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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
ISSUES IN-DEPTH
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
"Fascist America, in 10 easy steps," by Naomi Wolf, The Guardian, April 24, 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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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with Jennifer Daskal,
For more than five years, hundreds of detainees designated as "enemy combatants" have been held at the U.S. government's Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Although there has been international condemnation of the facility for holding prisoners without charge or trial, President Bush has refused to close Guantanamo down. After the U.S. Supreme court ruled in 2004 that these prisoners could challenge their detention in U.S. courts, President Bush worked with the GOP-controlled Congress to pass legislation in 2006 that revoked these detainees' habeas corpus rights and prohibits them from seeking redress regarding maltreatment and torture. A special military appeals court recently overturned a lower court ruling that had blocked military tribunals for 340 Guanatanamo prisoners from going forward. With Democrats winning control of Congress last November, there was some hope that new legislation could be passed that would restore habeas rights to Guantanamo prisoners. But on Sept. 19, the U.S. Senate sustained a Republican filibuster preventing a vote on the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act as an amendment to the 2008 Defense Department Authorization bill. The final vote was 56-43, with every Democrat and six Republicans voting for the bill. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. was the only non-Republican to vote against the measure. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Jennifer Daskal, U.S. advocacy director with Human Rights Watch, who explains the uncertain status of efforts in Congress and the Supreme Court to restore habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees. Contact Human Rights Watch at (212) 290-4700 or visit their website at www.hrw.org Related links:
Excerpt of address by Reva Siegel,
A forum held at Yale University Law School on Sept. 20 was titled, "What remains of Roe v Wade? Reproductive Justice after the Federal Abortion Ban." The forum addressed the state of the pro-choice movement after the Supreme Court ruled last April in Gonzales v. Carhart that the so-called partial birth abortion ban is not unconstitutional, even though it includes no exception for a woman's health. Many pro-choice activists fear that the Gonzales v. Carhart decision is an invitation to state legislatures around the country to pass more restrictions on women's reproductive freedom, and that it won't be too long before the Supreme Court will reconsider the core protections of Roe v. Wade. One of the speakers at the forum, Yale Law School professor Reva Siegel, has studied the history of the anti-abortion movement and related legal cases. In her talk, she addressed two main points. She discussed how anti-choice forces have adopted the language of feminists on protecting a women's health and freedom of choice and reversed the meaning to promote an end to legal abortion as the way to protect women's health and welfare. Professor Siegel also looked at the two wings of the anti-abortion movement -- the absolutists and the incrementalists. The following excerpt from her talk addresses this issue. For more information, visit the web site of Planned Parenthood Federation of America at www.plannedparenthood.org Related links:
Interview with economist Robert Frank,
Increasingly, the United States is becoming a land divided by an ever-widening gap between the rich and poor. In the period between World War II and 1979, the expanding U.S. economy helped families in all classes increase their income. But since 1979, America's wealthiest families have seen the largest share of growth in their earnings. In 1980, the richest 5 percent of Americans held 16.5 percent of the nation's income; in 1990 they held 18.5 percent and the latest Census figures for 2005 show that this group has now increased its control of the nation's income to 22.2 percent. With the very wealthy setting the tone for the ownership of status symbols such as houses, cars and other luxury goods, middle-income families are being induced to spend greater amounts of their near-stagnant incomes to re-establish their economic rank in America's competitive society. In his new book, "Falling Behind, How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class," Cornell University economist Robert Frank investigates the costs of this competition that includes increased work hours and decreased savings rates. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Robert Frank about the conclusions he's reached on how inequality has reduced the quality of life for America's middle class. Visit Robert Frank's website at www.Robert-H-Frank.com Related links:
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