FLASHPOINTS

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

Today on the Show: We feature  an update on the human nightmare that continues to unfold around the profound failure of US immigration policies. Also, Greg Palast and our weekly Election Crimes Bulletin returns with a closer look at the racist vote-stealer group, True The Votes, as the justice department jumps into the fray. Better late than never. Norman Solomon on the war in Ukraine and the optics and meaning of  yesterday’s visit by Zelensky

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Flashpoints 12-22-22

Today on the Show: The USA using asylum as a political weapon Cuba and Venezuela are prime examples of the deadly US policy. Also US funded and supported death squads continue to destabilize Haiti, as US officials consider another US/UN occupation.

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Flashpoints 12-21-22

Today on the show: What the hell is Nuclear Fusion and why do we need it when we have solar? And the fight to make public key documents regarding the most controversial assassination  in American History: the Dallas mid-afternoon murder of JFK. Also the latest edition of Food Fight with Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs

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Flashpoints 12-20-22

Today on the Show: The non stop fight to free political prisoner and American Indian Movement founder, Leonard Peltier, kicked up a notch as supporters take to the streets today to call for his immediate release. And, the deaconian Trump era, Title 42 remains in place under order of Biden and his racist accomplices at Homeland Security. And, immigration activists march thousands of miles.

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Flashpoints 12-13-22

Today on the Show: The ultra right wing Supreme Court considers whether to adopt the “independent state legislature theory”, which could give state lawmakers unchecked power over federal elections. Critics such as Harvey Wasserman assert this could be a fast path to the end of our American Democracy: Harvey also joins us for an update on Nuclear insanity, California style: And we share a rebroadcast from our new series with Ma Sherry Glaser, who joins us every other week to endow us with a segment of her latest literary creation. Mama’s 1st pocket Chicktionary: Taking the Dick out of the Dictionary.

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Flashpoints 12-07-22

Today on the Show: Fighting for justice at the US/Mexico border. Also our weekly Election Crimes Bulletin Returns with Greg Palast. He’s back in Georgia today keeping a close eye on the ongoing crucial race for Senate. We’ll take a look over Greg’s shoulder at what’s going on at ground zero. And we close the week with Ma Sherry Glaser, who joins us every other Friday to endow us with a segment of her latest literary creation. Mama’s 1st pocket Chicktionary

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Flashpoints 12-02-22

Today on the show: Is the U.S. pouring gasoline on the Ukraine fire and risking armagedon? We’ll feature an extended conversation with distinguished International law scholar and emeritus professor, at Princeton Richard Falk, former UN Rapporteur for the Occupied Territories.  Also we’ll talk to the filmmakers of a new documentary, He Had Wings, about  street artist Ronnie Goodman and his work with Hospitality House and the poor and unhoused in San Francisco’s troubled Tenderloin District

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Flashpoints 12-01-22

Today on the Show: The US vs China: Is the US looking for another war? Also, Filipinos celebrate Andres Bonifacio Day, by upholding the revolutionary history of Philippines and combating Marcos. And fighting for the rights of day laborers as NDLON, the National Day-Laborer Organizing Network takes to the streets in defense of labor rights

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Flashpoints 11-30-22