Flashpoints

Coming Soon

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.

flashpoints.net

kpfk.org/on-air/flashpoints

Topic tags:

Civil Rights/Human Rights, Government/Politics, Class, Corporations, Global Affairs

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

Arun Gupta on the Takedown of the Bundy Brothers and an Eyewitness Account from Syria

Airs at: Thu, 01/28/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Dennis Bernstein speaks with Arun Gupta about the take down of the Bundy Brothers. He also gets an eye witness account of the bloody war in Syria and the US role in fanning the flames. Read more

Economist Richard Wolff

Airs at: Wed, 01/27/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: An in depth discussion with radical author and economics Professor Richard Wolff on what a socialist presidency under Bernie Sanders would look like. Read more

Flashpoints on 01/26/16

Airs at: Tue, 01/26/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints, Kevin Pena gives an update on the disputed elections in Haiti, and journalist Harvey Wasserman discusses a plan to prevent US elections from being stolen electronically. Read more

Flashpoints on 01/22/16

Airs at: Fri, 01/22/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Abuse of Native Sites in Malheur, Violence in Haiti and Poisoned Water in Michigan

Airs at: Thu, 01/21/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: Armed white racist-ranchers in Southern Oregon continue to trample over native Indian burial sites that go back fifteen thousand years, and longer, with out arrest or prosecution. Also violence in Haiti in the wake of tainted elections and massive p... Read more

Allan Nairn on the Recent Arrests of Death Squad Leaders in Guatemala.

Airs at: Wed, 01/20/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Noted journalist Allan Nairn talks about the recent arrests of death squad leaders in Guatemala. Read more

Law and Disorder on 01/19/16

Airs at: Tue, 01/19/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Law and Disorder, retired US Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) discusses the US-Saudi relationship and its influence on US foreign policy. Then Professor Rashid Khalidi explains Saudi Arabia's posture in the broader Middle East. Read more

Biofuels, Malheur Refuge Armed Takeover, and an excerpt from "This Changes Everything"

Airs at: Fri, 01/15/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Rachel Smokler of Biofuel Watch on the problems with biofuels, an update on the armed takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge with Andy Kerr. And we'll hear an excerpt from a documentary by Naomi Klein, based on her book, This Changes Everything. Read more

What Hillary Clinton's Newly Released Emails Reveal and a Response to Obama's State of the Union

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with journalist Robert Parry of Consortium News about his latest article on what Hillary Ciinton knew about Libya. Dick Becker of the Answer Coalition responds to Obama's State of the Union Address. And we hear an encore broadcast of and inte... Read more

Flashpoints on 01/13/16

Airs at: Wed, 01/13/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints