KPFA - Flashpoints

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 10, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: The genocidal slaughter in illegally occupied Palestine continues. Our weekly segment PinkNotes/our collaboration with CodePink. We’ll feature a special report on Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, Palestinian doctor currently near death and facing a continual program of Israeli torture and starvation. Our weekly news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. An award w...

Today on show: We are honored to welcome back the legendary Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers. Dolores joins us again to speak out for the rights of people who do the hardest labor for all of us and often get attacked, disparaged, sometimes even deported for their hard work. The second part of the show breaking news from the expanding conflict between the US and Iran. We cut thr...

Today on the Show: Greg Palast kicks off a new Season of the election Crimes Bulletin, gearing up for another season of Trump voter fraud raves and attempts to limit American’s right to vote. What is the Safe Act and Why did Trump shelve a highly popular bi-partisan Housing Bill to force it through congress, and threaten anyone who gets in his way. An award winning front-line investigative news ma...

Today on the Show: We welcome back Frontline human rights defender, Juan Jose Gutierrez for a crucial update on  Trump’s deportation crackdown in the midst of an emerging police state. Our  Weekly Newscast from the Electronic Intifada  with Nora Barrows Friedman: Today’s bloody report was filed last Thursday, on day one thousand of the Gaza Genocide. An award winning front-line investigative news...

Today on the Show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, reads a powerful new poem, Alligator Alcatraz, as a part of a special 250 year anniversary publication of the Nation Magazine. Martin will be joined by his Friend, attorney, poet, Human Rights visionary Camilo Perez Bustillo to talk about the dangers of the of the extreme right and how to resist in word and deed. An award winning...

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 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: American Indian Movement co-founder, Bill Means, one of the original AIM visionaries, and an early leader of the  American Indian Movement. We rebroadcast excerpt from a speech By Fired and then reinstated San Jose State University Professor, Dr. Sang Kil, who is a Palestine activist who won a union arbitration allowing her to go back to work with full back pay. An award winning...

Today on the show: Photographer, Journalist, Historian, David Bacon joins us. Through the eye of his camera lens we see the multiple struggles facing farmworkers and their families, as they struggle to make ends meet, and stay one step ahead of Trump’s US deportation machine. Kevin pina files a front-line report on Venezuela After the earthquakes. We’ll feature special guest Kumu Pua Case, the lea...

Today on the Show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, reads a powerful new poem, Alligator Alcatraz, as a part of a special 250 year anniversary publication of the Nation Magazine. Martin will be joined by his Friend, attorney, poet, Human Rights visionary Camilo Perez Bustillo to talk about the dangers of the of the extreme right and how to resist in word and deed. An award winning...

Today on the show: Haiti Action co-founders Pierre LaBossiere and Robert Roth respond to the threatened deportation of millions of Haitians and others as a result of end of Temporary Protective Status. We continue our drum-beat coverage of the ICE crack down across California. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and...

Today on the show: A powerful new edition of the Electronic Intifada news cast with Nora Barrows Friedman. Our weekly collaboration with CodePink and PINK NOTES co-host, Cynthia Papermaster. A protest against Weapon’s Manufacurer, General Dynamics. Norman Solomon on the dangers of  Congressional Democrats playing the ‘War Party’ on Iran. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, tha...

Today on the show: US destabilization policy in Cuba proceeds apace with an expanding US Crackdown and embargo. A protest in Northern California at the Weapons Manufacturer, General Dynamics, in response to their endless weapons shipments to Israel. Flashpoints contributor Arun Gupta reports from Paris on the Continuing Gaza genocide and other crucial issues of our time. An award winning front-lin...

Today on the show: US imperialism expands in the Americas/Peru on the US Chopping Block. We’ll speak with human rights Attorney and part of the leadership of “Witness at the Border” Camilo Peres Bustillo about the right-wing twist in Peru. Was the election fair or was it stolen by the extreme Right. Francisco Herrera joins us to talk about the community keeping its eyes on ICE. An award winning fr...

Today on the show: A powerful new edition of the Electronic Intifada news cast with Nora Barrows Friedman. Our weekly collaboration with CodePink and PINK NOTES co-host, Cynthia Papermaster. Code pink announces its Campaign targeting “War Crusader” Pete Hegseth, and his War Department’s $1.5 TRILLION dollar budget. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civ...

Today on the show: A roundtable on immigration roundups and racist crackdown by Trump and his ICE forces. Hosted by Miguel Gavilan Molina and Francisco Herrera.   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 The Browntabl...

Today on the show: A powerful new edition of the Electronic Intifada news cast with Nora Barrows Friedman. Our weekly collaboration with CodePink and PINK NOTES co-host, Cynthia Papermaster. Code pink announces its Campaign targeting “War Crusader” Pete Hegseth, and his War Department’s $1.5 TRILLION dollar budget. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civ...

Today on the show: Farmworker Communities Call for Pesticide Protections for California School Children and Urge growers to stop the use of highly hazardous pesticides near public schools in California. Richard Silverstein on Israel, as Netanyahu’s grand plan to topple the Islamic Republic and replace it with a defanged dictator has failed miserably. And an update on US destabilization/starvation...

Today on the Show: Voter-protection specialist, Greg Palast, talks about Trump’s latest  plans to hijack your vote. Professor Robert Buzzanco on Trump’s cashing in on war and peace talks with Iran. Food not Bombs founder, Keith McHenry, reads from his new Auto-Biography, “SOUP STREET”. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues o...

Today on the show: What role is Pakistan playing in peace talks with Iran? Also, Harvey Wasserman on the fight for solar in the face of continued nuclear madness. Linda Seeley of Mothers for Peace joins us to discuss the ongoing resistance to Diablo Canyon, located on California’s coastal fault line. And satirist, radical activist, and radio host Randy Credico reflects on the expanding Trump klept...

Today on the show: Kathy Kelly confronts US threats  to destroy key Iranain sources of fresh water: AND THE COMPLICIT LENS: US MEDIA COVERAGE OF ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN GAZA: A POWERFUL NEW BOOK BY MEDIA SCHOLAR AND CRITIC, ROBIN ANDERSEN. ANDERSON  shows how mainstream media—from The New York Times to CNN—spread misinformation, skewed coverage, and peddled outright lies about Israel’s genocide in Ga...

Today on the show: A powerful new edition of the Electronic Intifada news cast with Nora Barrows Friedman; Also poems from the Genocide with Anita Barrows; And PINK NOTES our weekly collaboration with Code/Pink. Today Pink Notes hones in on the growing Dangers of Artificial Intelligence/AI. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, iss...

Today on the show: An extended interview with Long Time Civil rights/human rights attorney , Ron Kuby, close associate of the late civil rights icon, radical Attorney/Legend, William Kunstler. Ron has been taking notes on the the New Jersey Stand-off at the ICE jail that hunger strikers inside and their supporters outside, refer to a concentration camp: Also Richard Becker joins us for an update o...

Today on the show: Report back on the 4th Annual 3-Day Walk for Immigrant Rights!:Facing life and death in ice jails and as a result of deadly and draconian refugee policy: Also Criticizing the ICC for refusing to act on Israel and moving extremely slowly re Israel’s ongoing war crimes, and ethnic cleansing in Gaza/the west bank, and South Lebanon. An award winning front-line investigative news ma...

Today on the show: With Miguel Gavilan Molina, standing by at the culmination of the 4th Annual 3-Day Walk for Immigrant Rights! Gavilan and the Flashonda crew are standing by with Renee Saucedo: Also the Launch of a Solidarity Fasting to Denounce the Inaction of the Assistant US Attorney for the Deaths and Conditions at California Immigration Detention Centers, and the Retaliation Against the Hun...