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Today on the Show: Code Pink are back in the streets, standing against genocide, fighting for peace from the Gulf of Mexico to the streets of the Capital.  We’ll be joined by co-founders of Code Pink, Medea Benjanin in Washington D.C. and Jodie Evans in L.A., and Cynthia Papaermaster who keeps Code Pink front and center in San Francisco.  And we’ll also feature our weekly frontline news report from the electronic intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman

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Today on show: we’ll be joined by the legendary Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers, with Cesar Chavez. Dolores says she’s got a few choice words for Donald J. Trump, America’s new age dictator: Dolores will be 95 next month

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Today on the Show: Israel blockading the flow of crucial aid into Gaza, as it extends the Gaza killing fields to the West Bank. Also, Ice crackdowns across the south west US. We’ll speak to Andrea Carmen in Tucson, the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council, about the crackdown and about her recent visit to Panama. Then we’ll head north to Phoenix to speak with Dr. Nolan Cabrera, Associate Professor at  the Center for the Study of Higher Education, at the University of Arizona, to talk about the Trump crackdowns and related adventures.

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Today on the Show: A special Edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast. Greg is back with a special report on How Trump and the GOP have already fixed 2026 election. Palast says Its the Republican plan to win next year’s election this year

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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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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: Tens of thousands of Haitians in the crosshairs of ICE as the US is poised to end Temporary Protected Status(TPS)  for over  500,000 Haitians in the US. Meanwhile Haiti is being overrun by death squads, enabled and supported by decades of US destabilization policies. We continue our drumbeat reporting on Haiti and the role the US continues to play in perpetuating the suffering and destabilizing of this country, founded by freed slaves: Flashpoints senior producer, kevin Pina will join us for the hour

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Today on the show: Zeaid Abbas, Executive Director Middle East Children’s Alliance, updates us on the situation in Gaza, and the West Bank, where the Israeli military supports an onslaught of illegal settler violence to steal more Palestinian land. And we’ll be joined in Washington D.C. by Raed Jarrar to talk about DAWN’s plea to the International Criminal Court to hold high US officials accountable for their role in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

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Today on the show; We feature Bernie Sanders, back on the road again, on his national “Fight The Oligarchy” tour. We feature excerpts of The Vermont Senator’s recent speech at his stop in Iowa City, Iowa.

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