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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: 
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Program status: 
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Flashpoints on 11/17/15

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, Vijay Prashad discusses how Western terrorism in the Middle East drives terrorism against the West. Also, American Indian Movement founder Bill Means weighs in on federal agents canceling an art exhibition by Native American political prisoner Leona... Read more

Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israeli Assaults on Gaza and Francisco Huerrera on Politics in San Francisco

Airs at: Fri, 11/13/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
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Dr. Mads Gilbert on treating the victims of two murderous Israeli assaults on the Gaza strip. And we'll be joined by our own Francisco Huerrera to talk about his recoent campaign for SF Mayor and what comes next   Read more

Rania Masri on the Deadly Bombing in Beirut

Airs at: Fri, 11/13/2015 at 10:00am - 10:15am
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Air Cascadia is of today. We'll hear Flashpoints. The first segment features Rania Masri reporting from Beirut on yesterday's ISIS suicide bombing there, which killed over 40 and seriously wounded over 200.  Read more

Flashpoints for 11-12-15

Airs at: Thu, 11/12/2015 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Burma Elections, Fast Food Workers Walk Out, and Elections in Haiti

Airs at: Wed, 11/11/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Today on Flashpoints: historic elections in Burma. Also, low wage fast food workers walk out in support of a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage. And we'll have an update on the recent presidential elections in Haiti. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/10/15

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, AlterNet writer Zaid Jilani discusses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the United States and Reverend Graylan Hagler explains the United Church of Christ's protest of Israel's occupation of Palestine. Also presented are excerpts ... Read more

A Panel Discussion on the Details of the TPP and Remembering Joe Hill with singer David Rovics

Airs at: Fri, 11/06/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
​The devil is definitely in the details when it comes to the TPP. We'll take an in depth look at those devastating details that deepen corporate power. And further threaten free speech thought and every aspect of free expression. Also remembering the life and times Union... Read more

Flashpoints on 11/05/15

Airs at: Thu, 11/05/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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A Look at the Presidential Campaign of Marco Rubio with Funding from Billionaire Paul Singer

Airs at: Wed, 11/04/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: Did Marco Rubio deal Jeb a 1, 2 knock blow in the latest debate? And huge news    for the Rubio team, that billionaire hedge funder, Paul Singer, has jumped into the ring full force for the    upstart senator. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/03/15

Airs at: Tue, 11/03/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, author and journalist Reese Erlich discusses current affairs in the Middle East. Also, Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina interview AIM founder Bill Means and Tony Gonzales from AIM-West. Read more