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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 04/17/09

Airs at: Fri, 04/17/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

An on-the-ground report from Haiti and Nora Barrows Friedman reports from the occupied West Bank in Palestine. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 04/16/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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An in-depth look at the Obama bailout and it's impact at the state and local level with financial analyst Catherine Austin Fitts and an archival interview with the late environmental activist Judy Bari. Read more

Flashpoints on 04/10/09

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

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Analysis of President Obama's new weapons projects, the untold story of the Iraqi resistance and the significance of the U.S. indictment of a Cuban exile for the bombing of a Cuban airliner and other acts. Read more

Flashpoints on 04/08/09

Airs at: Wed, 04/08/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints features a frontline documentary by producer Nora Barrows-Friedman on the expanding settler violence in the West Bank under the new extreme right-wing Israeli government. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 04/07/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Today the show focuses on death penalty and prison issues with interviews about yesterday's stay of execution for a Texas death row prisoner. Also more on the Supreme Court denying Mumia Abu Jamal's appeal for a new trial. We hear from one of his attorneys and from a journa... Read more

Flashpoints on 04/03/09

Airs at: Fri, 04/03/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with Gerald Lemelle of Africa Action about African debt and the G-20 Summit, Lori Wallach of Public Citizen about deregulation and the G-20 Summit and Bonnie Robin-Vergeer of Public Citizen about the free speech of whistleblowers. Read more

Flashpoints on 04/02/09

Airs at: Thu, 04/02/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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A report on protests at the G-20 Summit in London, financial consultant Catherine Austin Fitts on the economic crisis, and a report on the new right wing government of Israel. Read more

Flashpoints on 04/01/09

Airs at: Wed, 04/01/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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A report from occupied Palestine on an international day of protest against Israeli colonization of Palestinian lands and an interview with a Canadian minister-turned-activist on a decades-long program of genocide targeting the youth of Canada's indigenous population. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/31/09

Airs at: Tue, 03/31/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Host Dennis Bernstein interviews Marjorie Cohen, President of the National Lawyer's Guild, about a Spanish judge targeting members of the Bush Administration for war crimes. Later Dennis speaks with former CIA operative Ray McGovern about President Obama's escalation of the... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/27/09

Airs at: Fri, 03/27/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Today Flashpoints presents journalist Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada on Gaza, what's happening there and what are the possibilities for the future. Abunimah was recorded this week in the Bay Area. Read more