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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
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How Saudi Gulf Money Fuels International Terror and Why a Climate March Is Canceled in Paris

Airs at: Fri, 11/20/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: How Saudi Gulf money fuels international terror. Also, the French government cancels 350 march against climate change, long planned to coincide with upcoming climate talks in Paris. An encore presentation of a Flashpoints poet on assignment, Aurora Lev... Read more

Ruin and Resistance in Palestine: Dr. Moustafa Bargouti and the Electronic Intifada

Airs at: Thu, 11/19/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: An encore broadcast of a moving speech by Palestinian medical doctor, human rights activist, and political leader, Dr Mustafa Bargouti: also a selection of the best of our recent broadcasts from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. Read more

Max Blumenthal on The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza

Airs at: Wed, 11/18/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: an encore broadcast of a recent speech by author and anti occupation activist Max Blumenthal. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/17/15

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, Vijay Prashad discusses how Western terrorism in the Middle East drives terrorism against the West. Also, American Indian Movement founder Bill Means weighs in on federal agents canceling an art exhibition by Native American political prisoner Leonard ... Read more

Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israeli Assaults on Gaza and Francisco Huerrera on Politics in San Francisco

Airs at: Fri, 11/13/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
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Dr. Mads Gilbert on treating the victims of two murderous Israeli assaults on the Gaza strip. And we'll be joined by our own Francisco Huerrera to talk about his recoent campaign for SF Mayor and what comes next   Read more

Rania Masri on the Deadly Bombing in Beirut

Airs at: Fri, 11/13/2015 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
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Air Cascadia is of today. We'll hear Flashpoints. The first segment features Rania Masri reporting from Beirut on yesterday's ISIS suicide bombing there, which killed over 40 and seriously wounded over 200.  Read more

Flashpoints for 11-12-15

Airs at: Thu, 11/12/2015 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
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Burma Elections, Fast Food Workers Walk Out, and Elections in Haiti

Airs at: Wed, 11/11/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: historic elections in Burma. Also, low wage fast food workers walk out in support of a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage. And we'll have an update on the recent presidential elections in Haiti. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/10/15

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, AlterNet writer Zaid Jilani discusses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the United States and Reverend Graylan Hagler explains the United Church of Christ's protest of Israel's occupation of Palestine. Also presented are excerpts fro... Read more

A Panel Discussion on the Details of the TPP and Remembering Joe Hill with singer David Rovics

Airs at: Fri, 11/06/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
​The devil is definitely in the details when it comes to the TPP. We'll take an in depth look at those devastating details that deepen corporate power. And further threaten free speech thought and every aspect of free expression. Also remembering the life and times Union po... Read more