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New Haven Advocate's "Best of New Haven 2001" -- Staff Picks -- Scott Harris, Best Radio News Reporter WPKN Radio, 89.5 FM "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 ISSUES IN DEPTH
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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 Unsustainable Pentagon BudgetSignals Cracks in U.S. Empire Interview with Chalmers Johnson, former CIA analyst and author conducted by Scott Harris  When other military, covert intelligence, foreign aid and veterans benefits spending are figured in, the annual U.S. military budget currently exceeds $1 trillion, more than double what the other nations of the world spend on their armed forces combined. During his administration, President Bush has increased the military budget by 30 percent. Chalmers Johnson is a former CIA analyst, who taught political science at the University of California for 30 years. He is the author of 16 critically acclaimed books, including the "Blowback" trilogy, the latest of which is titled, "Nemesis: The Last Day of the American Republic." Dr. Johnson's recently published article, "Going Bankrupt: Why the Debt Crisis is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic," considers the danger of unsustainable Pentagon spending. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Chalmers Johnson, who explains why he believes the enormous U.S. military budget is choking the life out of the U.S. economy. Chalmers Johnson is author of the "Blowback" trilogy. He currently serves as the president of the Japan Policy Research Institute. Read his article, "Going Bankrupt: Why the Debt Crisis is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic," online at tomdispatch.com The latest in the "Blowback" trilogy is titled, "Nemesis: The last Day of the American Republic." Global Environmental Index Measures Nations' Green Policies and Performance Interview with Dan Esty, director of Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
Other criteria in the rankings include sanitation, agricultural policies, air pollution, and 20 other measures. The Index, which is designed to assist nations in formulating their environmental policies, focuses on two overarching objectives: reducing environmental stresses to human health and promoting ecosystem vitality and sound natural resource management. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Dan Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and lead author of the the Environmental Performance Index study. He explains that poor nations -- because of a lower level of development -- do better in some rankings while worse in others. And he discusses the critical role that China can play on the climate change front. The Environmental Performance Index is accessible online at epi.yale.edu Organization Probes Money's Corrupting Influence on American Politics Interview with Bill Hogan, Center for Public Integrity, conducted by Scott Harris  Despite attempts to establish campaign finance laws restricting the amount of money donors can contribute, loopholes continue to allow large contributors to exchange money for influence and access. The McCain-Feingold law passed by Congress in 2002 was aimed at stopping the flow of unlimited soft-money donations from corporations, individuals, and unions to political parties. But so-called "527" nonprofit groups exploit a loophole in the law which allows unlimited funding of political advertisements not directly tied to a campaign. The Center for Public Integrity established their Buying of the President project in 1996. The series of books, now accompanied by a website, examines the role that money and special interests play in presidential politics. Project investigators expose how candidates and political parties raise millions of dollars and the influence those dollars buy. Between the Lines Scott Harris' spoke with Bill Hogan, the Center's director of investigative projects, who oversees the "Buying of the President" project. He explores some of the major political fundraising issues in the 2008 campaign. Call the Center for Public Integrity at (202) 466-1300, or visit their websites at www.buyingofthepresident.org and www.publicintegrity.org
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Merrill Collins Senior web editor/producer: Anna Manzo Web producer: Jeffrey P. Yates Newswire editor: Hank Hoffman Photo editor: Scott Harris Outreach coordinator: Anna Manzo Distribution: Anna Manzo, Bill Cosentino and Jeffrey P. Yates Theme music: Written by Richard Hill and Jody Gray, and performed by Mikata
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