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Airs at: Tue, 08/05/2025 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

Flashpoints on 08/18/15

Airs at: Tue, 08/18/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Today on Flashpoints, Mother Jones writer Russ Choma discusses campaign finance in the presidential election and the impact of the campaigns of Donald Trump and Lawrence Lessig. Then, political journalist Franz Jerome continues Flashpoints' coverage of the parliamentary ... Read more

Remembering Hugo Pinell, the Death Penalty, Uranium Mining in the Grand Canyon, Elections in Haiti

Airs at: Fri, 08/14/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Today on Flashpoints, we remember the life of Hugo Pinell, a member of the San Quentin 6, who was killed yesterday during a prison riot in new Folsom Prison. Then, the Connecticut supreme court rules that 11 inmates cannot be executed, reaffirming the death penalty as cr... Read more

Flashpoints on 08/13/15

Airs at: Thu, 08/13/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints on 08/12/15

Airs at: Wed, 08/12/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints on 08/11/15

Airs at: Tue, 08/11/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Today on Flashpoints, political reporter Franz Jerome discusses Haiti's parliamentary elections Sunday. Then, professor and comentator Lawrence Ware breaks down the backlash that Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign has received from the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Fina... Read more

Flashpoints on 08/07/15

Airs at: Fri, 08/07/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints on 08/06/15

Airs at: Thu, 08/06/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints on 08/05/15

Airs at: Wed, 08/05/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints on 08/04/15

Airs at: Tue, 08/04/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Today on Flashpoints, a delegation from Okinawa discusses their resistance to a new US military base being built on the island. And political reporters Franz Jerome and Jocelyn Gay analyze the upcoming elections in Haiti. Read more

Flashpoints on 07/31/15

Airs at: Fri, 07/31/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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