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 featu…

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 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 The post Sounds From Standi…

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. The post Day One From The Indian Treating Council Global Gathering at Standing Rock appeared first on KPFA.…

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 …

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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 & hung…

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 The post The Election Crimes Bulletin Returns In Time For Election Season appeared…

Today on the Show, Honoring North Star and our friend, legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, one year after his passing. We’ll premier the song North Star by Adey Bell, who composed it to honor the life and work of her family-friend, hero, Dan Ellsberg, as he lay dying. We’ll also be joined for the hour by Dan’s wife and life pa…

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Today on the Show: The case for Palestine: why it matters and why you should care. Also, Israel illegally using humanitarian cover for military operations causing The World Food Program to halt its aid efforts in in Gaza. And our weekly Gaza news headlines with Nora Barrows Friedman and the electronic Intifada The post The Case For Palestine and Wh…

Today on the Show: Andrea Carmen, Executive Director of the international Indian Treaty Council, speaks out for indigenous rights globally and calls for an end to the US Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. Did Israeli forces use Palestinian humanitarian aid vehicles illegally to infiltrate the Gaza camp for their recent mass-murdering hostag…

Today on the Show: Israel murders 284 Palestinians to rescue four Israeli hostages: Genocide Joe to Bebe, job well done. Also UN Security Council passes resolution urging Hamas to accept ceasefire. And and the Indigenous Movement to free Leonard Peltier, took a moment in front of city hall to call for a free Palestine right before another police cr…

Today on the Show: an extended hour with Journalist and founder of Just World Books, Helena Cobban: we’ll get an update on the expanding genocide, and inside look at Hamas with someone who made it her business to go beyond the rhetoric and useless labels: And Anita Barrows it back to share her daily poetry in response to the carnage and Israeli gen…

Today on the show: Hani Almadhoun, The Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, talks about the killing of members of his immediate family, the expanding famine in Gaza and today’s murderous bombing of an UNRWA School, KILLING over 40 in Gaza. Also a major national protest planned by CODE PINK.Is Israel ready to Nuke it out to sustain its genocide Th…

Today on the Show: Israel’s genocide in Gaza meets substantial and growing resistance, but the mass murder of civilians continues unabated. Also Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks out on Gaza: The green party presidential candidate was arrested at a recent protest at Washington University in St. Louis. And our weekly Gaza news hea…

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Today on the show: For the first time in History, a woman assumes the leadership in Mexico: What does it mean in real terms? What are the politics behind the woman? Also a hundred years ago, the white man bestowed the right to vote on the Native Americans of North America, where they lived for more than a thousand years before the white man arrived…

Today on the Show: Israel/US cease fire plan, a non-starter for Hamas: also Yemen’s Houthis launch a missile attack on a US aircraft carrier in response to deadly US and British strikes on Yemen that have killed at least 16: and poetry in a time of war, poet, translator, child psychotherpist, Anita Barrows…writes a poem about Gaza everyday of the g…

Today on the show: Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp totally destroyed as Israeli troops withdraw after 20 days of deadly operations. At least 53 people have been killed and 357 injured in the latest 24-hours. Zeiad Abbas is back for an update: Meanwhile here in the bay area Clergy and spiritual activists Plan to call for an end to the genocide in a prot…

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Today on the show: We’ll feature a frontline update on Gaza, and also welcome members of the I witness Silwan Mural Team, in town for a benefit with the Middle East Children’s Alliance. And we’ll take a global look at The Unfolding Catastrophe in Gaza, and the Deepening Regional and Global Crisis that could lead us into a Nuclear conflagration The …

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Today on the show: Our drumbeat coverage continues on the US financed genocide in Palestine: We’ll feature our weekly media deconstruction report on the ongoing genocide with investigative reporter Arun Gupta. And we’ll present an encore broadcast of yesterday’s hair-raising interview with Nancy Mansour, Executive Director of Eyewitness Palestine, …

Today on the show: We continue our drumbeat coverage of the US financed genocide in Palestine. We’ll be joined by Nancy Mansour, Executive Director of Eyewitness Palestine, who was in Gaza in April. Also Ziad Abbas is back to talk about the expanding Violent /settler attacks in the west bank. The post Continuing Our Drumbeat Coverage of The US fina…

Today on a special edition of Flashpoints: Haiti in the crosshairs: troops from Kenya are given the go ahead to join special forces from the US to re-occupy Haiti. We ask what’s next for the freedom hungry people of Haiti? The post A Flashpoints Special: Haiti, Caught in The Crosshairs appeared first on KPFA.…

Today on the show: We continue our drumbeat coverage of the widening genocide in Palestine. Ziad Abbas joins us for an update at the top of the hour. Also was Sonoma State University President, Mike Lee axed for acting against genocide, and believing in his students? We’ll feature an update with Professor Ron Lopez of the Ethnic Studies department …

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Today on the show: We bring you an excerpt of South Africa’s moving testimony from today’s hearing at the International Court of Justice on charges that Israel is creating “Extermination Zones” in Rafah, as a part of its expanding genocide.. The post South Africa Standing Against Genocide In Gaza appeared first on KPFA.…

Today on the show, Al Nakba day and the genocidal killing in Gaza continues: Ziad Abbas of MECA will join us. Also, South Africa granted an emergency hearing at the International Court of Justice on charges that Israel is creating “Extermination Zones” in Rafah, based on Bebe’s commitment to all out war. We’ll speak to International Law expert Fran…

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Today on the show: International law scholar, Francis Boyle says the International Court of Justice is failing to stop the genocide in Gaza as it did in case of Bosnia that culminated in the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre. Also We’ll have a live report from the student anti-genocide encampment on the Campus of U.C. Berkeley, right down the block from KPF…

Today on the Show: Gaza on the brink, as the IDF ramps up its attacks and shuts down the Rafah Border. We’ll have a frontline update on Rafah and the west bank with Zeiad Abas of MECA.. Remembering Rachel Corrie, Runover and murdered 21 years ago by an israeli bulldozer as she stood against the Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Rafah The post Remembering…

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Today on the Show: Israel’s answer to the cease fire proposal is to declare war on Rafah. We’ll feature a front line report with Zeiad Abbas from the Middle East Alliance: And We’ll have live reports from Student Encampments and actions at U.C. Berkeley, Sonoma State University, and George Washington University The post Israel’s Answer to The Cease…

On Today’s Show: US Secretary of State in San Francisco, greeted by protesters with the mock blood of Palestinians. The East Bay City of Richmond, California takes a bold step to divest from companies that do business with the Israel apartheid State. And Nora Barrows Friedman talks to antigenocide students from coast to coast The post Antony Blinke…

Today on the Show: We continue our drumbeat reporting on the genocidal policies that the US continues to weaponize and defend. We’ll be joined again by Zeiad Abbas, executive director of the Middle East Children Alliance for frontline reports on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Also students recovering from police violence at UCLA. We’ll talk to one s…

Today on the show: We’ll speak to the president of the National Lawyers Guild, and to Chip Gibbons of Defending Rights & Dissent about the resurgence of police power in the face of the new national student movement against genocide in Palestine. Also we’ll have a report from UCLA in the aftermath of an attack by a violent pro-Israel contingent, and…

Today on the show: We feature some recent report backs from Flashpoints contributing reporter, Daniel Rodriguez, on the floatilla to Gaza and the recent student protests against the genocide in Palestine. The post A Flashpoints Special: Daniel Rodriguez Featured Reports appeared first on KPFA.KPFA

Today on the Show: The student movement for justice in Palestine is exploding peacefully across America, despite a violent police crack down on several campuses; we’ll feature live reports from New York City and Los Angles. Also Ziad Abbas is back for a frontline update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the west bank: And we’ll also have a rafa u…

Today on the show: Columbia students defy a 2pm deadline to get lost or risk their academic future as students at the elite east coast University. Also Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin, on the White House/white wash correspondents’ dinner-protest. Medea and her partner, roughed up and tossed out of the Correspondents dinner for holding up a sign: …

Today on the Show: Ziad Abbas is back for an update on the expanding attacks in the west bank and the expanding genocide in Gaza. Also an extended report back from the Gaza Boat to break the Israeli Embargo and and call attention to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And students and their teachers in Humbolt County Northern Cal on fire about genoc…

Today on the Show: Flashpoints contributor, Maud Jean Michel, in The Bay Area to join Haitian forces with anti-genocide activists. Also, the big money driving the repression on private Ivy League campuses, like Colombia and NYU. Food Not Bombs questions the insanity of Biden’s war is peace budget. And from the Young Lords to the radical elders: org…

Today on the Show: Will the Israeli genocidists invade Rafa in an act of desperation against Hamas’s sustained and effective resistance? Also we’ll feature a series of front line mini reports from Nora Barrows Friedman at the Electronic Intifada. Well also hear Protesters from A Jewish Voices For Peace and other anti-genocide groups speaking out ne…

Today on the show: On the hundredth day of hell in Gaza, we’ll speak to the Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, about the cut off of US AID to the key organization assisting Palestinians in occupied Palestine. Also we’ll have another in our series of reports from special correspondent, Daniel Rodriguez, at the Gaza boat in Turkey, preparing to h…

Today on the Show: The students at UC Berkeley erect an anti-genocide encampment, right at the roots of the free speech movement. Also genocide Joe and the US rushing more weapons of mass destruction to Israel, but Unwra left high and dry. We’ll untangle the big lies About UNRWA The post Students Protesting Anti-Genocide in Gaza at UC Berkeley and …

Today on the Show: Israeli settlers backed up by the IDF, and heavily armed private security forces step up their attacks on the West Bank; they are met by heavy resistance. Ziad Abas from Mecca is back to talk about the expanding destruction of his homeland: Also Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent is on her way to Gaza to break the Blockade…

Today on the show, We’ll feature a frontline update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank from Ziad Abbas of MECA. Also a report from Turkey on the Gaza Flottila to break the Israeli embargo on Palestine. In Haiti, Is Jimmy Cherizier alias BBQ, a revolutionary as some folks are painting him or a ruthless gang leader manipulating public …