KPFA - Flashpoints

Today we discuss last evening’s presidential debates and the fall out with Norman Solomon of RootsAction.org.  Next up, we cover today’s decision by the US Supreme Court in the Johnson v. Grants pass case that makes it far easier for states and municipalities to punish the unhoused and homelessness in the United States   Then, as we have all this week, we take you back to Standing Rock North Dakota and the Global Conference of the International Indian Treaty Council with Senior Producer Miguel Gavilan Molina with his crew and their outstanding on the ground reporting.

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Today we feature an interview with Alex Kirshner about his recent article in SLATE that explains how tonight’s presidential debate will be like no other before it. Not because of the candidates, but rather how it is being controlled and monopolized by CNN. Next up, we continue our coverage of Haiti with Flashpoints Analyst Frantz Jerome. Then, as we have all this week, we take you to Standing Rock North Dakota and the Global Conference of the International Indian Treaty Council with Senior Producer Miguel Gavilan Molina with his crew and their outstanding on the ground reporting.

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On today’s show we feature a clandestine interview from Haiti where we’ve altered their voice to protect their identity. The interview is coming from deep in a gang controlled neighborhood of Haiti’s capital. For the second half of the show we go to Senior Producer Miguel Gavilan Molina and his crew on the ground in Standing Rock North Dakota featuring special reports from the Global Conference of the International Indian Treaty Council.

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Today on our show, Wikileaks founder and journalist Julian Assange is finally free. We speak with Chip Gibbons, the policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent about the long fight to secure his release. Then we get an update about Haiti with Flashpoints Special Correspondent Maud Jean-Michel and the 400 Kenyan police that landed there earlier today…ostensibly to help fight gangs. For the second half of the show we go with Senior Producer Miguel Gavilan Molina and his crew on the ground in Standing Rock North Dakota featuring special reports from the Global Conference of the International Indian Treaty Council.

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Today on our show, we feature an interview with Flashpoints Executive Producer Dennis Bernstein about his background and career as a journalist. Then, we turn to a special report from Standing Rock North Dakota and the Global Conference of the International Indian Treaty Council with Senior Producer Miguel Gavilan Molina

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Today on the show: We feature the first of a series of interviews from Standing Rock at the Indian Treat Council’s Global Gathering, brought to the Pacifica Airwaves by the FlashOnda Crew with Senior Producer, Miguel Gavilan Molina.

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Today on the show: we’ll feature a live report from the International Indian Treaty Council Global Gathering in Standing Rock, where the Flashpoints team is standing by with Bill Means and Andrea Carmen for a special report. Also will there be an all out war between Israel and Lebanon. And we’ll feature the weekly frontline news headlines from the electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman

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Today on the Show: Biden announces his hit and run racist border policy, still threatening to shut the border down. Camilo  Perez Bustillo responds strongly from San Francisco’s Mission district. Also we’ll be joined by our longtime contributor, Food Not Bombs Founder Keith McHenry, at a vigil live today for peace, and against the use of food & hunger & starvation as  weapons of war and genocide: and an in-depth update on the Case of Julian Assange

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Today on the show: A new season of the Election Crimes Bulletin picks up with slooth-man Greg Palast on the trail of a new Trump Plan for 2024, which is taken from a KKK Plan of 1946. And in the second half of the show, war and peace talks and no end to the dying yet

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