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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:

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Program status:

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Flashpoints on 04/28/09

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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