FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints: Pro-whistle-blower activists defend N.S.A.
whistle-blower, Reality Leigh Winner, against what they claim is an
overzealous prosecution. We’ll speak to Winner’s mom, Billy Winner
Davis about her daughters imprisonment without bail, as well as with
an activist who has founded the group Stand with Reality to call
attention to Winner’s Plight and support her fight against charges
that she committed Espionage.  And remembering the Braceros: A new
exhibition honoring the life and times of the farmworkers who were
brought to the US from Mexico in the 40’s and 50’s to do farm labor,
and often times abused for the opportunity

Flashpoints 10-03-17

Today on Flashpoints: Puerto Rico in ruins, Trump blames the victims
for their own plight and lets loose with a flood of negative tweets
blaming the mayor of San Juan for the deadly breakdown. Puerto Rican
Jewish feminist writer and activist Aurora Levins Morales and noted
Puerto Rican Poet and essayist, Martin Espada, respond to Trump’s
troubling resposne.

Flashpoints 10-02-17

Today on Flashpoints: We bring you updates on Korea & Mexico City. Also, we feature a discussion on the ongoing battle for the so called Korean “Comfort Women” and local and global struggles to have the Japanese government acknoledge and apologize for the cruelest and most deadly program of mas sex trafficking in modern history.

Flashpoints 09-28-17

Today on Flashpoints, Emmy award Winning filmmaker, John Pilger shreds
Ken Burn’s Nationalistic recasting of The Viet Nam War: And we’ll
feature excerpts from Pilger’s powerful new Film, The Coming War on
China

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Flashpoints 09-27-17

Today on Flashpoints, Unmasking the corporate media on its biggest lie
of all: The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist state of
Israel: We’ll share more excerpts from the new hard-hitting
documentary the Occupation of the American Mind. And Murder under the
Fig Tree, A new Palestine Mystery by Kate Jessica Raphael

Flashpoints 09-26-17

Today on Flashpoints:  Puerto Rico absolutely devistated by hurricane Maria, with a total power outage and no end to the suffering in sight. We’ll speak to Aurora Levins-Morales, about the devistation. We’ll also feature sounds from the documentary “The Occupation of The American Mind”.

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Flashpoints 09-21-17

Today on Flashpoints: We bring you another update from the ground in Mexico City. And, excerpts of a documentary film, The Great White Hoax, narrated by Tim Wise

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Flashpoints 09-20-17

Today on Flashpoints: We feature a live report on the ground in Mexico City after another being hit by another powerful earthquake today. Also an update on the Koreas after Trump threatens to blow it out of the water. And Greg Palast joins us for another edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin.

Flashpoints 09-19-17

Today on Flashpoints:Activists and filmmakers fighting to save the environment. We’ll speak with Kevin White & Stephan Most about their forthcoming project, Wilder Than Wild: Fire, Forests & The Future and more.

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Today on Flashpoints: We feature sound from a documentary film, part of a multi film series on Paul Robeson.

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Flashpoints 09-14-17