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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 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
"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 "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 |
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 Despite Reduction in Violence,Iraq Remains Dangerously Volatile Interview with independent journalist Dahr Jamail, conducted by Scott Harris  But despite fewer attacks by Sunni insurgents, Shiite militias and al Qaeda fighters, Iraq is still very much at war with American soldiers and Iraqi civilians continuing to be killed. The U.S. Air Force recently dropped some 40,000 pounds of bombs in villages south of Baghdad. According to the group, Just Foreign Policy, more than 1.1 million Iraqis have thus far been killed as a result of the U.S. war and occupation. Iraq's Defense Minister told the Pentagon on Jan. 14 that American troops will be needed in his country for another 10 years. Although the Iraq war has receded in importance during the early presidential primary elections, the ongoing volatility in Iraq can be seen in Washington's failure to pressure the Iraqi government to make progress in achieving political reconciliation among Sunnis and Shiites. The recent revision of Iraq's de-Baathification law has been met with skepticism by many former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist Party, most of whom are Sunnis Muslims. The government has also failed to adopt a law governing the fair distribution of revenues from Iraq's oil wealth. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with independent journalist and author Dahr Jamail, who reported from the streets of Iraq for eight months between November 2003 and February 2005. Here Jamail assesses the current situation on the ground in Iraq. Read Dahr Jamail articles online at www.dahr.org. Jamail's new book is titled, "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq." National Global Warming Teach-In Aims to Inspire Student Activism Interview with Eben Goodstein, founder and director of Focus the Nation, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
The teach-in is one of four components of the plan. The first is a live webcast a day before the event, on Jan. 30, called the "2% solution," which refers to reducing greenhouse gases by two percent every year starting now. Following the teach-in, the Green Democracy component will feature a live videoconference roundtable discussion between Congress and campuses on working for solutions to global warming. Finally, participants can vote online for their top five solutions to the problem of climate change. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Eben Goodstein, founder and director of Focus the Nation and a professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon. He explains how this effort differs from the groundbreaking grassroots actions of 2007 to raise awareness of global warming and what's at stake for today's youth who will be directly confronted by the climate change crisis. Eben Goodstein is founder and director of Focus the Nation and author of "Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics can Stop Global Warming". Contact the group at (503) 768-7990 or visit their website at www.focusthenation.org Related links:
U.S. Media Hostile to John Edwards' Anti-Corporate Campaign Message Interview with John Nichols, Washington correspondent with the Nation magazine, conducted by Scott Harris  In recent days, the rival candidates both sought to end the squabbling that had the potential to split the Democratic Party along racial and gender lines -- and eclipse discussion of more important issues like the Iraq war, the floundering economy and health care reform. But attention to the issues of class, championed in the Democratic primary campaign by John Edwards, has run into trouble. Edwards' assertion that America's corporations and their political allies have declared war on the middle class and his condemnation of corporate greed and corruption have not won the former North Carolina senator many friends in the U.S. media. Although Edwards, a respectable second and third place finish in Iowa and New Hampshire, counted voters' preferences in only two of 50 states, many pundits dismissed the 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate as an angry, anti-business populist who should quit the race. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with John Nichols, Washington correspondent with the Nation Magazine, who examines the media's marginalization of John Edwards' candidacy. Nichols is author of the book, "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders Cure for Royalism." Read Nichols' columns online at www.thenation.com Related links:
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