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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
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"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:
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For The Week Ending May 13, 2005
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 THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with Marcus Raskin,
With the recent escalation of violence by insurgents in Iraq that includes daily attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces, car bombings and kidnappings, the optimistic picture recently painted by White House and Pentagon officials of diminishing violence, stability and a short term reduction in the number of American occupation troops seems ever more implausible. Meanwhile, nations such as Italy and the Ukraine that had initially deployed soldiers to support the Bush administration's occupation of Iraq are now steadily withdrawing. While differences outnumber similarities between the Iraq war and the U.S. war in Vietnam, there are a growing number of observers who are concerned that the Bush administration may be making the same critical mistakes that led to the American defeat and withdrawal from South Vietnam 30 years ago. Critics and supporters of Washington's war in Southeast Asia, haunted by the deaths of 58,000 American troops and more than a million Vietnamese, have drawn very different lessons from the Vietnam conflict. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Marcus Raskin, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies in 1963, and a vocal opponent of the Vietnam war and military draft. Raskin assesses the current peace movement's demand for a rapid U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and the lessons he believes should have been learned in Vietnam. Contact the Institute for Policy Studies by calling (202) 234-9382 or visit their website at www.ips-dc.org. Raskin and Carl Lavan are the editors of a new book titled, "In Democracy's Shadow: The Secret World of National Security."
 Increasing Energy Demands and Diminishing Supplies Set Off Intensifying International Struggle to Capture Petroleum Resources
Excerpt of a speech by Michael Klare,
Klare was the keynote speaker at a Yale University conference on Global Oil Frontiers on April 29. His topic was "Petroleum Flows and Political Conflict," in which he addressed three areas: The shortfall between supply and demand, and increased competition for the oil that remains; the historic shift in world oil production from the global north to the global south; and the increasing militarization of national policies to protect countries' access to oil. Here we present an excerpt of Klare's speech. Contact the Hampshire College Peace and World Security Studies Department at (413) 559-5367 or visit their website at pawss.hampshire.edu. Klare's talk was recorded and produced by Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus. Related links:
As Senate Fight over Filibuster Looms, Extremist Judicial Appointments Hang in the Balance
Interview with Wade Henderson,
As the likelihood that the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate will soon use extraordinary parliamentary maneuvers to eliminate the filibuster, the Democratic minority's only tool to block lifetime judicial appointments they view as extremist, TV ads from groups on both sides of the issue are hitting the airwaves. The GOP idea of abolishing the filibuster, a Senate institution for over 200 years, has infuriated Senate Democrats and led them to threaten non-cooperation in future legislative matters if the so-called "nuclear option" is approved. Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block 10 of President Bush's 45 nominees to federal appeals courts during his first term. Since being re-elected Bush has now re-nominated seven of those nominees, including Judges Priscillla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown. At stake is not only the current appointments to federal appeals courts -- but the U.S. Supreme Court, where at least one vacancy is expected in the coming year. As this fight heats up, a Washington Post-ABC News poll recently found that a majority of Americans -- by a 2-to-1 margin -- oppose the GOP plan to eliminate the filibuster. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, part of a coalition of groups working to prevent a filibuster rules change. Henderson takes a critical look at President Bush's nominees and the consequences he sees of abolishing the Senate filibuster. Contact the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights by calling (202) 466-3311 or visit their website at www.civilrights.org Related links:
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