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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.
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.
On their Morning Edition show, NPR censors the killing of two Palestinian kids, we’ll have a follow-up report on the killings and look at the recent arrests of Pentagon officials releasing secret documents to American-Israeli lobby group AIPAC; also, the US military continues their torture cover-up with the dismissal of charges against Lynndie England; a … Continued
Has Reporters Without Borders become a front group for the US State Department? We’ll feature a breaking story on right-wing and State department funding of Reporters Without Borders; plus, at least fifty killed and three times as many wounded in northern Iraqi Kurdistan, we’ll speak with Patrick Cockburn of the Independent of London and Aaron … Continued
Helen Caldicott reports from a global UN conference on nuclear proliferation; also, immigrant California governor Schwartzenegger goes pro-vigilante; Iraq and Afghanistan still up in flames as a new government is sworn in; youth voices from Palestine; and the Knight Report.
Haiti’s imprisoned Prime Minister hangs on by a thread in the fifteenth day of his second hunger strike; meet the Bush family’s favorite terrorist; over a hundred people killed in Iraq over the last five days; youth voices from Palestine; and the Knight Report.
US-backed death squads, along with the United Nations, viciously attack and kill nonviolent demonstrators in Haiti, we’ll have a full report from Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince; plus, we celebrate a hard-won victory in the Pepper Spray trial; a rundown of weekly news featured by the Palestine News Network; part two of an interview with former … Continued
We speak with Camilo Mejia, the first conscientious objector to the current war in Iraq, just released from military prison; we’ll talk about what he witnessed in Iraq and why he is speaking out; plus, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark on why George Bush should be impeached; and Earth Matters looks at the slaughter of … Continued
Torture in the Middle East and in the United States: A grim one-year anniversary of the publication of the Abu Ghraib photos, we’ll assess the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Palestine and the US in the wake of the infamous torture scandal; also, an in-depth look at Palestinian political prisoners and we’ll feature an interview … Continued
19 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, what we’re still learning about the environmental fallout; plus, an update on the political turmoil sweeping Latin America; Palestinian youth speak out about the current situation in the context of 56 years of oppression; and the Knight Report.
