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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