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Today on the Show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, will read live for the Flashpoints community. Espada will be in the Bay area  reading as part of the Stanford’s Lane Lecture Series, next Wednesday, November 18th. Espada’s work is compelling and highly relevant  for our times. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, iss...

Today on the show: A Former Corporate crime investigator named Greg Palast tells us that the so-called affair between the CEO of AI chip maker Nvidia and the “Chinese spy” is just a cover for a massive, criminal chip smuggling operation. Palast says The “femme fatal” was not a spy but a business conduit. We’ll hear from a seasoned poll-watcher in Pennsylvania about who exactly was voting on this r...

Today on the show: We are pleased to be joined by Keith McHenry, the founder of Food Not Bombs to talk about his amazing memoir titled Soup- Street. If you admire McHenry’s work as this show does, you’re not going to want to miss this! Then we focus on a billboard campaign being deployed at US military bases across the US and in Okinawa by Veterans for Peace providing a way out and advice for thos...

  Today on the show: We look at the chances for real change, substantive change since the Democrats retook both houses of Congress during the mid-term elections on November 3rd. Will they finally break their dependence on corporate money and support for a bloated Pentagon budget to do the right thing? Then we return to Haiti with a sobering interview with our special clandestine correspondent. Is...

Today on the show: Union and worker activists with the ILWU and their supporters take action at ports around the world against genocide in Palestine. The International action was called Ports for peace and it was part of an international worker action against the US armed genocide. We will also hear from union activist Clarence Thomas, not the supreme court judge. An award winning front-line inves...

Today on the show: American Indian Movement co-founder, Bill Means, one of the original AIM visionaries, comments on this week’s elections in the context of crucial Native American needs and respect for sacred indigenous rights. Flashpoints Troubadour Francisco Herrera and  Miguel Gavilan Molina in the streets for the Day of the of the dead Celebration on Monday, leading the procession/speaking ou...

Today on the show: Crushing genocidal raids in Gaza continue. Meanwhile the necessary flow of food aid and medical supplies has slowed to a trickle. We’ll feature, as we do every week, the Electronic Intifada News Cast with Nora Barrows Friedman. We’ll be joined again by Anita Barrows, poet, scholar, Rilke Translator, Child Psychotherapist, who has been writing a poem for every day of the ongoing...

Today on the show: Greg Palast, just off his horse from Texas, with Tails of voter wows and ballad trickery, as the people continue their fight for the right to vote. Our weekly feature, PINK NOTES, our collaboration with the Code/Pink Peace Network, features  Code-Pink co-Founder and prolific peacemaker, Medea Benjamin along with Cynthia Papermaster of Bay area Code-Pink. And Roots Action offers...

Today on show: RE-BROADCAST 10-30-26 We feature our last extended interview with United Farmworkers visionary CO-FOUNDER: Dolores Huerta,  who passed last week at age 96. With reflections on her life with Culture Clash Creator Richard Montoya, and Josephine Telemantez, Executive Director of Chicano Park and Museum. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil an...

Today on show: We feature our last extended interview with United Farmworkers visionary CO-FOUNDER: Dolores Huerta,  who passed last week at age 96. With reflections on her life with Culture Clash Creator Richard Montoya, and Josephine Telemantez, Executive Director of Chicano Park and Museum. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issu...

Today on the show: More bloodshed from the Gaza genocide. We’ll feature as we do every Thursday, the Electronic Intifada frontline newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman. Also we feature a special encore rebroadcast of the Special pre-election, Election Crimes Bulletin with  Greg Palast. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war...

Today on the show: We examine the intensifying battle over federal repression and the right to protest ICE. In the wake of massive demonstrations against ICE’s “Operation Metro Surge,” Dec 2025-Feb. 2026 in Minnesota, the Department of Justice leveled severe conspiracy charges against community defenders now known as the Minnesota 15. We are joined by a diverse panel of union organizers, state wor...

Today on the show: The Election Crimes Bulletin returns with Greg Palast, keeping his political magnifying glass on Texas. We’ll feature part 5 of Jim Crow reloaded with Palast. We’ll speak with RAED JARRAR of the Human rights group, DAWN, about the rapidly expanding Israeli threats of an all out war against Iran, essentially to save Bebe’s political ass. Richard Becker of Answer Coalition also we...

Today on the Show: We celebrate the release of a powerful new Autobiography by Bay area luminary, and long-time human rights attorney, and old friend of Flashpoints, Mr. Osha Neuman. Also joining us is Flashpoints contributor and investigative reporter and solatopia visionary Harvey Wasserman. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issu...

Today on the show: Are Trump’s data centers heading for the historic Mission District: Not if San Franciscans have their way. Also joining US today, resident Flashpoints troubadour, Francisco Herrera. 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....

Today on the Show: A special edition of the  Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast. As the battle for Texas and the south gets down and dirty, and the lone-star state is bracing for voter related violence. Tariq Ra’ouf  joins us: A former Apple employee and co-founder of “Apples Against Apartheid”. Cynthia Papermaster is back with another edition of PINKNOTES, with our special guest Danaka Kat...

Today on the show: We address the links between the racist anti-Haitian government of President Luis Abinader in the Dominican Republic with the xenophobic racism of the Trump regime. We also talk about recent reports of members of the Dominican military and police supplying arms and ammunition to paramilitary gangs in Haiti. We also look at the recent disappearance of four Salvadorean soldiers wi...

Today on show: Thousands of Palestinians continue to face life and death conditions in occupied Gaza, as the US supported Israeli military continue their genocide. We’ll be joined by Zeiad Abbas, executive director of Middle East Children’s Alliance to talk about the ongoing resistance to the illegal occupation and the multiple challenges to getting supplies into Gaza. MECA presents a”100 Years of...

Today on the show: Professor Ron Lopez Chicano Studies, Sonoma State University on the fears his indigenous  students face as they go back to school for the fall semester. Decoding Pro-Israel Buzzwords in a Time of Genocide. Norman Solomon joins us to talk about how language matters when you trying to justify mass murder and genocide. Poet, artist, Visionary, Truong Tran has a new memoir: HOW TO E...

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Today on the show: The US financed genocide in Gaza claims the lives of children by the dozens. Shredded where they live and when the are forced to travel for survival. We’ll feature the in-depth Electronic Intifada newscast. Co-host Nora Barrows Friedman…today’s news cast also covers the expanding deadly violence in the West Bank. Also joining us Belinda Arriaga Executive director Alas immigrant...

Today on the show: We go to Sao Paolo and take a closer look at the elections in Brazil and allegations of interference by the Trump regime. Then we feature a roundtable interview with three activists about the legacy of People’s Park here in Berkeley, CA. Once a symbol of the antiwar movement and the counter culture movement, the chancellor and regents of UC Berkeley system have entombed it behin...

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TODAY ON A SPECIAL EDITION OF FLASHPOINTS: WE CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS  PEOPLE’S DAY WITH AN EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH Jeff Chang BY FLASHPOINTS CONTRIBUTOR JENNIFER HASEGAWA. BASED ON HIS MOVING BOOK WATER  MIRROR  ECHO. 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. Host...

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