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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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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?" 21 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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Interview with Hussein Ibish, The Oct. 15 referendum on Iraq's proposed constitution went forward with a lower level of violence than predicted. Despite a recent escalation of attacks by anti-occupation insurgents, there were relatively few strikes on military and civilian targets on the day of the Iraqi election. After hearing initial reports that voter participation may have been higher than last January's legislative election and the failure of opponents to defeat approval of the constitution, President Bush praised the vote as a sign that Iraqis want to settle their disputes peacefully. But after two days of counting ballots, the Independent Election Commission of Iraq said that they were investigating unusually high vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces, where in some cases 99 percent of the votes were cast in favor of the draft constitution. Prominent leaders of Iraq's Sunni minority, who largely opposed the constitution, were quick to assert that the irregular vote tally may indicate fraud -- calling into question the referendum's credibility. Despite last minute negotiations to appease the Sunni voters by offering a chance to amend the constitution at a later date, early election results show most Sunnis opposed the charter. One of the most contentious provisions of the document on the minds of opponents was a fear that the sanction of autonomous zones in the oil-rich Kurdish north and a similar zone in the Shiite south would lead to a break-up of the nation. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Hussein Ibish, executive director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership. He discusses the results of Iraq's constitutional referendum and how it may affect the war and the timetable for U.S. withdrawal. Contact the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership by visiting their website at: www.halafoundation.org Related links:
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Interview with John Bonifaz,
The federal probe into who in the White House leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent to news reporters is drawing to a close. During his investigation, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald questioned President Bush's senior adviser Karl Rove four times, confirming, despite early public denials, that he was at least one of those in the White House who revealed the identity of the CIA officer. Fitzgerald also succeeded in pressuring reluctant Time reporter Matt Cooper and the New York Times' Judith Miller to testify before the grand jury hearing the case. Although Miller initially refused to testify, and was jailed on contempt charges for 85 days, she recently changed her mind and made a deal with Fitzgerald to be released after agreeing to speak before the grand jury. In Miller's own account of her testimony published in the Times, she confirms -- as did with Cooper -- that Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a senior adviser to Vice President Cheney, was a source from whom she had received information about the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. Plame is the wife of former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson who had publicly debunked President Bush 's pre-war declaration that Saddam Hussein was attempting to obtain uranium from the African nation of Niger for an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. As the nation awaits the conclusion of Fitzgerald's case, which could end in the indictment of Rove or Libby on charges of violating the espionage act or perjury, more important aspects of this affair are being overlooked by much of the corporate media. Central to the case is the Bush administration's use of dubious evidence to justify the Iraq war. The subsequent outing of CIA agent Plame appears to have been part of a larger White House effort to silence and punish the president's critics. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with John Bonifaz, constitutional attorney and co-founder of the group Afterdowningstreet.org, who explains why he believes this investigation must be broadened to include the false pretext under which the nation went to war with Iraq, and the impeachable offenses that may have been committed by President Bush. Visit John Bonifaz's group's website at www.afterdowningstreet.org Related stories:
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Interview with Alex Wilson, As New Orleans continues its slow recovery from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, residents are dealing with hundreds of thousands of damaged buildings and mountains of trash. The mold growing everywhere poses a serious health problem, and the debris is smelly, unsightly, and in some cases toxic. The first priority of many residents, city, state and federal officials is to get rid of the trash, wipe the slate clean and start over. But some people and organizations are proposing another route to cleanup -- one that separates toxic trash from usable building materials, allowing for re-use of those materials to rebuild the damaged city. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Alex Wilson, executive editor of Environmental Building News, based in Brattleboro, Vt.. In consultation with others in the "green building" movement, he published a Ten-Point Plan for Rebuilding New Orleans. The plan includes proposals for repairing the levees while restoring the floodplain, but focuses much attention on the buildings themselves, and making New Orleans a model of 21st century construction. Wilson developed his plan based on the assumption that New Orleans will be rebuilt in its present site, despite the city's vulnerable location. For more information, call Building Green at (802) 257-7300 or visit their website at www.buildinggreen.com where the entire Ten Point reconstruction plan is posted. Related links:
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