FLASHPOINTS

Today on the show: The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. We’ll examine the multiple implications of the bold assassination with noted regional expert Tim Shorrock. Also we’ve been hearing a lot about the Russian Gulag of prisons and it is bad! But how does it stack up against America’s gulag of prisons: and an update of the case and the future of Julian Assange.

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Flashpoints 07-08-22

Today on the show: Texas Governor Greg Abbott authorizes the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety to engage in a policy of mass deportation from Texas, setting aside federal law. Also, Richard Silverstein examines the feeble US response to Shireen Abu Aqleh’s murder and gives us a detailed accounting of AIPAC’s stealth PACs’ funneling tens of millions raised from GOP billionaires to target progressive

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Flashpoints 07-07-22

Today on the show: a Special Report on HAITI: where US foreign policy has turned haiti into a failed state, and the wrost is yet to come: Also what’s up in Texas besides the mass  murder of immirgrants and the ungoing police/government cover up of an elementary school slaughter that shreded 19 kids and two of their beloved teachers

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Flashpoints 07-01-22

Today on the show: More on the murder of  some 53 migrants by smugglers, and with the help of US policy. Also,  the supreme court backs Biden’s decision to end what’s known as The Remain In Mexico policy.  Are these minor changes in immigration policy meaningful or way to little and way to late? And  Liz Cheeney at the Reagan Library goes after Trump and celebrities the courageous young whistleblower taking trump on head on

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Flashpoints 06-30-22

Today on show:  Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, David Cay Johnston, on the Donald: Is it jail time or more crime for the former president and alleged insurrectionist. And extended excerpts from yesterday’s explosive January 6 hearings with Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson

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Flashpoints 06-29-22

Today on the Show: Former human rights border activist, Enrique Morones, talking about the border. Also, more hell on the ground for Haitians, dealing with runaway poverty and a US installed renegade puppet president. And more highlights from the January 6th hearings

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Flashpoints 06-28-22

Today on the show: Young women of color from The Feminist Front, fight back in support of Roe and all of their rights being stolen by the right. And we’ll rebroadcast our recent interview/update on the case of AIM political prisoner, Leonard Pelteir with the Peltier’s personal and spiritual adviser, Lenny Foster.

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Flashpoints 06-27-22

Today on the show: The greatest setback in the history of US women’s rights, as the extreme right wing supreme court paves the way for the end of a woman’s right to choose, setting up the loss of the right to use contraceptives/the right to mix marry, gay marriage, and that’s just for starters. We’ll talk to women fighting back all over the country

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Flashpoints 06-24-22

Today on the Show: A special report on the socialist leaning government elected in Columbia. Also, the cops coverup of the Texas school massacre  continues in Uvaldi, as various law enforcement agencies blame each other for failing to recue the children. And an extended report on the latest set of trump insurrection hearings

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Flashpoints 06-21-22

Today on the Show: Holding the Saudis accountable for massive human rights violations, including the murder of an American journalist. Domestic Workers commemorate International Domestic Workers Day. And our regular segment on hunger and houselessness: FOODFIGHT WITH FoodNotBombs founder Keith McHenry

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Flashpoints 06-17-22