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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
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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:
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For The Week Ending May 25, 2007
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ANNOUNCEMENTSWe thank the speakers in our successful spring fund-raising events: Chris Hedges, Ben Dangl, Frank Panzarella and Bruce Crowder, and to those who came out to hear, discuss and share with a greater public, these important issues that are so under-reported -- and under-analyzed -- by the corporate news monopolies. Thank you to all who support Between The Lines' projects, and continue to strive for peace and justice in the interdependent, global community we all live in. THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with David Becker,
As congressional investigations continue into the Justice Department firing of 9 U.S. attorneys, there is growing evidence that a Republican Party plan to influence the outcome of the 2006 federal elections was a primary motivation for the terminations. Almost half the U.S. attorneys targeted for firing had been the subject of complaints by Republicans party activists concerned about their lack of aggressiveness in prosecuting alleged cases of voter fraud. According to press reports and official documents, President Bush's political advisor Karl Rove put pressure on the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute dubious voter-fraud allegations linked to Republican Party electoral strategy. Observers say the GOP has a pattern of employing voter fraud charges to intimidate primarily minority voters in key battleground states. The May 14 resignation of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty added to the U.S. attorney scandal, where Democratic and some Republican lawmakers continue to call for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. McNulty, the fourth senior Justice Department official to resign as a result of the scandal, had provided false information to Congress on the details of the U.S. attorney firings. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with David Becker, director of People for the American Way's Democracy Campaign. He served as a senior trial attorney with the Justice Department for seven years in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Becker examines the links between the firings of the U.S. attorneys and the 2006 congressional election. Contact People for the American Way by calling (202) 467-4999 or visit their website at www.pfaw.org Related links:
Interview with Jeremy Scahill,
In his new best-selling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill asserts that the private military contractor and security firm Blackwater USA, is the elite Praetorian Guard for the Bush administration's "global war on terror," with its own military base, a fleet of 20 aircraft, and 20,000 soldiers at the ready. Blackwater USA first came to the American public's attention in March 2004, when four Blackwater contractors were killed in an ambush in Falluja, Iraq. The men were burned and strung up on a bridge over the Euphrates River. This later led to a brutal U.S. counterattack on Fallujah, which killed hundreds of civilians, fueling the Iraqi insurgency. As Scahill writes in his book, thousands of soldiers of fortune working with Blackwater and other mercenary armies in Iraq, comprise a parallel military, immune from prosecution under Iraqi law and unaccountable under the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice. Blackwater's founder, Erik Prince, is a multi-millionaire, right-wing Christian fundamentalist ex-Navy Seal. Prince and his family have a long history of bankrolling many right-wing causes and are big supporters of President Bush. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Jeremy Scahill about Erik Prince's religious philosophy and why he feels that outsourcing the U.S. military could, in the not too distant future, threaten America's democracy. Learn more about Blackwater and other private military contractors at Scahill's website: www.blackwaterbook.com
Interview with Kathryn Bolles, Last week, for Mother's Day, Save the Children released its annual report, "State of the World's Mothers: Saving the Lives of Children Under Five." Niger and Sierra Leone are at the bottom of the list, with the worst maternal and child death rates. But when rating the degree of change between 1990 and 2005 -- both positive and negative -- Iraq topped the list of countries where the situation has worsened. In 1990, Iraq ranked just behind China with 50 child deaths per 1,000 births. Fifteen years later, Iraq's toll is 125 deaths per thousand births, while China's has dropped to just 27 deaths per thousand. On average, according to the report, 1 in 13 mothers will die in her lifetime from pregnancy-related causes. Nearly 1 in 5 children dies before her fifth birthday, and more than 1 in 3 children suffers from malnutrition. Most of these 28,000 deaths per day worldwide are preventable with simple and inexpensive interventions. Despite progress in some poor nations, the overall trend is negative. The child survival revolution of the 1980s and early 1990s has stalled. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Kathryn Bolles, a child health advocate with Save the Children who contributed to the group's child mortality report. She discusses the situation in Iraq and explains what life-saving methods work and the additional resources needed to save more babies and mothers. To get a copy of the report, contact Save The Children at 1-800 728-3843 or visit the group's website at www.savethechildren.org
 This week's summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
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