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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
War And Profiteering
"Cheney is Longtime Bad News for U.S.," by John Nichols, by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin), Jan. 16, 2007
"Bush administration provokes open war on Iran: Irbil raid, and other operations, authorized "several months ago," by Larry Chin, Global Research, Jan. 15, 2007
"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
"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
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ANNOUNCEMENTS"Energy Wars: Popular Movements at Home and Abroad" discussion and booksigning with Benjamin Dangl, author of "The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia," Saturday, April 28, 2007 from 2-4 p.m. at the Kasbah Garden Cafe, 105 Howe St., New Haven, CT
Ben Dangl, who is also editor of the online publication, www.TowardFreedom.com, will be speaking on "Why the Left is Winning in Latin America." Social justice activist Frank Panzarella, who is organizing "Fight the Hike", will discuss "Resisting Utility Price Hikes and Deregulation"; clean energy advocate and mechanical engineer Bruce Crowder will talk about public power and environmentally sustainable energy production in his speech, "Connecticut Power Trip: From Power Plant to Pool Pump and all the Tolls in Between" Suggested donation: $5. Call (203) 268-8446 for more information. Click here to download a flyer of this event! (Needs Adobe Acrobat) THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with journalist David Lindorff,
Newspapers and television screens around the world were filled with the images of captives being held by the Iranian government after 15 British sailors and Marines were seized by naval units of the Revolutionary Guards on March 23. The British crew had been captured after boarding and inspecting an Iraqi boat in the Persian Gulf. Although Britain has declared that their naval forces were in Iraqi waters at the time of their capture, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released Britain's eight sailors and seven Marines on April 4. Rising tensions between Iran and the West came shortly after the United Nations imposed new sanctions on Tehran for refusing to halt their uranium enrichment program. The U.S. and its allies have accused Iran of working to develop nuclear weapons, a charge denied by the Islamic government, which maintains it is pursuing a civilian nuclear power program. President Bush has deployed two aircraft carrier groups off the Iranian coast. Soon after the Bush administration had publicly accused Iran of being involved in providing weapons and training to Iraqi insurgents, on Jan. 11, the U.S. military seized five Iranian diplomats in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. It increasingly appears that the seizure of the British naval force was connected to the U.S. capture of these Iranian diplomats. This was underscored when a senior Iraqi foreign ministry official said that his government was "intensively" seeking release of the Iranians held by the U.S. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with journalist Dave Lindorff, who examines the unintended consequences of the Bush administration's decision to capture and hold Iranian diplomats. Journalist Dave Lindorff is co-author, with Barbara Olshansky, of the book, "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office." Read Lindorff's articles online at www.thiscantbehappening.net
Interview with Laila al-Arian,
Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian, Kuwaiti-born activist and former University of South Florida computer engineer, was arrested on Feb. 20, 2003, and charged with aiding terrorists, conspiracy to maim or murder, perjury, and immigration violations. But after a six-month trial costing the U.S. government $50 million, a Tampa, Fla. jury in December deadlocked on nine charges, found al-Arian not guilty on eight other counts and acquitted three co-defendants on all 34 charges against them. In order to avoid a second trial, al-Arian made a deal with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to one count of conspiring to provide support to a Palestinian terrorist organization, agreed to an additional 11 months in prison and to be deported from the U.S. But an assistant federal prosecutor in Virginia called on al-Arian to testify before a grand jury investigating an Islamic group. Although al-Arian's attorneys say the subpoena violated the plea agreement, on Nov. 16 al-Arian was brought before a grand jury and placed in civil contempt for refusing to testify, facing an additional 18 months in prison. In protest of his continuing imprisonment Al-Arian, a diabetic, conducted a 60-day hunger strike beginning on Jan. 22. He ended his fast only after pleas from his family March 24, after losing 54 pounds -- 25 percent of his body weight,. Between The Lines Scott Harris spoke with al-Arian's daughter Laila, who is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She summarizes her father's trial and comments on what she believes the case says about the U.S. justice system. Contact Dr. Al-Arian's supporters by visiting www.freesamialarian.com. Related links:
Interview with Jerome Ringo,
New Orleans and other parts of coastal Louisiana are still struggling to recover from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which hit within less than a month of each other in 2005. The Army Corps of Engineers has admitted that its levee system was inadequate to protect residents from flooding. But much less attention has been paid to the role of the oil and gas industry in the destruction of the wetlands, which in turn had a huge impact on the failure of the levees. Louisiana loses more land to the ocean every year than anyplace else on earth. Over 1 million acres of the Louisiana coast has been lost since the 1930s. Another one-third of a million acres could be lost in the next 50 years unless corrective actions is taken. Wetland areas provide a natural storm barrier for coastal Louisiana and New Orleans. But oil and gas canals in the city have long been blamed for allowing salt water into the marshlands and eroding the land. Some geologists also believe that as oil is pumped from the ground, New Orleans sinks. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Jerome Ringo, chairman of the board of directors of the National Wildlife Federation and president of the Apollo Alliance, which brings together labor and environmentalists to create "green" jobs. Ringo, a native of Louisiana, previously spent 20 years working in that state's petro-chemical industry. He talks about how the oil and gas industry's actions have expedited the loss of land and what needs to be done to reverse course, if it's not too late already. For more information on the loss of wetlands in Louisiana, call (225) 767-4181 or visit the website of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana in Baton Rouge at www.crcl.org Related links:
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