KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: We’ll have an update from Flashpoints’ senior producer, Kevin Pina, on the ongoing turmoil continuing on the ground in Haiti.

Also, we’ll be joined by staunch Julian Assange defender Randy Credico, who is fighting for the freedom of Wikileaks’s publisher.

Finally, we’ll be joined by Bay Area Assange organizer, Jeff Mackler, to hear about activities being planned this weekend in support of Assange in the bay area and around the world.

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Today on the Show: Tragedy continues to unfold at the US/Mexico border as Haitians and Central American continue to amass and face hunger, exploitation and instant deportation under Title 42. We ask, where is this deadly and inhumane policy leading us? Also Cold War Long Island,” a new book that shows how post WW2 long island became an essential part of the US war machine along with the emerging of cold war.

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Today on the Show: Church workers kidnapped in Haiti. What’s New? They’re white!!: Also Filipino activists mourn death squads and lost lives under Duterte regime. And saving the life of Julian Assange: Protests and teach-ins are planned in support of the Assange here in the Bay Area and around the country and world

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Today on the show: We present more sound from this past Monday’s Sunrise Ceremony at Alcatraz Island on Indigenous People’s Day

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Today on the Show: A former FBI special Agent and division council speaks out against the imprisonment of Julian Assange, Also, fighting the upstream battle to save the endangered salmon as Indigenous communities lead the resistance. Also the fledgling Facebook Users Union launches a #FireZuck campaign. And they plan to take the protest to Zuckerberg’s doorstep in Palo Alto

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Today on Flashpoints, we’ll have a live frontline report from the US border. Also, we’ll speak to award-winning historian James Bradley about the expanding US war on China.

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Today on the Show: A primer on 21st Century US colonization/privatization plans for Puerto Rico: Also on a new edition of FOOD FIGHT with Food Not Bombs founder Keith McHenry, Criminalizing Homelessness even as more and more people are being forced into the streets.

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Today on a special edition of the Show: we spend the entire hour with award-winning investigative reporter, Grea Palast. We’ll break down three major stories your need to know: The persecution of frontline environmental legal warrior, Steven Donziger. We’ll report on the devastating oil spill  off Newport Beach that is fouling the local wildlife and crushing the economy.  And Ali Alexander subpoenaed by Congress: we’ll take a deep look at the extreme rightwing orgranzers for Trump’s inssurection:

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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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