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New Haven Advocate's "Giving Voice to Dissent: Bridgeport's WPKN Radio Covers The News With Left-Of-Center Takes Not Found In The Mainstream Media" Hartford Courant, Feb. 26, 2003 "The Rest of the News," New Haven Advocate, July 3, 2003
ISSUES IN-DEPTH
War And Profiteering
Those Who Dared to Come Forward
"Iraq On The Record," U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman report, March 16, 2004
"Greenspan Testimony Highlights Bush Plan for Deliberate Federal Bankruptcy," by Michael Meurer, truthout.org, March 2, 2004
"Noam Chomsky on Middle East Conflict and U.S. War Plan Against Iraq," Between The Lines interview with Noam Chomsky, conducted by Scott Harris, for the Week Ending May 3, 2002
"The Iraq War & The Bush Administration's Pursuit of Global Domination," Counterpoint, Sept. 15, 2003
The Iraq Crisis, a Global Policy Forum, UN Security Council section on the 13 years of sanctions and other background of the war, the humanitarian situation, the importance of Iraq's huge oil resources, and disputes over a post-war government and reconstruction plan
"Occupation, Inc." Southern Exposure, Winter, 2003/2004
"Pipeline
Politics: Oil, The Taliban, and the Political Balance of Central
Asia," World Press Review Special Report, Nov.-Dec. 2001
"War
Profiteering," by The Nation editors, April 24, 2003
"An Annotated Saddam Chronology," ZNet, Dec. 15, 2003
Civil Liberties
"The Global Gulag: Into The Shadows," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, April 5, 2004
"Keeping Secrets: The Bush administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye. Here's how--and why," by Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound, U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 12, 2003
"FBI Memo: Tactics Used During Protests And Demonstrations" Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oct. 15, 2003
"F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies" by Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Nov. 23, 2003
"Fascism Anyone?" 14 Signs of Fascism, Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 23, No. 2
"Germany In 1933:
The Easy Slide Into Fascism," The Crisis Papers, June 9, 2003
Multi-Ethnic Issues Advocacy
Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Commentaries, The Hutchinson
Report
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with Robert Oakley,
In April, 52 former senior British diplomats signed a letter protesting Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George Bush's handling of both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the occupation of Iraq. Now a group of 27 former U.S. diplomats and military commanders have endorsed a similar statement condemning White House policies in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.
The group calling itself Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change asserts that U.S. security has been weakened by current administration policies by prosecuting an ill-planned and costly war in Iraq justified by the manipulation of uncertain intelligence. The signers also express concern about growing hostility toward the U.S. in the Arab and Muslim world due to Washington's unquestioning support for Israel and close identification with autocratic regimes across the Middle East.
Those signing the statement -- including Arthur Hartman, former ambassador to the Soviet Union; Admiral Stansfield Turner, former director of the CIA; and General William Crowe one-time chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- have served every Republican and Democratic president since Harry S. Truman. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with 34-year career diplomat Robert B. Oakley, who served as ambassador to Pakistan, Somalia and Zaire. Oakley, a special envoy for Somalia under Presidents George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton, explains why he and other senior diplomats and former military officials have publicly condemned Bush administration policies and declared that "it's time for a change."
Read the statement by Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change online by visiting the group's website at www.diplomatsforchange.com or call their office at (202) 408-4998.
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![]() of Iraqi Civilians and Prisoners Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison for Desertion
Interview with Maritza Castillo,
He requested discharge as a conscientious objector. The Army chose to prosecute and sentence him, despite a pending decision on his application for conscientious objector status. Mejia contends that a treaty between the U.S. and Costa Rica, which has no army, establishes that a Costa Rican citizen cannot be forced to extend his military service in the U.S. His one-year sentence for desertion was the maximum he could have received, since he was not charged with desertion under fire. He is the first soldier known to be tried for "desertion" after service in combat in the current Iraq conflict. One of his lawyers, Ramsey Clark, spoke of "the incredible irony that we're prosecuting soldiers in Iraq for violations of international law and we're prosecuting a soldier here because he refused to do the same things." Mejia is appealing his conviction. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Maritza Castillo, Mejia's mother. She talks about what led to her son's decision to refuse his military orders, and about her efforts to free him, supported by groups such as Military Families Speak Out and Amnesty International. Camilo's father, Nicaragua's best-known revolutionary singer-songwriter, Carlos Mejia Godoy, is also doing everything he can to help his son. For more information on efforts to free Camilo Mejia Castillo, visit the website, www.freecamilo.org. Related links:
![]() Concludes Public Hearings
Distressed 9/11 Victims' Family Members
Interview with Bob McIlvaine,
The report also concluded that U.S. defense and civil aviation agencies were unprepared to defend against the Sept. 11th hijacking of four passenger airliners -- and that since the 2001 strikes against New York City and Washington, al Qaeda has transformed itself from a centralized organization into a loose network of regional terror cells. As the commission prepares to issue a final report in late July that will include recommendations for how to strengthen national defenses against future attacks, the State Department was forced to retract an April report that boasted a decline in terrorist incidents in 2003. The numbers of terrorist acts and the number of victims had actually sharply increased. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Bob McIlvaine, whose son Bobby died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. McIlvaine, a member of the group September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, assesses the work of the commission and expresses concern that critical issues have not been seriously addressed by the panel. Members of the group September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, will -- from July 26 through September 2 --commemorate civilian war dead by walking from Boston, the site of the Democratic National Convention to New York City, where the GOP will hold its presidential convention. Get more information about the march by visiting the group's website at www.peacefultomorrows.org. Related links:
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Last Week's Program Between The Lines Week Ending 6/25/04 Bush Regime/Election 2004 "Supreme Court Deals Blow to War on Terror," Reuters, June 28, 2004 "Bush is Interviewed in Inquiry on Leak of Operative's Name" by David Stout, The New York Times, June 24, 2004 "Cheney Utters 'F-Word' in Senate - Aides," by Reuters, June 24, 2004 "Will the 9/11 Commissioners Cave?" by Ray McGovern, Truthout.org, June 23, 2004 "Memo on Interrogation Tactics Is Disavowed," Washington Post, June 23, 2004 "Court Won't Order Cheney Papers Released," Associated Press, June 24, 2004 "Bush Feels the Heat: U.S. Voters Turn On Him Over Iraq," Independent U.K. June 23, 2004 "Outside View: In Reagan era, it was called diplomacy; The Bush administration calls it strategic influence," by Greg Guma, United Press International, June 21, 2004 "Lawyer Wants Bush on Witness Stand over Iraq Torture," by Reuters/New York Times, June 21, 2004 "U.S. Wrongly Reported Drop in World Terrorism in 2003," Associated Press, June 11, 2004 American Empire/War Profiteering "Democracy Itself is in Grave Danger," by Al Gore, CommonDreams.org, June 24, 2004 "Another Rationale for War is Gone," San Diego Union-Tribune, June 24, 2004 "Postwar" Occupation of Iraq "New Poll: 54% Say Sending troops to Iraq was a Mistake," by CNN, June 24, 2004 "Facing Humiliating Defeat, US Abandons Move to Exempt Troops from War Crimes," Inter Press Service June 23, 2004 "Israeli intelligence, military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan," New Yorker, June 28, 2004 "Heard on the Horizon: Calls to Get All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq: Anti-war voices joined by some in the establishment," San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2004 Civil Liberties "Librarians Set Aside 'Shhh' to Speak Out for Privacy Patriot Act: Government access to data on library users criticized by the normally quiet types," by the Baltimore Sun, June 24, 2004 "At Midvale school, slogans stir debate over speech control," The Salt Lake Tribune, June 21, 2004 "Intelligence: The Pentagon-Spying in America?," by Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, June 21 Issue Media Issues "Red-Hot 'Fahrenheit 9/11' a No. 1 Hit Across America," Reuters, June 27, 2004 "Analyzing Fahrenheit 9/11," The Center for American Progress, June 25, 2004 "'Fahrenheit' Sets Single Day Sales Record in NYC," Reuters, June 24, 2004 "ACTION ALERT: Fox News Spins 9/11 Commission Report," Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, June 22, 2004 "'Big, Big Win for Diversity': FCC Media-Ownership Rules Sent Back for Agency Review," by Bloomberg News, June 24, 2004 Activism "This Ain't No Party: First National HipHop Convention," Jeff Chang, AlterNet, June 25, 2004 |
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