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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: 
KBOO Stream 1
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Flashpoints on 11/27/15

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Flashpoints on 11/25/15

Airs at: Wed, 11/25/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Flashpoints on 11/24/15

Airs at: Tue, 11/24/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Today on Flashpoints, journalist and historian Diana Johnstone analyzes the world's response to the terror attacks in Paris. Also, Bill Means reports on protests in Minneapolis over the recent killing of an unarmed black man by police. Read more

How Saudi Gulf Money Fuels International Terror and Why a Climate March Is Canceled in Paris

Airs at: Fri, 11/20/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Today on Flashpoints: How Saudi Gulf money fuels international terror. Also, the French government cancels 350 march against climate change, long planned to coincide with upcoming climate talks in Paris. An encore presentation of a Flashpoints poet on assignment, Aurora ... Read more

Ruin and Resistance in Palestine: Dr. Moustafa Bargouti and the Electronic Intifada

Airs at: Thu, 11/19/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Today on Flashpoints: An encore broadcast of a moving speech by Palestinian medical doctor, human rights activist, and political leader, Dr Mustafa Bargouti: also a selection of the best of our recent broadcasts from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. Read more

Max Blumenthal on The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza

Airs at: Wed, 11/18/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Today on Flashpoints: an encore broadcast of a recent speech by author and anti occupation activist Max Blumenthal. Read more

Flashpoints on 11/17/15

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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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
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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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