On today’s show we return to Haiti with an update on the situation and a discussion of the country’s status as the real narco-state in the Caribbean region.  Then we turn our attention back to Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in Venezuela and  Marco Rubio’s allegations of drug trafficking against Maduro and top socialist party officials.

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Today on the Show: The Washington D.C. -based human rights group DAWN has posted an Open Letter to PLO President Abbas requesting that the UN General Assembly to deploy multilateral protection force in Gaza, meanwhile the PLO has been banned from entering the US and thus the UN, by high US officials in Including  Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. Also the Washington Post is reporting on A post-war plan for Gaza that is circulating within President Donald Trump’s administration that would see the U.S. administer Gaza for at least a decade, and include the relocation of Gaza’s population and its rebuilding as a tourist resort. And as we do weekly, we feature the Electronic Intifada Newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman

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Today on the show: Communities Against Carbon Transport and Injection: a newly formed coalition talks to us about a proposed Carbon Waste pipeline in California. Polluters get paid to dump their waste and a private company gets paid to pipe it through wetlands. Not unique to California, this has caused disaster in Satartia Mississippi, ALL under the guise of addressing climate change. Also, we will speak with Dr, AIsha Jumaan, returns from her recent trip to Yemen. We have an uplifting conversation despite the tragedy that her homeland faces as they stand up for GAZA. And we will close the show with Yazmyn Rahimi, who joins us to share a poem from her Afghan and Colombian roots

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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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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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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: A new groundbreaking report released by the Palestinian Youth Movement, uncovers Oakland’s central role in the transportation of military cargo shipments to Israel. Also, remembering the impact of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium and anti-Vietnam war movement, that empowered Chicanos to resist the war and demand an end to discrimination at home: And after a series of successful bay-area peace actions, by the vets for peace boat, the Golden Rule,the vets turn their atttention to speaking out against the Gaza Genocide

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On today’s show we return to Haiti and yet another clandestine interview from the heart of its gang occupied capital to discuss the reasons behind their stalemate with the Haitian police   Then we turn our attention to Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in Venezuela where the government is reported to have mobilized 4.5 million citizens into militias to defend its territory. Finally, we revisit a segment by Flashpoints executive producer Dennis Bernstein, Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing that Galvanized New York City

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Today on the show: A Palestinian-American physician and co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide issues an urgent call for justice following the illegal confiscation of his and his family’s ancestral land by renegade Israeli settlers. Also The doctors from DAG will share crucial information about hunger, starvation and the multiple medical emergencies now unfolding in Gaza. Also we’ll feature a new movie about the violence of sweeping houseless humans up like so much trash, from Tiny and the folks At the Poor News Network

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Today on Flashpoints: With more starvation and another massacre of journalists in Gaza, we commence with a new weekly column, Genocide-Watch, co-hosted by Sam Husseini.  Also Code Pink’s Cythia Papermaster calls out the corporate media. Norm Solomon wants to know where the hell  the week-kneed democrats are on the expanding ethnic cleansing o Palestine: and Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing that Galvanized New York City

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