Democracy Now! April 6, 2012

April 06, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

New details emerge over the fatal shooting by police of elderly ex-Marine Kenneth Chamberlain; "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout is sentenced to 25 years but his trial ignores ties to the US and Dick Cheney; and we have an interview with the director of "Shouting in the Dark," a new film that chronicles Bahrain's pro-democracy uprising against US-backed rule.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is a United States daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion, aired by more than 1000 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America. The award-winning one hour War and Peace Report is host... Explore this topic

Viktor Bout

Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is a convicted Russian arms smuggler of Ukrainian origins. A citizen of Russia, he was arrested in Thailand in 2008 before being extradited in 2010 to the United States to stand trial on terrorism charges, after having being accused of intending to smu... Explore this topic

Bahrain Uprising

The Bahraini uprising is a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain. As part of the revolutionary wave of protests in the Middle East and North Africa following the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazi... Explore this topic

Kenneth Chamberlain

Kenneth Chamberlain was a former US Marine and retired corrections officer who was killed at his home by police officers responding after Chamberlain's emergency medical alert device went off accidentally. Explore this topic

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Bahrain Uprising

Kenneth Chamberlain

Viktor Bout

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