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On today’s Flashpoints: Black and Latino communities in Texas fight back against a fierce surge of racism and organize ahead of the upcoming elections. We also bring you a frontline update on the ongoing U.S. destabilization campaign against Cuba. Then, as hunger soars across the United States, host Dennis Bernstein speaks with Food Not Bombs co-founder and author Keith McHenry about food insecurity and the struggle to ensure everyone has enough to eat.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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 DEVOTE THE ENTIRE HOUR TO THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND IN HAITI, WHERE THOUSANDS ARE ON THE RUN AND UNDER THE GUN.

ALSO HAITIANS ON THE RUN FROM ICE IN THE USA.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

The genocidal slaughter in Gaza reaches new peaks of suffering.

We will feature a powerful new extended edition of the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman.

Our weekly segment PinkNotes/our collaboration with CodePink, We’ll feature a special report from Code-Pink Co-Founder Jodi Evans, under attack by Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

Israeli occupation forces expand their attacks in the West Bank with Heavily Armed illegal settlers.

We’ll speak with Zeiad Abbas, Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance.

Poet and child-psychotherapist, Anita Barrows, will share her latest poems from the Gaza  Genocide.

Nuclear madness at Diablo Canyon, as the feds move to loosen the rules on nuke plants even further.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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 and Syrians  now living in daily fear  of deportation by Trump’s pumped up ICE force.

ICE offering cash to leave now or pay the consequences:  Arrest, Jail, and immediate deportation.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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 be joined by Camilo Perez Bustillo, coordinator of the national NLG’s Task Force on the Americas.

We’ll take an in-depth look at the negative impact Trump’s policy is having in this hemisphere.

Cuba under extreme attack: Venezuela’s legitimate president held in the twilight zone of a US maximum security prison.

We’ll also put a spotlight on the immigrants rights crackdown and expanding deportation machine coming out of the US justice department.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

As the corporate press fixates on oil prices and shipping routes, Flashpoints goes directly to Tehran to uncover the devastating civilian toll of the U.S. bombing campaign and how the push for “regime change” is spectacularly backfiring.

Senior producer Kevin Pina is joined by Dr. Foad Izadi who comes to us today from the University of Teheran to provide an update on the US military escalation against his country.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

Our weekly collaboration with Code/Pink.

We welcome back code-pink founder, and Global good-trouble maker , Medea Benjamin along with Pink Notes host, Cynthia Papermaster.

Also, our weekly edition of the powerful Electronic Intifada news cast, with Nora Barrows Friedman.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

Radical Historian, activist and co-founder of Answer Coalition , Richard Becker, on the rapidly expanding war between the US and Iran.

Gloria La Riva, back from besieged Cuba, will report on the growing US Aggressions to undermine and destroy the Cuban Revolution.

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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RE-BROADCAST JULY 10 2026

Today on the show:

We are live from Medicine For Nightmares Book Store in the Heart of San Francisco’s legendary Mission District.

We’ll be joined by Chicano writer/activist Alejandro Murguia: Activist Professor  Lorena Gonzalez, Contra Costa College La Rasa Studies, Professor Ron Lopez , Chicano Studies Sonoma State University. Immigrants rights activist and Flashpoints Resident Troubadour Francisco Herrera and Honorary Mayor of the Mission, and longtime activist, Roberto Hernandez, and Radio Activist/Flashpoints contributor Sara Blanco join us.

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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