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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
"The Future of Iraq: The Spoils of War," Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity, by Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson and Tim Webb, The Independent/UK, Jan. 7, 2007
"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
"Martial Law Threat is Real," by Dave Lindorff, commondreams.org, July 27, 2007
"ACLU: US Constitution in Grave Danger,"United Press International, July 25, 2007
"Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state," by Muriel Kane, Rawstory.com July 19, 2007
"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
"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
Compilation of Washington insiders speaking out on Bush administration policies and actions
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For The Week Ending Aug. 24, 2007
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Interview with Derek Slater,
As their August recess approached, the Democratic-controlled House and Senate bowed to White House pressure and approved legislation that greatly expanded the power of the president to conduct warrantless surveillance. Despite opposition to the bill from the Democratic Party leadership, 41 House Democrats joined 186 Republicans to approve the measure. In the Senate, Joe Lieberman and 16 Democrats voted for the Republican plan that gives the director of national intelligence and attorney general the power to bypass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and authorize the wiretapping of e-mails and phone calls of foreign-based terrorist suspects in communication routed through the U.S. or with a U.S. citizen. Critics of the bill say that the White House skillfully employed unsubstantiated intelligence reports that pointed to a possible future terrorist attack to pressure Congress to quickly approve the bill. While the measure sunsets in six months, civil liberties advocates were angered by the apparent capitulation of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for not more vigorously opposing the president's use of fear to amass more unilateral power. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Derek Slater, activism coordinator with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He assesses the surveillance bill's effect on the erosion of civil liberties, and the grassroots campaign to pressure Congress to rewrite the bill and rein in runaway executive power. Contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation by calllng (415) 436-9333 or visit their website at www.eff.org
Interview with Eli Hopson,
In early August, just before leaving for their summer recess, both houses of the Democratic-controlled Congress passed energy bills. The two measures were less friendly to the oil and gas industries than the 2005 energy act, written largely by representatives of big energy companies and promoted by Vice President Dick Cheney. Both bills contain elements that will help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil and begin to deal with global climate change. But the main positive element in each of the bills is not present in the other: the House version includes a Renewable Electricity Standard, or RES, that requires 15 percent of electricity use to come from efficiency or renewable sources by 2020. The Senate version includes a provision requiring cars, light trucks and SUVs to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, increasing fuel efficiency to 35 mpg by 2020. These differing versions of the legislation must be reconciled in a conference committee when Congress reconvenes after Labor Day. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Eli Hopson, the clean vehicles expert with the Union of Concerned Scientists. He discusses the differences in the two bills, and efforts to ensure the most progressive elements survive House-Senate negotiations and are signed into law by the president. For more information, call the UCS Washington, D.C. office at (202) 223-6133 or visit their website at www.ucsusa.org Related links:
Interview with Kevin Gray,
With public disapproval of his presidency rivaling that of Richard Nixon before his resignation during the Watergate scandal, President Bush announced that his longtime political adviser, Karl Rove, would leave his post as deputy White House chief of staff before Labor Day. Karl Rove, who had worked for Bush's father and supported the president through his campaigns in Texas and two successful runs for the White House, was a pivotal figure in designing Republican electoral strategies, notably, mobilizing key constituencies like the Christian Right. Rove, who says he's leaving public life to spend more time with his family, will be remembered by many as "Bush's Brain," as well as for formulating electoral campaigns that used smear tactics, emotionally charged wedge issues and dirty tricks to win elections at the cost of dividing the nation. While he didn't invent the tactic of "divide and conquer," critics say Rove will certainly be credited with bringing contemporary U.S. politics to a new low. In the process of attempting to secure the Republican party a monopoly on power for the next 100 years, Rove may have succeeded in associating the GOP with the intentional deception and manipulation of the public on the Iraq War, global warming and countless other issues for decades to come. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with author and commentator Kevin Gray, who reflects on the legacy of Karl Rove. Kevin Gray's forthcoming book is titled, "Waiting for Lightning to Strike, The Fundamentals of Black Politics." Read Gray's articles online at www.counterpunch.org
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