Mosaic: World News From The Middle East
A selection of TV news reports in English from a variety of Middle Eastern broadcasters. The daily series is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which advances journalism excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities. For episode summaries and a daily archive of episodes in stream format, click here.

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International news and business report from Deutsche Welle, live from Berlin, updated four times daily.

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Journal can also be seen online via Link TV's Live Streams page.

The Active Opposition
Link TV�s �The Active Opposition,� is a new series hosted by actor and activist Peter Coyote which will serve as a regular outlet for social activists. The series will use their experiences to confront and question the status quo in government, in the media and elsewhere, and will ask the difficult questions which mainstream media outlets don�t dare ask.

Link Spotlight
A Weekly series of investigative reports from around the world, introduced by author and Journalist Mark Hertsgaard. Mr. Hertsgaard�s latest book is �The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World. The series airs weekly on Sunday night at 9PM EST, 6PM PST.

Africa: The Politics of Poverty
Link TV presents a live call-in program about the impact of IMF and World Bank policies on poverty in Africa. The program includes a recent BBC documentary, Profits of Doom, that focuses on the West African country of Ghana, once hailed by the World Bank as a showcase for its policies. Today, after two decades of financial �discipline,� the majority of Ghanaians are worse off than before. After the documentary, viewers call in their questions or comments to Robert Liebenthal, Senior Advisor for Africa of The World Bank and Njoki Jehu (pictured), Executive Director of 50 Years Is Enough, an organization favoring alternative models of globalization. Also taking calls are Tony Fratto, Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Treasury Dept., and Thomas Paley, Director of the Globalization Reform Project for the Open Society Institute.

Addicted to Failure
A national live call-in program that dissects the U.S. governments�s faltering 30-Year, $19 Billion War on Drugs. The program includes the American premiere of �Coca Mama,� a Journeyman Pictures documentary on the effects of U.S. drug policies in four South American countries. Following the film, a panel of experts from the US and Europe take viewer calls to debate the current U.S. strategy of eradication, interdiction and criminalization, and to discuss alternatives. The show is hosted by noted public radio journalist Holly Kernan.

Guests in San Francisco:
SANHO TREE, director of Drug Policy at the Institute for Policy Studies in DC, who was recently in Colombia where he examined the impact of increased aid and the current strategy of the U.S. War on Drugs.
PETER NUNEZ, former US Attorney and official of the US Treasury Department, where he was combating drug smuggling along the US-Mexico border. Mr. Nunez is based in San Diego.

Guest in New York:
DR. PETER COHEN, Senior Drug Policy advisor to the Dutch government. Dr. Cohen discusses European models for dealing with drug use and abuse, including programs in his home city of Amsterdam.

WAGING WAR, SEEKING PEACE LIVE CALL-IN
Link TV presents a program in which panel members in San Francisco and New York discuss issues surrounding the U.S. response to the terrorist attack of Sept. 11. Was the attack a crime against humanity or an act of war? What are the consequences of labeling it either? Why do they hate us? These and other questions are answered by Jane Wales, President of World Affairs Council and former staff member of the National Security Council, and Kevin Danahar, co-founder of Global Exchange, from San Francisco; and Michael Ratner, a Human Rights and International Justice lawyer, from New York. Moderated by Nicole Sawaya.

ARAB DIARIES
A five-part documentary series that presents fresh, insightful portraits of real-life Arab individuals and the struggles they face - hardships not unique to Arab society but intimately familiar to us all. Each episode thematically centers on one of the universal phases of life -- Birth, Youth, Love and Marriage, Work and Money, and Home. Three compelling stories and the characters surrounding them comprise each 26- minute episode. Stories are taken from major Arab countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa, including Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Palestine, Syria and Iraq. Series produced by Deborah Davies. To purchase Arab Diaries, please visit the First Run/Icarus Films site.

Labor Pains: Sweatshops and the Global Economy
Link TV presents a program featuring live links from our studio in San Francisco to delegates attending the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. We hear the voices of sweatshop workers from around the world, anti-globalization protesters, and questions from Link TV viewers. Guests and speakers tell us "what's behind the label" by discussing such issues as sweatshops and the global economy, globalization's impact on the poor and women, child labor; and inform us on how to be a sweatshop-aware consumer. For more information on the World Social Forum, World Economic Forum protests and related issues, please click here.

Afghan Women: Eyes on the Future
A special live call-in show about Afghan women, with a live link to participants of the Afghan Women's Summit, held on December 4 � 6, 2001 at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Link TV viewers called in their questions to Sahar Saba of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA); Suria Paikan, a Lawyer with UNSMA, the United Nations Special Mission for Afghanistan; and Marzia Ali, Program Coordinator of Refuge Action Montreal in Canada, where she has worked to sponsor hundreds of Afghan refugees. Joining the discussion from the Link TV Studios in San Francisco was Dr. Farid Younos, Islamic scholar and educator. The Afghan Womens' Summit was sponsored by European Women's Lobby, Equality Now, V-Day, and the Center for Strategic Initiatives of Women. The Summit was held in collaboration with the Gender Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and UNIFEM. Fifty Afghan women leaders, broadly representative of women in Afghanistan, took part in the Summit, which helped bring the voices of Afghan women into the current international political discourse, ensuring that their message is heard.