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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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 Pentagon War Propaganda Operation Exposed
Interview with Peter Hart, analyst with the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, conducted by Scott Harris  Media outlets including Fox News, NBC, CNN, CBS and ABC used the Pentagon's approved cheeleaders with little or no questions about possible conflicts of interest. The Pentagon's propaganda operation was so successful a former Pentagon official told the Times, "We were able to click on every single station and every one of our folks were up there delivering our message." An indication of how closely the U.S. media coordinates their reporting with the Pentagon can be seen in the statements of former CNN News chief executive Eason Jordan. In an appearance on the CNN program, "Reliable Sources," Jordan recounted how before the U.S. invasion of Iraq he had gone to the Pentagon to get prior approval for his network's group of retired military commentators. Between the Lines Scott Harris spoke with Peter Hart, an analyst with the media-watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, who examines the Times' troubling report on the media's willingness to operate as a conduit for Pentagon propaganda. Contact FAIR by calling (212) 633-6700 or visit their website at www.fair.org Agriculture Policies Linkedto Nutrition, Health and Environment Excerpt of speech by Michael Pollan, author and professor of journalism, produced by Melinda Tuhus 
Michael Pollan is the author of several books about food, including "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." He writes about the industrial food system, including government subsidies to large agribusiness corporations, as well as alternatives that would increase the supply of healthy food people eat. He says that humans around the world have been able to stay healthy on a wide variety of diets, but that the American diet is the one that reliably makes us sick, leading to increases in obesity, diabetes and other health problems. In late April, just as the $300 billion farm bill was poised to be passed by the U.S. Congress, Pollan spoke at the Yale University Law School. He was invited by City Seed, a group that sponsors four farmers' markets in New Haven, Conn., to bring healthy produce to city residents. Pollan presented a historic overview of how small-scale farming was transformed into agribusiness, profiting corporations such as Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland. He also points out that the farm bill should be called the Food Bill, since it affects everyone, not just farmers. Pollan says there are some promising developments, but many obstacles remain for the production of healthy food, based on how farming is now regulated. Michael Pollan is an author and professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. This segment was recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus. Sean Bell Murder Verdict Another Exampleof Institutional Racism Interview with DeLacy Davis, founder and president of Black Cops Against Police Brutality, conducted by Scott Harris  The acquittal of three New York City police detectives charged in the November 2006 shooting fatality of 23-year-old Sean Bell, an unarmed African American bridegroom-to-be the night before his wedding has provoked protests and calls for a federal civil rights review of the case. On April 25, State Supreme Court Judge Arthur J. Cooperman acquitted Detectives Michael Oliver and Gescard Isnora of manslaughter charges, and Detective Marc Cooper of reckless endangerment. The three officers, two of whom were African Americans, fired a total of 50 bullets that killed Bell and seriously injured two of his friends. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with DeLacy Davis, a 20-year veteran of the East Orange, N.J. Police Department and founder and president of the group Black Cops Against Police Brutality. Davis considers the conscious and unconscious institutional racism that exists in police departments and courtrooms throughout the nation - and what can be done to constructively repair a system that he feels devalues the lives of people of color. Contact Black Cops Against Police Brutality by calling (973) 926-5717 or visit their website at www.b-cap.org.
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Indu Anand 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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