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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
Program status: 
Current

Flashpoints

Airs at: Fri, 12/05/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Dennis Bernstein's guests include Michael Parenti, social and political critic and author of numerous books including Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader. Parenti has won awards from Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, the city of Santa Cruz,... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 12/04/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Financial analyst Catherine Austin Fitts with the Community Business Report, an eyewitness report of Israeli settler and military violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and an update on the case of death row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 12/03/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Hear commentary and analysis on the Mumbai massacre and a look at America's mercenaries fighting in Iraq. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 12/02/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
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Author and analyst Phyllis Bennis discusses Obama's foreign policy appointments and the current tragedy in Gaza. And Timothy Canova, Professor of International Economic Law at Chapman University School of Law, talks about the Obama economic team and the current corporate ba... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 11/26/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
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Dennis Bernstein speaks with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about Obama's decision to keep Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense and with Project Censored's Peter Phillips about his recent trip to Venezuela for the elections there. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 11/25/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
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Host Dennis Bernstein speaks with Max Fraad Wolff, an instructor at the New School University and a frequent contributor to Huffington Post, Asia Times and The Indypendent, about Barack Obama's new economic team and the bailout. He also speaks with former D.E.A. agent Micha... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Fri, 11/21/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
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Financial analyst Katherine Austin Fitts on the autor bailout, deflation and the G-20 response to Wall Street and Part 2 of an interview with Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman and Presidential candidate. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Tue, 11/18/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
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Host Dennis Bernstein looks at the Status of Forces Agreement between the U.S. and Iraq, and he interviews Father Louie Vitale about the national movement to resist torture at Fort Huachuca, the military installation in Arizona where the U.S. trains officers in “Enhanced In... Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Thu, 11/13/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
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Topics include a report from occupied Gaza, the crisis of displaced refugees in Congo, and former Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney reflects on the election and the future of President-Elect Obama. Read more

Flashpoints

Airs at: Wed, 10/29/2008 at 11:15am - 12:00pm
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Retired Colonel Ann Wright and former high level CIA official Ray McGovern respond to the attack on Syria and talk about what's missing in the U.S. Presidential campaigns.  Read more