KPFA - Flashpoints

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: Biden’s 8 billion buck weapons package to Israel’s Genocidists on the way out of office, is now being used to turn the Occupied West Bank into another Gaza. Also, families and young undocumented students living in fear of Trump-sweeps, planning for the worst. And Is the massive lithium battery fire outside of Santa Cruz endangering America’s vegetable supply? Keith McHenry continues his drum-beat reporting on the multiple impacts from the fires burning at the world’s largest battery storage plant in Northern California sending plumes of toxic smoke into the atmosphere

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Today on the show: American Indian Movement founder, Bill Means speaks out on the impending release of Indigenous leader and long time political prisoner, Lenoard Peltier. We’ll also be joined by Len Foster, spiritual adviser to Lenorad and Flashpoints senior producer, Miguel Gavilan Molina. And Call Her Freedom, a new novel based around the struggles in Kashmir by activist, filmmaker and former Flashpoints contributor, Tara Dorabji

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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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From Pacifica Radio in San Francisco, This is Flashpoints I’m Dennis Bernstein, Today on the Show: Angela Sombrano of the national day-laborer organizing network prepares for the second Trump Presidency, as threats of mass arrests and deportation loom large:  Also Farmworker communities in Salinas disrupt a public hearing and stage a die-in to protest  new regulations regarding cancer-causing pesticides they claim are racist: also We welcome back  Roberto Hernandez, mission district activist, with plans and actions planned to resist Trump when the time comes: also KPFK producer Gary Baca joins us for an update on the deadly fires in LA. and Keith McHenry of Food Not bombs reports on the latest And Keith McHenry reports on the fires this time at the world’s largest battery storage plant in Northern California sending plumes of toxic smoke into the atmosphere, leading to the evacuation of up to 1,500 people.

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Today on the Show: Israel continues to use heavy US weaponry to murder Palestinians by the dozens, despite the widely reported cease fire agreement. We’ll feature a special live report from our Flashpoints State Department Contributor, Sam Husseini, who was roughed today as he attempted to question Secretary of State, Antony Blinkin, on his history of support for the Israeli/Zionist cause. Also we feature our weekly frontline news report from the electronic intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. Randy Credico, noted satIrist and radio host of Live On The Fly, talks about confronting the Israeli Genocide with giant mobile broadsides based on the killing fields of gaza, transported by platform  trucks and parked in key locations for maxim viewing during rush hours in NYC. And we’ll tell you about a compelling panel on “Media in the age of war and resistance” happening tonight here in Berkeley, where were broadcast from: The panel will feature Nora Barrows-Friedman OF EI and myself, and hosted by the producers of the powerful and highly informative  Green and Red Podcast co-hosts Prof. Robert Buzzanco and Scott Parkin

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Today on show: Electronic Intifada co-host Nora Barrows Friedman responds to the alleged ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians, meanwhile Palestinians still being murdered daily, by the dozens. Also, the United Farm Workers on the alert for raids by the border patrol in Kern County and elsewhere, even as the So-Cal fires continue to burn out of control. And More violence in Haiti as a result of long time US destabilization policies in the region

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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: Burned by the flames of racism: Culture Clash Founder, Richard Montoya, fighting the fires and the politics behind the faltering  response. And the poetry of genocie: Poet Anita Barrows Returns as she continues keeping track of the genocide day by bloody day.

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On today’s show we speak with Dan Kovalik about the inauguration of Nicholas Maduro as the president of Venezuela over the objections of the US State Department.  Then we’ll take a closer look at the marriage between Artificial Intelligence and government surveillance and the narrowing prospects for privacy in the future.  Finally,  we end with a conversation with the renowned historian and sociologist Michael Mann whose work includes the 4 volume series The Sources of Social Power, and books such as Incoherent Empire, The Darkside of Democracy and his latest entitled On War.

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