KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: Are disaster capitalists weaponizing COVID-19 in the battle to privatize public education? Also we’ll look at the deadly implications of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s possibly illegal decision to funnel US weapons to Saudis to support and expand their murderous war against Yemen.

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Today on the Show: A sobering assessment of the fight against covid19 on Memorial DAY, as Trump goes golfing and declares the USA open for business. We raise the question:Can we be more like Vietnam? Is this the critical covid-19 question we should be asking? Also Food-fight With Keith McHenry will celebrate Food Not Bombs in its 40th year and we’ll talk about the plight of the homeless in the face of novel corona. And more excerpts from our investigation of the militarization at the US Mexico Border

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Today on the Show: H-2A visa guest workers facing off with covid 19 and the US Government. Also we remember Earth First activist and Wobbly Organizer, Judi Bari and we’ll took to a tree-sitter up in Humbolt, defending the last of the Redwoods

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Today on the Show: Bolsonaro presses Brazilians back to work, despite the fact that people in that huge resource rich country are dying at an accelerating rate. Also A brand new Election Crimes Bulletin with best selling muckraker, Greg Palast. We’ll look at the ongoing vote heist in Texas and Michigan: and we continue our rebroadcast of our in depth series on the Militarization at the US Mexico Border

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Today on the Show: Pandemic break in South Dakota as we feature a frontline update on the South-Dakota Stand-off: between Sioux Tribes and the Governor of South Dakota. Also the Navajo Nation takes the lead in the number of new viral infections per thousand, surpassing New York.

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Today on the Show: Low-wage Latino meat-packers still being forced to risk their lives or lose their jobs. Also, The U.S. Taliban treaty signed just a few weeks ago in tatters. We’ll have a special report from LaHore Pakistan on this and also how covid 19 is impacting Pakistan

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Today on the Show: A tale of two cities in the age of the novel CoronaVirus. Also many families standing by to take migrant kids but the US Government won’t let them out. And more China bashing from Trump and company as the USA marks over 90 thousand dead and counting…fast

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Today on the Show: Who pays the highest price in the face of the pandemic? We feature a poweful new report that shows how age, economic status, and the color of your skin could easily determine weather you live or die in the age of Covid19. We’ll devote the rest of the show to the deadly economics that accompany the pandemic.

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Today on the Show: A deadly state Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin puts thousands in the state at risk for a viral upsurge. Also the latest episode of The Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast

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Today on the Show: Hundreds of exploited Filipino J-1 workers denounce abandonment by Philippine Government, recruiters and Visa sponsors. Also we’ll feature update on the investigation into the brutal up-close murder of 25 year-old Ahmaud Arbery

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