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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

"Iran: The Next War," by James Bamford, Rolling Stone, July 24, 2006

Those Who Dared to Come Forward
Compilation of Washington insiders speaking out on Bush administration policies and actions

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

"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

"FBI Memo: Tactics Used During Protests And Demonstrations" Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oct. 15, 2003

"F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies" by Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Nov. 23, 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

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Between The Lines
For The Week Ending Feb. 16, 2007

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Bush Attempts to Link Iran
with Growing Iraq War Chaos

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Interview with Phyllis Bennis,
fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies,
produced by Scott Harris

iraq destruction

As President Bush began deploying more than 21,000 additional U.S. troops -- following through on his promised escalation of the Iraq war -- violence reached record levels with the bombing of a Baghdad market killing 135 people on Feb. 3rd. The bombing, the most deadly since the war began, and a death toll of 1,000 Iraqis in one week, underscored the growing chaos that has defined the U.S. occupation. Democrats in the U.S. Senate failed in their Feb. 5 attempt to pass a nonbinding resolution criticizing Bush's so-called troop surge, when Republicans blocked a motion to end debate.

While Baghdad burned, the president further raised tensions in the region when he announced that American soldiers are now under orders to capture or kill Iranian operatives inside Iraq that the administration claims are aiding Shiite militias targeting U.S. forces. This comes amid rising U.S. pressure on Iran to end their nuclear program and after Washington sent two aircraft carrier groups to the coast off Iran and arrested Iranian diplomats in Iraq. When an Iranian diplomat was abducted by men in Iraqi Army uniforms on Feb. 4, Iran warned that it held the United States responsible for his life.

Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, who examines the effect of additional U.S. troops in Iraq and the attempt by the Bush administration to link the worsening conflict in Iraq with what they allege is interference by Iran.

Phyllis Bennis' forthcoming book, "Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer," at www.interlinkbooks.com or www.tari.org/understanding_the_palestinian.htm

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ADDITIONAL interview segments in this week's program.
  • White House's Proposed Tax Deduction
    on Health Insurance a
    BandAid on Systemic Crisis

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  • States Now Trying to Reverse
    Failed Electricity Deregulation

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  • Underreported News Summary
    from Around the World

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