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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 11/24/09

Airs at: Tue, 11/24/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with students from UC Berkeley who are protesting the University of California's 32 percent fee increase. Robert Knight reports on the case of incarcerated attorney Lynn Stewart, and Dennis Bernstein interviews her partner Ralph Pointer. And De... Read more

Flashpoints on 11/20/09

Airs at: Fri, 11/20/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Host Nora Barrows Friedman speaks with Iraq and Afghanistan war resisters from the U.S. about their meetings with Israeli refuseniks about resistance to militarism. And 3 mayors from El Salvador’s F-M-L-N Party talk about the challenges in their country. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/19/09

Airs at: Thu, 11/19/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Former economic hit man John Perkins talks about "Hoodwinked;" journalist and author John Ross talks about his new book "El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City," a report on a massive walk-out and strike by UC Berkeley students against rising fees and privatized e... Read more

Flashpoints on 11/18/09

Airs at: Wed, 11/18/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints is off again today. Instead we’ll hear a recent talk by Malalai Joya, exiled Member of the Parliament in Afghanistan and campaigner and educator of Afghani women. She spoke about her new book "A Woman Among Warlords" in Vancouver, B.C. on November 14th. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/17/09

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints is off today. Instead we'll hear Law and Disorder with analysis of the recent court decision in the case of Maher Arar, is it "Outsourcing Torture Made Legal?" Also, a look at some bills in the House of Representatives that could pave the way to dismantle the br... Read more

Flashpoints on 11/13/09

Airs at: Fri, 11/13/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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An interview with Dr. Allen Kanner of the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood and a remembrance of Brother Blue, the official story teller of Boston, who died last week. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/12/09

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

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Military families speak out against the expanding war in Afghanistan, the AFL-CIO expands its involvement with migrant workers, and an interview with Ben Wang, director of "AOKI," a documentary film on the life of Richard Aoki, a third-generation Japanese American who beca... Read more

Flashpoints on 11/11/09

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

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Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with a soldier who tried to pass President Obama a note of opposition against the war at the Memorial at Fort Hood. Also author and blogger Dahr Jamail on veterans against the war. Catherine Austin Fitts on the military industrial complex. And A... Read more

Flashpoints on 11/06/09

Airs at: Fri, 11/06/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Host Dennis Bernstein interviews activist and author Arundhati Roy about her new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers and about the decline of democracy all around the world. Also, Nora Barrows Friedman speaks with Jeff Makler of Socialist Action about... Read more

Flashpoints on 11/05/09

Airs at: Thu, 11/05/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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An in-depth look at the healthcare package now moving through the House and financial analyst Catherine Austin Fitts with another installment in the series "Anatomy of a Financial Coup d'Etat." Read more