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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
"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
"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
Multi-Ethnic Issues Advocacy
Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Commentaries, The Hutchinson
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For The Week Ending March 30, 2007
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Interview with David Becker,
Times, Times New Roman, serif" size ="3"> In the swirl of scandals engulfing President Bush's second term, one of the latest involves the Justice Department firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Although these federal prosecutors serve at the pleasure of the president, it appears that the post-election termination of these loyal Republicans was linked to partisan political maneuvering. Many of the eight attorneys fired had either been engaged in prosecuting Republicans or were deemed by the Bush administration as insufficiently aggressive when it came to prosecuting Democrats. Allegations of misconduct include GOP legislators making calls to U.S attorneys in order to speed up the indictment of Democrats prior to the November 2006 Congressional election. When complaints about attorneys reached the White House, decisions allegedly were made to fire them. Although the White House and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez originally denied any involvement in the firings, email messages confirmed that presidential advisor Karl Rove was involved in communicating some of these complaints to Gonzalez. A little-known provision of the Patriot Act put in place last year, which allows the Justice Department to bypass Senate confirmation for U.S. attorneys appointed to replace terminated predecessors, may have motivated the firings. Now, Democrats chairing key congressional committees are working to forcefully investigate the scandal, and intend to subpoena Karl Rove and other administration officials. Many Democrats and some Republicans are calling for the resignation of Attorney General Gonzalez. Between The Lines' Scott Harris, spoke with David Becker, director of People for the American Way's Democracy Campaign, who was a senior trial attorney with the Justice Department for seven years in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. He examines the growing U.S. attorney firing scandal and how this conduct fits into a Bush administration pattern of abusing power. David Becker is senior litigation counselor with People for the American Way. Contact People for the American Way by calling (202) 467-4999 or visit their website at www.pfaw.org Related links:
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