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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.
Food riots and grassroots struggle continues in Haiti; Also, we’ll have a global perspective on the massive struggle to feed the world’s hungry; Plus, a Palestinian rights activist is held in solitary confinement in his 45th day of a hunger strike; Activist Nation features the million signature campaign in Iran and the plight of women’s … Continued
Iconic singer songwriter Ani DiFranco speaks with Nora Barrows-Friedman on her evolution as a musician, life as mother, and her community in New Orleans; Plus, our Palestine bureau chief Kristen Ess reports on the educational crisis and fuel shortages in Gaza; And the Knight Report with Robert Knight.
Body of War, a new documentary by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, we’ll be joined in studio by the filmmakers; Also, Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the Wheels of Justice bus tour; Anuradha Mittal reports on a global hunger emergency; And the Knight Report with Robert Knight.
State violence in Mexico against women activists and journalists; Also, Miguel Perez reports on a takeover in the Mexican Congress in protest of the privatization of oil; and Headlines en Espanol.
For the third day thousands of Haitians protest the rise in food and fuel prices and call for the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide; Also, Kristen Ess reports as many as a million Palestinians facing hunger as UN food supplies run out; We’ll get a report from Iraq on the fifth anniversary of the occupation … Continued
Israeli occupation forces kill ten Palestinians in Gaza, and kidnap 50 in the West Bank in a series of expanded raids; also, a second generation of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other advanced US weaponry continue to take their silent toll across US-occupied Iraq; we report on an in-depth assessment of the body count of … Continued
Thousands of Haitians rush the Presidential palace and are dispersed by UN forces firing teargas and rubber bullets; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess interviews a major political leader in the West Bank about the expanded colonization of Jerusalem; we’ll also feature a special report on a Fallujah prison that’s more like a dungeon; and … Continued
Death Row political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, in his own words, talks about the status of his case for the first time since the most recent ruling from the 3rd Circuit Court which recently denied his appeal; headlines from occupied Palestine as Israel continues to bomb and attack the Gaza strip; Rachel Corrie’s … Continued
We welcome back Francisco Herrera and broadcast live from the San Francisco Day Labor Program with co-host Rene Saucedo! We’ll be focusing on recent ICE raids in the Bay Area; Rene will report back from a recent conference at the border; we’ll talk about the implications of the recent militarization of the border; we’ll speak … Continued
More rape allegations surface against Halliburton-KBR in US-occupied Iraq; also, excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King’s moving speech on April 30, 1967, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam, and we talk about his vision against what King called the triple evils of militarism, racism and economic exploitation; and the Knight Report.
