Shows featuring Dan Murphy
Reporter for the Christian Science Monitor. Speaking from Baghdad.
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Rwanda Ten Years Ago: How the World Stood Back and Watched a Genocide
Ten years ago Rwanda’s extremist Hutu government and military led a campaign to exterminate the nation’s minority Tutsis. Nearly a million people were slaughtered in an orchestrated, pre-planned campaign of genocide. We take a look at how the international community, the U.S. in particular, actively worked to ensure there was no international intervention until it was too late. [includes...April 01, 2004 | Story
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]


