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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
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"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 July 27, 2007
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Interview with Dahr Jamail,
As the violence and bloodletting continue unabated in Iraq, President Bush maintains that progress is being made and that his escalation of the war through the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops needs more time to work. Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate have initiated a new debate on three amendments to a Pentagon funding bill, one of which would require withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of April 2008. But with an expected Republican filibuster and a presidential veto, legislative measures to bring the war to an end are likely to fail. However, as public opinion polls show approval for the president hovering around 25 percent, Republican members of Congress, especially those facing the voters in November 2008, are attempting to distance themselves from Bush and his war. The White House has responded by pressuring those wavering members of the GOP not to abandon the war surge strategy until a progress report is completed in mid-September. Further, the president and other officials in the administration are playing the fear card by warning that if the U.S. abandons the fight in Iraq, al Qaeda terrorists there will follow with renewed attacks on America. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who reported from the streets of Iraq for eight months beginning in 2003. He assesses the deteriorating situation in Iraq and the Washington debate over the future of the failed U.S. occupation. Read Dahr Jamail's articles online at www.dahr.org. A new book by Dahr Jamail, titled "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq," will be published this fall.
Interview with John Nichols,
President Bush's second term has been plagued by the deepening quagmire of the Iraq occupation and a flood of scandals involving allegations of abuse of power. The latest controversies over executive misconduct to hit Washington involve the president's decision to commute the prison sentence of vice presidential aide Lewis Libby and his order to former White House Counsel Harriet Miers forbidding her from complying with a subpoena to testify before Congress. The failure of Miers to appear before Congress may result in the House holding the one-time Supreme Court nominee in contempt. The subpoena issued to her was part of an investigation into the possible political motivations behind the firing last year of nine U.S. attorneys. The president's rescue of Lewis Libby from 2 1/2 years in prison is connected with the administration's illegal leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the press as part of a campaign to discredit her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of the president's reasons for launching the Iraq war. Through these and other scandals -- related to official lies about the Iraq war, warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens, torture of prisoners and the administration's deadly mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster -- the remedy of Impeachment has been discussed, but not taken seriously by Washington insiders and the corporate media. Things could be changing. Public television's Bill Moyers recently hosted a sober one-hour discussion of impeachment with two guests: Bruce Fein, a conservative attorney who worked in President Reagan's Department of Justice and John Nichols, Washington correspondent with the Nation magazine. Although politically polar opposites, Nichols and Fein both agreed that impeachment may be the only way Congress can hold this president accountable for his numerous violations of the U. S. constitution and Bill of Rights. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with John Nichols, who assesses the latest Bush administration scandals and increasing discussion of the impeachment option. John Nichols is Washington correspondent with the Nation Magazine. Nichols is author of the book, The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders Cure for Royalism." Read Nichols' columns online at www.thenation.com
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On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow at the nation's campaign finance reform law, known as McCain-Feingold. The Court upheld, 5-4, the right of corporations, unions and other big spenders to run so-called "issue ads" in the weeks before an election as a form of free speech as long as they don't explicitly urge a vote for or against a particular candidate. Chief Justice John Roberts said, "Where the First Amendment is implicated, the tie goes to the speaker, not the censor." Equating money with speech is like selling democracy to the highest bidder, in the opinion of those who have worked for meaningful campaign finance reform. They have achieved some success, as Maine and Arizona have established public financing for statewide races, with Connecticut joining them next year. Four other states -- New Mexico, New Jersey, Vermont and North Carolina - also have public funding in place for some offices, and a few cities run municipal elections with public funding. Bills have been introduced in both the House and Senate to provide public funding for congressional races. The Senate bill has nine co-sponsors, while the House bill has 52. One supporter of public financing says it would cost $2 billion a year to publicly fund races for Congress and the White House, or $6 per citizen. Meanwhile, the war in Iraq has averaged $111 billion per year over the past four years. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Doris Haddock, who, better known by her nickname, "Granny D," left her home state of New Hampshire and walked across the country in 2000, the year she turned 90, to support campaign finance reform. Here, she expresses her feelings about the recent Supreme Court decision, but also explains how she's continuing to work for reform. Learn more about Granny D's views and projects by visiting her website at www.grannyd.com Related links:
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