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 4/29
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 Attorney General Ramsey
Clark; a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints en Espanol;
4/28
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 the last remaining wild Buffalo in Yellowstone Park;
4/27
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 with a wife
of a former prisoner; plus, the Pepper-Spray by Q-Tip civil
rights trial goes to a jury;
4/26
Nineteen 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;
4/25
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; a commemoration
of People’s Park in Berkeley; and the Knight Report;
4/22
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 Molina; and Flashpoints en Español;
4/21
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 plaintiffs rest their case
in the Pepper Spray trial; and the Knight Report;
4/20
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 photo exhibition focuses
on Chevron-Texaco's environmental pillage in the Ecuadorian
rainforest; and the Knight Report;
4/19
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;
4/18
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 attack, we’ll talk about the work of Marla
Ruzicka and go to Baghdad for a report on the deteriorating
situation there; also, more violence sweeps through Darfur
in Sudan; and the Knight Report;
4/15
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 Human Rights Violations;
4/14
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 of Newfoundland who is witnessing
the ongoing slaughter of baby harp seals; and the Knight Report;
4/13
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;
4/12
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;
4/11
Three Palestinian teenagers are shot and killed in Gaza while
Ariel Sharon visits George Bush’s Texas ranch; plus,
new revelations and investigations into torture in Iraq, Afghanistan
and Guantanamo, we’ll talk about the role of top-level
Bush administration officials in the ongoing torture. Hate
crimes against Muslims break out in Chicago; and the Knight
Report;
4/8
New evidence on how the United States government is secretly
and illegally arming the US-installed coup government of Haiti;
plus, right-wing Jewish extremist groups rally to storm the
al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem this weekend; Phyllis Bennis
on the nomination of John Bolton to become the new UN Ambassador;
a commentary by Miguel Molina;and Flashpoints en Espanol;
4/7
New smoking gun evidence proves that the killing of Rachel
Corrie by the Israeli military was premeditated; an in-depth
discussion on recent elections in Zimbabwe and the deadly
impact of the Pope on Africa; an update on death squad police
in Brazil; plus Palestinian artists display the personal and
the political on exhibit in San Francisco; and a special Knight
Report focusing on the CIA background of the new president
of Iraq;
4/6
Protesters at the White House commemorate the eleventh anniversary
of the genocide in Rwanda and warn that the same thing is
happening in Darfur. Also, in the wake of the worst street
massacre in the history of Rio de Janeiro, we’ll take
an in-depth look at the police killers leading the attacks
against the poor, the landless and thousands of street kids.
We’ll also look at the US military targeting journalists
in Iraq with a featured interview with the brother of a Spanish
photographer gunned down by US forces . And of course the
Knight Report with Robert Knight;
4/5
A well-known Kurdish leader is chosen to be the next president
of Iraq, we'll have a background report on today's actions
by Iraq's puppet parliament and a report from Baghdad on the
bloody violence that continues to threaten everyday life;
plus, a former Salvadoran guerilla leader talks about contemporary
life in El Salvador; activists at the US-Mexico border resist
the Minutemen Vigilantes; and the Knight Report with Robert
Knight;
4/4
Massive attacks on Abu Ghraib prison in which dozens of Iraqis
and US soldiers were wounded; plus, the Israelis turn the
West Bank into an official garbage dump; street kids in jail
and out in Brazil face a deadly existence at the hands of
Brazil’s death squad police; marches all over the country
to honor Cesar Chavez, the legendary founder of United Farm
Workers; and Michael Parenti talks about the reactionary reign
of Pope John Paul the Second;
4/1
We explore the United States' contingency plan for an attack
on Iran, and what an attack would mean for the region; plus,
we go to the icefloes in Atlantic Canada where thousands of
baby harp seals are being clubbed and skinned to death; a
commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints en Español;
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