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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.
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
We honor the new journalism: we’ll feature a new documentary by John Pilger on the expansion of US militarism on the island of Diego Garcia, entitled Stealing a Nation; plus, Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail talks about reporting from occupied Iraq; youth voices from Dheisheh refugee camp in Palestine; and the Knight Report.
The right-wing supreme court of Haiti overturns dozens of convictions of Haitian military mass murders and death squad activists, we’ll have a special report live from Port-au-Prince on the deadly implications of this breaking story, and we’ll speak to one of the lawyers who worked on what’s come to be known as the Robeteau massacre; … Continued
A former high-level DEA agent talks about government drug trafficking and the Oliver North connection; and we’ll be joined by the author of Drug War: Covert Money, Power and Policy, an encyclopedia on the history of government drug involvement; and the Knight Report.
Independent of London reporter Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad on the killing of 75 Iraqis by US forces at the Syrian border; plus, a free-wheeling discussion with award-winning investigative reporter Robert Parry on CIA-linked drug trafficking and the cover-up of the October Surprise; and the Knight Report.
