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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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Interview with Arang Keshavarzian, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, conducted by Scott Harris  Former Iranian Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, the main opposition presidential candidate, along with two other defeated candidates, had presented 646 specific charges of vote rigging they say favored Ahmadinejad. Moussavi has demanded a new election be held. Opposition protests erupted after the election certification was announced, but were broken up by the Basij pro-government militia and police. Earlier protests have resulted in at least 17 deaths, with hundreds injured and as many as 2,000 in jail. Ahmadinejad and his allies have charged that foreign governments, including the U.S. and Britain along with foreign press outlets are responsible for the unrest. Between the Lines Scott Harris spoke with Arang Keshavarzian, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Keshavarzian, who traveled to Iran to observe the presidential election campaign from May 28 to June 15, discusses the success of the government attempt to crush the opposition and President Obama's reaction to the Iranian election dispute. Read professor Arang Keshavarzian and other articles covering Iran at the website of Middle East Report of www.merip.org
Ship Carrying Humanitarian Aid On June 30, an unarmed boat, named "Spirit of Humanity," carrying 21 international peace activists was seized in international waters by the Israeli Navy, as it attempted to sail from Cypress to Gaza with relief supplies and messages of solidarity for Palestinians living in Gaza. Israel says the boat had been boarded for security reasons in the area of the blockade, after it had entered into Gaza's coastal waters. According to an International Committee of the Red Cross report released June 29, the Palestinians living in Gaza are "trapped in despair." Thousands of Gazans whose homes were destroyed during Israel's December/January invasion and air attacks are still without shelter despite pledges of almost $4.5 billion in international aid, because Israel refuses to allow cement and other building materials into Gaza. The report also notes that hospitals are struggling to meet the needs of their patients due to Israel's disruption of medical supplies.
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Interview with Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish solidarity activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
Since August 2008, the Free Gaza Movement has organized eight sea missions, successfully landing in Gaza on five separate occasions. On two earlier voyages, Israeli Occupation Forces used violence to stop the ships, physically ramming and almost sinking the boat named "Dignity," in December 2008, and threatening to fire on and kill unarmed passengers in January. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish solidarity activist who was on board one of the boats last fall that arrived successfully in Gaza. She spent most of the next several months there, and was in Gaza during part of the Israeli winter offensive and served on the support team from Cypress for this most recent voyage of the Spirit of Humanity, whose passengers included former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire. Butterly explains exactly what happened in the June 30 seizure. For more information, and ways to contact Israeli officials responsible for the boat seizure, visit the group's website at www.freegaza.org.
Advocates for Single-Payer Fight
As the U.S. Congress moves forward with debate over the shape of healthcare reform, a top agenda item of President Obama and more than 47 million Americans without health insurance, the single-payer option continues to be marginalized in the process. Single-payer, what many supporters like to describe as "Medicare for all," has two primary bills in the House and Senate. In the House, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., is sponsoring HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act. In the Senate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is sponsoring S703, a bill to provide health care for every American.
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Interview with Geri Jenkins, a registered nurse and co-president of the California Nurses Association, conducted by Scott Harris  One of the major players in the process is Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee. Until recently, Baucus has asserted that the single-payer option is off the table. But after a series of protests at the committee's hearings, where nurses and doctors supporting debate of single-payer were arrested, Baucus has softened his rhetoric, but not his opposition to the "Medicare for All" option. While the medical industry and pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars to try to influence Congress and the public to retain America's private health insurance based system, grassroots activists continue to try to get a fair hearing for single-payer, the model used with great success by most industrial nations around the world to provide universal coverage. The central debate in Congress now centers on providing a government run or non-profit co-op health insurance option to compete with private insurers, but even that proposal is being opposed by many Republicans and conservative Democratic legislators. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Geri Jenkins, a registered nurse, and co-president of the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee. Jenkins, who recently testified before the House Education and Labor Committee in support of single-payer, assesses the helath care debate in Congress and the role of citizens in determining the outcome. Visit the website www.guaranteedhealthcare.org for more information on the single-payer option. Related links:
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Emily Santos-Poplawski 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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