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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
ISSUES IN-DEPTH
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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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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
conducted by Richard Hill Washington continues to analyze the fallout from Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby on charges of making false statements, perjury and obstruction of justice, related to his investigation of who in the White House leaked the name of a covert CIA agent. The indictment and subsequent resignation of Libby emboldened Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid to force the full Senate to conduct an unusual closed-door session on Nov. 1. The goal of Senate Democrats was to pressure the majority Republicans to conduct a long-delayed investigation into whether the Bush administration exaggerated and manipulated intelligence to justify the Iraq war. After the two-hour session, an agreement was hammered out to have a bipartisan group of six senators report on the Senate Intelligence Committee's progress on completing the investigation by Nov. 14. An earlier attempt to push the Fitzgerald investigation into dealing with growing questions about the veracity of pre-war intelligence was made by U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y. Hinchey, joined by 39 members of the House, sent Fitzgerald a Sept. 15 letter requesting an expansion of his investigation to include the administration's false claim that Iraq had sought uranium in the African nation of Niger to build a nuclear weapon. The letter also requests that the special counsel look into whether the administration violated federal law that prohibits making fraudulent statements to Congress. Between The Lines' Richard Hill spoke with Rep. Hinchey, who explains why he initiated the letter to Fitzgerald and what he hopes will result from the growing pressure on Congress to hold Bush administration officials accountable for a war, that many Americans now believe, was waged on the basis of lies. Read Hinchey's letter to Fitzgerald online at the congressman's website at www.house.gov/hinchey. Related links:
 Anti-Bush Protests and Free Trade Deadlock Mark Summit of the Americas
Interview with Tom Barry,
President George Bush may have hoped that a weekend in Argentina would be a respite from the successive scandals suffered by his administration at home. But as has happened often during his presidency, Bush was greeted at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata by tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators, and street violence by a smaller group in the seaside resort. President Bush, the most unpopular U.S. president in recent Latin American history, met with 33 heads of state representing every nation in the Western Hemisphere except Cuba. Among the top issues addressed at the summit was Washington's long running effort to implement the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas. But in the end, progress on FTAA was blocked by five nations: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela, who opposed a deadline of April 2006 for a new round of talks. Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, a staunch opponent of free trade, dominated coverage of the summit when he led a rally with soccer star Diego Mardona against President Bush, attended by 25,000. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Tom Barry, policy director with the International Relations Center, who assesses the popular opposition to the FTAA across Latin America and the viability of progressive alternatives for economic development and integration. Contact the International Relations Center by calling (505) 388-0208 or visit their website at www.irc-online.org
Progressive Groups Fear Radical Right Supreme Court Shift if Alito Confirmed
Interview with Marjorie Cohn,
The withdrawal of Harriet Miers, President Bush's first nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, demonstrated the power of Bush's Christian conservative base, who were very unhappy with his choice. Well-organized and campaigning hard for a Supreme Court nominee in the mold of Justices Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas, the movement was elated with President Bush's second choice, Samuel Alitio. Alito, a judge serving 15 years on the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, has been nicknamed by some, "Scalia-Lite" or "Scalito" for his judicial kinship with Justice Scalia. But, progressive groups concerned about the balance of a new post-O'Connor Court, are alarmed by Alito's opposition to reproductive rights, including his 1991 decision supporting a Pennsylvania law requiring women to notify their spouses when seeking an abortion. Progressive groups are also troubled by Alito's record on race and sex discrimination, corporate power, police abuse, civil liberties and gun control. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Marjorie Cohn, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president-elect of the National Lawyers Guild. She discusses how Judge Alito, if confirmed, could radically alter U.S. law on a wide range of issues, and the prospects of a Democratic filibuster in the Senate. Contact the National Lawyers Guild at (212) 627-2656 or visit their website at www.nlg.org Related links:
This week's summary of under-reported news Compiled by Bob Nixon
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Case Sheet 14, Omar Khadr," Amnesty International USA, Nov., 2005 "Senate Approves Plan To Limit Detainee Access To Courts," Washington Post, Nov. 11, 2005 "The PATRIOT Act: Business Balks," Business Week, Nov. 10, 2005 "U.N. Blasts Practice Of Outsourcing Torture," Inter Press Service, Nov. 10, 2005 "Report Warned On CIA's Tactics In Interrogations," The New York Times, Nov. 9, 2005 "Congress May Curb Some PATRIOT Act Powers," Associated Press, Nov. 9, 2005 "White House Works To Defeat A Torture Ban," Los Angeles Times, Nov. 9, 2005 "Conservatives Also Irked By IRS Probe Of Churches," Los Angeles Times, Nov. 8, 2005 "Goal Of U.S. Inquiry Into Peace Protest Questioned," Des Moines Register (Iowa), Nov. 7, 2005 "Torture, On Rumsfeld's Watch," by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, Nov. 7, 2005 Media Issues "Covering Up Torture? At Pentagon's Request, Washington Post Refuses To Report Secret Prisons' Locations," Democracy Now!, Nov. 8, 2005 "The Media Are Minimizing British And U.S. War Crimes In Iraq," by George Monbiot, Guardian/UK, Nov. 8, 2005 "The Wrong Journalistic Decisions: Washington Post Withholds Info on Secret Prisons," by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, Nov. 6, 2005 Activism "Interview With Ann Wright: 'A Felon For Peace,'" by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, Nov. 11, 2005 "Colorado Soldier Founds Antiwar Group," Associated Press, Nov. 10, 2005 "Antiwar Mom Urges Students To Protest," Mercury News, Nov. 10, 2005 "Something Happening Here...," by Mark Rudd, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 10, 2005 "Madison Group Gathers Signatures To Get Antiwar Referendum On April Ballot," Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin) Nov. 9, 2005 "The Won't-Be-Bullied Pulpit," by George Regas, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 9, 2005 "Political Protesters Bare Breasts, Go To Jail, In California," Agence France Presse, Nov. 8, 2005 |
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