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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 "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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Guantanamo Hamdan Trial
On Aug. 6th, a jury of American military officers found Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver, guilty of providing material support for terrorism. He was acquitted of the more serious charge of conspiracy. Hamdan, a father of two daughters from Yemen, was sentenced to a five-and-one-half years prison term the day after his conviction. With time already served in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention camp and elsewhere, Hamdan could complete his sentence in 5 months. But the Bush administration maintains that even after he completes his sentence, the U.S. has the authority to hold Hamdan indefinitely until the end of the war on terror. President Bush wants to conduct 80 more trials of Guantanamo detainees.
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Interview with ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi, conducted by Scott Harris  Human rights groups from around the world have condemned the Bush administration's military commission process at Guantanamo, citing the system's use of secret evidence, hearsay evidence, and evidence obtained through torture. Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantanamo's military commissions who resigned in protest in October 2007, says that he had been pressured by political appointees at the Pentagon to pursue cases deemed "sexy" and of "high interest," such as defendants charged with being involved in the 9/11 plot, in advance of the 2008 elections. Davis, once a staunch defender of the military commissions process, wrote in a Los Angeles Times editorial, "I concluded that full, fair and open trials were not possible under the current system." ... "I felt that the system had become deeply politicized and that I could no longer do my job effectively." Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Hina Shamsi, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project who observed Hamdan's hearings at Guantanamo in December. She describes the constitutional flaws and lack of fundamental legal safeguards she sees in the military commission process. Contact the ACLU at (202) 457-0800 or visit their website at aclu.org
Activists Prepare to Challenge Israeli Gaza Blockade
Sometime during the week of Aug. 11, two boats with 40 activists on board will try to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, imposed in June of last year when the Palestinian faction Hamas took control of the territory and its 1.5 million inhabitants. The blockade has meant collective punishment for Gazans, which has taken many forms. The population in the most heavily populated area in the world, has been deprived of fuel to operate hospitals and other essential services; malnutrition has increased and college students have been prevented from leaving to attend foreign universities.
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Interview with Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
The boats and volunteers aboard the small flotilla are part of the Free Gaza Movement, which includes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law, Lauren Booth, Palestinians, Americans -- including a Holocaust survivor -- people from several other nations, and one Israeli Jew, Jeff Halper. Halper is a university professor and founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, an organization that rebuilds Palestinian homes that have been destroyed by Israel. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Halper as he was preparing to leave the Greek island of Crete, en route to Gaza. He describes the origin of the project, the dire situation in Gaza, and what his group hopes to accomplish. Contact the Free Gaza Movement in California at (510) 232-2500, or visit their website www.freeGaza.org.
Book Asserts Bush Ordered CIA Forgery
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind reports in his new book, "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism," that the Bush White House had ordered the CIA to forge a handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi Intelligence Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, "backdated to July 1, 2001," which stated that Mohammad Atta, the alleged coordinator of the 9/11 attacks, had trained in Iraq. According to CIA and other officials interviewed by Suskind, the order was a Bush administration attempt to portray a false link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda in order to justify the Iraq war.
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Interview with author and journalist Dave Lindorff, conducted by Scott Harris  The forged letter was passed to a London Sunday Telegraph reporter in Baghdad who wrote an article about it on the paper's front page of Dec. 14, 2003, under the headline, "Terrorist behind September 11th strike 'was trained by Saddam.'" Suskind also claims in the book that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official "that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion." The author maintains that such a covert operation to plant false information would constitute illegal White House use of the CIA to influence a domestic audience, an impeachable offense. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with journalist Dave Lindorff, who, along with attorney Barbara Olshansky, co-authored the book, "The Case for Impeachment, The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office." Lindorff assesses the new information in Suskind's book and the chances that the Bush administration will be held accountable for what many critics believe are abuses of power and violations of the U.S. Constitution. Read Dave Lindorff's articles online at thiscantbehappening.net
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Chris Ferrio Senior web editor/producer: Anna Manzo Web producer: Jeffrey P. Yates Web consultant: Gary Trujillo Newswire editor: Bob Nixon 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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