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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 New Haven Advocate's "Best of New Haven 2001" -- Staff Picks -- Scott Harris, Best Radio News Reporter WPKN Radio, 89.5 FM 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 "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 "Pipeline Politics: Oil, The Taliban, and the Political Balance of Central Asia," World Press Review Special Report, Nov.-Dec. 2001
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 "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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 Colombia Hostage Rescue Weakens Rebel Group, Could Initiate Peace Talks Interview with Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, conducted by Scott Harris  The FARC, founded in 1964 and estimated to have 10,000 fighters, has funded its operations in part by capturing soldiers, politicians and civilians and later releasing them for ransom or in exchange for the freeing of FARC prisoners. They group continues to hold hundreds of captives. The guerilla group has suffered major setbacks in recent months with two of its top commanders killed and FARC founder Manuel Marulanda dying of a heart attack in March. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, who examines the possible repercussions of the hostage rescue and the prospects for future peace talks between FARC and the government of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Contact the Council on Hemispheric Affairs at (202) 223-4975 or visit their website at www.coha.org G-8 Summit Climate Change, Poverty Reduction Goals Criticized as Inadequate Interview with Neil Watkins, national coordinator with the Jubilee USA Network, conducted by Scott Harris 
In recent years, opponents of corporate-led globalization and free trade policies have staged large and sometimes militant protests to call attention to the links they see between G-8 polices favoring the rich and rising global inequality as well as damage to the environment. Addressing some of these concerns, G-8 leaders from Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Italy, Canada and the U.S. have in the past pledged to increase their aid to the impoverished majority in Africa, but have yet to fulfill that promise. This year, the G-8 endorsed the idea of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by the year 2050. But some environmentalists criticized the announcement saying that goals were weak and avoided specific emission reduction targets. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Neil Watkins, national coordinator with the Jubilee USA Network, which advocates debt forgiveness for the world's poorest nations. He critiques some International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies supported by the G-8 that he believes have exacerbated the rise in food prices, poverty and global warming. Contact the Jubilee USA Network by calling (202) 783-3566 or visit their website at www.JubileeUSA.org Campaign Launched to Restore55 mph National Speed Limit Interview with Tim Castleman, founder of Drive55.org, conducted by Melinda Tuhus  Warner cited government studies in 1975, which concluded that the 55 mile per hour speed limit saved 167,000 barrels of oil a day, or 2 percent of the country's highway fuel consumption, while preventing up to 4,000 traffic deaths a year. Sen. Warner speculated that given the much greater number of vehicles on the road today -- and the large increase in vehicle miles driven, the fuel savings would be much higher in 2008. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Tim Castleman, a retired heating and air conditioning contractor and current part-time web designer, who founded a website called Drive 55.org to promote the benefits of lowering the speed limit in economic savings, geo-political stability and lowering the output of greenhouse gases that cause global warming. He's posted comments of several state-level politicians on his website who endorse the call to drive slower to save money, reduce dependency on foreign oil and improve traffic safety. But he says, so far, they're the exception. Contact Tim Castleman at (916) 489-8601 or visit his site drive55.org for additional information and to read the daily posting of the average cost of gasoline in all 50 states.
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Elaine Osowski Senior web editor/producer: Anna Manzo Web producer: Jeffrey P. Yates Web consultant: Gary Trujillo Newswire editor: Hank Hoffman Photo editor: Scott Harris Outreach coordinator: Anna Manzo Distribution: Anna Manzo and Jeffrey P. Yates Theme music: Written by Richard Hill and Jody Gray, and performed by Mikata
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'The American People' On Iraq," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, July 7, 2008 "Google Ordered To Hand Over YouTube User Details To Viacom," Telegraph/UK, July 4, 2008 Activism "Protesters Gearing Up For Political Conventions," Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2008 "Police Crack Down On Cyclist Group's Traffic Tactic," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 5, 2008 "Protesters Rally Ahead Of G8 Summit," Agence France Presse, 2008 "My War Story," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, July 4, 2008 "Protesters Interrupt Bush Holiday Speech," ABC News, July 3, 2008 "Reality Time At MyBarackObama.com," by Bob Ostertag, Huffington Post, July 3, 2008 |
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