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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Berkeley, CA

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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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English


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F;ashpoints Debuts New Weekly Segment: Genocide Watch, with Sam Husseini

8/25/2025
Today on Flashpoints: With more starvation and another massacre of journalists in Gaza, we commence with a new weekly column, Genocide-Watch, co-hosted by Sam Husseini. Also Code Pink’s Cythia Papermaster calls out the corporate media. Norm Solomon wants to know where the hell the week-kneed democrats are on the expanding ethnic cleansing o Palestine: and Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing that Galvanized New York City The post F;ashpoints Debuts New Weekly Segment: Genocide Watch, with Sam Husseini appeared first on KPFA.
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Flashpoints – August 22, 2025

8/22/2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – August 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Suing The US Government For Genocide in Occupied Palestine

8/21/2025
Today on the show: Suing the US government for genocide in occupied Palestine. Also a preacher speaks out against the genocide and we’ll feature our weekly news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman: The post Suing The US Government For Genocide in Occupied Palestine appeared first on KPFA.
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Flashpoints – August 20, 2025

8/20/2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – August 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Greg Palast On Trump’s Plan to Kill FEMA & How It Will Affect Small Town America

8/19/2025
Today on the show: How Trump’s plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America A special report by award-winning investigative reporter Greg Palast. Also will Trump’s quest to end balloting by mail marginalize millions of brown and black voters in America. And satirist and radical radio host, Randy Credico, back on the road to Washington D.C. with a few crucial signs of our times The post Greg Palast On Trump’s Plan to Kill FEMA & How It Will Affect Small Town America appeared first on KPFA.
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The Latest Human Rights Reports Out of Gaza

8/18/2025
Today on the show: Two new damning human rights reports on the expanding slaughter in Gaza as the program of forced hunger and starvation continues: special correspondent, Jennifer Lowenstein reports. Also Richard Becker of Answer Coalition reflects on the pro-trump groveling in D.C. as a parade of presidents from Europe, join Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in another Trump ass-kissing secession at the White House. The post The Latest Human Rights Reports Out of Gaza appeared first on KPFA.
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Flashpoints – August 15, 2025

8/15/2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – August 15, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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The Government of Haiti, Big Business, and The Blossoming Illegal Drug Trade

8/14/2025
Today on the show: The government of Haiti, Big Business, and the blossoming illegal drug trade: Flashpoints Senior Producer Kevin Pina reports about how one businessman refuses to play ball with the traffickers and risks his life in the process. And we’ll feature our weekly news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman: Nora reports that the genocide continues amidst the endless slaughter of journalists and often times their entire family The post The Government of Haiti, Big Business, and The Blossoming Illegal Drug Trade appeared first on KPFA.
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What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly? A Book by Prison Survivor, Dorset Nun

8/13/2025
Today on the Show: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly, A new book by prison survivor, Dorsey Nun. Also soldiers in the streets of Washington D.C. Are we headed toward Marshall Law for the nation’s capital? And remembering Palestinian journalist Anas Al Sharif, assassinated by Israel in Gaza The post What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly? A Book by Prison Survivor, Dorset Nun appeared first on KPFA.
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The Disturbing Similarities Between Hitler’s Handling of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Netanyahu’s Handling of Gaza

8/12/2025
Today on the Show: A special report on the disturbing similarities between Hitler’s handling of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Netanyahu’s handling of Gaza. Also an update on the Genocide and starving of Palestinians in Gaza: And a poem for every day of the Genocide: Anita Barrows joins us for a another reading of her poems, based on the daily Gaza Slaughter The post The Disturbing Similarities Between Hitler’s Handling of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Netanyahu’s Handling of Gaza appeared first on KPFA.
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Starvation in Gaza and The Murder of Journalists Covering it

8/11/2025
Today on the show: Israel using starvation and mass murder of journalists in their US armed and supported genocide in Gaza. We’ll be joined by Ziad Abbas from the Middle-east children’s alliance and Hani Almadhoun Senior Director at UNRWA USA The post Starvation in Gaza and The Murder of Journalists Covering it appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:57

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An Update on Recently Released Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier

8/8/2025
Today on the Show: An update on Leonard Peltier back home in Indian Country and healing. Also fighting back against Trump’s shock troops and growing number of violent street arrests: organizing the resistance to the Trump plan to turn Alcatraz back into a high security prison for mass deportation: and the fast for Justice in Sonoma County California continues a pace The post An Update on Recently Released Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:59

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Update on ICE Raids In Los Angeles and Southern California

8/7/2025
Today on the show: Noted refugee rights advocate, Juan Jose Gutierrez, speaks to us from Los Angles about the expanding sweeps through the streets of Los Angeles and parts south. Also The genocidal slaughter in occupied Palestine continues a pace as we feature our weekly FRONTLINE news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. And a Historic” $100K Settlement from University of Maryland for Unlawfully Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Student Speech The post Update on ICE Raids In Los Angeles and Southern California appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:58

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Flashpoints – August 6, 2025

8/6/2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – August 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Flashpoints – August 5, 2025

8/5/2025
Today on the Show: Pro-immigration activists in Sonoma County California begin a water-only hunger fast to protest the widening brutal immigration sweeps by ICE and Homeland Security. Also An update on the killing of beloved Palestinian human rights defender and filmmaker, Awdah Hathaleen The post Flashpoints – August 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Poet Martin Espada Discusses His Latest Collection of Poetry “Jailbreak of Sparrows

8/4/2025
Today on the Show: Haiti, US Private Security forces and the big lie behind US foreign policy. And National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada reads from his latest collection of poetry JAILBREAK OF SPARROWS and speaks out against the expanding crack down and round ups of people of color Across the USA The post Poet Martin Espada Discusses His Latest Collection of Poetry “Jailbreak of Sparrows appeared first on KPFA.
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Flashpoints – August 1, 2025

8/1/2025
Today on the Show: Trump’s ICE shock troops expanding their numbers and their violent round ups of brown people from coast to coast: and Trump Says He Ordered Nuclear Subs Repositioned in Rare Nuclear Threat to Russia The post Flashpoints – August 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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The Latest Headlines from Gaza w/ The Electronic Intifada

7/31/2025
Today on the show: we’ll feature our weekly FRONTLINE news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. Nora reports that starvation as a weapon of war continues unabated. And Congress, Jeffery Epstein and Israel.” The post The Latest Headlines from Gaza w/ The Electronic Intifada appeared first on KPFA.
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Flashpoints – July 30, 2025

7/30/2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – July 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Flashpoints – July 29, 2025

7/29/2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – July 29, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.