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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 Shahnaz Rouse,
The president of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, declared emergency rule and suspended his nation's constitution on Nov. 3 while ordering the arrests of thousands of opposition leaders, attorneys and human rights activists. Gen. Musharraf fired the Supreme Court days before the justices were to decide if his Oct. 6 re-election as president was lawful. Parliamentary elections, scheduled for January, could now be delayed. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who upon her return to Pakistan from self-exile on Oct. 18 was targeted by a bomb attack that killed 140 of her supporters, called on Gen. Musharraf to lift martial law and hold elections. Gen. Musharraf cited a recent wave of violent attacks by Islamic militants sympathetic to the Taliban and Al Qaeda as a justification for declaring emergency rule and firing the Supreme Court. But his violent crackdown has been focused on civil society and his secular political opponents. Gen. Musharraf, one of President Bush's staunchest allies in his wars in Afghanistan and against Al Qaeda, has received more than $10 billion in U.S. aid since 2001, most of it given to the military. President Bush has asked that elections go forward, but has not threatened to suspend military aid. Pakistan's ousted chief justice Mohammed Chaudhry, under house arrest, has called on the nation to revolt against Gen. Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Shahnaz Rouse, professor of sociology at Sarah Lawrence College, who assesses the volatile political and military situation in nuclear-armed Pakistan after Gen. Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule. Read articles online about Pakistan at Middle East Report at Merip.org Related links:
Interview with John Dean,
After the controversial tenure and resignation of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez in August, President Bush nominated Michael Mukasey, a U.S. District Court Judge from New York to fill the post. During his Senate confirmation hearings, Mukasey was asked whether waterboarding was torture. Waterboarding used during the Spanish Inquisition, by the Nazis and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge simulates drowning by shackling and pouring water over the face of the subject whose face is covered with cloth or plastic. U.S. interrogators are reported to have used this technique in an effort to extract information from high-level terrorist suspects. Mukasey failed to clearly give his view of waterboarding after repeated questions in Senate hearings. When Democrats asked him for an answer in writing, Mukasey responded with a letter stating that waterboarding seemed "over the line" and was "repugnant, but declined to declare it illegal. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, four retired Judge Advocates General -- the judicial arm of the U.S. military -- sharply criticized Judge Mukasey's equivocation. They unambiguously state that waterboarding is torture. Despite Mukasey's disturbing indication that he would continue to allow the Bush administration to employ torture banned by U.S. and international law, Mukasey's nomination was endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in an 11 to 9 vote on Nov. 6. Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California joined all nine Republicans in support of Mukasey while all other Democratic senators voted no. Mukasey is now expected to be confirmed by the full Senate. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with John Dean, former Counsel to President Nixon and key figure in the Watergate scandal, who discusses the breakdown of government process and accountability surrounding the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general. He begins by describing a parallel with the Watergate era. John Dean's newest book is titled, "Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches." Read Dean's articles online at findlaw.com. Related links:
Interview with Brent Blackwelder,
The U.S. Senate has begun grappling with its first serious effort to curb global warming. Known as America's Climate Security Act, the bill is a collaboration between Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican John Warner of Virginia. It introduces a cap-and-trade system that covers carbon emissions from electric power, transportation and industry, representing three-quarters of all such emissions from U.S. sources. Although the country's share of global emissions has dropped somewhat from 25 percent, the U.S. is still by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Most environmental groups support the bill, but virtually all of them want to see major improvements as it moves through the Senate. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has co-authored a much stronger global warming bill with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, which would reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050 -- the amount scientists say is necessary in order to avoid massive impacts from climate change. The Lieberman/Warner bill is estimated to reduce emissions by only 50 to 67 percent by 2050. Because of the legislation's limited goals and that it gives away rather than auctions off more than 80 percent of pollution credits at the start under the cap and trade system, Friends of the Earth has been most critical of the bill. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth. He explains why his organization is opposed to the bill, and the kind of climate change legislation he would like to see passed. Contact Friends of the Earth at 1-877 843-8687 or visit the group's website at www.foe.org
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