Today on Flashpoints: We’ll hear an update from Harvey Wasserman on the election front. Also we rebroadcast our interviews with Green Party VP candidate Amaju Baraka and S. Brian Wilson.
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Today’s left generates an increasingly bold and resonant criticism of contemporary capitalism and the severely compromised everyday life that it produces. From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to escalating climate justice and gender freedom demands and the movement against mass incarceration, state sanction terrorism to the restructuring of party politics, left critique is … Continued
Caroline welcomes Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, filmmaker, musician and composer whose award-winning films have been featured on PBS, National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, exhibited at the Smithsonian and screened at festivals worldwide. Offering two of Vaughan-Lee’s films as Fund Drive enticements – “Elemental” a feature documentary, protecting what we love, and “Living Library Vol 1” … Continued
“Millions of People in Laos Still Live in Fear” as Obama Pledges $90 Million to Clean Up U.S. Bombs; Leading Economists Oppose TPP Provision Giving Corporations Upper Hand in Investor-State Disputes; Standing Rock Sioux Historian: Dakota Access Co. Attack Comes on Anniversary of Whitestone Massacre.
Today on Flashpoints: Warrants issued for the arrest of Green Party Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates in North Dakota. We speak with VP candidate Ajamu Baraka about what happened. Also, Greg Palast joins us live in studio to discuss the Bay Area Premier of his documentary film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
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Since its inception, one of the main preoccupations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been black rebellion. From the early days of the Harlem Renaissance until at least J. Edgar Hoover’s death in 1972, the FBI has had a fascinated fear of African American literature. William J. Maxwell discusses how the FBI extensively surveilled … Continued
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Lawyer: Judge’s Ruling Allows Dakota Access to “Desecrate” Sacred Ground
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Lawyer: Judge’s Ruling Allows Dakota Access to “Desecrate” Sacred Ground; Water Protectors Lock Their Bodies to Machines to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline Construction; Iowa Landowners Sue to Stop Dakota Access Construction, Say Pipeline Provides No Public Service; Exclusive: Migrant Mother Says She Was Pushed to End Hunger Strike to Win Release … Continued
SETI and signals from alien civilizations? New “cure” for Alzheimer’s? Guest: , world’s expert on biotechnology. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss early release of results from the National Toxicology Program that show cancer risks from cellphone exposures and why the study is a game changer in the controversy over cellphone health risks. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness