KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: Longtime human rights, civil rights activist Juan Jose Gutierrez returns for an update on the emerging police state tactics brought to bare on millions  of  brown people who live and work in L.A and parts south. Also Gazan’s face mass dying from hunger and thirst. And on the Iran War front, have corporate media become a cheerleader for war and regime change in Iran?

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Today on the Show: The USA and Nuclear renegade  Israel carry-out a series of unprovoked attacks against Iran. And Iran appears to be saying a temporary uncle. Is peace at hand? Meanwhile hundreds more are slaughtered in Gaza, picked of by Israeli soldiers as they scramble for a few meger scraps of food. And speaking of food and hunger, we’ll have a visit with Keith McHenry and Food Not Bombs, to talk about the relationship between hunger and war. And the People’s Arms Embargo Returns to Travis Air Force Base, calling for peace in a time of war

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Today on the Show: Trump sends ICE and the national guard to Dodger stadium where they are repelled by local police and outraged officials for the Dodgers. We’ll feature an extended edition of our L.A. Report, Baca’s Backyard, with Gary Baca. Also CODE/PINK in the streets of San Francisco again, demanding an end to the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.  And We welcome back  Flashpoints Troubadour and human rights activist Francisco Herrera

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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 show: We feature a special extended report with long-time radical immigrants rights activist, Juan Jose Gutiairez about the racist ICE raids.

 Also we’ll be joined by CodePink Founder, Medea Benjamin, for an update on the Gaza Boat attacks and the ongoing resistance to US supported Genocide in Palestine

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Today on the Show: Israel expands and extends its war against Iran: we’ll be joined for the hour by Mouin Rabbani, senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, and a longtime scholar and commentator on the region

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oday on the Show:  Israel’s Defense Minister Katz warns If Iran continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, “Tehran will burn.” Critics of Israel call this a threat by Israel to utilize its substantial nuclear stockpile during its current assault on Iran. We’ll by Joined  by Flashpoints Washington Contributor Sam Husseini who spent the last week at the UN covering all issues Palestinian, re the genocide. and we’ll be joined by  John Steinbach, for deep background on the extremely tight relationship between the US and Israel that puts the lie to the current denials of US participation in Israel’s frontal assault on Iran

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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: Senior Senator Alex Padilla of California forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s news conference, in the same building where Padilla has an office: And we feature, as we do every week, the independently produced weekly newscast from the electronic intifada, with Nora Barrows Friedma

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