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Airs at: Tue, 07/22/2025 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 for 11-12-15

Airs at: Thu, 11/12/2015 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Burma Elections, Fast Food Workers Walk Out, and Elections in Haiti

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

Produced for: Flashpoints

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

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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

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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

The Pentagon's Use of NGOs, the US Destroyer in the South China Sea, and Satirist Randy Credico

Airs at: Fri, 10/30/2015 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: An-in depth look at how the US Pentagon uses NGOs for spying, covert action, and intelligence gathering. And the dangers of this wide-ranging program. Also we'll take a close look at the proactive incursion of the US Destroyer Larson into the South ... Read more

The Future of Marijuana: Medicinal and Recreational

Airs at: Thu, 10/29/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on a Special Edition Flashpoints: The future of Marijuana: Medicinal, and recreational. We'll feature some of the leading experts on all aspects of the use of cannabis, including breakthroughs in its healing powers, the use of CBD, the importance of organic cultiva... Read more

Speaker Paul Ryan, Drone Protests and the Electronic Intifada

Airs at: Wed, 10/28/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: An in depth look at the new speaker of the house to be, Paul Ryan. Also, a week of Code Pink anti drone protests under way in Nevada. We'll have an anti drone speak out. Also Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electronic Intifada brings us their weekly p... Read more