KPFA - Flashpoints

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. Today on the show: The genocide upsurge continues in Occupied Palestine: we’ll feature as we do every thursday, the Electronic Intifada frontline newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman: Also t...

On today’s show, we return to Caracas Venezuela to talk with Giselle Perdomo about the gold and oil being lifted from the country by the White House mafia. We’ll also address the tough choices being made by the Bolivarian Circles movement and the leadership of Venezuelan government. The post Flashpoints – October 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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. The post Flashpoints – October 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: we kick-off a new series of Longer interviews that we’re calling the Long Form, Hosted by award-winning Poet and writer Jennifer Ja-Ha Hasegawa: We kick off the series today with an extended interview with Jeff Chang, the American Book Award-winning author of: Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. Chang’s cultural biography that explores Bruce Lee’s impac...

Today on the show: Nuclear Madness at the edge: We’ll be joined by Linda Seeley of Mothers For Peace, On a special edition of Pinknotes, our continuing collaboration with CODEPINK. Linda Seeley has been in a multi-year, pitched battle to shut down Diablo Canyon before it melts down and turns a good chunk of the California north coast into a museum you need protective gear to enter. Joining us agai...

Today on the show: We continue our drumbeat coverage of the continuing US/Israeli Genocide in Gaza, and the expanding settler violence in the occupied west bank. For a front line view of the ongoing genocide across Palestine, we’ll feature the expanded weekly edition of the powerful Electronic Intifada Newscast, with Nora Barrows Friedman. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine fo...

On today’s show: We discuss Priests Against Genocide’s recent direct action campaign in Rome and at the UN in New York with Father John Heagle. He also discusses the progressive role of Pope Leo and the fallacies of Christian Zionism. Courtesy of The Southern Cross, The Catholic Magazine for South Africa. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers...

Today on the Show: In a devastating decision for millions of  immigrants, the Supreme Court Allows for Rapid, Third-country deportations. We’ll speak to Longtime human rights, civil rights activist Juan Jose Gutierrez about the multiple implications of this decision. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global...

Today on the Show: A special edition of the  Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast. How Ken Paxton will steal Texas; And Greg reminds us that this ain’t nothing new for Paxton, who appears to be a self-proclaimed vote thief for Donald Trump. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and p...

Today on the Show: Israel tightens the noose of genocide in Palestine. We’ll be joined by Rami  Khader, founder of ANAR for Empowerment and psychosocial support, who has been working in the deepest ways with families, and children in particular in the West Bank, and now in what’s left of the Gaza Strip: Children who have been imprisoned and tortured. The Genocide poems of Gaza/anita Barrows is bac...

Today on the Show: Gloria La Riva, just back from an extended visit to Cuba, where hunger is growing by the day and the entire country is desperate for life and death medicines and the children once again are being crushed by US policy. 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, a...

On today’s show: We feature an interview with Sara Kershnar, co-founder and international coordinator of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Sara helps us unpack what she sees as the inherent dangers of California Senate Bill SB1387, which officially recognizes Jewish identity as an ethnicity. We also discuss the definition of anti-Semitism and what it means to support the ideology of Z...

Today on the show:  A special edition of the  Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast. We’ll feature an update on Trump’s latest actions to steal or crush your vote: will he be able to flip the current presidency into a permanent Criminal enterprise. Greg’s Documentary: Long Knife reveals the hidden story of a gang so powerful that they don’t operate on the street… they work from Koch Oil corpor...

Today on the show: Keith McHenry author and co-founder of the global peace movement Food Not Bombs was denied entry into Canada and taken into custody overnight by Canadian Authorities. McHenry is author of the recently released SOUP STREET: A memoir: Keith claims he was invited to speak at the dedication of his archives at the University of Victoria, But he was arrested and deported instead. Ice...

Today on the show: We go live to the US Mexico Border at Juarez where we will be joined by our special legal correspondent, Camilo Perez Bustillo and others in protest of Trump’s massive deportation program: Also The duel nuclear and data center nightmare: What we know and what else  we might need to know about AI and the potential nuclear madness that may very well follow: We’ll be joined by Lind...

Today on the show: The brutal and violent genocide continues in Gaza, as a shipment of 2000 pound bunker busters arrives in Israel from the USA. Electronic Intifada frontline newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman. We’ll feature our ongoing presentation of poems of the Genocide, as Anita Barrows continues her commitment to write a poem to document every single day of the current and ongoing, US finan...

On today’s show: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney claimed he is building a big business coalition to thwart Trump’s tariff war. At a summit in Toronto this week, Carney rolled out the ‘Defense, Security and Resilience Bank,’ billing it as an ‘investment-attraction strategy’ against the trade war.  We catch up with Norman Solomon about a recent article he wrote with Jeff Cohen in Common Dreams a...

Today on the show: Flashpoints Resident Troubadour, and immigrant-rights specialist Francisco Herrera takes us into the streets of the bay area and on the frontline protests for immigrant rights. What’s up with solar in the face of a trump nuclear stampede? Harvey Wasserman joins for an update on solartopia. Harvey is also watching the elections for what trump fraud  scheme comes next. An award wi...

Today on the Show: Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies, on the expanding war with Iran, as the Houthis jump in full force. Our weekly column PINKNOTES in collaboration with CodePink and Cynthia Papermaster of CodePink Bay Area. Today’s special guest is Jenin— CODEPINK’s Palestine Campaigner. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers...

Today on the Show: Richard Montoya, the creator of the award-winning theater troupe, Culture Clash joins us from Los Angeles where he has been keeping track of ICE sweeps, as the kids head back to school. Rebroadcast of former FBI Special Agent, Coleen Rowley 9-11 whistleblower and Time magazine person of the year joins us to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the twin-towers attacks. An award win...

Today on the show: The Sonoma County Sanctuary Coalition, one of Sonoma’s most prominent immigrant rights organizations, is at this hour, holding a picket line outside of the Kick-off Social for the Sheriff’s “public safety” Foundation. Our extended genocide newscast from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. Palestinians continue to die by the dozens. An award winning front-line inv...

Today on the show:  We have the wonderful opportunity to catch up with Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, the Uncle of Oscar Grant and founder of the “Love Not Blood” campaign against police violence. We’ll mix it up about the state of racism in America under Trump. Then we feature an interview with Danny Shaw about his experiences in Haiti. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focus...

TODAY ON  THE SHOW: Former FBI Special Agent,  9-11 whistleblower and Time magazine person of the year joins us to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the twin-towers attacks. How does the US war against Iran impacts Pakistan and countries in the region. We’ll speak to Junaid Ahmad, Professor of Law, Religion, and Global Politics about Pakistan’s role in trying to negotiate a secure peace between I...

Today on the show: Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty-Council, Andrea Carmen takes us to the battle to defend Indian lands and sacred sites. Long-time  Chicano Activist/organizer, Carlos Montes, on Trump’s racist deportation Crack down. Flashpoints Resident Troubadour, and immigrant-rights specialist Francisco Herrera takes us into the streets of the bay area in the ongoing batt...

Today on the show: Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty-Council, Andrea Carmen takes us to the battle to defend Indian lands and sacred sites. Long-time  Chicano Activist/organizer, Carlos Montes, on Trump’s racist deportation Crack down. Flashpoints Resident Troubadour, and immigrant-rights specialist Francisco Herrera takes us into the streets of the bay area in the ongoing batt...