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Today on the Show: Billionaire Bonanza 2020! Wealth windfalls, tumbling taxes, and the pandemic profiteers. Also w’ell get a medical update on the battle against covid19. Where we are now, and what we didn’t know 3 months ago about the Novel Cororna virus. And, are police discriminating against people of color during the pandemic

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Today on the Show: A former San Francisco Superior-Court Judge speaks out about the upsurge in China bashing in response to covid19. Also, more n the struggle for the rights of the day laboroers in the age of the pandemic. And more outrageous racism from the Secretary of Education.

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Today on the Show: Did this virus come from a lab? Maybe not, says investigative reporter, Sam Husseini, in a new article in Salon.com, but it exposes the threat of a bio-warfare arms race. Also, dying to vote. We’ll have a special report from Wisconsin, on the growing number of voters who claim they are positive for COVID19, as a result of state court and Supreme court actions to force the vote in the middle of a pandemic. Also, right wing pro-gun protesters hitting the streets against stay in home orders.

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Today on the Show:A pandemic breakdown in the global economy. Also, a sobering look at the environment, dangerous nukes, and fracking. And the bailout of the airline industry so they can crisscross with empty planes. And an update on feeding the houseless with Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs.

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Today on the Show: Feeding the folks who do the hardest work in this country, but will see none of the aid from the pandemic bailout. Also our weekly Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast. And treasured Bay Area poet, Jack Foley, joins us for a mini reading for National Poetry Month.

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Today on Flashpoints: We take a look at what’s inside the latest recovery bill. Also, Trump is trying to block recipients from getting their fair share under the full cares act. And an update from Standing Rock, with Chase Iron Eyes,

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Today on the Show: Navajos devastated by the pandemic with more and more dying in isolation at home with little help on the way. Also Haitians lied to and abandoned by their government. And refugees and undocumented people go on life and death hunger strike at the Otay Mesa Ice jail in Southern Cal

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Today on the Show: The Threat of the U.S. Government Driven Bio-warfare Arms Race.

This Pandemic may or may not have come out of a lab, but there’s a good chance the next one will. Also, we’ll have a report about how federal agencies are doing little about the rise in anti-Asian hate, in response to the pandemic. And the Election Crimes bulletin returns: How Donald Trump stole the 2020 presidential election in 2018

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Today on the Show As the Coronavirus ravages the globe, it’s seems a perfect time for the Israeli state to expand its already vast surveillance powers. Also as South Dakota is ravaged by multiple outbreaks of Covid19, we’ll got to Sioux Falls to get a report on the impact of hundreds of workers and their families: and we’ll have a follow up on the hundreds of Filipino sailors who are being held captIve on cruise ships off shore in California

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