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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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War And Profiteering
Those Who Dared to Come Forward
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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"Parallel Deceptions: The Bush Agenda for War in Iraq and Iran" "Ladies and gentlemen, we are already at war with Iran." -- Scott Ritter, former U.N. chief weapons inspector and Marine Intelligence officer
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with Alex Knott,
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay gets into his car after a luncheon in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005. A Texas grand jury on Monday indicted DeLay on two new felony charges including money laundering, following a conspiracy indictment last week which forced him to step aside as the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives. (Reuters/Larry Downing) After years of ethics investigations and several admonishments regarding his financial and legislative dealings, Republican House Majority leader Tom DeLay has been indicted twice and forced to temporarily step down as one of the GOP's key power brokers in the U.S. House of Representatives. The indictments on conspiracy and money laundering charges, filed against DeLay and two aides, alleges that $190,000 in corporate contributions were transferred from a Texas political action committee to the Republican National Committee in 2002. The funds were later returned to GOP candidates for the Texas legislature -- a violation of that state's law prohibiting corporate money from being used in statewide campaigns. In response, DeLay has launched a strong counterattack characteristic of the legislator known for his aggressive "take no prisoners" approach to politics. DeLay and his allies have accused Travis County, Texas district attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, of prosecutorial abuse motivated by partisan politics. But over the last year, an ethical cloud has been gathering over the Republican Party. Two of the party's congressional leaders are now under scrutiny, Delay and Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who is being investigated for securities violations. Delay's longtime friend and Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is the target of another federal corruption probe and White House political strategist Karl Rove and vice presidential aide Lewis Libby have been questioned about their role in the Valerie Plame - CIA leak case. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Alex Knott, with the Center for Public Integrity, who assesses the recent indictment of Tom DeLay and the public's growing weariness of government corruption. Contact the Center for Public Integrity by calling (202) 466-1300 or visit their website at www.publicintegrity.org Related links:
 Library Challenge to Patriot Act Gag Rule Appealed to Supreme Court
Interview with Michael Gorman,
As the nation focuses attention on Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee to fill the critical Supreme Court seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- America's highest court has been asked to intervene in a challenge to a controversial provision of the USA Patriot Act. The case originated in Bridgeport, Conn. where a library was served with a "national security letter" demanding private records related to an FBI terrorism or espionage investigation. A consortium of librarians, known as "John Doe," represented by the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the government's right to impose a gag rule preventing them from identifying themselves and publicly expressing opposition to the Patriot Act provisions that allows the government to secure library patron records, regardless of the patron's involvement in illegal activity. In September, U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall ruled in favor of the librarians and the ACLU. She said the gag rule "has the practical effect of silencing individuals with a constitutionally-protected interest in speech and whose voices are particularly important in an ongoing national debate about the intrusion of government authority into individual lives." However, Judge Hall's ruling was put on hold by a federal appeals court and now the case is being appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association, who explains why he strongly objects to the Patriot Act gag rule imposed on librarians and his concern about the loss of civil liberties in post-Sept. 11 America. Contact the American Library Association by calling 1-800 545-2433 or visit their website at: www.ala.org Related links:
Groups Campaign to End Veneration of Columbus and Transform Holiday
Interview with Glenn Morris,
The second Monday of October marks Columbus Day celebrations across the nation, which only became a national holiday in 1971. But as the full history becomes better known about the man who is credited with "discovering" America, protesters have called for the abolition or transformation of the holiday away from one that honors a man guilty of genocide against Native Americans to one that has a more inclusive narrative. Some cities and states have already renamed the holiday Indigenous People's Day or American Indian Day. Denver, Colo. is at the forefront of this struggle. There, the Alliance to Transform Columbus Day, led by the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement, or AIM, has been challenging the Colombus holiday since 1989. On Oct. 7th, the Alliance will hold their All Nations Four Directions solidarity rally, and the next day the group will protest Denver's annual Columbus Day parade. Solidarity actions are now held in many other cities, both in the U.S. and in Latin America and Europe. Last year, a statue of Columbus in Caracas, Venezuela, was toppled by protesters. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Glenn Morris of Colorado AIM about the history of the Columbus holiday and efforts now underway to transform it. For more information, call the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement office at (303) 832-2544 or visit their website at www.transformcolumbusday.org Related links:
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