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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on the Show: The legendary William Means, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, and a leader in the struggle to free Leonard Peltier…And we’ll continue our special reports from writer-activist, Kate Raphael, in the Occupied West Bank where violent settlers continue to collaborate with the IDF to threaten, beat and kill Palestinians and steal their land.

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Today on show: We kick off Trump Watch, as we batten down the hatches in the new age of white supremacy: In the first half of today’s show, we’ll be joined by the legendary Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers, with Cesar Chavez

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Today on the show: on the frontlines in Arizona fighting racist violence and illegal mass deportation: We’ll be joined by celebrated human rights attorney and Immigrants right’s activist Isabel Gardener: also “Today In Imperial Recklessness” a new stimulating commentary by Caitlin Johnstone on the arrest warrant against Netanyahu and company: And the indigenous battle to turnback the extractors at Thacker Pass.

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Today on the show: The International Criminal Court issues Arrest Warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant : The  Judges found there were “reasonable grounds to believe that” both Netanyahu and Gallant “intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine”: Noted Human Rights attorney, Camilo Perez Bustillo, comments on the significance of the ICC arrest warrant as well as Trump’s threatened crack downs on brown and black people in the US: Also Andrea Carmen Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council just back from the Climate summit and poised for the Trump crackdown: and we continue our special reports from the occupied west bank on expanding settler violence

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Today on the Show: Israel continues its Genocide in Gaza. Nora Barrows Friedman documents another week of violence and mass murder in Gaza. And we’ll feature a special report from writer-activist, Kate Raphael, from the Occupied West Bank where violent settlers continue to collaborate with the IDF to beat and kill Palestinians and steal their land. And where harvesting olives has become a deadly affair. And poet Anita Barrows joins us  with a poem on day 411 of the Genocide

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Today on the Show: We speak with Nane Alejandrez, the celebrated visionary founder and executive director of Barrios Unidos, on the coming crackdowns on indigenous  black and brown people.  And lawless gangs and death squads in Haiti rape women and kidnap, and massacre people,  destroying entire neighborhoods in the process; this as a result of continuing US destablization policy. We ask where are those UN peace keepers?

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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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