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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.
The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East: we feature the new, 1300-page book of award-winning journalist Robert Fisk, along with excerpt of a prescient interview we did with Fisk in January; also, a Texan runs for president of Haiti as the Bush administration attempts to put the final touches in its … Continued
We are proud to feature a brand-new, hard-hitting documentary called The Oil Factor. The Oil Factor tears the lid off of the Bush lie and shows that the war on terror is really a war of terror to control oil and gas resources in the Middle East; and the Knight Report. .
We feature the work of Norman Finkelstein, one of the most outspoken and articulate critics of the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine; plus, Ali Abunimah speaks out against the continued killing of Palestinian teens as Israelis open fire again in Gaza while in the West Bank, arresting over a hundred more Palestinians; and the Knight … Continued
The bloodbath continues in the streets of Iraq as the US presses forward on its phony referendum; corporate media continues to flack for war; and media critic Norman Solomon will join us to read between the lines; and environmental activist Diane Wilson on the lam from Texas authorities.
We’ll feature a regional roundup of key stories in the hemisphere, in English and in Spanish; we’ll take a look at the current face-off between the US and Nicaragua as the Sandanistas vie for power again; also, Homeland Security deports immigrants who lost their homes as a result of hurricane Katrina; we’ll take a look … Continued
We’ll take an in depth look at the recent Bali Bombings and other kinds of terrorisms that have been haunting the people of Indonesia since the CIA Over throw of Sukarno’s non-aligned government in 1965 ; also an update on the situation in ache since the tsunami killed over a hundred thousand people there; Earth … Continued
An eyewitness account of the US government’s racist failure to protect the people of New Orleans, parts of Mississippi, and Alabama in the wake of Katrina; also, activists in over 40 cities around the world protest the coup government in Haiti and call for the restoration of democracy and the return of President Jean Bertrand … Continued
We spend the hour with acclaimed professor Norman Finkelstein on his hard-hitting new book, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, in which he confronts the contrived controversy of anti-Semitism and the misrepresentation or falsification of facts on the ground to suit Israeli and Zionist policy; and the Knight Report.
Immigrants rights activists call for a boycott against Greyhound Buses for their dangerous, extra-legal collaboration with Homeland Security; also, the Presbyterian Church USA speaks out about border violence; the fight to name the Berkeley Post Office after legendary civil rights activist Maudelle Shirek; comic-activist Randy Credico, featured in the new film 60 Spins Around the … Continued
