FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints: The President and the Secretary of State turn a blind eye to major labor rights abuses in Jordan during their recent visit there. Also, members of Witness Against Torture begin a five day fast in solidarity with the hunger strikers at Guantanamo. And we’ll talk to a young woman who spent the last sixty days, 70 feet up in a tree to resist the building of a superhighway.

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Flashpoints 03-25-13

Today on Flashpoints: The media and the Iraq war. We’ll speak to media activist Norman Solomon about the key roll the corporate media played in lying us into two Iraq wars in a row. Also we’ll speak Vietnamese American essayist and short story writer Andrew Lam about his new book, “Birds of Paradise Lost”.

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Flashpoints 03-20-13

Today on Flashpoints: Over 20 years of US wars against Iraq. We’ll continue our drumbeat coverage of the ongoing impacts of a series of deadly US wars against Iraq. We’ll take a look how Bush 1 & 2 lied the US into 2 bloody wars with Iraq. We’ll feature an interview with an Iraqi exile about the deadly failure of US policy in the region. We’ll also hear from an expert on the torture program conceived and supervised by the US in Iraq. We’ll have a report on the human costs and we’ll tale a look at how the media covered the story.

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Flashpoints 03-19-13

Today on Flashpoints: 10 years after the Bush Administration lied the United States into a bloody war with Iraq. We’ll present a new radio documentary by Nora Barrows-Friedman

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Flashpoints 03-18-13

Today on Flashpoints: What did pope Francis the first know about Argentina’s dirty war, when did he know it and was he either complicit in or an active player with the Argentina military, when they were busy kidnapping, and killing over thirty-thousand Argentinians. Well Speak to a liberation theologists, Blasé Bonpane, and our own Miguel Perez, a torture victim and survivor of the dirty war, who is now a producer/host for Flashpoints in Espanol

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Flashpoints 03-14-13

Today on Flashpoints: Day three of our coverage of Fukushima, two years later. On the show today we’ll feature a presentation by Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, on 70 years of radioactive risks in Japan and the United States. Also we’ll hear from David Freeman, former chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority, about his own experience in the nuclear age.

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Flashpoints 03-13-13

Today on Flashpoints: We continue our coverage of Fukushima, two years later. On the show today we’ll feature a keynote speech from the main organizer of the conference, Dr. Helen Caldicott and much more.

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Flashpoints 03-12-13

Today on Flashpoints: Fukushima, two years later. We broadcast from the New York Academy of Medicine on the upper west side of Manhattan. We’ll feature excerpts of a global symposium addressing the mounting medical and ecological consequences of the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan.

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Flashpoints 03-11-13

Today on Flashpoints, Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electronic Intifada brings us their weekly podcast on occupied Palestine. Later on we’ll play another excerpt from a powerful documentary film we featured yesterday, Israel Vs. Israel.

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Flashpoints 03-07-13

Today on Flashpoints: Thousands of “Israel first” citizen lobbyists descend on Capitol Hill. We’ll find out why. Also former Attorney General, Ramsey Clark is in town to talk about limits of power. Later we feature excerpts from a new documentary on the battle inside Israel against occupation, “Israel vs. Israel”.

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Flashpoints 03-06-13