Flashpoints

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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 08/01/12

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2012 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Flashpoints on 07/31/12

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2012 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Flashpoints on 05/17/12

Airs at: Thu, 05/17/2012 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Host Dennis Bernstein is live in the KBOO studio to talk about his life, work and his book Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom. Poetry. Come into the special ed classroom, where the kids who don't fit in anywhere else spend their day. For these kids—real kids Denn... Read more

Flashpoints on 05/10/12

Airs at: Thu, 05/10/2012 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with physicist and author Michio Kaku about the threat to Japan and the world from Fukushima's reactor #4, which is near the tipping point and could cause a huge nuclear disaster. They also discuss other dangerous aspects of the situation at Fuk... Read more

Flashpoints on 02/15/12

Airs at: Wed, 02/15/2012 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today's Flashpoints features a special live interview with host Dennis Bernstein about his life, his activism and his new book of poems, "Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom." "Dennis Bernstein is a hero to me because of his dedicated, unflinching reporting of real ... Read more

Flashpoints on 07/21/11

Airs at: Thu, 07/21/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

This morning on Flashpoints, guest host Kevin Pina talks with Corey Saylor from the Council of American-Islamic Relations on the "political theatre" of New York Republican Peter King's Congressional witch-hunts in Muslim-American communities. Also joining Kevin, author G... Read more

Flashpoints on 04/06/11

Airs at: Wed, 04/06/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

A special archive documentary exploring the dropping of the first two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 – HIROSHIMA COUNTDOWN WITH STUDS TERKEL. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/31/11

Airs at: Thu, 03/31/2011 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Air Cascadia is off today, so we’ll go right to Flashpoints. Today’s show is hosted by Kevin Pina (PEE-nah) and the focus for the hour is an in-depth discussion of the current situation in Haiti. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/24/11

Airs at: Thu, 03/24/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Flashpoints continues a special series on the recent phony elections in Haiti, with a report from the ground in Port Au Prins, and senior correspondent Kevin Pina in the Studio: Also Catherine Austin Fitts returns with a new edition of Community Business, and a careful look... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/23/11

Airs at: Wed, 03/23/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Aileen Mioko Smith, director of Green Action, a Japanese environmental group, speaks about the expansion zone around the damaged nukes. A short discussion with George Galloway about the US led bombing on Libya. Immigration supporter, Pablo Alvarado, speaks about a Kansas Sta... Read more