Today on Flashpoints: We’ll get an update on the battle against police violence as the battle between the mayor of New York and the police department continues. Also we will celebrate the release of a new book by artist and people attorney, Osha Neumann.
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Today on Flashpoints: CIA whistleblower, Jeffrey Sterling, goes on trial this week as Obama keeps up his attacks on government whistleblowers. Also, long time anti-nuclear activists protest new plutonium experiments at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Livermore labs. We’ll have an update on the San Francisco police killing of unarmed Alex Nieto, and the ongoing attempts to gentrify SF’s Mission District. And a new report on how US cops kill a hundred times the rate of other capitalist countries.
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THIS WEEK ON FLASHPOINTS: We rebroadcast interviews on some of the most pressing stories of 2014. Today we’ll rebroadcast our recent interview with Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis, on ISIS and the failure of US foreign policy in the region. Also, attorney, noted law professor, and international law expert, Francis Boyle, on the potential prosecution of Bush Officials for torture
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Today on Flashpoints: A conversation with long time peace activist Kathy Kelly, who was recently sentenced to two months in prison for resisting US drone strike operations at Whiteman Air Force base. Also, a nuclear danger update as activists celebrate the closing of Fukushima style Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor today.
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Today on Flashpoints: We speak with Randy Credico in New York, on what impact will the murder of two NYPD cops have on the growing anti-police violence movement. Later we proudly present an encore broadcast of a fierce new speech by Max Blumenthal, on the accelerated ethnic cleansing of Palestine, by the Expanding Jewish state.
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Today on Flashpoints: Prosecuting Bush torturers from the president on down. And part three of our series on relations with the Koreas, in the face of the US strategic pacific pivot and the Sony hack
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Today on Flashpoints: Fighting to close California’s one remaining nuke on line at Diablo Canyon. Also We’ll speak to two Korean activists about the massive crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in South Korea
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Today on Flashpoints: Deep background on Allan Gross, the US A.I.D worker released yesterday in the prisoner exchange for the remaining imprisoned members of the Cuban Five. Also a fierce new speech by Max Blumenthal on the accelerated ethnic cleansing of Palestine, by the expanding Jewish state
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Today on Flashpoints: US officials prepare to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba. We’ll hear about the prisoner swap that paved the way for today’s historic announcement. And we’ll discuss the multiple implications of this historic decision by Obama to reopen the US embassy in Havana.
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Today on Flashpoints: The violent occupation and ethic cleansing of Palestine continues unabated. We’ll feature a brand new speech by Richard Falk, former UN special rappatour for human rights in Palestine. And Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electronic Intifada with their weekly podcast on occupied Palestine.
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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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