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"The Rest of the News," New Haven Advocate, July 3, 2003
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War And Profiteering
"Iran: The Next War," by James Bamford, Rolling Stone, July 24, 2006
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
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"War
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"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:
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For The Week Ending Dec. 29, 2006
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ANNOUNCEMENTS"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 now available of this event, "The Case for Impeachment," with journalist David Lindorff and Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, Barbara Olshansky
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Interview with Peter Kornbluh,
The death of Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet on Dec. 10 ended any further attempts to bring to justice one Latin America's most brutal dictators. The Chilean military, led by Gen. Pinochet staged a bloody coup against the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1973. In the years which followed, Pinochet's regime killed nearly 3,200 suspected political opponents, tortured 28,000 and disappeared more than a thousand. During Pinochet's rein of terror, which ended in 1990, hundreds of thousands of Chileans fled their nation to seek refuge around the world. Official U.S. government documents confirm that President Richard Nixon was complicit in supporting and planning the Chilean coup. In 1976, Pinochet's secret police ordered the car bomb assassination of former Chilean ambassador to the U.S. Orlando Letelier and his associate Ronni Moffett in downtown Washington, D.C. From October 1998 to March 2001, Pinochet was placed under house arrest in London while he awaited Britain's decision on a Spanish request to extradite the general to stand trial on murder and torture charges. Eventually, British authorities released Pinochet to return to Chile after determining that the aging despot was neither physically or mentally fit to stand trial. Pinochet was later discovered to have stolen some $27 million and concealing the money in U.S. and other overseas banks. At the time of his death, Pinochet was under investigation in multiple human rights cases and under house arrest in Chile. Although he was never brought to trial, the dictator lived to see one of his torture victims, socialist Michelle Bachelet elected Chile's president. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive and author of the book, "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability." Kornbluh looks at the legacy of Augusto Pinochet and continuing demands for the release of U.S. documents related to the dictator's brutal repression. Visit the National Security Archive website to read related documents at www.Nsarchive.org.
Interview with Frank Morales, In a legislative maneuver that largely slipped below the media radar screen, Congress passed -- and president Bush signed into law in mid-October -- a measure that will make it easier for American presidents to declare federal marital law. Congress revised the Insurrection Act, bypassing existing prohibitions there and within the Posse Comitatus Act that had prevented the president from deploying U.S. military troops within the nation's borders. The Defense Authorization Act of 2007 signed into law by Bush in a private White House ceremony, empowers the president to declare a "public emergency," station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder." U. S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont warned that "the implications of changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good reason," he said, "for the constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations. Using the military for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy." The new law authorizes police to detain and imprison "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists," protesters and other "undesirables." Ominously, in January Congress awarded $385 million to Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, for the construction of temporary detention and processing facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S. Frank Morales, an Episcopalian priest at St. Mark's Church in New York City, is a writer and activist. His piece, "Bush Moves Toward Martial Law," is one of the few news stories on these new presidential powers. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Frank Morales about the potential consequences for civil liberties stemming from this change in federal law. Read Frank Morales' piece, "Bush Moves Toward Martial Law," online at www.TowardFreedom.com Related links:
Interview with Richard Dieter, On Dec. 15, the Republican governors of California and Florida, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jeb Bush, respectively, both temporarily halted executions in their states and have called for investigations into the use of lethal injection. That is the method of execution used in those two states and 35 others. Bush took action after a botched execution in which it appears that convicted murderer Angel Diaz was likely conscious and in excruciating pain for the 34 minutes it took him to die, after a second dose of toxic chemicals had to be injected. California has the highest number of death row inmates in the country, at around 650. It has executed just 13 people since stricter death penalty laws were ratified and declared constitutional in 1977, overturning a ban earlier in the decade based on violations of the 8th amendment, prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. Florida has executed 64 people in the past 29 years. Texas has executed 379 inmates, which is why its death row population has fallen behind other states. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, an advocacy organization that opposes the death penalty. He assesses the importance of the Dec. 15 governors' orders, and explains why support in the U.S. for the death penalty is dropping. Contact the Death Penalty Information Center by calling (202) 289-2275 or visit their website at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
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