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INVESTIGATIVE News Radio with host Dennis Bernstein

 

 

Investigative News Radio with host Dennis Bernstein from KPFA, historic community radio station in Berkeley, California. Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. From Baghdad to the US-Mexico border, Palestine to San Francisco, Port-au-Prince to Washington DC, Flashpoints monitors the centers of power as an uncensored platform of independent media.

 

 

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Topic tags: 
Civil Rights/Human Rights, Government/Politics, Class, Corporations, Global Affairs
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
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Flashpoints on 10/15/09

Airs at: Thu, 10/15/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Reporter and author Robert Fisk on the Middle East and financial consultant Catherine Austin Fitts on how the Wall Street meltdown was a financial coup d’etat. Read more

Flashpoints on 09/08/09

Airs at: Tue, 09/08/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Dennis Bernstein speaks with journalist Robert Parry about Iran, Afghanistan, and more.  Parry is an investigative reporter who currently writes for Consortiumnews.comRobert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His ... Read more

Flashpoints on 08/06/09

Airs at: Thu, 08/06/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
An indepth interview with Jeremy Scahill on sworn allegations against the founder of Blackwater, and a report from Honduras by journalist Tim Russo. Read more

Flashpoints on 07/29/09

Airs at: Wed, 07/29/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
The life and times of Leonard Peltier.  Yesterday, he had his first parole hearing in 16 years.  Dennis talks to leaders in the Native American community, and his lawyer. Read more

Focus on Central America

Airs at: Tue, 07/21/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
 Host Trillium Shannon speaks with independent  producer and member of Upside Down World Editorial Collective, Jason Wallach.  The topic is Central American politics, including recent events in Honduras. Read more

Flashpoints on 07/01/09

Airs at: Wed, 07/01/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
On Flashpoints, Dennis Bernstein speaks with Eva Golinger about Sunday's coup in Honduras, Michael Parenti talks about Honduras, North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, and a report on the Free Gaza ship. Read more

Flashpoints on 06/25/09

Airs at: Thu, 06/25/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
On Flashpoints, remembering the life of human rights leader and liberation theologist, Father Jean Juste, and Helen Caldicott speaks about the nuclear threat. Revolutionary Haitian priest Father Jean-Juste died on May 27th at the age of 62. In jail and out, he preached libe... Read more

Flashpoints on 06/24/09

Airs at: Wed, 06/24/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
 Part two of a special report about the current political, social and cultural climate inside Iran. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 06/23/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
The current political, social and cultural climate inside Iran.  Part one of a two part series featuring the hosts of KPFA's "Voices of the Middle East and North Africa". Read more

Flashpoints on 06/18/09

Airs at: Thu, 06/18/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today's Flashpoints features Community Business with financial consultant Catherine Austin Fitts on what President Obama's new plan means for the American public and J.R. and the Block Report on the indictment of former Oakland police officer Johannes Mehserle for the murde... Read more