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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 ISSUES IN DEPTH
'A New Era of Responsibility'
"Push Obama to Follow Through on Peace Vows," by Amy Goodman, The Capital Times (Wisconsin), Jan. 22, 2009 "How to Push Obama," by John Nichols, The Nation, Jan. 12, 2009 "The Danger of Green Stimulus," Jesse Jenkins, Huffington Post, Jan. 5, 2009 "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
Civil Liberties
"The effects of Obama's refusal to investigate Bush crimes," by Glen Greenwald, Salon.com, Jan. 20, 2009 "Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture, " by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 18, 2009 "Obama Has to Hold Bush Accountable for the Laws He Broke," by Elizabeth Holtzman, The Nation, Jan. 16, 2009 "Obama Must Restore the Constitution: Prosecuting Bush and Cheney," by Dave Lindoff, Counterpunch.org, Jan. 16-19, 2009
A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Human Rights Solutions
"Single-Payer Health Care Would Stimulate Economy," by John Nichols, The Nation, Jan. 15, 2009 "Fulfilling the Promise of Human Rights: The Universal Declaration at 60," audio recordings from a Connecticut conference marking the 60th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn., Dec. 6, 2008 A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Converting Fossil Fuel/War Economy to Green, Renewable Energy/Peace Economy
"Green Jobs Should Top Our Economic Recovery List," by Juleyka Lantigua, Jan. 6, 2009 "Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right,"by Katrina Van Heuvel, The Nation, Jan. 9, 2009 "Nine Steps to Peace for Obama in the New Year," by Deepak Chopra, Alternet, Jan. 1, 2009 "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
"The Outcry Is Muted, But The Food Crisis Is Getting Worse," by Jayati Ghosh, The Guardian/UK, Jan. 9, 2009 "Ideas for Obama, "by Paul Krugman, by The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2009 "The Ponzi Scheme Presidency: Bush's Legacy of Destruction," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, January/February, 2009 "Fiscal Therapy," by David Cay Johnston, Mother Jones, January/February, 2009 "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 |
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Party of Former Leftist Guerillas
After being involved in a bloody civil war that killed over 75,000 people, and spending 20 years in political opposition, El Salvador's leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, won a historic presidential election victory on March 15. Voters in the Central American nation cast ballots for FMLN presidential candidate Mauricio Funes, a well-known television journalist, defeating his opponent Rodrigo Ávila of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, by a slim 2 point margin.
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Interview with Max Garcia, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, conducted by Scott Harris  The ARENA party was founded by notorious death squad leader Roberto D'Aubuisson during El Salvador's civil war. Among D'Aubuisson's thousands of victims were Catholic priests, nuns, lay workers and San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero, who had advocated for El Salvador's poor. The Reagan and first Bush administration provided military, economic and political support to successive conservative governments in El Salvador fighting the FMLN guerillas. After a peace agreement was signed between the government and rebels in 1992, the FMLN formed a political party where they won legislative seats and controlled municipal governments. Before the March 15 election, several U.S. Republican congressmen had attacked the FMLN, accusing them of being allies of Iran and al Qaeda, and threatened to halt $40 billion in remittances sent back home from Salvadorans living in the U.S. After winning national power for the first time, the FMLN now faces a global economic crisis, extreme disparity between the rich and poor and high crime and murder rates. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Max Garcia, coordinator of the New York chapter of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador or CISPES, a U.S.-based group founded during the civil war. Reached in San Salvador after observing the election, Garcia reports on the historic nature of the FMLN victory and the challenges ahead for president-elect Mauricio Funes and his running mate Salvador Sánchez Cerén. Contact the New York chapter of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador by calling (202) 521-2510 or visit their website at www.cispes.org
Human Rights Groups Troubled by Obama's Position
On March 13, the Obama administration announced that it would abandon the Bush administration's term "enemy combatant" while at the same time arguing in court for the continued detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The Obama Justice Department stated that the legal rationale for holding some 240 prisoners at Guantanamo will now be based on laws passed by Congress and, by extension, international law, including the Geneva conventions. Within days of being sworn into office, Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo prison within a year.
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Interview with Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris 
The Justice Department said that only those detainees who provided "substantial" support to al Qaeda, the Taliban or similar groups -- or who were "part" of those groups -- would be considered candidates for detention. But troubling to many human rights groups was the vague definition of what constitutes "substantial" support for a militant group and the uncertain status of more than 600 prisoners now being held at the Bagram U.S air base in Afghanistan. Also of concern to civil liberties advocates was the Obama administration's decision to shield top Bush administration officials from lawsuits brought by prisoners who say they were tortured while being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. As Congress and the administration are considering their options to hold Bush administration officials accountable for violations of U.S. and international law, either through the appointment of a special prosecutor or the establishment of an independent Truth Commission, disturbing information has come to light that could increase the urgency of such an undertaking. Renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh told an audience at a University of Minnesota event about his unpublished reporting on an ongoing covert military operation that he described as an "executive assassination ring" conducted out of former Vice President Cheney's office, and illegal domestic spying conducted by the CIA. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who discusses his concerns about the direction the Obama administration is taking in making a clean break with Bush era human rights abuses. Contact the Center for Constitutional Rights by calling (212) 614-6464 or visit their website at www.ccrjustice.org
Former Israeli Soldier Turned Peace Activist
On March 16, two members of Combatants for Peace -- an Israeli and a Palestinian -- spoke at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., as part of their Northeast speaking tour. The group was founded in 2005 by four former Palestinian resistance fighters and seven Israelis who had served as soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. The group had to overcome great fear and suspicion as they began meeting with each other, but they were drawn together by the belief that more violence and revenge killings are not the way to achieve a peaceful, just resolution of the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Combatants for Peace, which now has 600 members, calls for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and control of Gaza.
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Excerpt of speech by Yaniv Reshef, member of Combatants for Peace, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus  The Israeli speaker, Yaniv Reshef, served in an elite military sabotage unit whose members were known as "Golani." He now lives in a village near the Israeli town of Sderot, which is often hit by crude missiles fired from Gaza. Reshef acknowledges that the Israeli occupation in which he participated was brutal, but said it pales in comparison with Israel's recent invasion of Gaza, in which over 1,200 Palestinians were killed, including more than 400 children. At the end of his talk, Reshef told the a story about his unexpected encounter with a Palestinian family in Gaza during the first intifada, or Palestinian rebellion, which lasted from 1987 to 1993. For more information, visit Combatants for Peace's website at www.combatantsforpeace.org. Or visit www.RebuildingAlliance.org or call (650)325-4663 for information on the sponsor of the speaking tour. Related links:
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Richard Hill Copy editor: Chris Ferrio 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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