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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 03/06/09

Airs at: Fri, 03/06/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

We don't have Flashpoints for you today. Instead we'll bring you Law and Disorder. The show looks at a new lawsuit brought against the secret society Skull and Bones, a report on current conditions at Guantanamo Bay Prison, foreign arms supplies to Israel and Gaza and an al... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/05/09

Airs at: Thu, 03/05/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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A new report challenges plans for a genetically engineered revolution in African agriculture, Catherine Austin Fitts on why President Obama wants Americans to invest in the stock market, and towns in Northern California continue their fight against military recruiting in th... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/04/09

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

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Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyers' Guild talks about recent documents that implicate many officials in the Bush administration in crimes of torture. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/03/09

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

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Coverage of yesterday's mass act of civil disobience in Washington D.C. advocating environmental awareness. Read more

Flashpoints on 02/27/09

Airs at: Fri, 02/27/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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A look at the continuing pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to try members of the Bush administration for war crimes Read more

Flashpoints on 02/26/09

Airs at: Thu, 02/26/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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An interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, one of the doctors allowed into Gaza to give emergency medical aid, on the effects of the DIME bombs used by Israel in the recent raid of Gaza. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 02/25/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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An examination of U.S. hegemony and the use of celebrities in the Congo and a new look at the government's response to the global economic crisis. Read more

Flashpoints on 02/24/09

Airs at: Tue, 02/24/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Howard Zinn speaks about his ongoing work "A People's History of The United States" and Pratap Chatterjee examines how Haliburton has revolutionized American warfare. Read more

Flashpoints on 02/20/09

Airs at: Fri, 02/20/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn speak about their plans to build a modern movement for peace and Greg Palast critiques Obama's economic recovery plan. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 02/19/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Catherine Austin Fitts examines the Obama administration's stimulus plan. Read more