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Airs at: Tue, 01/20/2026 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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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
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Young Children of Farmworkers Exposed to Pesticides

Airs at: Fri, 02/19/2016 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
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Air Cascadia is off today. We'll hear Flashpoints. On the first segment of Flashpoints Dennis Bernstein speaks  with Dr. Ann Lopez, Executive Director for the Center for Farmworker Families, about the gravity of the situation and the multiple dangers posed to young child... Read more

Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution

Airs at: Thu, 02/18/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: We feature excerpts from a brand new documentary Film, in honor of black history month: "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution."  Read more

New Speech by Economist Richard Wolff

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: we feature excerpts from a brand new speech by radical economist Dr. Richard Wolff just delivered last Wednesday as a special benefit for KPFA Pacifica Radio. Read more

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
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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