
Flashpoints
5:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - FRIDAYS
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.
Flashpoints – April 22, 2009 at 5:00pm
The Morning Show is updated on the Coup in Honduras and the social unrest in Iran. Then a preview of a Conference on The Future of Socialism later this week in San Francisco. In the second hour, today is the deadline for US troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities. A roundtable discussion examines its importance. … Continued
Flashpoints – April 20, 2009 at 5:00pm
Gay Pride Special: political writer and comic Kate Clinton and nationally-syndicated journalist Michelangelo Signoreli discuss Obama and the gay community. Plus: progressive sportswriter Dave Zirin on sports and gender; and Free Speech Forum: your thoughts on gay pride, Michael Jackson’s death and other the news of the week
Flashpoints – April 16, 2009
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton goes to Haiti: We'll feature an on-the-ground report from Port-au-Prins, and have Special Correspondent, Kevin Pena, in our studio for deep background:Also Nora Barrow's Friedman reports from Occupied Palestine, and in honor of Pacifica's 60th birthday– we'll feature an excerpt from our sixty-years sixty voices collection
Flashpoints – April 15, 2009
We take an in-depth look at the Obama Bail-out, and its impact at the state and local level: In celebration of 60 years of Pacifica we play our 1991 interview with Earth-Firster and Wobbley, the late Judi, who was blown up in her car by Terrorists and then blamed falsely for bombing herself by the … Continued
Flashpoints – April 14, 2009
Watching an Innocent Man Murdered by the State: We'll Speak with Reverend Carroll Picket, who Watched the stated of Texas murder 95 people , including at least one man, Carlos Deluna, who was provably Innocent:Also we'll feature a follow on the case of Efren Paredes, who claims he was convicted of a crime he did … Continued

