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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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States Now Trying to Reverse
Failed Electricity Deregulation

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Interview with Tyson Slocum,
director of Public Citizen's energy program,
conducted by Melinda Tuhus

utility

A decade after many states in the U.S. deregulated their electric utilities, energy prices are now rising exponentially. According to the federal Energy Department, of the 16 states that opened their markets to competition, more than half are now paying well above the national average of 10.94 cents per kilowatt hour. A prominent advocate of deregulation at the time was Enron, the company associated with one of the biggest corporate scandals in American history.

Connecticut, one of the states whose legislature voted to deregulate in 1998, will see some consumers' electric rates increase this year 50 percent over the next few months. Electric utilities point to the rising cost of energy as the main culprit, but a small energy cooperative in the state that must also contend with rising prices has increased rates only slightly. Critics of the huge price hike blame deregulation, which was advertised as a boon to competition and lower prices, but delivered neither.

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen's energy program, based in Washington, D.C. He discusses the history of electricity deregulation and the tough road ahead for states that now want to re-regulate their power industry. He begins by explaining why deregulation doesn't serve the interests of consumers.

Public Citizen is organizing a conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 26 about deregulation and what can be done about it. For information on the conference, visit www.takebackthepower.net. Contact Public Citizen's energy program by calling (202) 546-4996 or visit their website at www.citizen.org
Related links:

  • "Eight Years Later ... `Deregulation Failed,'" By Christopher Keating, Capitol Bureau Chief, Hartford Courant, Jan. 21, 2007
  • "Texas power plan begins amid slim savings hopes," by Jasmina Kelemen, MarketWatch, Dec. 28, 2006


    ADDITIONAL interview segments in this week's program.
    • Bush Attempts to Link Iran
      with Growing Iraq War Chaos

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    • White House's Proposed Tax Deduction
      on Health Insurance a
      BandAid on Systemic Crisis

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    • Underreported News Summary
      from Around the World

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