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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.
An Israeli commander publicly says his own actions in the Israeli bombing of Lebanon were quote “insane and monstrous,” we’ll have responses from Lebanon on this public admission of a war crime; a news report from occupied Palestine where another 14 year old is gunned down by Israeli occupiers; also, the Cuban 5 face another … Continued
In the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks five years ago, Bush has launched a global war against Muslims and people of the Middle East; today, on this fifth anniversary, we’ll talk about how 9-11 has been used as a tool to expand Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the US hegemony in the Middle East; … Continued
Human rights investigation published by the Lancet Medical Journal under attack; an update on the situation on the ground in Haiti with our special correspondent Kevin Pina; Salvadoran deportations continue with a bizarre twist; also, the US stranglehold on clean water puts Mexicans at risk; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.
We spend the hour talking about the tenth annual Arab film festival and we’ll broadcast excerpts of a brand new documentary on the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the Knight Report.
Dahr Jamail reports on the killing fields in US-occupied Iraq, where officials are running out of morgue freezers to put the over 800 bodies a week that are pouring in; also, how Israel begins another round of ethnic transfers of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and their family members out of Palestine; plus, we’ll take … Continued
John Ross reports from Mexico City on the decision to make Calderon the next President of Mexico despite massive fraud; also, a free-wheeling discussion with former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern, focusing on the neo-cons’ drumbeat towards war with Iran, the bombing of Lebanon and the continued use of torture by the US government; and … Continued
We present an immigrants rights Labor Day special with live and taped reports form today’s National Immigration Rights March. We’ll look at the events of the day and we’ll talk to some of the leading activists as to where the Immigrants Rights Movement is headed now.
Jon Gibler and John Ross report from the streets of Mexico City, as President Fox delivers his last address to the nation, which remains split over the refusal of the government to do a recount of the Presidential election; also, we’ll speak to several people just back from Mexico about the situation on the ground; … Continued
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan calls for an end to Israeli aggressions after Israeli death squads kill nine more in Gaza, bringing the total to 20 in five days; also, a war resister turns himself in today after having gone AWOL for nearly a year and a half in protest of Bush’s illegal war against … Continued
A new study in the prestigious Lancet Journal of Medicine shows that under the US-imposed Haiti government, there were rampant human rights violations, including murder, beatings and sexual assault by the National Police; also, the Block Report returns today with an in-depth look at independent media and its effect in the way we see the … Continued
