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For The Week Ending April 25, 2003
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMThis week we present Between The Lines' summary of under-reported news stories and:
Disorder, Protests Challenge U.S. Occupation
Interview with Roger Normand,
After several weeks of fighting for control of Iraq's largest cities, the Pentagon announced on April 14 that major combat operations were over. But while the president and his administration were jubilant at the victory of the world's most powerful military over a nation battered by 12 years of economic sanctions and a decade of constant bombing, it seemed that the occupation of Iraq would be filled with danger and uncertainty.
After Saddam Hussein's forces fled Baghdad, chaos and violence reigned in the streets of the capital city and elsewhere as the looting of government offices, banks, hospitals, museums and private homes went unchallenged by U.S. troops. But while the Pentagon made little effort to control widespread pillaging, the old regime's oil ministry was one of the few government buildings to be guarded by U.S. Marines -- a powerful symbol of why many believe the U.S. had come to Iraq. Anti-U.S. occupation protests were organized by Baghdad citizens just days after American tanks rolled into the central city.
Islamic fundamentalist Shiites, Sunni groups and Kurdish rebels are now in fierce competition with each other for spheres of influence and a role in any government body installed by former U.S. General Jay Garner, the man appointed by the Bush administration to run post-war Iraq. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Roger Normand, executive director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights, who assesses the dangers posed by the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the Pentagon's possible next target nation in the Middle East.
Contact the Center for Economic and Social Rights by calling (718) 237-9145 or visit the group's Web site at www.cesr.org.
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by Shallow Corporate Media Coverage
Interview with Robert Jensen,
As American and British forces consolidated their control over Iraq, U.S. corporate media continued to bring the war into our living rooms. News anchors and journalists in the field were exuberant in reporting the fall of Iraq's dictator. Stage-managed images of several dozen Iraqi citizens helping Marines to tear down a statue of Saddam Hussein and waving American flags handed to them by soldiers, were broadcast repeatedly. But some critics contend that American media has sanitized their coverage of the Iraq war and provided their audience with uncritical accounts of the White House chosen spin of the day.
American media seemed to consciously avoid much reporting on the horrifying scenes of the thousands of Iraqi civilians who flooded hospitals after being injured in the Bush administration's "shock and awe" bombing campaign, where more than 14,000 bombs were dropped on a city of 5 million. Neither did U.S. citizens see many harsh images of the hundreds of dead and rotting corpses of Iraqi civilians and soldiers killed in an illegal war condemned by a majority around the world.
Coverage of a U.S. tank attack on a Baghdad hotel packed with international journalists, killing three reporters, was also limited and downplayed. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Robert Jensen, professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and author of the book, "Writing Dissent," who takes a critical look at how the U.S. media has reported the Bush administration's war on Iraq.
For independent reporting on the Iraq War visit the No War Collective Web site at www.nowarcollective.com
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in Attacks on Colombian Union Activists
Interview with Terry Collingsworth,
The International Labor Rights Fund, based in Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit against the Atlanta-based Coca Cola company, charging that it is complicit in the violence against workers at its bottling plants in Colombia. Last week, a judge in Miami dismissed the lawsuit against Coke, but allowed the continuation of lawsuits against two bottlers in Colombia affiliated with Coca Cola that plaintiffs allege used paramilitary groups to assassinate and intimidate union leaders. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund, and an attorney who is representing seven targeted unionists and the family of one union leader who was killed inside the bottling plant where he worked. Collingsworth discusses the goals of the lawsuit, as well as what his organization and the bottlers union is up against in going after Coke. For more information, contact the International Labor Rights Fund at (202) 347-4100 or visit their Web site at www.laborrights.org
of under-reported news Compiled by Bob Nixon
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