KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the show: We go to Sao Paolo and take a closer look at the elections in Brazil and allegations of interference by the Trump regime. Then we feature a roundtable interview with three activists about the legacy of People’s Park here in Berkeley, CA. Once a symbol of the antiwar movement and the counter culture movement, the chancellor and regents of UC Berkeley system have entombed it behind double stacked rusty shipping containers topped with concertina razor wire. 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 Is the Trump Regime Trying to Fix Elections in Brazil? appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Armando Elenas, Secretary Treasurer of the United Farm Workers blows the whistle on the growing numbers of violent ICE raids and roundups in California. Haiti Action co-founder Robert Roth joins us for a front-line Haiti update, as US ARMED death squads roam the streets of Port a Prince. PINK NOTES with Cynthia Papermaster. 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 We Talk to Armando Elenas, Secretary Treasurer of the United Farm Workers appeared first on KPFA.

TODAY ON A SPECIAL EDITION OF FLASHPOINTS: WE CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY WITH AN EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH Jeff Chang BY FLASHPOINTS CONTRIBUTOR JENNIFER HASEGAWA. BASED ON HIS MOVING BOOK WATER MIRROR ECHO. 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 An Extended Interview with Jeff Chang 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 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: The genocide upsurge continues in Occupied Palestine: we’ll feature as we do every aThursday, the Electronic Intifada frontline newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman: Also today, we’ll feature our ongoing presentation of poems of the Genocide, as Anita Barrows contines her commitment to write a poem to document every single day of the current and ongoing, US financed genocide in Palestine: and for our national audience we rebroadcast our segment on a devastating decision for millions of immigrants as the Supreme Court Allows for Rapid, and Third-country deportations. 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 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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 the Venezuelan government. The post The Looting of Venezuela and Grassroots Resistance appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Excerpts from a powerful new speech by endangered Palestinian organizer and writer Mahmoud Khalil on political repression, Palestine solidarity, and the fight against authoritarianism in the United States and around the world. The discussion will also mark the publication of Khalil’s first book, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention, a memoir drawing on his prison diary and recounting his arrest, incarceration, separation from his family, and continuing struggle against deportation. 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 impact on the Asian American identity, from segregated San Francisco to martial arts stardom. The post Flashpoints – October 5, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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 again is Cynthia Papermaster of CODE PINK who has helped us cook up this weekly collaboration with Code pink. 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 Nuclear Madness at the Edge appeared first on KPFA.

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 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 Weekly Edition of Electronic Intifada Newscast appeared first on KPFA.

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 rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Priests Against Genocide appeared first on KPFA.

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 Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post The Supreme Court Allows for Rapid, Third-Country Deportations. appeared first on KPFA.

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 poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post A Special Edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast appeared first on KPFA.

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 back with the poem of the day. 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 Israel Tightens the Noose of Genocide in Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

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, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post We Talk to Gloria La Riva, Just Back From an Extended Visit to Cuba appeared first on KPFA.

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 Zionism and Israel. 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 SB1387 Designating Jews as an Ethnicity in California Sits on Newsom’s Desk to Be Signed As Progressive Jewish Organizations Call Foul appeared first on KPFA.

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 corporate headquarters. 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 A Special Edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast appeared first on KPFA.

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 stepping up its violent arrests. As we go to air, we hear of stepped up ice activities in California, and a violent cowboy ice shooting in austin. The ice victim still being held with the bullet still lodged in his body. We feature an update on the US-funded violence in Haiti and Flying Kites in protest of the ongoing Gaza Genocide. 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 Keith McHenry was Denied Entry into Canada and Taken into Custody…

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 Linda Pentz Gunter founder and executive director of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear. The post Flashpoints – September 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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 financed genocide in Palestine. 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 The Brutal and Violent Genocide Continues in Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

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 about Why Ro Khanna and AOC Should Run for President in 2028. 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 Yves Engler Calls Out Canadian Prime Minister Carney for Building a Big Business Coalition Committed to Militarization to Thwart Trump’s Tariff War appeared first on KPFA.

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 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 Immigrant-Rights Specialist Francisco Herrera Takes Us into the Streets of the Bay Area appeared first on KPFA.

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 rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies appeared first on KPFA.

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 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 Richard Montoya Joins Us from Los Angeles appeared first on KPFA.

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 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 Palestinians Continue to Die By the Dozens appeared first on KPFA.