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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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Flashpoints on 11/05/15

Airs at: Thu, 11/05/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

A Look at the Presidential Campaign of Marco Rubio with Funding from Billionaire Paul Singer

Airs at: Wed, 11/04/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: Did Marco Rubio deal Jeb a 1, 2 knock blow in the latest debate? And huge news for the Rubio team, that billionaire hedge funder, Paul Singer, has jumped into the ring full force for the upstart senator. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/03/15

Airs at: Tue, 11/03/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints, author and journalist Reese Erlich discusses current affairs in the Middle East. Also, Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina interview AIM founder Bill Means and Tony Gonzales from AIM-West. Read more

The Pentagon's Use of NGOs, the US Destroyer in the South China Sea, and Satirist Randy Credico

Airs at: Fri, 10/30/2015 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: An-in depth look at how the US Pentagon uses NGOs for spying, covert action, and intelligence gathering. And the dangers of this wide-ranging program. Also we'll take a close look at the proactive incursion of the US Destroyer Larson into the South Chi... Read more

The Future of Marijuana: Medicinal and Recreational

Airs at: Thu, 10/29/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on a Special Edition Flashpoints: The future of Marijuana: Medicinal, and recreational. We'll feature some of the leading experts on all aspects of the use of cannabis, including breakthroughs in its healing powers, the use of CBD, the importance of organic cultivatio... Read more

Speaker Paul Ryan, Drone Protests and the Electronic Intifada

Airs at: Wed, 10/28/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: An in depth look at the new speaker of the house to be, Paul Ryan. Also, a week of Code Pink anti drone protests under way in Nevada. We'll have an anti drone speak out. Also Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electronic Intifada brings us their weekly podc... Read more

Flashpoints on 10/27/15

Airs at: Tue, 10/27/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints, Kevin Pena leads an in-depth discussion on Sunday's presidential elections in Haiti with reporters, election observers and human rights activists. Read more

A Look at the Upcoming Elections in Haiti and the Biggz Beat on Star Wars: The Racism Awakens

Airs at: Fri, 10/23/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: Politically motivated mass murder in Haiti, a week before the presidential elections? Will the elections be fair? We'll have a series of reports from the ground in Port au Prins and from around the country. Later, The Biggz Beat on Star Wars: The Racis... Read more

Campaign of Terror on Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the National Campaign to End the Korean War

Airs at: Thu, 10/22/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: The Israeli campaign of Terror against the Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem continues unabated. We'll speak to a Palestinian activist from Jerusalem, who works with traumatized children and women there. Also hundreds of Korean families, separate... Read more

Vijay Prashad, historian, journalist, and commentator, on the Middle East

Airs at: Wed, 10/21/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: Israeli occupiers kill, maim, demolish and steal Palestinian land at an accelerated rate. Meanwhile all hell is breaking loose in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and Kurdistan. In a powerful new speech given recently in a benefit for the middle east c... Read more