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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 05/19/09

Airs at: Tue, 05/19/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
An exclusive interview with California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper. Cooper is on death row in San Quentin prison. He was convicted of the 1983 murder of three members of one family and their houseguest. Last week a federal appeals court judge warned California that the ... Read more

Flashpoints on 05/15/09

Airs at: Fri, 05/15/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Commemorating the 61st anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland, Flashpoints plays excerpts from the hard-hitting documentary "Occupation 101," which takes listeners through the chronology of dispossession and military occupation in Palestine.   Read more

Flashpoints on 05/14/09

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Independent journalist Dahr Jamail on the dramatic increase in Iraqi and U.S. occupation forces deaths in Iraq in the last month.   Read more

Flashpoints on 05/08/09

Airs at: Fri, 05/08/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
US airstrikes in Afghanistan kill an estimated 130 civilians, including many women and children, as the Pentagon scurries to cover up the massacre and Obama prepares to send 21,000 more troops to occupy the country. Flashpoints talks with Colonel Ann Wright, ret. Army; anti... Read more

Flashpoints on 05/07/09

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today's show features a lecture by Ali Abunimah, co-founder and editor of "The Electronic Intifada," on the growing movement against Israeli apartheid.   Read more

Flashpoints on 05/06/09

Airs at: Wed, 05/06/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Writer and activist Alice Walker speaks about her recent trip to occupied Gaza and Iraqi writer and journalist Ahmed Habib on the continuing destruction of Iraq.   Read more

Flashpoints on 05/05/09

Airs at: Tue, 05/05/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Longtime environmental activist Mike Roselle reports on a small victory in the battle against mountaintop removal in West Virginia, Robert Knight presents the Knight report, and a commentary from Mumia Abu Jamal.   Read more

Flashpoints on 04/30/09

Airs at: Thu, 04/30/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Producer Nora Barrows Friedman presents a special report from occupied Palestine on Israel and the practice of  apartheid in Palestine. She speaks with Hazem Jamjoum of Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights.source Center for Palestinian Residenc... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 04/29/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Dennis Bernstein speaks with one of the organizers of an upcoming protest by human rights activists near the White House in support a criminal inquiry into the use of torture by the Bush Administration.  Dennis also interviews military mother and author Susan Gallymoore, wh... Read more

Flashpoints on 04/28/09

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with acclaimed author Alice Walker and veteran activist Medea Benjamin about their recent visits to Gaza and the need to protest and break the silence about the killing of Palestinians.   Read more