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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 Rick Herz,
Violent repression of peaceful protesters in Burma has taken the lives of an unknown number of civilians opposed to the military regime. Buddhist monks led escalating protests for democratic reforms that followed a government decision to increase energy prices Aug. 19th. Over the past month, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Burma's largest cities, before the military cracked down on opponents, shooting into crowds and arresting thousands. The disappearance of large numbers of monks from their monasteries has human rights groups concerned about possible large-scale massacres such as occurred after pro-democracy protests in 1988. But oil and gas corporations with multi-million dollar investments in extracting energy resources from Burma, renamed Myanmar by the government in 1989, have done little to pressure the military regime during this crisis. Energy companies from Thailand, China, India, France and the United States, some of Burma's top investors, have said little or nothing about the protests or the repression. EarthRights International, a human rights group specializing in corporate accountability, says Chevron oil company, through its takeover of Unocal, is a partner with Burma's military government in the Yadana natural gas pipeline project. Unocal's construction of that project involved mass forced labor and other human rights abuses, committed by the army on Unocal's behalf. The group, representing Burmese villagers, had filed a lawsuit against Unocal and reached an out-of-court settlement with the company in 2004. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Rick Herz, litigation coordinator with EarthRights International, who discusses the responsibility of Chevron and other companies in Burma to play a positive role during the current crisis. Contact EarthRights International at (202) 466-5188 or visit their website at www.earthrights.org. Related links:
Interview with Burke Stansbury,
Over the past year-and-a-half, five of the six countries targeted by the U.S. for membership in the Central America Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, have joined. They include El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. Only Costa Rica has yet to ratify the treaty. The country's president, Oscar Arias, is pushing hard for approval, which would dismantle most trade barriers between the United States and member nations. Supporters say the trade deal would mean lower prices, faster growth, continued U.S. investment and jobs. But opponents point to the disastrous effect of the 14-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexico, on which CAFTA is modeled. NAFTA is one of the main factors pushing Mexicans to migrate to the U.S., as farmers there have been pushed off their lands due to cheap imports of food crops from the U.S., including the Mexican staple, corn. Although public opinion was leaning toward approval of CAFTA in a Costa Rican referendum scheduled for Oct. 7, a leaked memo from high government officials outlining a dirty tricks campaign to win the vote has triggered a scandal and possible backlash. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Burke Stansbury, executive director of CISPES -- the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador -- which is part of a broad coalition of groups in the hemisphere called Stop CAFTA. Stansbury talks about the economic effects already visible in Central American nations that have joined CAFTA, and the status of the Vote NO campaign in Costa Rica, where on Oct. 1, 100,000 people turned out to demonstrate their opposition to the trade pact. Contact CISPES at (202) 521-2510 or visit their website at www.cispes.org A report on the economic consequences of CAFTA can be read online at -- STOPCAFTA.org
Interview with Warren Davis,
After their first strike against General Motors in 37 years, the United Auto Workers and GM reached a tentative agreement that included a major shift in the responsibility for retiree's healthcare benefits and a two-tier wage structure for workers. The agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the union's membership, will likely serve as a model for future negotiations with Ford and Chrysler. Although workers are aware that America's big three automakers lost more than $16 billion in 2006, concessions negotiated by UAW President Ron Gettelfinger have caused great concern among the rank and file. Opposition has been voiced against the agreement's wage structure that puts new workers on a lower pay scale and the establishment of a UAW-run Volunteer Employee Beneficiary Association, or VEBA, that shifts $51 billion in potential healthcare liability off GM's books. GM will only contribute about 70 percent, or $36 billion of what the company had pledged for retiree healthcare coverage. In an open letter to Ron Gettelfinger and the union's contract negotiators, three former members of the UAW International Executive Board criticized the process that led to the concessions and warned that the establishment of the VEBA would undo decades of hard-won healthcare benefit protections. A VEBA set up by the UAW for Caterpillar employees in 1998 collapsed in 2004, leaving retirees to pay for promised health insurance. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Warren Davis, one of the signatories of the letter, who served for 19 years as a regional director of the UAW. He explains why he and other union dissidents are opposed to the deal struck between the UAW and General Motors. For more information on the UAW-GM deal, visit the website of Labor Notes magazine at www.LaborNotes.org Related links:
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