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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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: We’ll feature a Frontline report back from the occupied West Bank, with international Solidarity activist and Novelist Kate Raphael. Also, Norman Solomon joins us to talk about a new class action law suit, regarding the Illegal US funding of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. And Christmas time for the homeless, as massive regional evictions and abuse against the Homeless and un-housesed continues a pace.

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Today on Flashpoints:

We devote the entire hour to Haiti. First up we speak Haitian activist Jean St. Vil in Ottawa Canada about the role and culpability of the so-called CORE group in Haiti. Then we feature another clandestine interview from the heart of Haiti’s capital Port au Prince.

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Today on the Show: Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans file a federal lawsuit against Secretary of State Antony Blinken, accusing him and the US state department of violating a law that prohibits the US from sending military aid to foreign security forces committing gross violations of human rights. Also a new group “Organized Power in Numbers” forms to fightback and take on Trump head on. And the State of California announces a new  precedent-setting regulation requiring advance notice of agricultural pesticide use

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Today on the Show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, reads and speaks out on the Trump promise to deport a million brown and black people, forcibly if need be: also we’ll look at Justice Robert Jackson’s dissent in the Korematsu case regarding the brutal internment during World War Two of  thousands of Japanese Americans And  Israel’s bloody genocide continues to target children and medical centers across gaza. Nora Barrows Friedman documents another week of the US armed violence and mass murder

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Today on the Show: Long time peace activist Kathy Kelly talks about her work with Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine, a network of over 100 international peace organizations that has just sent a series of letters calling on the UN General Assembly to “fulfill obligations imposed by international law.” The letter goes on to state: “Israel has demonstrated its specific intent to physically destroy Palestinians. No one should be allowed to commit genocide and remain unpunished!  500 federal taxpayers across 10 Northern California counties will file an unprecedented class action lawsuit against their Congressional Representatives  And flashpoints senior producer, Kevin Pina, reports on more violence in the US destabilized Killing Fields of Haiti

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Today on the show: Breaking new on an unprecedented class action lawsuit that will be filed against Northern California members of Congress.  The lawsuit will charge that Rep. Huffman and Rep. Thompson illegally abused their Tax and Spend authority when they voted to allocate $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel. Also Flashpoints contributor, Jennifer Lowenstein updates the latest news from the killing fields of Gaza and post-Assad Syria. And on a special edition of Deconstructing War Landia, our media breakdown segment, Arun Gupta talks about Bullets for Health Care. Luigi Mangione, cold-blooded killer/or people healthcare hero

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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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