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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
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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, U.N. 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
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with John Cavanaugh,
President George W. Bush acknowledges the applause of legislators and administration officials Tuesday, Aug. 2 in the East room of the White House, as he signs the CAFTA Implementation Act. (White House photo by Paul Morse) By the narrowest of margins, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Central American Free Trade Agreement in the early hours of July 28. The hard-fought battle saw last minute shifts among many legislators whose votes were sought by an aggressive White House wielding threats and rewards. The victory was secured after Republicans extended the usual 15 minutes of voting time to over an hour for the purpose of pressuring wavering representatives. In the end, 15 Democrats supported CAFTA, while 27 Republicans bucked their party by opposing the trade treaty. The controversial Central America Free Trade Agreement or CAFTA, will eliminate trade barriers between the U.S., Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Critics fear that like the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, that came into force in 1994, CAFTA will accelerate the loss of U.S. jobs, devastate small farmers and encourage the proliferation of sweatshops. Over the last decade, NAFTA has been blamed for the loss of one million American jobs and 1.5 million Mexican farmers being driven off their land. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with John Cavanaugh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies. He takes a critical look at congressional passage of the Central America Free Trade Agreement and what it may mean for workers on both sides of the border. Contact the Institute for Policy Studies by calling (202) 234-9382 or visit their website at www.ips-dc.org. Related stories:
![]() with Billions of Dollars in Subsidies and Deregulation for Energy Industry
Interview with Tyson Slocum,
An industry-friendly energy bill was one of the first pieces of legislation put forward by the Bush administration shortly after taking office in early 2001. But the legislation was mired in controversy as lawsuits by conservative and liberal groups sought access to information about secret meetings to formulate the measure Vice President Dick Cheney had held with executives from the energy industry such as Enron. Every year for the past four years, Congress adjourned without passing energy legislation. But, just before heading home for this year's August recess, the House and Senate reconciled different versions of the energy bill each chamber had passed in the spring. Opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or ANWR to oil drilling was not included in the final version of this energy bill, but the Senate had provided such authorization in an unrelated budget measure. Drilling for oil in the Arctic, that would at most cover six months of U.S. consumption, is still on the table. The energy bill gives billions of dollars in subsidies to profitable industries and deregulates the energy industry by repealing one of the strongest consumer and investor protection laws, the Public Utility Holding Company Act. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Tyson Slocum, research director with Public Citizen's Energy Program, a consumer advocacy group in Washington, D.C. He assesses the bill and what he views as the measure's few positive provisions along with its many negative aspects. Contact Public Citizen's Energy Program at (202) 588-1000 or visit their website at www.citizen.org
![]() But Dissidents Fail to Address Fundamental Flaws
Interview with Stanley Aronowitz,
Just before July's AFL-CIO national convention got underway in Chicago, Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union declared that both the SEIU and Teamsters union are leaving the nation's primary union federation. The announcement came after 2 years of warnings from Stern and several other union presidents that a split was inevitable unless the AFL-CIO devoted more resources to organizing and undertook other major reforms. The Federation's President John Sweeney, who was a mentor to Stern when both men were at the SEIU, charged that the split was motivated by a power grab rather than substantive divisions over policy. Sweeney warned that the split will undermine labor solidarity when it is needed most to combat the anti-union policies of President Bush and the GOP- controlled Congress. Stern, founder of the new Change to Win labor coalition, insists that dramatic restructuring is necessary if unions are to reverse decades of membership losses. Two other large unions may join the SEIU and Teamsters in bolting the AFL-CIO, which could reduce the federation's 13 million members by up to 5 million. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Stanley Aronowitz, professor of Sociology at the City University of New York and author of more than 20 books on labor and economic issues. Aronowitz examines the possible consequences of the split within the AFL-CIO and the future of the American labor movement. Visit Stanley Aronowitz's website at www.stanleyaronowitz.org Read professor Aronowitz's article, "On the Future of America Labor" originally published by Working USA, Spring 2005.
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