KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: We feature a special edition of the weekly frontline news report from the electronic intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman: And as we go live to air, the US Israeli slaughter continues with over 500 woman, and children and men lost and shredded by US-armed illegal Israeli occupation forces. And the mass-murdering war-criminal PM of Israel says he’s just getting started

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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:: Ziad Abbas, Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, responds to Israel’s latest slaughter of innocent Palestinians, including women. and children, cut down as they tried to flee the killing fields of Gaza. As we go to air, there are well over 400 Palestinians slaughtered on the run. Also Camilo Perez Bustillo,  just back from the battles at the US Mexico Border, monitoring the latest kidnappings of Venezuelans to maximum security prisons in El Salvador

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Today on the Show: Is Leonard Peltier’s freedom in peril, based on new Trump statements accusing  Biden of illegal pardons and legal actions that could have an impact on Peltier’s freedom. We’ll speak with Peltier spiritual adviser, Len Foster. Also we welcome back Bill Means, co-founder of the American Indian Movement.  And street actions and protests in san Francisco in support of Palestinian activist,  Mahmoud Khalil, arrested and jailed, apparently for being a Palestinian activist with a green card

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Today on the show: Miguel Gavilan Molina speaks with radical educator, Nolan Cabrera. Also, risking your life for a photograph? We find out what’s it like to photograph the extreme right. Also using false claims of Antisemitism to justify the deportation of a Palestinian with a green card. And a report back from Code Pink San Francisco, which took it’s anti genocide campaign to the Berkeley City Council this week

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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: Philippine police arrest former President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila and send him to the Netherlands to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. Also, Jennifer Lowenstein, updates the latest news from the killing fields of Gaza, the west bank and Syria: and The desperate situation in Afghanistan as a result of failed and deadly US polic

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Today on the show: It’s revealed that Marco Rubio personally signed off to detain Mahmoud Khalil on “Foreign Policy Grounds”.  Meanwhile, A federal judge temporarily blocks the deportation of Khalil. We’ll get the lowdown in Washington D.C. from Raed Jarrar of DAWN.  Also radical singer and songwriter David Rovics shares some thoughts and a new song calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil: And mass murder and the expanding US/israeli occupation of Syria.

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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: Professor Ron Lopez, Chicano Studies, Sonoma State University on Trump’s plan to shut down the board of education, as early as this weekend: Prof. Lopez joins us from Denver where he is speaking at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education conference:  And Richard Becker of Answer Coalition, reports back on a recent trip to Cuba. What are the multiple impacts of the vicious US embargo on Cuba

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