FLASHPOINTS

Today on the Show: Remembering The legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower, Dan Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon Papers, put the lie to the entire US justification of the Vietnam War. We’ll play a few excerpts of our last interview with Dan who was speaking out forcefully on behalf of Wikileaks whistleblower Julian Assange. Then we’ll be joined by some of his closest longtime friends including healing Visionary, and Rilke Translator, Joanna Macy. Also joining us, Anita Barrows, Rilke Translation and child psychotherapist. And Anitia’s daughter, Nora Barrows Friedman, author and host of the Electronic Intifada, a former producer here at Flashpoints:

Flashpoints 06-20-23

Today on the show: Frontline investigative reporter, Arun Gupta, on Trump’s arrest and the role of extreme right wing groups might play in his resistance to prosecution and his new run for president. Later we rebroadcast last night’s episode of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast.

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Flashpoints 06-13-23

Today on the Show: We feature a special breaking news edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, with Greg Palast and front-line photo-journalist, Zack Roberts. And a special report on the recent multiple shooting in San Francisco’s celebrated Mission District

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Flashpoints 06-12-23

Today on the Show: Greg Palast weighs in on the Trump hunt. Will the phony billionaire ever feel the cold steel of the cuffs, and the degrading glare of the mugshot? Palast also memorializes Pat Robertson, who he says was not just your everyday right wing racist preacher. We’ll hear the terrible details of the murder of AJ Owens through a closed door. And  we’ll feature an encore broadcast  of this week’s extended Flashpoint’s interview with  Don Siegelman, Governor of Alabama, 1999-2003

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Flashpoints 06-08-23

Today on the Show: A  budding new anti-apartheid movement as communities of conscience in the US and abroad, pledged to take action to end all support of Israeli apartheid. And, the latest edition of The Electronic Intifada Podcast with Nora Barrows-Friedman as they take a look at Israel’s testing of weapons on Palestinians to sell to a global market.

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Flashpoints 06-07-23

Today on the Show: We’ll feature a special report on the dangers of forced mass migration throughout the western hemisphere, as the suffering from brutal and violent US immigration policy continues apace. Also, is Florida Governor and presidential candidate, Ron DeSantis more brutal than Trump when it comes to immigration policies? And Academy Award-Wining filmmaker, Oliver Stone, goes Nuclear

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Flashpoints 06-05-23

Today on the Show:  Frontline investigative reporter, Greg Palast is back with another edition of The Election Crimes Bulletin. Greg has been combing the South West for Jim Crow criminals trying to suppress your right to vote. We’ll focus in on Texas, Arizona and Georgia. Also, refugee children continue dying at accelerating numbers at the US/Mexico border.

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Flashpoints 06-02-23

Today on the show:  Is the US planning another invasion/occupation of Haiti after a deadly five years of destabilization policies? And an alternative view of the Russia invasion of Ukraine and the US proxy war toward its goal of a widely expanding Nato. And a high level Israeli officer asserts that its time to nuke Iran

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Flashpoints 06-01-23

Today on show: Root’s Action founder, Norman Solomon, asks what word would MLK have used to describe Biden’s debt ceiling deal? ‘Demonic’??Also we’ll be joined by Economist, Paul Jorgensen, who just co-wrote the piece No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal. And we’ll feature a special frontline report on the expanding suffering in Afghanistan as a result of US occupation policy

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Flashpoints 05-31-23

Today on the show: An anti-immigrant killer drove a car into a crowd of immigrants, outside a migrant center in Brownsville Texas, apparently on purpose, killing at least 8. Meanwhile another right-wing extremist stepped out of a vehicle and began firing outside the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Dallas, sending hundreds of shoppers fleeing, and killing at least 8 people. And we’ll consider the multiple impacts of Title 42 and its planned cancellation this Thursday.

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Flashpoints 05-08-23