Flashpoints

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Airs at: Tue, 08/12/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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

Letters and Politics on 02/16/16

Airs at: Tue, 02/16/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Letters and Politics, law professor Marjorie Cohn discusses the ramifications of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death, and law professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky explains the history of the legal theory of Originalism. Read more

Lead Poisoning and Corporate Greed and the Last Malheur Occupiers Surrender to the Feds

Airs at: Fri, 02/12/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: An in depth interview with one of the leading experts on the impacts of led poisoning on humans. We'll discuss the history of how led paint was mainlined into the bloodstreams of Americans, as a result of pure corporate greed. Also, the last of the ... Read more

Prosecuting those Responsible for Flint's Poisoned Water and Re-opening the case of Sirhan Sirhan

Airs at: Thu, 02/11/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: A former EPA whistle-blower calls for a major criminal investigation to find out and prosecute the people who are responsible for poisoning the water supply for Flint. And we take a deep look at the case of Sirhan Sirhan and the murder of Robert Ken... Read more

Clinton's Foreign Policy and a Crucial Message from Leonard Peltier

Airs at: Wed, 02/10/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: An in depth look at Clinton's devastating foreign policy failures in North Africa and the middle east. And a crucial message from Native American leader, Leonard Peltier on 40 years as a political prisoner. Read more

Flashpoints on 02/09/16

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints, Kevin Pena provides an update on the Struggle for democracy in Haiti. Then KJ Noh reports on the latest tensions between North Korea and the US. Finally, Professor Marjorie Cohn discusses Hillary Clinton's hawkish foreign policy. Read more

Flashpoints on 02/05/16

Airs at: Fri, 02/05/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Human Rights in Palestine and American Militarism's Effect on U.S. Constitutional Principles

Airs at: Thu, 02/04/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Flashpoints is off today. We'll hear Law and Disorder Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses his trip to Palestine Israel. And Todd Pierce, a retired Army Major who has written about the term American exceptionalism and Ameri... Read more

Analysis of the Iowa Caucus and Nomi Prins on Big Money in the Campaigns

Airs at: Wed, 02/03/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Analysis of the Iowa caucus with a focus on the neck and neck battle between Sanders and Clinton for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. And best selling author Nomi Prins talks about the big money that is now being thrown around to buy the next p... Read more

Flashpoints on 02/02/16

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints, investigative journalist Greg Palast discusses how the next presidential election could be stolen electronically. Then Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness, explains the impact the upcoming Super Bowl is having o... Read more