Today on Flashpoints: Well get an update on the coronavirus from a Nobel laureate who worked with the WHO and the UN. Also well speak with a San Francisco Board Supervisor on how the shelter in place order is working for the elderly and those with special needs.
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Today on the show:Undocumented workers and San Francisco’s shelter in place order. Also Public Citizen calls for congress to make testing and treatment for the coronavirus free, using South Korea’s highly effective testing program as a model. Also are Santa Cruz officials falling to deal with the Homeless population properly and How U.S. ‘maximum pressure’ policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of The Coronavirus.
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Today on FlashpointsL We’ll examine how Bernie and Biden say they would respond to the pandemic. Also, we’ll take a look at how the Native American community is dealing with Coronavirus, given the deeply compromised medical care on most reservations. Also, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces a public health order that the city’s residents remain in place, with the exception being for essential needs only, yet fails to suspend parking regulations that will force those of us at high risk to risk our lives to move out cars to avoid towing and violation,
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have an update on the Coronavirus pandemic with Dr James G. Kahn, Emeritus professor at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Also Bernie and biden respond to trump’s failure to deal effectively with the viral pandemic. And we’ll feature our regular Segment FOOD/FIGHT on homelessness and hunger in America with Keith McHenry.
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Today on Flashpoints: The US supreme Court upholds Trump’s deadly “Stay in Mexico” asylum Policy, further jeopardizing thousands of Central Americans fleeing the death squads and highly vulnerable to the current viral pandemic. Also, Cuba providing crucial life-saving medicines in China’s quest to deal with the massive Corona-virus outbreak rocking that country from border to border. And we’ll finish with a report on how Medicare for All would have been much better suited to deal with the current viral pandemic in the US.
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Today on Flashpoints: We honor the life and legacy of Nicaraguan poet, visionary and activist, Ernesto Cardenal, who passed away on March 1st of this year.
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Today on Flashpoints: We feature an extended interview with former Wall Street economist, James Henry, now a fellow at Yale’s global justice program. Also, we rebroadcast our most recent interview with Emmy award winning filmmaker, John Pilger.
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Today on the program, we’re proud to play excerpts of a speech given recently by radical economist, Richard Wolff, discussing his new book, Understanding Socialism.
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Today on Flashpoints: We broadcast live from Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, CA
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Today on Flashpoints: A voters clinic call in special to make sure your ballot is counted. We’ll be joined by voting rights attorney, Bill Simpuch and Award winning investigative reporter, Greg Palast. And later in the show, we speak with Norman Solomon of Roots Action.
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Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. From Baghdad to the US-Mexico border, Palestine to San Francisco, Port-au-Prince to Washington DC, Flashpoints monitors the centers of power as an uncensored platform of independent media.
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