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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 Victoria Samson,
President Bush has spent tens of billions of dollars on a dubious missile defense program supported by the former Republican-controlled Congress. Before testing of the program has been completed, ground bases for missile interceptors have been built in both California and Alaska. Testing of the system, which is designed to intercept incoming ballistic missile warheads outside the earth's atmosphere, have been mediocre at best. Only 6 of 11 tests, in highly scripted exercises, have succeeded in hitting their target. Most of the tests have not included scenarios with inexpensive countermeasures, which could easily render the missile system ineffective. Now the Bush administration is planning to deploy 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar installation linked to the program inside the Czech Republic. The Pentagon justifies expansion of the missile defense program into Eastern Europe by declaring that this system would defend against any future missile attack by Iran targeting the U.S. or Europe. Despite protests by groups in Poland, the Czech Republic and across Europe, the White House and Pentagon are pushing ahead. In response to the U.S. missile program in Eastern Europe, Russia has threatened to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate Forces Treaty and the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe. Between the Lines Scott Harris spoke with Victoria Samson, research analyst with the Center for Defense Information, who assesses the likely repercussions if President Bush goes forward with his plan to deploy elements of the U.S. Missile Defense program in Eastern Europe. Contact the Center for Defense Information by calling (202) 332-0600 or visit their website at www.cdi.org
Interview with Jonathan Hafetz,
After much controversy over the Bush administration's warrantless National Security Agency domestic spying program, the White House seemed to reverse its position in January. The Justice Department, responding to the Republican's loss of Congress, stated that it would once again place its domestic surveillance operation under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as mandated by a 1978 federal law. But in a May 2 Senate hearing, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell declared that the president has the authority under Article II of the U.S. Constitution to conduct warrantless spying. He also defended the Bush administration's draft legislation that would expand the government's power to spy under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The proposal would eliminate the need for some court warrants and increase the length of time warrants would be in effect. Another provision would block lawsuits against telephone companies that cooperated with the government spy program. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. Hafetz provides an overview of the constitutional violations linked to the Bush administration's warrantless spy program and discusses the Brennan Center's support for a lawsuit filed by U.S. civil rights groups challenging the government's right to make secret, phone company participation in illegal surveillance programs. Contact the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School by calling (212) 998-6730, or visit the group's website at www.brennancenter.org Related links:
Talk by Howard Zinn,
"May First," International Workers Day, is celebrated in nations around the world. And although the observance honors those who protested for the eight-hour workday in Chicago, and their persecution in 1886, here in the U.S., the holiday has been marginalized. _ On May 1, 2006 immigrants and their allies revived the holiday when they protested in large numbers in cities across America. They rallied and marched in support of immigrant rights and against the threat of massive deportation. This year, like many other cities, New Haven, Conn., saw a second round of somewhat smaller pro-immigrant marches. But unlike most other U.S. cities, New Haven holds an annual celebration of workers rights each May Day on the city's Green. This two decade-old tradition features music, speakers, food and information tables from dozens of progressive groups. This year, octogenarian historian and activist Howard Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States," addressed May Day participants in New Haven about the meaning, in the 21st century, of the International Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights treaties, and called for a world without borders. Professor Zinn has just published a new two-volume set of books titled, "A Young People's History of the United States." For more information, visit his website at www.howardzinn.org
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