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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
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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
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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Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Commentaries, The Hutchinson
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For The Week Ending June 1, 2007
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8 p.m., Thursday, May 31 Free food and wine, provided by local restaurants. All proceeds support charities for the people of Iraq, including Daniel's efforts to bring medical equipment/funds. With special guest, Scott Harris, host of the syndicated radio program, 'Between the Lines'. Q&A following. For more information, call (203)901-7558 We thank the speakers in our successful spring fundraising 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 Leslie Cagan,
While public opinion polls indicate that a majority of Americans want a quick end to the Iraq war and support Congressional Democrats' call for a timetable for withdrawal, President Bush appears to have emerged victorious in his confrontation with Congress over Iraq War funding. On May 22, leaders of the House and Senate tentatively agreed to legislation that will allocate $100 billion for the war through September 30, but without setting any schedule for reducing the number of U.S. troops deployed in Iraq. However, the proposed measure will include benchmarks designed to pressure Iraq's government to redouble their efforts to reduce the civil war's violence, or risk losing some U.S. reconstruction aid. On May 1, President Bush had vetoed Congress' original legislation authorizing funds for the Iraq War, that had included an Oct. 1 deadline to begin withdrawing most of the 147,000 U.S. soldiers from Iraq. Democrats say they will continue to pressure the president to accept a deadline for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, by placing such conditions in defense appropriations and defense authorization bills over the summer. Since January, the anti-war movement has worked hard to move the Democrats to take a more aggressive stance against the war. And while they lost the first round of this confrontation with the president, peace groups vow to keep up the pressure on Democrats and Republicans alike. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, who discusses the ways in which the peace movement will pursue their primary goal of cutting off funds for the Iraq war. Contact United for Peace and Justice by calling (212) 868-5545 or visit their website at www.unitedforpeace.org
Interview with David Sirota,
At a press conference held on May 10, leaders of congressional Democrats announced that they had successfully negotiated a package of trade deals with the White House. The deal was conceived to ratify pending trade agreements with Panama, Peru, Colombia, and South Korea and renew President Bush's "Fast Track" negotiating authority. Fast Track allows the president to propose trade agreements, permitting no amendments. However, since this agreement was announced, there has been growing controversy regarding the still secret provisions of the legislation. Despite assurances from trade deal negotiators, New York Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Wyoming's Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, advocates of "Fair Trade" policy inside and outside of Congress are skeptical of promises that labor and environmental standards will be included in the core of the agreement. While the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other corporate interest groups applauded the deal, the AFL-CIO has yet to endorse the pact. Seventy-one freshman "Fair Trade" Democrats in the House had written a letter earlier this year asking Chairman Rangel not to compromise on fair trade principles. Many are now angry that they were cut out of any input on the trade deal. With a growing split among Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have to depend on Republicans to pass the measure. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with author and political strategist David Sirota, who examines the trade deal's negative impact on U.S. workers and possible fallout for the Democratic Party. David Sirota is author of the book, "Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government and How We Take It Back." Read Sirota's articles online at www.workingassetsblog.org
Interview with Mike Wishnie,
As the U.S. Congress began debate on immigration reform legislation, the city of New Haven, Conn., is discussing a proposal to create a municipal identification card that all residents -- whether they are citizens or not -- may obtain. There are an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Local census figures indicate around 5,000 undocumented immigrants live in New Haven's Latino neighborhood of Fair Haven. A study undertaken two years ago to determine the legality of such a local ID program has finally produced results. The proposal was unanimously passed by the city's aldermanic finance committee in mid-May. The measure will go before the full Board of Aldermen in early June and is expected to pass. If approved, New Haven will likely be the first city in the U.S. to create a municipal ID for the purpose of protecting its undocumented residents. In its current form, the ID can be used by all residents for a variety of purposes, from opening a bank account without a Social Security number to checking books out of the library. Proponents say one reason the card is needed is that undocumented immigrants are unable to open bank accounts and therefore often carry large amounts of cash, becoming easy targets for robbery and violence. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Mike Wishnie, a clinical professor at Yale University law school. He discusses the issues and research that led New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. to support the municipal ID program. For more information on New Haven's ID card program, call Junta for Progressive Action at (203) 787-0191 or visit their website at www.juntainc.org
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