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Kim Ives: Who Killed Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse? Speculation Swirls Around Haiti’s Elite; Kevin Gosztola: Press Freedom at Stake as U.S. Appeals Assange U.K. Extradition Denial; Wanda Bertram: Alarming Rise in Prison Deaths Exposes System Failure; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

US media consumers don’t have to puzzle out if Moïse’s assassins were Colombian, or if a Florida doctor bankrolled the plan, or if Moïse’s own bodyguards had it in for him and his wife. The thing is: “the world’s policeman” should NOT wade in again, it only causes harm. Also on the show: Cronyism between pharmaceutical companies and their ostensible government regulators is an infuriating fact of US life, along with the unsurprisingly obscene cost of drugs. Yet somehow the story of aducanumab takes it to a new level. We talk about what pharma and the FDA call a breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug, and what public advocates call an example of all that’s wrong with the FDA, with Michael Carome, M.D., director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen.

Alex reports from the west coast heat storm that made Canada hotter than Baghdad in late June. Hundreds dead. Plus two interviews on animal survival in heat: Canadian scientists Nick Mulvey and Jennifer Sunday, and George Monbiot speech releasing book “Heat” in 2006.

Haitian authorities have arrested Dr. Christian Sanon as one of three suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Möise. Sanon is one of a handful of Haitian Americans suspected of carrying out a brutal attack that left Möise fatally riddled with bullets and his wife Martine seriously injured. About 2 dozen Colombians have also been arrested in connection to the incident. Sanon was reportedly an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency ...

Hunter Biden, second son of President Joe Biden, has taken up painting in order to, as he explained in a recent New York Times puff piece, “keep me sane.” But his new profession is designed to keep him wealthy, too. Georges Bergès, owner of the elegant Georges Bergès Gallery in New York’s tony Soho district, has announced that this October his entire gallery will be given over to a solo exhibition of Hunter Biden’s paintings. Hunter is a former lawyer and lobbyist with no art training who has never sold a single work in the commercial art market. But his paintings will be offered for sale at prices starting at “only” $75,000 for works on paper to $500,000 for larger canvasses, the gallery owner said.

Today we feature the main presentations of the Hisham Sharabi Memorial Symposium sponsored by the Palestine Center in Washington DC and held in May, 2021. Michael Arria, Omar Baddar, and Lamis Deek discuss their thoughts on how the new Biden administration will impact the future of Palestine, how Trump altered the right on the question of Israel, increasing support for Palestine among Democratic voters, and the current dynamics and politics on the ground in Palestine.

JFK 8 Amazon Workers say dirtry company tactics won't stop their unionizing. With Natalie Monarrez and Connor Spence, Amazon workers. "We want to change our relationship with the company and make it less of a dictatorship there and more of a partnership" said Spence, worker and union organizer, [still] trying to form an established union call Amazon Labor Union.

Continuing from last week. We hear radio host and CN columnist John Kiriakou, who was imprisoned for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. Kiriakou recounts that his own imprisonment was much harsher than what the judge specified in his final ruling. The Bureau of Prisons claims it is exempt from any judge's ruling on level of imprisonment. Thus the DOJ's promise of less-cruel imprisonment of Assange is a cruel hoax.