Today people in 14 states and American Samoa go to the polls for Super Tuesday. About a third of the delegates needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination are at stake. This comes after former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race on Sunday and Monday and … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: We present a voter clinic call in special, with voting rights attorney, Bill Simpich, award-winning investigative reporter, Greg Palast, and 48 Hills founder, Tim Redmond, focusing not on who to vote for but how to make sure your vote is counted. We will also invite listener call-ins.
Mitch Jeserich has a long conversation with economist Richard Wolff.
The U.S. has signed a deal with the Taliban aimed at drawing down its military presence and ending its 18-year war in Afghanistan. The long-anticipated deal comes after a year and a half of negotiations and following a week-long partial truce. Officials hope the accord will set the stage for a more detailed peace plan … Continued
Live from Jamaica, Caroline welcomes Jamaican Rasta Writing, film and film festival producing, author of 5 books, Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah. The first Black Woman journalist on BBC, she was nonetheless enticed back home to Jamaica in 1972 when Chris Blackwell and Perry Henzell offered her a job as Public Relations Officer for the first … Continued
Sonia Shah is an investigative science journalist and author of “Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond.” Her new book is titled “The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move” and will be published in June. She says the climate crisis is making outbreaks of infectious diseases more … Continued
0:08 – Fund Drive Premium – The Herbal Medicine Cookbook Susan Hess is a therapeutic herbalist and native weed wrangler living in Mays Landing, NJ. Originally from southeast Pennsylvania where she spent the past twenty years practicing and teaching about herbs, Susan continues to teach her informative 12-month foundation course entitled “Homestead Herbalism”. Her latest … Continued
A jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault, following a seven-week trial in Manhattan. The jurors convicted the disgraced Hollywood producer Monday of raping then-aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a hotel room in 2013 and of sexually assaulting production assistant Miriam Haley at his apartment in 2006 by forcibly performing oral … Continued
A jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault, following a seven-week trial in Manhattan. The jurors convicted the disgraced Hollywood producer Monday of raping then-aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a hotel room in 2013 and of sexually assaulting production assistant Miriam Haley at his apartment in 2006 by forcibly performing oral … Continued
The documentary film “Overload: America’s Toxic Love Story” looks at the alarming number of toxins we’re exposed to on a daily basis, the health consequences of such exposure, and steps we can take to protect ourselves.
