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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.
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
Esteemed civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart talks about her conviction and why she’s still speaking out against the assaults on civil liberties; also the women of Mulukulú, Nicaragua and their nonviolent resistance of oppression in the wake of war and economic terrorism; plus Flashpoints en Español; Mexico Snubs Cuba at The UN with allegations of … Continued
An in-depth interview with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail about the current deteriorating situation in Iraq, on a day where 18 Iraqis were killed and dozens wounded; plus, as the G7 World Bank and IMF Summit convenes, we talk about erasing poor nations’ massive debt; also, we speak to a ship Captain off the coast … Continued
A full update on Haiti and the illegal arms transfers by the United States; plus, what’s next for the Patriot Act, and how potential changes will further affect civil liberties; a look at the unraveling political crisis in Nepal; our weekly environmental segment, Earth Matters; and the Knight Report.
Palestinian former political prisoners speak out about the system of torture and oppression inside Israeli prisons; we’ll speak to a Latin American human rights activist who interrupted John Negroponte’s senate confirmation hearings today; Plus, environmental activists sue law enforcement for pepper spray torture during a nonviolent demonstration; and the Knight Report.
