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"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
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Project for the New American Century's Letter to President Clinton on Iraq, Jan. 26, 1998 Urges President Clinton to remove the threat that Iraq poses by stating a strategy to do so in his "upcoming State of the Union Address."
"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
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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
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Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Commentaries, The Hutchinson
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For The Week Ending Dec. 3, 2004
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Interview with former Marine Cpl. Michael Hoffman, Not long after the U.S. declared victory in Fallujah, asserting that America had broken the back of the insurgency, armed rebels launched attacks against American troops and their Iraqi allies in other cities across the Sunni Triangle. A U.S.-Iraqi police raid on Baghdad's Abu Hanifa Sunni mosque on Nov. 12, resulting in 3 deaths and 40 arrests, triggered battles between Marines and insurgents throughout the capital. Adding to the skepticism that the U.S., and its appointed Iraqi government, can organize national elections for January 30th, was the recent assassination of Sheik Mohammed Amin al-Faidhi, a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars, a group which has called for a boycott of the election. There are fears that escalating violence and growing anger toward the U.S. could derail the election, particularly in Sunni Arab areas of the country. The election is slated to select a 275- member National Assembly which will then draft a constitution. Amid concern about the January vote, senior U.S. military commanders in Iraq say it is likely that they will need 3,000 to 5,000 more combat troops to confront the resistance. In July, a handful of U.S. Iraq veterans announced the formation of Iraq Veterans Against the War. The group is demanding an immediate US withdrawal from Iraq and full funding for veterans' benefits at home. Former Marine Lance Corporal Michael Hoffman, who served in Iraq with a 1st Marine Corps Division Artillery Battery, is a co-founder of the group. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Hoffman about his experience in Iraq and why he believes the U.S. cannot achieve a military victory in this war. Visit the Iraq Veterans Against the War's website at www.ivaw.net or contact them via email at ivaw@ivaw.net. Related links:
 Thousands of Protesters Again Demand the Closing of the Pentagon's Infamous School of the Americas
Report on the 15th annual protest
Saturday featured music, puppetry and short speeches by some activists who have served time in prison for trespassing non-violently onto the base. Among them were celebrities like Susan Sarandon, and the founder of SOA Watch, Maryknoll priest Father Roy Bourgeois. On Sunday, a solemn vigil was held to honor those who died, and 15 more people crossed over, under or through two fences topped with barbed wire to get onto the base to make a powerful personal statement against WHINSEC and its deadly role in Latin America. Those protesters face a probable three- to six-month prison sentence after their trial scheduled for January. The days were spent connecting with friends and former prisoners of conscience from around the country -- all bolstering the strongly held view among the activists there, that another world is possible. Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus covered the weekend's events, and files our report. Related links: "16,000 Protest U.S.-Run School of the Americas," by Elliott Minor, The Associated Press, Nov. 22, 2004
U.S. Media Ignores Questions on 2004 Election
Public Distrustful of Press Corps as Watchdog on Bush White House
Interview with Robert Parry,
But in the aftermath of the closely contested election, disturbing questions are still being asked about GOP voter suppression campaigns and a number of other irregularities in the battleground states of Ohio and Florida. Citizens groups, rather than political parties, have taken the lead in investigating these concerns. But allegations made about flawed electronic voting machines and suspect counting methods, which have led to a state-wide recount in Ohio and a partial recount in New Hampshire, are being virtually ignored by the nation's major corporate media outlets. Many citizens who have bitter memories of the U.S. press corps' poor performance scrutinizing President Bush's dubious justification for the Iraq war -- and weak coverage of the 2000 presidential election fiasco -- are doubtful that the U.S. media will aggressively examine the 2004 vote or other major political issues confronting the nation. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry, who broke key elements of the Iran Contra scandal while working with the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. Parry considers the forces which constrain the American media from more assertively holding those in power accountable for their actions. Robert Parry is winner of the George Polk award for national reporting. He is the author of "Secrecy and Privilege, Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq." Read his columns online at www.consortiumnews.com
This week's summary of under-reported news Compiled by Bob Nixon
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Bush Regime "Bush's Social Security Plan Said To Require Vast Borrowing," The New York Times, Nov. 28, 2004 "GOP Looks To Break Up 9th Circuit Court," FOX News, Nov. 24, 2004 "Dollar Plunge, Specter Of A Crash," by Philippe Martin, Liberation/Paris, Nov. 22, 2004 American Empire/War Profiteering "Pentagon Report: 'They Hate Our Policies, Not Our Freedoms,'" Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 29, 2004 "Military Recruiters Target Schools Strategically," Boston Globe, Nov. 29, 2004 "NED Back On The Offensive In Venezuela," by Eva Golinger, ZNet, Nov. 28, 2004 "Audit: Halliburton Lost Track Of Property," Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 2004 "Oil Makes U.S. Raise Military Stakes In Colombia," Newsday, Nov. 26, 2004 "Ukraine's Post-Modern Coup d'Etat," by Jonathan Steele, Guardian/UK, Nov. 26, 2004 "Fighting Oil With Oil In Venezuela," by Jonah Gindin, Venezuelanalysis.com, Nov. 25, 2004 "Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan "U.S. Officials Say Iraq's Forces Founder Under Rebel Assaults," The New York Times, Nov. 30, 2004 "Which War Is This, Anyway?," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, Nov. 29, 2004 "'Unusual Weapons' Used In Fallujah," by Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service, Nov. 26, 2004 "The Battle Of Fallujah Part 1," by Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder, Nov. 24, 2004 "The Battle Of Fallujah Part 2," by Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder, Nov. 24, 2004 Civil Liberties "Clamor For Investigation Into Death Of Elderly Haitian Pastor In U.S. Custody," by Jim Lobe, Antiwar.com, Nov. 30, 2004 "Bullies At the Airport," by Rep. Ron Paul, Antiwar.com, Nov. 30, 2004 "Smells Like Privacy Invasion," St. Petersburg Times editorial, Nov. 21, 2004 "Ashcroft's Achievements," by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, Nov. 19, 2004 Media Issues "News Media In The 60th Year Of The Nuclear Age," by Norman Solomon, Common Dreams, Nov. 29, 2004 "The Inglorious Exit Of Dan Rather," by Patrick Martin, World Socialist Web Site, Nov. 29, 2004 "What The Battle Of Fallujah Was Really Like," by Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher, Nov. 26, 2004 Activism "Activists Crawl Through Web To Untangle U.S. Secrecy," by William Fisher, Inter Press Service, 2004 "60's Morality Is Winning," by Leonard Steinhorn, Salon.com, Nov. 29, 2004 |
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