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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 05/08/09

Airs at: Fri, 05/08/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Flashpoints on 04/23/09

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Financial analyst Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the alleged suicide of acting Fanny Mac CFO David Kellerman and Nora Barrows Friedman interviews one of the leading activists against the building of a wall through Palestine. Read more

Flashpoints on 04/22/09

Airs at: Wed, 04/22/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with Nora Barrows Friedman, who reports from occupied Palestine, and with Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive, about the 100th anniversary of the magazine. Also Robert Knight comments on Somali pirates. Read more

Flashpoints on 04/21/09

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with one of the reporters who just won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. He also speaks with a Venezuelan diplomat about the significance of the recent meeting between President Hugo Chavez and President Barack Ob... Read more