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Airs at: Tue, 07/15/2025 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

Bernie in the Bay and Jeremy Scahill on Drones

Airs at: Wed, 05/11/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: Bernie Sanders visits the Bay Area. And excerpts of a new speech by Jeremy Scahill, given in the Bay Area. Read more

Letters and Politics on 05/10/16

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Letters and Politics, former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis discusses his new book And the Weak Suffer What They Must. Read more

Offshore Tax Avoidance by the Rich

Airs at: Fri, 05/06/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: A look at how various dictators, drug traffickers and other corporate movers and shakers, stole 12 Trillion from the world's poorest countries and held it off shore. Read more

Paul Flores on Hunger Strikers in San Francisco, Greg Palast on Election Protection and Remembering Daniel Berrigan

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: The hunger-striking #Frisco5 in their 14th day, continue to put their lives on the line to stop police murders of black and brown people in San Francisco. Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with noted playwright-performer and anti-gentrification activ... Read more

The Classified '28 Pages' from the 9/11 Report: A Diversion from Real US-Saudi Issues

Airs at: Wed, 05/04/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: The classified '28 pages' from the 9/11 report: A diversion from real US-Saudi issues. Also anti-police brutality hunger-strikers and their supporters hold a speak out in front of police headquarters in San Francisco Read more

Flashpoints on 04/29/16

Airs at: Fri, 04/29/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Flashpoints on 04/28/16

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

American Nuremberg

Airs at: Wed, 04/27/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: American Nuremberg- The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes. Read more

Greg Palast on How to Steal a National Election New York Style

Airs at: Fri, 04/22/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: How to steal a national election, New York style. Read more

Alexander Hamilton, Drug Importing and the CIA, and Mass Killings in South Korea Decades Ago

Airs at: Thu, 04/21/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Is the new Pulitzer-prize winning play, about Alexander Hamilton, a theatrical cleansing of early an early American racism? A look at the CIA, that's the Cocaine Importers of America; And how South Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of so called 'vagrants' some 30 ... Read more