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

Airs at: Wed, 12/17/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Flashpoints

Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with journalist Steven Kinzer, who calls the Obama-Gates plan to expand the war in Afghanistan "delusional." Dennis also interviews long-time nuclear critic Karl Grossman about the new nominee to be Energy Secretary. And J.R. has an update on... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 12/16/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Former Congressional Representative Cynthia McKinney on her recent trip to a human rights conference in Havana. And Iraqi blogger and human rights activist Raed Jarrar on the shoe throwing incident in Baghdad. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 12/11/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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A report on the continuing demonstrations in Greece; Katherine Austin Fitts on economic issues of the week; Greg Palast on recent Obama opponents; and the Knight Report on Iraq, Afghanistan and more. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 12/10/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Members of the "We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour" talk about their campaign to stop predatory military recruiting in high schools. A Congolese scholar and activist discusses the 12 year war in Congo and the 6 million casualties there. And a look at a new report on how the T... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Fri, 12/05/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Dennis Bernstein's guests include Michael Parenti, social and political critic and author of numerous books including Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader. Parenti has won awards from Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, the city of Santa Cr... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 12/04/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Financial analyst Catherine Austin Fitts with the Community Business Report, an eyewitness report of Israeli settler and military violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and an update on the case of death row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 12/03/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Hear commentary and analysis on the Mumbai massacre and a look at America's mercenaries fighting in Iraq. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 12/02/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Author and analyst Phyllis Bennis discusses Obama's foreign policy appointments and the current tragedy in Gaza. And Timothy Canova, Professor of International Economic Law at Chapman University School of Law, talks about the Obama economic team and the current corporate... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 11/26/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Dennis Bernstein speaks with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about Obama's decision to keep Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense and with Project Censored's Peter Phillips about his recent trip to Venezuela for the elections there. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 11/25/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

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Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with Max Fraad Wolff, an instructor at the New School University and a frequent contributor to Huffington Post, Asia Times and The Indypendent, about Barack Obama's new economic team and the bailout. He also speaks with former D.E.A. agent Mi... Read more