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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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"American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America," Comes to New Haven, CT Saturday, May 12 from 2-4 p.m. A discussion and booksigning with: Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times correspondent and author of "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" (Free Press, 2007), Saturday May 12; 2-4 p.m. at the Center Church on-the-Green, 250 Temple St., New Haven, CT ($10 suggested contribution) A reception follows the booksigning from 4-5 p.m. at the Center Church-on-the Green Parish House, 311 Temple St., New Haven, CT. (Behind the New Haven Public Library.) Advance tickets required: $35 for discussion and reception. Call (203) 268-8446 or visit www.squeakywheel.net for more details on parking, tickets, preferred seating, etc.
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Interview with Michael Ratner,
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 declined to hear an appeal brought by two prisoners held at the U.S. Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The prisoners, Yemeni national Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, were challenging the legitimacy of their scheduled court proceedings under the Military Commissions Act. The Court left open the possibility that they may be willing to hear challenges after the men are tried in the military tribunal, branded by many human rights advocates as no better than a kangaroo court. In another development related to the Guantanamo detainees, the Bush administration is proposing new rules that would restrict attorneys access to their clients held as enemy combatants in the facility. The Justice Department is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to limit the number of lawyer visits allowed to three after an initial meeting, and impose more severe censorship on client-attorney mail communications and conversations. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who explains the effect of restricting lawyer access to their clients at Guantanamo, and the significance of the recent Supreme Court decision rejecting the appeal by Hamdan and Khadr. Contact the Center for Constitutional Rights by calling (212) 614-6464 or visit the Center's web site at www.ccr-ny.org Related links:
Interview with Roger Hickey,
The 2008 presidential election campaign is gearing up early, with a bumper crop of Republican and Democratic candidates already raising millions of dollars for their run for the White House. All eight Democratic candidates gathered in South Carolina on April 26 for their first debate. Ten of the declared GOP candidates will hold their first debate on May 3 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. While Republicans usually have an advantage on raising campaign cash from their well-heeled allies in big business, early in this year's race Democrats maintained a lead in fundraising. Public opinion polls indicate that on the big issues of the campaign, voters find themselves more in agreement with Democrats. A late April survey conducted by Rasmussen found 57 percent of likely voters either want to bring home the troops from Iraq immediately or have a firm timetable for withdrawal. In the showdown over the Iraq funding bill, most Americans favor the legislation passed by Congress. Fifty-two percent opposed the president's veto of the Democrat's war spending bill. And only 33 percent of voters believe history will judge the U.S. mission in Iraq a success. Progressive activists with an eye on the presidential campaign will be gathering for the "Take Back America" conference in Washington, D.C. on June 18. Convened by the group, Campaign for America's Future, the conference will feature speeches from Democratic candidates and hold discussions on key domestic and foreign policy issues. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, who explains why he believes that the failure of conservative ideas over the past several decades, should be the centerpiece of the 2008 presidential campaign. Contact the Campaign for America's Future by calling (202) 955-5665 or visit their website at www.ourfuture.org
Interview with Suzanne Koepplinger,
A report on violence against women released in late April by Amnesty International USA revealed a much higher level of violence against Native-American women than against women in the general population. Based on data from the year 2000, from the federal Office of Justice Statistics, 18 percent of all women are predicted to be raped during their lifetime. The figure for native women is almost double that, or one in three. And an estimated 70 percent of native women do not report sexual assaults, so the figure is undoubtedly much higher. In addition, 52 percent of all women experience physical assault, including domestic violence, at some point in their lives, but for native women that figure is 61 percent. Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Suzanne Koepplinger, executive director of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center, based in Minneapolis. For almost a quarter of a century her organization has been providing a range of services to native women and their families. Koepplinger says nothing in the Amnesty report really surprised her. She discusses some of the differences and similarities in the experiences of native women who live on reservations and those that reside in cities. She also talks about what actions need to be taken to reduce violence against Native-American women. Contact the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center at (612) 728-2000 or visit their website at www.miwrc.org. To read the Amnesty USA report, go towww.amnestyusa.org and click on "women's rights."
 This week's summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
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