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Boston Calling

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How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.

Boston Calling: Flashpoint

Flashpoint

12/12/2015 GMT

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A Texas town stands divided, after armed men menace worshipers at a local mosque

When armed men in camouflage menace worshipers at a Texas mosque, the local community is divided. Then, a look back to the World War Two internment of Japanese-Americans, a move being invoked today in some US political circles.

Also, we go inside a halal slaughterhouse where the knives are sharp and tradition endures; we get a personal take on one of the thorniest issues between the US and Cuba right now -- property rights; and, we hear what California can learn from Israel about farming in the middle of a drought. Plus: could ‘climate fiction’ be key to addressing our climate change crisis? 

Image: Armed protestors gather outside a mosque in Irving, Texas. (Credit: Avi Selk/ The Dallas Morning News)

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