We Talk to Greg Palast About the Election Results

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, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post National Book Award Winning Poet, Martin Espada appeared first on KPFA.

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 round of the elections. PinkNotes/ our weekly collaboration with CodePink, Cynthia Papermaster and the pinksters are in Washington D.C. lobbying against the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine. 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. Bernstein. The post Greg Palast Tells Us So-Called Affair Between the CEO of Nvidia and the “Chinese Spy” is Just a Cover for a Massive Criminal Chip Smuggling Operation appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Keith McHenry, the founder of Food Not Bombs joins Flashpoints 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 Peaceproviding a way out and advice for those service men and women who’vehad enough of immoral wars. 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. Bernstein. The post Keith McHenry, the Founder of Food Not Bombs Discusses His Memoir “Soup Street” appeared first on KPFA.

  Today on the show: Flashpoints looks 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 grassroots resistance of the Haitian masses dead or waiting to regroup and challenge the status quo? 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. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints Looks at the Chances for Real Change Since the Democrats Retook Both Houses of Congress appeared first on KPFA.

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 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. Bernstein. The post Unions and Worker Activists Take Action at Ports Around the World Against Genocide in Palestine. appeared first on KPFA.

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 out for the poor and disinherited 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. Bernstein. The post American Indian Movement Co-Founder, Bill Means, Comments On This Week’s Elections appeared first on KPFA.

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 genocide. Barrows has also been teaching a poetry work shop for students who are caught in the middle of the Gaza Genocide. And we’ll FEATURE  a story of citizen legal action against the US Israeli Genocide. 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. Bernstein. The post Crushing Genocidal Raids in Gaza Continue appeared first on KPFA.

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 some feedback in response to the Demo’s impressive victory at the polls. 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. Bernstein. The post We Talk to Greg Palast About the Election Results appeared first on KPFA.

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 and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post RE-BROADCAST 10-30-26 Remembering Dolores Huerta appeared first on KPFA.

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, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Remembering Dolores Huerta appeared first on KPFA.