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Flashpoints – June 14, 2017
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by…
What Happens When the DEA Makes Mistakes
In 2011, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency made an ill-informed decision that triggered a massacre in a town in Mexico that led to dozens, possibly hundreds, of deaths and kidnappings.…
US Human Rights Record, Not Cuba’s, Should Be Condemned
In an exclusive interview with teleSUR, Netfa Freeman, Cuba policy analyst for the Washington D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies, commented on U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement rolling back the normalization…
Trump urges 6th District voters to back Karen Handel
President Donald Trump made a last-ditch appeal to Georgia’s 6th District voters Monday, tweeting at two different points in the day that that they should back Republican Karen Handel during tomorrow’s…
Forum highlights pressing questions about nuclear waste after Indian Point shuts down
When it comes to Indian Point, many have likely assumed that when the plant stops operating, the threat of some sort of nuclear accident goes away. But the Lower Hudson…
Experts, advocates weigh ‘huge industrial cleanup’ to come for Indian Point
An age of nuclear power may be winding down, but the age of nuclear waste has just begun. That was the opening message, from Gordon Edwards, at a conference in…
Cuban Americans warily await Trump’s policy rethink
Humberto Calzada takes a tough line on Cuba’s socialist regime. He fled with his family in the first wave of exiles in 1960, fearing what laws the new revolutionaries would…
Democrats Don’t Have a Progressive Foreign Policy Vision. And They Need One
Former President Barack Obama once articulated his vision of foreign policy as not doing “stupid shit.” By this he meant not putting boots on the ground in long-term, unwinnable wars.…
15 Top Groups Divest from ‘Pipeline Banks’
Coming on the heels of last week’s announcement to abandon the Paris climate accord, a group of leading national social change organizations announced Tuesday that they are divesting funds from…
A Political Commenter Just Compared Trump to MLK and, Well, It Didn’t Turn Out So Great
President Donald Trump is comparable to many people and things, but Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is undoubtedly not one of them. However, a political pundit ventured to do exactly…
Twitter Imagines What Trump Is Doing Instead of Live-Tweeting the Comey Hearing
President Donald Trump must have been dying to tweet during fired FBI director James Comey’s testimony on Thursday. Many observers wondered aloud how the country’s Twitter-prolific president restrained himself from the social media…
The world’s greediest CEO: Hunter Harrison
Mirror, mirror on the boardroom wall, who’s the greediest CEO of them all? This spring, as always, that’s going to be a tough call. We have so many worthy candidates.…
Tunnel caves in at Hanford nuclear site, thousands of workers take cover
Hanford, located in southcentral Washington state, has about 9,000 employees and a lot of them were told to stay home Wednesday, Henderson said. The U.S. Department of Energy said it…
Tunnel Collapse at Hanford Nuclear Dump—Harbinger of the Collapse of the Entire Industry?
The collapse of a tunnel at the massive nuclear waste dump at Hanford, Washington, 200 miles east of Seattle, has sent shock waves through a nuclear power industry already in…
Nuclear power plants
According to the CBS news on Wednesday, a tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Waste Repository in Hanford, Washington, is storing liquid nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project from World War…
Highlights from experts at Indian Point forum
Nuclear energy experts from the U.S. and abroad gathered in Garrison Friday for a wide-ranging discussion of the planned shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in 2021. The forum,…
‘Justice Matters’ and the Power of Film to Persuade
Each year, Justice Matters, a special series within Filmfest DC, the annual Washington, DC International Film Festival, shines a spotlight on some of the best new social issue films from…
85 percent of the top science jobs in Trump’s government don’t even have a nominee
Presidents invariably encounter key moments where they need to rely on scientific expertise. George W. Bush faced an anthrax attack after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Barack Obama faced the Gulf…
Nuclear material doled out ‘like it was candy’ 50 years ago
Maybe the only way to know the whereabouts of 200 pounds of bomb-grade uranium allegedly missing from an Apollo processing plant since the 1960s is to dig up the skeletons…
Burgeoning homelessness problem requires new approaches
Prior to President Reagan gutting billions of dollars from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) public housing assistance and mental health residential facility support, the number of homeless…
Trump To Duterte: ‘You’re Just Like Me’
In case you hadn’t noticed, as in the Middle East and Europe, we’re in a new Trumpian age in Asia. If you want to confirm that, check out the recently…
This Pigeon Exposes a Hole in President Trump’s Plan to Stop Drug Trafficking
Law enforcement officials in Kuwait intercepted a homing pigeon that had a mini-backpack stuffed full of pills containing ketamine on Tuesday. The bird — which has been dubbed “party pigeon”…
What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Fairness
Monkeys were taught in an experiment to hand over pebbles in exchange for cucumber slices. They were happy with this deal. Then the researcher randomly offered one monkey — in…
Making Sense Beyond Opinion
Let’s consider two quotes: “To interpret is to determine the force which gives sense to a thing.” Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy “To opinionate is to refer to the register,…
Payday lenders, charging 460%, aren’t subject to California’s usury law
It’s a question I get asked a lot: If California’s usury law says a personal loan can’t have an annual interest rate of more than 10%, how do payday lenders…
Womens Magazine – September 5, 2016
On Labor Day, we speak with Robin Williams, Director of Civil Rights and Community Action for the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union. Williams is one of 27 Black…
Buried in Comey Memo Report: Trump Asked FBI Chief to Jail Journalists
Press freedom advocates on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump over revelations that he had asked former FBI director James Comey to consider putting journalists in jail—a startling detail that was…
Turkish guards desecrate hallowed ground at Sheridan Circle
Missing from the May 18 news article “Turkish guards’ violence denounced,” about Turkish security guards’ attacks on D.C. protesters, was any mention of the significance of the location: Sheridan Circle.…
