Jul 21 Watch In Zimbabwe, A White African struggles against Mugabe's Policies For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Jul 21 Life in the Post Food-Surplus World By Ray Suarez Women shelling mussels in Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. Hunger activists used to argue that the world produces more than enough food for all of its people -- it's the transportation, storage, and waste that cause the problem. Now, that… Continue reading
Jul 21 Dangerous Heat Wave Envelops Much of U.S., Somalia Facing Famine Crisis A dangerous "heat dome" blanketing the Midwest to the East Coast is being blamed for as many as 22 deaths Thursday, as 141 million people remained under a heat advisory with relief several days away in many places. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Much of U.S. Broils Under Extraordinarily Massive 'Heat Dome' Nearly 200 million Americans spent Wednesday under some form of warning about the relentless, stifling combination of extreme heat and humidity, which formed a so-called "heat dome" over a vast region. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Jul 20 FRONTLINE Investigation Shows Inconsistencies in Anthrax Case By Lauren Knapp An ongoing investigation by FRONTLINE, ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers has brought to light inconsistencies in the government's position on the 2001 case of anthrax-filled letters that killed five people. // This interview was conducted on July 19. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Frontline: Evidence Questioned in 2001 Anthrax Case Hari Sreenivasan talks to Frontline's Michael Kirk about new evidence in the anthrax case. Continue watching
Jul 20 Cameron Defends Coulson Hiring, FBI: Pakistan Illegally Lobbied Over Kashmir British Prime Minister David Cameron, under fire for his hiring of former News of the World employee Andy Coulson as his spokesman, defended himself before Parliament Wednesday, saying, "I regret, and I am extremely sorry, about the furor… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Floods, Fires, Storms Are Fodder for Centuries of Poems Jeffrey Brown and Yang discuss the poetic perspective of the beauty and power of nature. Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch News Wrap: Syrian Forces Fire on Funeral Procession, Killing at Least 10 In other news Tuesday, activists said Syrian security forces opened fire on a funeral procession, killing at least 10 people in Homs where up to 50 people have been killed this week. Also, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of… Continue watching
Jul 19 Turmoil in Libya: Five Months On By Mike Fritz It's been over five months since the Arab Spring first swept into Libya, shaking Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year grip on power and spawning a deadly civil war that has killed up to 15, 000 people, according the U.N. Human Rights… Continue reading