Flashpoints

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

Flashpoints on 03/26/09

Airs at: Thu, 03/26/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Journalist John Ross on the hype about the drug trade in Mexico and Malik Rahim, founder of Common Ground Relief on the violence of poverty in the U.S. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/25/09

Airs at: Wed, 03/25/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Financial adviser Catherine Austin Fitts analyzes the Treasury Department's plan for the economy and Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada gives a postmortem on Gaza and looks at possibilities for justice and freedom for Palestinians. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/24/09

Airs at: Tue, 03/24/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Journalist Greg Palast on the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill and the current economic meltdown. And Malik Rahim of Common Ground Relief on the current financial situation. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/20/09

Airs at: Fri, 03/20/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Palestinian Legislator Mustafa Barghouti speaks about Avigdor Lieberman's appointment as Israel's Foreign Minister. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/19/09

Airs at: Thu, 03/19/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Catherine Austin Fitts on the A.I.G. Bailout and Controversial Bonuses. Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. She served as Assistant Secretary of Housing... Read more

Flashpoints on 03/18/09

Airs at: Wed, 03/18/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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An Iraq veteran speaks about why he went AWOL and now plans to march on the Pentagon and continued coverage of the police murder of Oscar Grant in Oakland. Read more

Flashpoints on 03/17/09

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

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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

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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

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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

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