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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.
Independent of London correspondent Patrick Cockburn reports on the Cheney visit to Baghdad and the 5 year old occupatio; former Marine Corps Sergeant Adam Kokesh and Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army testifiy during the recent Winter Soldier 2008 Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts to the Occupation; … Continued
We talk to the father of an Iraq war vet who took his own life after severe PTSD, amongst reports that 120 vets are committing suicide a week; a victim of Penny Pritzker’s Superior Bank speaks out; also, Kristen Ess reports on the Hamas-Fatah talks held in Yemen; an update on the case of Dr. … Continued
Father Louis Vitale reflects with us on his decision to get arrested at Fort Huachuca, out of a five-month jail term and re-arrested at Livermore Laboratories; Rene Saucedo returns from a delegation to Juarez, where people are resisting the corporate takeover by big business box stores; we hear Bay Area voices of revolution and protest … Continued
Special correspondent Dahr Jamail takes a troubling look at the impact of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other illegal weapons are having on the people of Iraq; Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues her investigation of internal attacks against Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza; also, we continue our dialogue with Catherine Austin … Continued
Activists mobilize from coast to coast on the fifth anniversary of the illegal war and occupation in Iraq; also, former US Army Privates who testified at the recent Winter Soldier investigation talk about the free-fire zones against civilians; on the Block Report with JR, Ramona Africa, one of the survivors of the aerial bombing of … Continued
Former Wall Street banker Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the tanking of Bear Stearns and its multiple impacts on the US economy; also, we’ll feature an excerpt from the Winter Soldier 2008 investigations; an update on the upcoming anti-war protests on the fifth anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq; plus, Kristen Ess reports … Continued
Israeli military death squads assassinate several Palestinians in Bethlehem, Kristen Ess reports from the ground; also, local national and international activists take on Chevron for its environmental destruction; Pierre Labossiere from the Haiti Action Committee calls for the City of Berkeley to act on the continuing human rights violations in Haiti; JR and the Block … Continued
We look at displaced persons as a result of the Iraq War and the Failure of the US government to respond to Katrina. We talk to the president of the hip hop caucus about Iraq five years into the war and get an on the ground update from Malik Raheem in New Orleans. Also we’ll … Continued
Presidential Hopeful Cynthia McKinny. Also a look at Iraq 5 years after the Bush Administration lied the country into a war there… The head of US forces in the Middle East resigns in contraversy. And The Block Report looks at gentrification of Black Owned Property.
