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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
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"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:
The Easy Slide Into Fascism," The Crisis Papers, June 9, 2003
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For The Week Ending Aug. 3, 2007
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Interview with Antonia Juhasz,
According to President Bush and the U.S. Congress, one of the key benchmarks the Iraqi government is being pressured to achieve by September is passage of a new law governing oil production and distribution, which is being hotly contested inside Iraq. The country's oil resources, the second largest known reserves in the world, were nationalized in the 1970s. Before the U.S. invasion in 2003, the industry was pumping about 2.5 million barrels a day, as compared to the current 2.1 million barrels. State oil companies are still in charge of production, and oil is pumped by the Iraqi Federation of Oil Workers, which is leading opposition to the new oil law. The proposed Iraq hydrocarbon law would take the majority of Iraq's oil out of the exclusive hands of the Iraqi government and open it to development by private international oil companies for a generation or more. U.S. companies are already making huge profits from marketing Iraq's oil, with an average of 553,000 barrels a day exported to the U.S. last year. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Antonia Juhasz, a fellow with Oil Change International and author of the book "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time." She discusses the debate over the oil law within Iraq and explains why resistance to the measure has grown. Contact Oil Change International by calling (202) 518-9029 or visit the group's website at www.priceofoil.org Related links:
Interview with Chris Toensing,
Not long after stepping down as British prime minister, Tony Blair was named as international envoy by the U.S., the European Union, the United Nations and Russia. The so-called "quartet" of Middle East negotiators have given Blair a limited mandate to strengthen Palestinian institutions. In his first trip to the region in his new role the week of July 23, Blair made stops in Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, where he held talks with leaders to "listen, learn and reflect." Although Blair expressed cautious optimism for a resumption of long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, political observers were less confident of a breakthrough. As President Bush's most important ally in the Iraq war, Tony Blair is seen by many Middle Eastern leaders as lacking independence and ultimately subservient to Washington. The Quartet's continued isolation and exclusion of the Palestinian Hamas party from talks is seen as an insurmountable obstacle to reaching a two-state solution. In June, Hamas attacked forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party, taking control of the Gaza Strip and bitterly dividing Palestinians between Hamas and Fatah. In a seeming last ditch effort to break the deadlock, President Bush has called for an international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this fall chaired by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Chris Toensing, editor of Middle East Report, who assesses the wisdom of naming Tony Blair as a lead negotiator and the obstacles and opportunities for restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Contact Middle East Report by calling (202) 223-3677 or visit their website at www.merip.org
Interview with Jo-Marie Burt,
Much like other nations across Latin America, Peru suffers from a wide disparity between the rich and poor. While campaigning for office in 2006, Peruvian President Alan Garcia pledged to fight poverty by growing the economy. One year later Peru's poor have launched militant protests and labor strikes making known their rejection of Garcia's policies. Three people have been killed during protests called by teachers and farmers that began this summer. Teachers objected to a proposed law that would have mandated competency tests. Other groups joined nation-wide demonstrations and blockades to demand enforcement of labor laws, increased taxes on mining profits and rejection of a free trade deal with the United States. Garcia's first term as Peru's president from 1985-90, ended with hyperinflation, price controls and a default on its debt. But since he won last year's election against progressive populist Ollanta Humala, Garcia has worked to win the confidence of financial markets and the U.S. by promising "responsible change." Although Peru's economy expanded by 8 percent last year, half of the nation's population mired in poverty, have seen little or no improvement in their lives. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Jo-Marie Burt, assistant professor of politics and government at George Mason University, who examines the role economic inequality has played in the protests and labor strikes that have gripped Peru in recent weeks. Jo-Marie Burt's articles, published by the North American Congress on Latin America, can be read online at www.nacla.org Related links:
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"More Troops for What?"> by Benjamin H. Friedman, Foreign Policy, July 2007
"Why the US Military Loves Ron Paul," by Tom Engelhardt, The Nation, July 23, 2007
"US Ambassador Says Iraqi Aides Will Quit Unless Granted Asylum," by Ed Pilkington, The Guardian UK, July 23, 2007
Civil Liberties/ Human Rights
"Unlikely Adversary Arises to Criticize Detainee Hearings," by William Glaberson, The New York Times, July 23, 2007
"Patriot Abuse," by Janet Nocek, The Hartford Courant, July 22, 2007
"Court Tells US to Reveal Data on Detainees at Guantánamo," by William Glaberson, The New York Times, July 21, 2007
"The Assault on Due Process and Civil Liberties," by Ian Welsh
Firedoglake, July 21, 2007
"Bush Alters Rules for CIA Interrogations," by Katherine Shrader, The Associated Press, July 21, 2007
"Rorschach and Awe," by Katherine Eban, Vanity Fair, July 17, 2007
Media Issues
"Swift Boat 2004 vs. 'Swift Boat' 2008," by Eric Boehlert, Media Matters, July 24, 2007
"Savage said Imus was 'lynched,' compared his firing to 'what was done in Nazi Germany to Jews,'" Media Matters, July 23, 2007
"The Media's Mayor: Mythologizing Giuliani and 9/11," by Steve Rendall, Extra! May/June 2007
"Incendiary Weapons Are No 'Allegation'" Times corrects a minor error, ignores the big one, Extra!, June 11, 2007
Activism
"Sheehan: I Will Beat Speaker Pelosi," by Jeremy Jacobs, The Hill, July 24, 2007
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