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Presidential Transition
"The First Hundred Days or the Last Hundred Days? Obama's Rendezvous with Destiny -- and Ours," by Ira Chernus, by TomDispatch.com, Dec. 10, 2008 "Who Will Seize the Moment?" Turning Crisis into Opportunity, by Ralph Nader, Counterpunch, Dec. 4, 2008 "Community Organizers Press Obama for Real Change," by CommonDreams.org, Dec. 3, 2008 Converting Fossil Fuel Economy to Green Economy
"Electric Cars Put Hawaii on The Road to Independence," by Times Online/UK, Dec. 4, 2008 "Weapons Come Second: Can Obama Take on the Pentagon?" by Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch.com, Nov. 25, 2008 The FY 2009 Pentagon Spending Request - Global Military Spending, by the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Economic Crisis
"A Look At Wall Street's Shadow Market: How Some Arcane Wall Street Financial Instruments Magnified Economic Crisis," 60 Minutes, Oct. 5, 2008 "Swapping Secrecy for Transparency," by Christopher Cox, SEC Chairman, The New York Times Op-Ed, Oct. 19, 2008 "The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street: Steve Kroft On Credit Default Swaps And Their Central Role In The Unfolding Economic Crisis," 60 Minutes, Oct. 26, 2008 Broken Government
"Broken Government: By The Numbers," 40 ways in which the federal government failed to perform under the administration of George W. Bush, 2001-2008 Class Warfare
"How the Rich Are Different From You and Me,"Places that went for Obama are richer and smarter than places that went for McCain, by Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing, Slate, Dec. 11, 2008 "Questions About the $700 Billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Funds," First Report of the Congressional Oversight Panel for Economic Stabilization, Dec. 10, 2008 War And Profiteering
"This Is Change? Twenty Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House," by Jeremy Scahill,Alternet, Nov. 20, 2008 "Don't Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart," Why Americans Shouldn't Go Home, by Tom Engelhardt, Nov. 12, 2008 "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 "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 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, November-December 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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Cheney Proudly Admits
A report from the Senate Armed Services committee, parts of which were released on Dec. 11, found that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials are directly responsible for the torture and abuse of American-held detainees. The bipartisan committee asserts that the White House authorized interrogation methods that included waterboarding, stress positions, sexual humiliation, isolation, sleep deprivation, exposure to heat and cold, and the use of dogs to intimidate prisoners at Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval in Cuba, military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan and secret CIA prisons around the world.
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Interview with Sharon Kelly, coordinator of Human Rights First's We Can End Torture Campaign, conducted by Scott Harris  In a Dec. 15 interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl, Vice Persident Dick Cheney admitted that he had personally cleared the way for the U.S. military to employ abusive interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects. Cheney was unapologetic about approving the use of waterboarding on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of being a key al Qaeda planner of the 9/11 attacks. President Bush issued a memo on Feb. 7, 2002, which declared that that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to al Qaeda or Taliban detainees. Both Bush and Cheney say the abuse of prisoners was necessary to keep the nation safe. Chair of the Armed Services Committee Sen. Karl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, said that the Senate report on torture will be turned over to Persident-elect Obama’s Department of Justice. He suggested that an outside commission be formed with subpoena power, which could lead to indictments or civil action. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Sharon Kelly, coordinator of Human Rights First’s We Can End Torture Campaign. She examines the Senate Committee report and explains the importance of keeping American officials accountable for violations of U.S. and international law. Contact Human Rights First's We Can End Torture Campaign by calling (212) 845-5200 or visit their website at www.humanrightsfirst.org Related links:
Small Island Nations Facing Destruction,
In the first 12 days of December, environment ministers from 150 nations, and other leaders including UN chief Ban Ki Moon and representatives of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, gathered in Poznan, Poland, to work on a draft of the successor document to the Kyoto climate change treaty to be signed in Copenhagen next year. The treaty is scheduled to take effect in 2012. Among the delegates in Poland were representatives from dozens of small island nations, which have been the first to feel the catastrophic impacts of climate change.
Press for Urgent Action to Combat Global Warming RealAudio
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Interview with Nicholas Arons, co-founder of Islands First, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
While holding out hope for improvements to the proposed treaty under the incoming Obama administration, many environmentalists and representatives of these island nations were disappointed by the tepid response of participating countries to already existing climate disruption, and the more severe changes expected to come. The best news to come out of the Poznan meeting was the European Union's so-called "20-20-20" deal, which seeks to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy savings and renewable energy sources each by 20 percent, by the year 2020. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Nicholas Arons, cofounder of Islands First, an organization that assists small island states increase their influence at the United Nations in their fight against global warming. He discusses the disruptions that have already occurred on these islands due to global warming, and their people's hopes for averting more catastrophic damage and displacement. Contact Islands First by calling their interim director Leila Kazemi at (917) 797-0923, or visit their website at www.islandsfirst.org
Obama Inauguration Invitation
When President-elect Barack Obama announced his selection of evangelical pastor Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, there was immediate negative reaction by many Obama supporters who object to Rev. Warren’s outspoken opposition to abortion and gay rights. But the anger wasn’t felt quite so deeply as it was among California’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, (LGBT) where Rev. Warren and his Saddleback mega-church actively backed California Proposition 8, which won voter support to overturn the state Supreme Court’s May 15 ruling legalizing gay marriage. In selecting Rev. Warren, Obama cited his friendship with the pastor and his influence in calling on Christians to become more active on combating poverty, global warming and AIDS.
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Interview with Cary Davidson, board president of Equality California, conducted by Scott Harris  Equality California is one of the groups that worked hard to defeat Proposition 8. The group’s executive director, Geoff Kors, described Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation as “appalling,” and wrote a statement explaining why he decided to decline an invitation to attend the inauguration ceremonies on Jan. 20. Some gay rights groups took their unhappiness with the Rick Warren controversy to press Obama to take quick action on protecting the rights of LGBT citizens when he takes office. Between the Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Cary Davidson, board president of Equality California, who explains the angry reaction to Rev. Rick Warren’s participation in the Obama inauguration -- and the steps now being taken, by his and other groups, to overturn the Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage. Contact Equality California by calling (415) 581-0005 or visit their website at www.eqca.org
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Copy editor: Chris Ferrio Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Ruben Abreu Senior web editor/producer: Anna Manzo Web producer: Anna Manzo 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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