Investigative reporter, radio host, human
rights advocate and poet Dennis Bernstein is a regular contributor to
Pacifica's Democracy Now, and Associate Producer of Pacific
News Service. He is currently
cohost of KPFA's Flashpoints News Magazine, and is a frequent
commentator on WBAI airwaves.
Today,
when Dennis Bernstein isn't tracking Newt and the New-Righters and Bill
Clinton's latest fund-raising scam, he's pursuing CIA dirty tricksters,
white-supremacist church-burners and their high-level political
associates, and hard-core pentagon liars and the dirtiest cover-up of
the decade: that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians
were wounded by chemical weapons during the war with Iraq.
Bernstein's
articles, essays, and poetry have appeared widely in newspapers,
journals and magazines in this country and abroad. His publications
have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, London Observer,
Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Times Herald, San Francisco Chronicle and S.F. Examiner,
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, Japan
Times, Village Voice, The Nation Magazine, Utne Reader, Mother Jones,
The Progressive, Texas Observer, Spin Magazine, Vibe, New Age Journal,
New York Quarterly, Pulp Smith, Dark Horse and many others.
Bernstein
is also the author, with Laura Sidel, of The Savings and Loan
Scandal Trading Cards, Eclipse Books 1993, and The Friendly
Dictators Trading Cards: 36 of America's Most Embarassing Allies,
1990 Eclipse Books. His collaborations with book artist Warren Lehrer
included in 1987: A Study of Social Patterns, Narratives, Chants,
Stories and Songs and in 1984: FRENCH FRIES: A Fast Food Murder
Mystery with Warren Lehrer, Visual Studies Workshop (included in
the Special Books Collection of The Louvre and The New York Musem of
Modern Art), and in 1980: Anne at 94, a musical with Biaja
Teal,and Particles of Light, poems with woodcuts by Stan
Kaplan, Tortoise Press, 1980.
Bernstein
has held lectures and workshops at: Stanford University, University of
California Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, CSU
Sacramento, Sonoma, San Francisco, University of San Francisco, Mills
College, Laney College, New York University Law School, Columbia
University Graduate Center, Hunter College, Queens College, SUNY
Purchase, Rutgers University, Fairleigh Dickinson, Hofstra University,
SUNY Stony Brook, Friends World College, University of Colorado at
Boulder, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Boston University, Visual
Studies Workshop, Clark University, United Nations: United Methodist
Seminars, Dia Art Foundation, and others.
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