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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
"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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Interview with Cindy Cohn,
Congress is now engaged in drafting legislation that will rewrite the "Protect America Act," which expanded the president's power to spy on U.S. citizens in communication with people abroad, bypassing court warrants mandated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. Congress hastily passed the law before their August recess, after the White House disseminated a report about an impending plot by foreign terrorists to attack the U.S. Capitol. In drafting legislation to replace the "Protect America Act," Congress is again under pressure from President Bush not to impose restrictions on executive branch authority to spy on citizens in the fight against terrorism. Bush, who has threatened to veto legislation not to his liking, has also demanded retroactive immunity from prosecution for telecommunication companies that had provided the National Security Agency information on their customer phone calls and email without court warrants. The Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to grant the immunity while the House has thus far refused to endorse the measure. Presidential candidate Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., who objects to the immunity provision, has said he will use his senatorial "hold" power to prevent a vote on the bill by the full Senate. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Cindy Cohn, legal director with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has a pending lawsuit against phone company giant AT&T for their role in illegally allowing the NSA to monitor customer communications. Cohn discusses what's at stake for American's privacy rights and how citizens can affect the outcome of this Congressional debate. Contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation by calling (415) 436-9333 or visit their website at www.stopthespying.org or www.eff.org Related links:
Interview with Craig Aaron,
In 2003, the Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, under Chairman Michael Powell, tried to push through a drastic media ownership deregulation package that would have transformed the American media ownership landscape. The proposal triggered one of the largest and broadest public responses ever to FCC policy by opponents of the plan, and the deregulation scheme was beaten back. But this year, the FCC's current chairman, Kevin J. Martin, is trying to push through basically the same plan again by the end of the year. It would allow cross-ownership of major newspapers and TV stations in a single media market, and allow other changes to reduce diversity on the radio dial. According to groups opposed to the plan, Freedom of Information Act requests reveal that the FCC buried studies demonstrating the harmful impact of media consolidation and then commissioned biased research to support their conclusions. Media democracy groups including - Free Press, Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union used the FCC's own studies to demonstrate that ownership deregulation results in a net loss in the amount of local news produced across local broadcast markets. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Craig Aaron, communications director with Free Press, an organization in the forefront of efforts to protect diversity and democracy in media. Contact Free Press by calling (202) 265-1490, or visit the group's website at www.freepress.net Related links:
Interview with Tom Hayden,
As the Bush administration asks Congress for another $189 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Democratic-controlled House and Senate appear to be ambivalent about repeating previous unsuccessful efforts to end the war or change the direction of U.S. policy in Iraq, peace activists are returning to the streets. Five years after Congress voted to authorize President Bush to use force against Iraq, a day of regional anti-war protests are planned in 11 cities across the nation on Oct. 27th. The demonstrations, organized by a nationwide coalition of religious, labor, veterans and peace groups, will call for a rapid withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. But while the death toll among Iraqis and U.S. soldiers continues to climb, and public opinion polls find that over 65 percent of Americans disapprove of the war, the number of anti-war protesters in the streets has declined over the last year. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with veteran anti-war activist and former California state Sen. Tom Hayden, who assesses the current condition of the peace movement examined in his new book, "Ending The War In Iraq," published by Akashic Books. Visit Tom Hayden's website at www.tomhayden.org Related links:
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