KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: The Taliban tighten their grip on power and announce their new all male government. Also, a encore broadcast with former FBI special agent Coleen Rowley who asserts that the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented if FBI-HQ had just read, shared and acted on the memos addressed to them leading up to the attacks

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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: We’ll feature an extended interview with legendary filmmaker, John Pilger, including an update on the case of Julian Assange, and on the US occupation and bloody pull out from Afghanistan. And a former US cop who worked on  foreign policy security details  in Haiti and Afghanistan spills the beans about corruption on both countries

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Today on the Show: Former FBI special agent and division counsel, Coleen Rowley blows the whistle on what the FBI and asserts 9/11 attacks could have been prevented if FBI HQ had just read, shared and acted on the memos addressed to them leading up to the attacks. And Greg Palast says energy, which runs the Louisiana power system, is a racketeering enterprise parading as a power company

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Today on the Show: What do the murder of Mario González’ in Alameda California and 9/11 have to do with the continuing crisis in border and immigration policy? And what’s happening at Fort Bliss? We bring you an update of official US violence against refugee children with Camilo Perez-Bustillo. And we’ll feature a special related poetry reading by award-winning poet Martin Espada that bring it all together

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Today on the show: Colonel Ann Wright on the last days bloody days of the USA’s bloody 20 year occupation Of Afghanistan.  Also, we’ll take a close look at the US involvement in Afghanistan that lead to the useless and bloody occupation. And the big media’s loyalty to permanent war state

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Today on the show: The USG murders a bunch of civilians, including women and children, as it hightails out of Afghanistan. Also,  International law expert Francis Boyle says “Retaliation is not self-defense under international law, but only more aggression”.  And, we remember the Chicano Moratorium

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Today on the Show: Root’s Action says no to Rahm Emanuel, former failed Chicago Mayor, as the next Ambassador to Japan; and so do many of those who have lived under Emanuel’s blundering tenure in the windy city: Also, here in Northern California, Sonoma County Immigrants Demand that the local Board of Supervisors advocate for a path To Citizenship. And we’ll speak to the amazing Rhodessa Jones, creator of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women

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Today on the Show: An investigation into decades of the failed policy towards Afghanistan, including a 20 year disastrous occupation, that lead to today’s deadly double bombings.  And we’ll Feature an encore broadcasts of this weeks election crimes bulletin with muck-raking reporter and best-selling author Greg Palast

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