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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

Airs at: Fri, 01/09/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Coverage of conflict in Gaza with live reports from journalists within the area and an interview with Richard Becker from the Answer Coalition. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 01/08/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Updates from Gaza and an interview with a journalist leading a protest at the Israeli Consulate in Toronto where several protesters were arrested. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 01/07/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Coverage of conflict in Gaza with reports from journalists within the area. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 01/06/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Reports from Gaza and an interview with noted journalist and filmmaker John Pilger about Israel and Palestine. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 12/31/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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A look at what's happening in Gaza including eyewitness accounts of the killing and destruction there, a report from the Free Gaza humanitarian boat rammed by the Israeli Navy, and peace activist Colonel Ann Wright on her participation in a protest outside the compound wher... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 12/18/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Financial consultant Katherine Austin Fitts on the lowering of interest rates by the Fed, Goldman Sachs and the continuing fallout from the bailout. More on the impact of Western colonization in the Congo. And a new interview with death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 12/17/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with journalist Steven Kinzer, who calls the Obama-Gates plan to expand the war in Afghanistan "delusional." Dennis also interviews long-time nuclear critic Karl Grossman about the new nominee to be Energy Secretary. And J.R. has an update on th... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 12/16/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Former Congressional Representative Cynthia McKinney on her recent trip to a human rights conference in Havana. And Iraqi blogger and human rights activist Raed Jarrar on the shoe throwing incident in Baghdad. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 12/11/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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A report on the continuing demonstrations in Greece; Katherine Austin Fitts on economic issues of the week; Greg Palast on recent Obama opponents; and the Knight Report on Iraq, Afghanistan and more. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 12/10/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Members of the "We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour" talk about their campaign to stop predatory military recruiting in high schools. A Congolese scholar and activist discusses the 12 year war in Congo and the 6 million casualties there. And a look at a new report on how the Tali... Read more