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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: 
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Flashpoints on 03/05/09

Airs at: Thu, 03/05/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
A new report challenges plans for a genetically engineered revolution in African agriculture, Catherine Austin Fitts on why President Obama wants Americans to invest in the stock market, and towns in Northern California continue their fight against military recruiting in th... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/04/09

Airs at: Wed, 03/04/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyers' Guild talks about recent documents that implicate many officials in the Bush administration in crimes of torture.   Read more

Flashpoints on 03/03/09

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Coverage of yesterday's mass act of civil disobience in Washington D.C. advocating environmental awareness. Read more

Flashpoints on 02/27/09

Airs at: Fri, 02/27/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
A look at the continuing pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to try members of the Bush administration for war crimes Read more

Flashpoints on 02/26/09

Airs at: Thu, 02/26/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
An interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, one of the doctors allowed into Gaza to give emergency medical aid, on the effects of the DIME bombs used by Israel in the recent raid of Gaza. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 02/25/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
An examination of U.S. hegemony and the use of celebrities in the Congo and a new look at the government's response to the global economic crisis. Read more

Flashpoints on 02/24/09

Airs at: Tue, 02/24/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Howard Zinn speaks about his ongoing work "A People's History of The United States" and Pratap Chatterjee examines how Haliburton has revolutionized American warfare.   Read more

Flashpoints on 02/20/09

Airs at: Fri, 02/20/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn speak about their plans to build a modern movement for peace and Greg Palast critiques Obama's economic recovery plan. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 02/19/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Catherine Austin Fitts examines the Obama administration's stimulus plan.   Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 02/18/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyer's Guild speaks about the use of rendition under the Obama administration. Cohn, professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, says that instead of leaving the door open for the CIA to continue to engage in the rendition of terrorism ... Read more