FLASHPOINTS

 Today on the Show: Code Pink founder and author, Medea Benjamin, just back from bringing needed aid to Cuba in the face of deadly  US blockade/embargo there. Medea will also talk about her new book:  “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict”.  Also Code Pink San Francisco gears up for a  Feb. 19 “Rage Against the War Machine” action. Cynthia Papaermaster will join us to define the anti-war rage currently boiling up in the anti-war community. Global troubadour, Francisco Herrera, also joins as to share his rage against the machine: And we replay a clip from John Pilger from last night’s interview on Julian Assange

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Flashpoints 02-10-23

Today on the Show: We’ll spend the  hour with legendary investigative filmmaker, John Pilger: We’ll go deep in the latest round of China bashing and threats of all out war with China. We’ll speak with John about Ukraine, and counteracting the big lies coming out of Europe and Washington. And we getting the latest update on the case of  the imprisonment of his friend, Wikileaks creator, Julian Assange

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Flashpoints 02-09-23

Today on the Show: The vicious and deadly Israeli crackdown continues in the West Bank in Jenin and in East Jerusalem. Also Reimagining Safety, A New hard-hitting documentary, by filmmaker Matthew Solomon, which examines abuse in policing and and some alternatives

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Flashpoints 02-02-23

Today on the show: Anti-nuke activists in California move toward taking legal action to sue the nuclear regulatory commission regarding the multiple  dangers of keeping the aging nuke plant on line. Also Roots Action Co-Founder, Jeff Cohen, has a message for President Joe Biden: Don’t Run Joe. And Code Pink is out in the streets protesting the corporate press unquestioning support of the War in Ukraine, and wars in general

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Flashpoints 01-13-23

Today on the Show: A special report from Lahore Pakistan, where two thirds of the country is under water, and the current US supported Prime Minster is growing more and more unpopular by the day. Also, how COVID19 is impacting Pakistan. And, Rootsaction Don’t Run Joe billboard campaign picks up speed: Finally, Mama’s back for another edition of Taking the Dick of Dictionary, an ongoing feminist language rescue

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Flashpoi9nts 01-12-23

Today on the Show: The National Day-Laborer Organizing Network also known as NDLON, on the march for refugee and worker rights, and for the right to citizenship. Also, The Answer Coalition calls for an end to the war in Ukraine instead of a massive NATO expansion risking World War 3. And the pot rollout. Who got rich and who got screwed, and what happened to equity programs for marginalized operators in the pot industry.

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Flashpoints 01-11-23

Today on the show: Pro Israeli lobbyist celebrate Hakeem Jefferies ascension to power in the House of Representatives. Also, real life and living in the borderlands beyond the struggle for asylum. Also, houselessness in the violent rain. And an update on the Roots Action national campaign to stop Biden from running for a second term.

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Flashpoints 01-10-23

Today on the Show: the Election Crimes Bulletin, with Greg Palast and front line Palast photographer, Zack Roberts, examines the role that Ali Alexander, and the extreme right wing now plays in the new republican party. Article 42 political football continues to steal the lives of men women and children fleeing violence in their homeland. 48 Hills Founder/Editor Tim Redmond, on the mayor’s response to the storms and flooding. Was San Fran. Prepared? Will it be in the future when the challenges will be greater: And CODE PINK calls for the arrest and prosecution of UC law professor for his role in the torture program of Bush 2

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Flashpoints 01-05-23

Today on the show: Harvey Wasserman calls for an end to rough tackle Football. Also, are the republicans so far gone, the democrats are getting a free ride on their breakdowns and failures? And Oh my Goddess Creator, the Amazing Sherry Glasser is back for another edition of Chickionary: Taking the Dick out of Dictionary

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Flashpoints 01-04-23

Today on the Show: We continue our drumbeat coverage of the battle for justice and the right declare asylum at the US/Mexico border. Also, part one of a year-end special edition of the electronic intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman

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Flashpoints 12-28-22