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Airs at: Tue, 07/15/2025 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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Flashpoints on 01/05/16

Airs at: Tue, 01/05/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, Bill Simpich analyzes the legal circumstances in the case of Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Also, Salinas, CA City Council member Jose Castaneda discusses the incursion of corporate agricultural interests as IC... Read more

Flashpoints for 12/31/15

Airs at: Thu, 12/31/2015 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Air Cascadia is off today. We'll hear Flashpoints in its entirety. Today on Flashpoints: War and more war in Iraq. Also, we'll have a front line report on the battle to get cities, states, universities and corporations to divest their investments in the private prison in... Read more

Ta-Nehisi Coates on "Between the World and Me"

Airs at: Wed, 12/30/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints: Between the World and Me. We feature the moving new work of Ta-Nehisi Coates in a special benefit for KPFA Pacifica Read more

Flashpoints on 12/29/15

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, Robert Parry of Consortiumnews.com discusses the escalating war in Syria. Also, KJ Noh and Korean American Forum of California executive director Phyllis Kim react to the agreement reached between Japan and South Korea, aimed at resolving the disput... Read more

Flashpoints on 12/24/15

Airs at: Thu, 12/24/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Homeless, Hungry and Under Attack

Airs at: Wed, 12/23/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: Homeless, hungry and under attack. We'll have a special report on the crackdown on Food Not Bombs in Santa Cruz and food free givers across the country. We'll also have a report back on the crackdown on the poor and homeless in Berkeley and Oakland ... Read more

Homeless, Hungry and Under Attack

Airs at: Wed, 12/23/2015 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
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Air Cascadia is off today. We'll hear Flashpoints. Today on Flashpoints: Homeless, hungry and under attack. We'll have a special report on the crackdown on Food Not Bombs in Santa Cruz and food free givers across the country. We'll also have a report back on the crackdow... Read more

Flashpoints on 12/22/15

Airs at: Tue, 12/22/2015 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, Marc Ash of Reader Supported News discusses Saturday's Democratic debate. Also, an encore of Dennis' recent interview with former Flashpoints producer, Nora Barrows-Friedman. Read more

Interview with flimmaker and journalist David Sheen

Airs at: Fri, 12/18/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Flashpoints presents an encore broadcast of our recent interview with independent filmmaker & journalist, David Sheen. ​ David Sheen is an independent journalist and film maker originally from Toronto, Canada who now lives in Dimona, Israel. Sheen began blogging when he ... Read more

Law and Disorder on Progress on More Humane Drug Policies and the History of Radicals in America

Airs at: Thu, 12/17/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Flashpoints is off today. We'll hear Law and Disorder featuring Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs, talking about progress being made towar... Read more