FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints: Newly released secret documents show CIA director, Gina Haspel, had direct knowledge of US torture operations, which were withheld and covered up during her recent confirmation hearings. Also, the history and update on the solvency of Social Security, signed into law by FDR, 82 years ago. And we continue our drumbeat coverage of Central American families, still separated and suffering from Trump’s racist family destruction program.  

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Flashpoints 08-13-18

Today on Flashpoints, we ask the question, whats really behind Facebook corporations recent moves to censor content on their social media platform? Then we talk with a representative of the media group Venezuela Analysis whose Facebook page was taken down earlier this morning. We discuss what triggered their censorship on Facebook as well as the current situation in Venezuela. Finally, we talk with an historian about the human tragedy and lingering fears since the largest mass killings in the history of humanity 73 years ago with nuclear attacks on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan.

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Flashpoints 08-09-18