5:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays To 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.
An eleven year old shot in the back by US-armed Haitian death squad police as he attempted to go to school, as Prime Minister Yvon Neptune finally goes to court; also, FBI documents bolster allegations that the Koran was flushed down the toilet by interrogators in Guantanamo; Ali Abunimah joins us to talk about the … Continued
Massive uprisings in the streets of La Paz, the capitol of Bolivia, where a growing grassroots movement is calling for the resignation of the President and the nationalization of the gas and oil industry; and we celebrate the release of a new book by the niece of the legendary African-American writer and folklorist Zora Neale … Continued
We celebrate Judi Bari Day, with an auditory journey through her life, and how we continue her work. Our environmental segment Earth Matters takes on the Bush administration’s lies and deceptions regarding global warming with Pulitzer prize winner Ross Gelbspan. We also feature a film about the drowning of Pacific Islands due to sea level … Continued
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail at the Jordanian-Iraqi border, where thousands of refugees drift around No Man’s Land; also, Kevin Pina continues to risk his life to report on the death squad national police of Haiti and their UN collaborators; and a collage on the streets of Oakland, where protesters are holding vigil for Haitian … Continued
We devote most of the hour to the recent Mayoral election in Los Angeles, where a Latino Mayor was elected for the first time since the 1800s; we’ll speak with Arnoldo Torrez, a seasoned political analyst for Spanish-language television; we’ll have a roundtable discussion with Juan Jose Gutierrez, an immigrant rights advocate and Richard Montoya … Continued
Correspondent Dahr Jamail documents massive destruction across Iraq; Kevin Pina threatened by Haiti’s national police death squads as he stands between the people of Haiti and US-supported death squads during a major pro-democracy demonstration on Flag Day; British lawmaker George Galloway tells the US Senate to go to hell; smoking gun evidence that the Israeli … Continued
Excerpts from John Pilger’s new film which documents the planning, execution and cover-up of a US-British scheme to "cleanse and sanitize" the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia for military expropriation. The gentle Chagosians who had lived there for generations were brutally expelled from their idyllic island home in the 1970s, left without hope in … Continued
Condi Rice in Baghdad as Iraqi death squads sweep the country: we’ll feature a report on the ongoing slaughter in Iraq with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail; plus, legendary journalist Bill Moyers speaks at the Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis; and the Knight Report.
Vicious police attacks on Mexican communities across California: we’ll speak to several activists about the growing paramilitary police presence in Latino communities; we play excerpts from the new film, The Corporation; also, Palestinians commemorate the 1948 Nakba, or catastrophe, of their forced exile as Israel plans its so-called independence day; and commentaries by Miguel Gavilan … Continued
