FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints: We continue our multi year collaboration with Live On The Fly, Julian Assange: Countdown,  to Freedom. We’ll be joined on the show by human rights activist, Naomi Colvin, in Great Britain. Also joining us is John Kiriamou, former CIA analyst and jailed whistleblower. Later, noted whistleblower and attorney, Jesslyn Radack 

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Flashpoints 05-30-19

Today on Flashpoints: We speak with Food Not Bombs founder, Keith McHenry, for another installment of our regular series, Food Fight. And we play an encore broadcast of a recent speech given by Max Blumenthal.

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Flashpoints 05-29-19

 Today on Flashpoints we devote the entire hour to the new book Three Hands None, by Denise Bergman. 

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Flashpoints 05-28-19

Today on Flashpoints: Julian Assange facing 17 additional charges in the US, including major violations of the US espionage act. Charges that can also be brought to bare against the New York Times, and other major papers that collaborated with Assange. Also, PBS schedules then censors another truth telling documentart about Israel’s killing fields, known as the Gaza Strip.

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Flashpoints 05-23-19

Today on Flashpoints: Remembering Chicano and Mexician-American activist, Nativo Lopez, who passed unexpectedly this week. We celebrate his legacy and continue in the footsteps of his mission. Also, we try again to break open the extreme censorship on the Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine, with excerpts from the powerful documentary Occupation of the American Mind

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Flashpoints 05-22-19

Today on Flashpoints: Greg Palast returns for an extended edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin. And medical anthropologist, Adrienne Pine, tells us why she was willing to get arrested for defending the Venezuelan Embassy.

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Flashpoints 05-21-19

Today on Flashpoints: We continue our special
investigation into the apparent police murder of
an unarmed Indian Man in Nebraska. And we
feature part two of The Management Of
Savagery: How America’s National Security
State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS and
Donald Trump. This is a powerful new speech
given last Thursday in Berkeley by award-
winning investigative reporter Max
Blumenthal

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Flashpoints 05-20-19

Today on Flashpoints: Four members of the Embassy Protection Collective, arrested after the US government raided the Venezuelan embassy in an apparent unprecedented move that legal expert described as an open violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. We’ll have an in-depth report on the arrests and who’s behind the pro-Guaido crowd besieging Venezuelan’s DC Embassy.

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Flashpoints 05-16-19

Today on Flashpoints: Rev Jesse Jackson delivers food aid to the embassy protection collective, sitting in at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC. Also, Alice Walker celebrates 70 years of Pacifica Radio

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Flashpoints 05-15-19

Today on the Show we devote the entire hour to an extended new edition of the electronic intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman

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Flashpoints 05-14-19