Today on the Show: The extreme right wing supreme court takes aim at student loan-debt relief. Also, Supremes gut affirmative action in higher education. And Roots action says: Step aside Joe, you’re a loser and Trumps a killer
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Today on the Show: The Supreme Court rules against Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action programs regarding admissions. We’ll speak with Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, former Dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, and co-founder of Education Deans for Justice and Equity, and the author of ten books on education, And well feature A frontline interview on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine with Flashpoints Contributor, Zied Abbas
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Today on the Show: The Election Crimes Bulletin, with Greg Palast, who returns with his latest voter fraud investigation: Greg reports on the assault of Indian voting rights, voter-suppression deep in the heart of Texas. And Greg takes a deep dive into the background of Paul “The Vulture” Singer’s supreme court manipulations and a lot more. And the border war continues with many desperate refugees suffering grave wounds and a terrible death because of failed US immigration policy
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Today on the show: Putin responds to Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary force. Also, fighting to save the life of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, now facing a potentially deadly extradition to the US, and how close is the world to a nuclear conflagration in Ukraine
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Today on the Show: A brand new two-part edition of Electronic Intifada delves into the campaign of Jeremy Corbyn and the Israel lobby’s efforts to smear and sabotage it. Also, The Korean government cracks down freelance journalist Jan Jin-young for not registering to report on the war in Ukraine. The word on the free-speech street is CENSORSHIP
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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:
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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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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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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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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