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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
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"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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ANNOUNCEMENTSThank you for making our July 7 music benefit a success!
Our special thank yous to Cafe Nine, The Furors, The Sawtelles, Hygiene Wilder, James Velvet with Johnny Memphis, Shellye Valauskas , and Hank Hoffman for organizing the event, as well as special thanks to Best Video for donating raffle items and all who came to listen and support our cause. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The Case for Impeachment"  Co-authors journalist David Lindorff and Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Barbara Olshansky speak about their book, "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office," at the United Church on the Green, in New Haven, June 24. A video DVD and audio CD is in production for our June 24 event, "The Case for Impeachment," with journalist David Lindorff and Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, Barbara Olshansky THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with Molly Malekar,
When the radical Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah attacked Israel from inside Lebanon, killing eight Israelis and taking two soldiers hostage, Israel retaliated with a full-scale attack on Lebanon. Scores of civilians have been killed, and Israel has imposed a sea, land and air blockade, which it insists it won't lift until its captured soldiers are returned. This all follows attacks by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, after Palestinian militants there raided a military post in Israel, killing two soldiers and taking one prisoner. The Palestinians said their action was in response to the economic strangulation of the Palestinian Authority since Hamas was elected to power in January, and the increasing number of civilians killed by Israeli military actions. In the face of rising violence, there are still groups in both Israel and Palestine working for peace. One such organization is the Jerusalem Link, established in 1993 by Israeli Jewish women and Palestinian Arab women to promote political dialogue. In 2004, the groups formed the International Women's Commission, a coalition of 60 female activists and government officials, two-thirds of whom are Israelis and Palestinians. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Molly Malekar, an Israeli who is the director of Bat Shalom, or Daughters for Peace, a feminist group which participates in the Jerusalem Link and the International Women's Commission. Malekar says what brings women of diverse backgrounds together is the need to introduce gender and civil perspectives to the struggle for a just solution to the conflict, which they define as a two-state solution. She says Israel has a right to defend itself from attacks within its pre-1967 borders, but she explains that the current escalation of the conflict lies in political and military decisions that Israel made over the past year. The International Women's Commission for a Just and Sustainable Peace between Israel and Palestine is an international body of Palestinian, Israeli and international women's group established in 2005 under the auspices of UNIFEM in the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325. For more information, visit the group's website at www.batshalom.org or email the coordinators of the International Women's Commission, Romy Shapira at romys@netvision.net.il or Nadia Hajal nadiahajal@yahoo.com. Related links:
Interview with Wells Dixon,
The June 29, Supreme Court decision which found that President George Bush's plan to try detainees held at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by military commissions violated both the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions, has sparked congressional debate on the legal rights these terrorist suspects should be accorded. President Bush had initially wanted to subject hundreds of detainees held at Guantanamo to proceedings that would allow the use of evidence obtained from "coercive interrogation," a euphemism for torture, and limit detainee's right to hear evidence introduced against them. White House lawyers and some Republicans in Congress are advocating that legislation be passed to legalize the military commissions struck down by the Supreme Court. But a bipartisan group of legislators and military lawyers support trials for the detainees based on the Uniform Code of Military Justice that guides court-martials of U.S. soldiers. In testimony before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing July 13, top lawyers from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines expressed public disagreement with the Bush administration on how terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo and elsewhere should be treated. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Wells Dixon, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights that represents Guantanamo Bay detainees. He assesses the congressional debate over how detainees held at Guantanamo, will be tried. Contact the Constitutional Rights at (212) 614-6464 or visit their website www.ccr-ny.org
Interview with Diane Wilson,
On July 4, Code Pink Women for Peace and Gold Star Families launched a hunger strike dubbed, "Troops Home Fast." Organizers of the fast are demanding that all U.S. troops be withdrawn from Iraq, no permanent bases be established there and a commitment from the U.S. to fund the reconstruction of Iraq using Iraqi workers. A group of long-term fasters, including antiwar activists Cindy Sheehan, Dick Gregory and Daniel Ellsberg are conducting their fast in front of the White House in the nation's capital. Organizers of the fast say that the hunger strike will continue through Sept. 21, International Peace Day, when activists will engage in a week of nonviolent civil disobedience against the war. Members of Congress including Reps. Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Dennis Kucinich, Lynn Woolsey and Cynthia McKinney have expressed support for the hunger strike. By mid-July, more than 4,000 people had signed on to conduct their own solidarity fasts in the U.S. and in 22 other nations. Among the fasters at the White House is Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation Texas Gulf Coast shrimper, mother of five and since 1989, one of the nation's most effective grassroots environmental activists. Wilson, a co-founder of Code Pink Women for Peace and author, has conducted seven previous hunger strikes and visited Iraq before the war. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Wilson, who was in the 15th day of a water-only fast about the power of hunger strikes and the overall objectives of the "Troops Home Fast." Diane Wilson is author of the book, "An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas." Get more information on the hunger strike by visiting the group's website at www.troopshomefast.com Related links:
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