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Today on the Show:

A special edition of the  Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast.

How Ken Paxton will steal Texas; And Greg reminds us that this ain’t nothing new for Paxton, who appears to be a self-proclaimed vote thief for Donald Trump.

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Today on the Show:

Israel tightens the noose of genocide in Palestine.

We’ll be joined by Rami  Khader, founder of ANAR for Empowerment and psychosocial support, who has been working in the deepest ways with families, and children in particular in the West Bank, and now in what’s left of the Gaza Strip: Children who have been imprisoned and tortured.

The Genocide poems of Gaza/anita Barrows is back with the poem of the day.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

Gloria La Riva, just back from an extended visit to Cuba, where hunger is growing by the day and the entire country is desperate for life and death medicines and the children once again are being crushed by US policy.

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On today’s show:

We feature an interview with Sara Kershnar, co-founder and international coordinator of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Sara helps us unpack what she sees as the inherent dangers of California Senate Bill SB1387, which officially recognizes Jewish identity as an ethnicity. We also discuss the definition of anti-Semitism and what it means to support the ideology of Zionism and Israel.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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 special edition of the  Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast.

We’ll feature an update on Trump’s latest actions to steal or crush your vote: will he be able to flip the current presidency into a permanent Criminal enterprise.

Greg’s Documentary: Long Knife reveals the hidden story of a gang so powerful that they don’t operate on the street… they work from Koch Oil corporate headquarters.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

Keith McHenry author and co-founder of the global peace movement Food Not Bombs was denied entry into Canada and taken into custody overnight by Canadian Authorities.

McHenry is author of the recently released SOUP STREET: A memoir: Keith claims he was invited to speak at the dedication of his archives at the University of Victoria, But he was arrested and deported instead.

Ice stepping up its violent arrests.

As we go to air, we hear of stepped up ice activities in California, and a violent cowboy ice shooting in austin.

The ice victim still being held with the bullet still lodged in his body.

We feature an update on the US-funded violence in Haiti and Flying Kites in protest of the ongoing Gaza Genocide.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

The brutal and violent genocide continues in Gaza, as a shipment of 2000 pound bunker busters arrives in Israel from the USA.

Electronic Intifada frontline newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman.

We’ll feature our ongoing presentation of poems of the Genocide, as Anita Barrows continues her commitment to write a poem to document every single day of the current and ongoing, US financed genocide in Palestine.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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On today’s show:

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney claimed he is building a big business coalition to thwart Trump’s tariff war. At a summit in Toronto this week, Carney rolled out the ‘Defense, Security and Resilience Bank,’ billing it as an ‘investment-attraction strategy’ against the trade war. 

We catch up with Norman Solomon about a recent article he wrote with Jeff Cohen in Common Dreams about Why Ro Khanna and AOC Should Run for President in 2028.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

Flashpoints Resident Troubadour, and immigrant-rights specialist Francisco Herrera takes us into the streets of the bay area and on the frontline protests for immigrant rights.

What’s up with solar in the face of a trump nuclear stampede?

Harvey Wasserman joins for an update on solartopia.

Harvey is also watching the elections for what trump fraud  scheme comes next.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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