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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.
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.
A look at the political situation in Mexico, as over a million protesters hit the streets of Mexico City; plus, we’ll talk about a new report that demands a full independent investigation of Donald Rumsfeld and others in the US Abu Ghraib torture scandal; also, you’re being watched: Rumsfeld’s secret military intelligence operations in Colorado; … Continued
Legendary civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart in our studio talks about her conviction and the state of justice and politics; also, an update on the unraveling situation in Ecuador; the first in a series of pieces from students of the Freedom Radio Project in Palestine; plus, a special Earth Day commemoration; a commentary by Miguel … Continued
Waves of fierce resistance against US-led forces across Iraq, we’ll go to Baghdad for a full report; a commentary on the so-called reconstruction in Iraq by Rahul Mahajan; also, as the world turns a blind eye to the genocide in Darfur, the rapes and killings continue; a wide-ranging discussion on police brutality and torture as … Continued
The President of Ecuador, Lucio Gutierrez is forced from office in a breaking coup d’etat as Colombia continues to explode with violence; plus, a Palestinian woman in the Gaza strip is forced to give birth at a checkpoint, her baby dies shortly afterwards; also, commemorating the Berber people’s fight for national recognition in Algeria; a … Continued
An update on the critical situation in Haiti with Kevin Pina; also, activists face off with vigilantes at the Arizona-Mexico border; a discussion with an esteemed Palestinian artist on resistance and culture; our new Earth Matters segment focuses on the Pepper Spray trial; and the Knight Report.
San Francisco-based Goldman Foundation gives a $125,000 environmental award to a well-known violator of human rights in Haiti, and an update on how the US violated its own 13-year old arms embargo to provide new weapons to the death squads of the Haitian National Police; plus, an American aid worker killed in a car bomb … Continued
