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Today on the show: The government of Haiti, Big Business, and the blossoming illegal drug trade: Flashpoints Senior Producer Kevin Pina reports about how one businessman refuses to play ball with the traffickers and risks his life in the process. And we’ll feature our weekly news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman: Nora reports that the genocide continues amidst the endless slaughter of journalists and often times their entire family

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Today on the Show: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly, A new book by prison survivor, Dorsey Nun. Also soldiers in the streets of Washington D.C. Are we headed toward Marshall Law for the nation’s capital? And remembering Palestinian journalist Anas Al Sharif, assassinated by Israel in Gaza

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Today on the Show: A special report on the disturbing similarities between Hitler’s handling of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Netanyahu’s handling of Gaza.  Also an update on the Genocide and starving of Palestinians in Gaza: And a poem for every day of the Genocide: Anita Barrows joins us for a another reading of her poems, based on the daily Gaza Slaughter

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Today on the show:  Israel using starvation and mass murder of journalists in their US armed and supported genocide in Gaza. We’ll be joined by Ziad Abbas from the Middle-east children’s alliance and Hani Almadhoun Senior Director at UNRWA USA

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Today on the Show: An update on Leonard Peltier back home in Indian Country and healing. Also fighting back against Trump’s shock troops and growing number of violent street arrests: organizing the resistance to the Trump plan to turn Alcatraz back into a high security prison for mass deportation: and the fast for Justice in Sonoma County California continues a pace

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Today on the show: Noted refugee rights advocate, Juan Jose Gutierrez, speaks to us from Los Angles about the expanding sweeps through the streets of Los Angeles and parts south. Also The genocidal slaughter in occupied Palestine continues a pace as we feature our weekly FRONTLINE news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. And a Historic” $100K Settlement from University of Maryland for Unlawfully Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Student Speech

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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on the Show: Pro-immigration activists in Sonoma County California begin a water-only hunger fast to protest the widening brutal immigration sweeps by ICE and Homeland Security. Also An update on the killing of beloved Palestinian human rights defender and filmmaker, Awdah Hathaleen

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Today on the Show: Haiti, US Private Security forces and the big lie behind US foreign policy. And National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada reads from his latest collection of poetry JAILBREAK OF SPARROWS and speaks out against the expanding crack down and round ups of people of color Across the USA

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