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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:

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Program status:

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Flashpoints on 09/02/15

Airs at: Wed, 09/02/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints on 09/01/15

Airs at: Tue, 09/01/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Today on Flashpoints, KJ Noh analyzes the underlying meaning of the recent flare-ups between North and South Korea. Also, members of Food Not Bombs are getting arrested for feeding the poor in liberal Santa Cruz, California. Finally, Miguel Gavilan Molina and Alejandro R... Read more

Flashpoints on 08/27/15

Airs at: Thu, 08/27/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Coverage of Recent Parliamentary Elections in Haiti

Airs at: Wed, 08/26/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Today Flashpoints presents a special encore edition of our coverage of recent parliamentary elections held in Haiti on August 9th. We begin with an interview with Brian Concannon of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti giving his views of the legitimacy of the e... Read more

Flashpoints on 08/25/15

Airs at: Tue, 08/25/2015 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Today on Flashpoints, professor and author Alice O'Connor explains what the current international market meltdown means for regular Americans. Then political analyst Franz Jerome continues the coverage of the flawed parliamentary elections in Haiti. Next, Paul Liem of th... Read more

Haiti's Elections, Human Rights in Myanmar, and an Update on Venezuela

Airs at: Fri, 08/21/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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We feature more on Haiti, as questions continue to mount about the legitimacy of the last parliamentary elections. Then we have a special interview from Myanmar with one of its foremost human rights heroes. And we get an update on the situation in Venezuela from the Dire... Read more

Flashpoints on 08/20/15

Airs at: Thu, 08/20/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Flashpoints on 08/19/15

Airs at: Wed, 08/19/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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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