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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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 Human Rights Groups Condemn Guantanamo Military Commissions Judging 9/11 Defendants Interview with Hina Shamsi, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, conducted by Scott Harris  These trials will be conducted under the rules outlined in the Military Commissions Act passed in 2006 by the Republican-controlled Congress in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the original Bush trial procedures at Guantanamo were unconstitutional. Defense attorneys and human rights groups have condemned the Guantanamo military commissions, asserting that although torture was used to extract confessions from some of these defendants, these forced admissions can be introduced in court if they were obtained before Dec. 30, 2005. Other criticisms of the proceedings cite the introduction of hearsay and evidence obtained without a warrant, and denying defendants the right to see all of the evidence against them. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Hina Shamsi, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, who observed the recent arraignments in Guantanamo. She explains why the ACLU and other groups believe the military commissions are fatally flawed, denying defendants the right of basic due process. Contact the ACLU by calling (212) 549-2500 or visit the group's website at www.aclu.org. Related links:
Palestinian Group Strugglesto Protect Students' Education Rights Interview with Lucy "X", an activist with the Palestine-based Right to Education Campaign, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
This is just one concern of a Palestine-based organization called the Right to Education Campaign. The group was founded at Birzeit University in Ramallah, then spread to An-Najah National University in Nablus. The campaign works to protect the rights of students and faculty to an education free of violence and political restrictions. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus, who spent two weeks in Palestine and Israel in May, spoke with a British woman named Lucy who works on the campaign at An-Najah University. Because of concerns about an Israeli crackdown on her work, she declined to give her last name. Sitting in the courtyard garden of the university, she described the harassment the 10,000 students who commute to the school daily have been subjected to at Israeli checkpoints -- which surround Nablus -- and the difficulties foreign instructors and researchers have in moving to the West Bank to take faculty positions at Palestinian universities. For more information on the Right to Education Campaign in Israeli-occupied Palestine, visit the group's website at right2edu.birzeit.edu Related links:
Senate Report Finds Bush Distorted and Misused Intelligence to Sell Iraq War Interview with retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, conducted by Scott Harris  The report, supported by the committee's eight Democrats and two of seven Republicans, compared statements made by President Bush and his senior officials with intelligence reports available at the time. The investigation found that the administration misstated the links between al Qaeda and Iraq; that U.S. intelligence agencies contradicted White House assertions that Saddam Hussein was prepared to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists; and distorted the facts known about Iraq's alleged nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with 27-year veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who until his retirement in 1990 led one of two CIA teams conducting the most secret daily intelligence briefings at the White House. McGovern assesses the conclusions reached by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the danger that, during its final months in office, the Bush administration could be preparing to launch a new attack against Iran. Read McGovern's articles online at www.consortiumnews.com
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