal. We’ll be joined by Medea Benjamin of Codepink and author of book Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Today on Flashpoints, we continue our coverage of the continuing effort at regime change in Nicaragua by whats being called a US-backed opposition movement. We also feature a special report by Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electronic Intifada.
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Today on Flashpoints, we take a closer look at the uprising earlier this month in Haiti that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant. Then we turn our attention back to developments in the denuclearization talks with North Korea. Finally we feature an interview with Claire Shoen about her recent Stepping Up podcast focusing on the battle between the Richmond Progressive Alliance versus the oil giant the Chevon Corporation and the fight over who will control city hall in Richmond California.
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Today on Flashpoints, we feature an exclusive interview with Joe Lauria the Editor and Chief of Consortium News discussing reactions to yesterday’s Trump/Putin summit. Next we catch up with William Binney the former technical director of world military and geopolitical analysis and reporting for the National Security Agency. Binney worked at the NSA for 36 years and has plenty to say about Russian hacking and the recent FBI indictments. Finally we talk with Sam Husseini who was physically removed from the press conference between Trump and Putin in Helsinki Finland and detained by Finnish police yesterday.
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Today on Flashpoints, first we go live to a demonstration in San Francisco in solidarity with Haiti and in support of recent protests against austerity measures being imposed by the International Monetary Fund, we speak with Pierre Labossiere of the Haiti Action Committee. Then we feature an interview with veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the recent FBI indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officials for hacking American democracy. Then we speak with Norman Solomon about the arrest of Sam Husseini moments before a joint press conference between Trump and Putin in Helsinki Finland. Finally we speak with Michael Klare of the Arms Control Association about how close we really are to a possible nuclear war with Russia and the chilling new development of what are being called limited nuclear weapons .
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Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. From Baghdad to the US-Mexico border, Palestine to San Francisco, Port-au-Prince to Washington DC, Flashpoints monitors the centers of power as an uncensored platform of independent media.
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