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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:

Current

Flashpoints on 01/05/10

Airs at: Tue, 01/05/2010 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Jewish Holocaust survivor Hettie Epstein talks about signing the Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid. Indigenous leader Bill Means, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, talks about the 110th anniversary of the U.S. cavalry slaughter at Wounded Knee. And specia... Read more

Flashpoints on 12/24/09

Airs at: Thu, 12/24/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Air Cascadia is on break today. Flashpoints begins at 10AM Read more

Flashpoints on 12/23/09

Airs at: Wed, 12/23/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Air Cascadia is on break today. Flashpoints begins at 10AM Read more

Flashpoints on 12/22/09

Airs at: Tue, 12/22/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Air Cascadia is on break. Flashpoints begins at 10 today. Read more

Flashpoints on 12/18/09

Airs at: Fri, 12/18/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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An update on what's going on in Haiti and a look at the history that led up to the current situation there and host Dennis Bernstein speaks with civil rights activist Nativa Lopez about immigration reform and health care for migrant workers. Read more

Flashpoints on 12/17/09

Airs at: Thu, 12/17/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Reports from the U.N. Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen and an update on the situation in Occupied Palestine. Read more

Flashpoints on 12/11/09

Airs at: Fri, 12/11/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Nobel Laureate in Peace Jody Williams and longtime peace activist Kathy Kelly react to President Barack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. An interview with Clayton Thomas Muller, Director of the Canadian Indigenous Environmental Network on indigenous peoples issues at ... Read more

Flashpoints on 12/10/09

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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On a special edition of Flashpoints, Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us the keynote speech by Ali Abunimah from last week's Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment conference at Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts. Ali Abunimah is editor and co-founder of The Electronic Int... Read more

Flashpoints on 12/09/09

Airs at: Wed, 12/09/2009 at 10:00am - 10:30am

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A report from Honduras where polling data on the recent boycotted election suggests that the voter turnout was under 50 percent. This contrary to U.S. claims.And an interview with journalist and prisoner mumia abu jamal. Today marks the 28th year that he has been incarcerat... Read more

Flashpoints on 12/03/09

Airs at: Thu, 12/03/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Military families speak out against the war, reporter Dahr Jamail discusses recent soldier suicides and murders and a report from the Gaza Strip on Israeli military attacks on Palestinians there. Read more