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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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Program status:

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Flashpoints on 03/17/09

Airs at: Tue, 03/17/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Analysis of the victory of the party of the Salvadoran revolutionary movement in elections in El Salvadore; a report on the RNC 8, activists and anarchists facing major terrorism charges; and an update on the situation in the West Bank where Israeli troops shot 3 young Pale... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/13/09

Airs at: Fri, 03/13/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Financial consultant Catherine Austin Fitts on Bernie Madoff, the permanent war economy and new revelations about a Bush Administration executive assassination ring, former CIA operative Ray McGovern on APAC and it's attack on Chas Freeman, and an interview with a leading h... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/12/09

Airs at: Thu, 03/12/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Israel continues attacks on Gaza and carries out mass arrests in the West Bank. And a report on the rising level of child homelessness in the U.S. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 03/10/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Major protests occur in Haiti on the fifth anniversary of a U.S. sponsored coup Read more

Flashpoints on 03/06/09

Airs at: Fri, 03/06/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

We don't have Flashpoints for you today. Instead we'll bring you Law and Disorder. The show looks at a new lawsuit brought against the secret society Skull and Bones, a report on current conditions at Guantanamo Bay Prison, foreign arms supplies to Israel and Gaza and an al... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/05/09

Airs at: Thu, 03/05/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

A new report challenges plans for a genetically engineered revolution in African agriculture, Catherine Austin Fitts on why President Obama wants Americans to invest in the stock market, and towns in Northern California continue their fight against military recruiting in th... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/04/09

Airs at: Wed, 03/04/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyers' Guild talks about recent documents that implicate many officials in the Bush administration in crimes of torture. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/03/09

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Coverage of yesterday's mass act of civil disobience in Washington D.C. advocating environmental awareness. Read more

Flashpoints on 02/27/09

Airs at: Fri, 02/27/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Flashpoints

A look at the continuing pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to try members of the Bush administration for war crimes Read more

Flashpoints on 02/26/09

Airs at: Thu, 02/26/2009 at 11:15am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Flashpoints

An interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, one of the doctors allowed into Gaza to give emergency medical aid, on the effects of the DIME bombs used by Israel in the recent raid of Gaza. Read more