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'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 "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, Nov.-December 2001 |
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Obama's Double Standard Gives Some but Not All 9/11 Defendants Civilian Trials RealAudio
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Interview with Marjorie Cohn, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, conducted by Scott Harris 
Although former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has launched attacks on Holder's decision, the failed 2008 presidential candidate was himself a supporter of civilian trials in New York for those accused in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and Sept. 11th conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Virginia federal court. But not all conservatives are criticizing Holder's decision. Former libertarian Party presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, all signed a letter agreeing that civilian courts were the "proper forum" for terrorism trials. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Marjorie Cohn, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. She talks about the benefits of a civilian trial for accused 9/11 terrorists while criticizing the Obama Justice Department for selectively prosecuting other detainees in military tribunals. Contact the National Lawyers Guild by calling (212) 679-5100 or visit their website at www.nlg.org
Washington's Role in Israeli-Palestinian Negotiation Deadlock Despite reports of a possible prisoner exchange between the Israeli government and Hamas, the Islamic party that controls Gaza, several recent events have decreased the likelihood of a just settlement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After months in which President Obama insisted that Israel must stop all settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as a pre-condition of peace talks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for agreeing to slow down, but not stop, the building of new settler housing. Construction has actually sped up in Arab East Jerusalem, where Palestinian families are being evicted from their ancestral homes to make way for new apartments for Israeli Jews.
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Interview with Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
In frustration with recent events, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared he would not run for re-election as head of the Palestinian Authority, citing the utter lack of progress toward negotiations and a resolution to the conflict. The Obama administration voted in the United Nations against accepting the Goldstone Report that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during the three-week Israeli assault on Gaza -- and recommended human rights investigations be conducted on both sides. The U.S. Congress voted to condemn the report as biased against Israel and concluded it should not be the basis for any further action. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The organization works primarily on civil and human rights issues on behalf of Muslims in the U.S., but Awad, an American citizen of Palestinian descent, explains why Washington's role in the stalemate in Middle East peace negotiations reflects negatively on America around the world. ______________________________________________ See rush interview transcript. Sign up for Between The Lines Q&A interview transcripts. ______________________________________________ Contact the Council on American-Islamic Relations by calling (202) 488-8787, or visit their website at www.cair.com
Lawsuit Challenges Congress' 'Unconstitutional' Defunding of ACORN
Conservative activist James O'Keefe and his friend Hannah Giles, traveled across the U.S. this past summer to offices of the group, ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, where they posed as a pimp and prostitute. The couple, stereotypically dressed for their roles, asked ACORN employees in various offices for help in obtaining a housing loan to open a brothel for underage Salvadoran girls. Some workers attempted to assist the pair, while at least one office ejected them and filed a police report.
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Interview with Jules Lobel, vice president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris  These encounters were secretly videotaped by O'Keefe and later broadcast nationwide on the Internet and television, creating a firestorm among Republican legislators and conservative commentators. The video recordings were then employed by GOP lawmakers to launch a successful drive for a congressional vote to defund ACORN of all federal funding for the group's programs assisting low-income people on how to secure mortgages and fair housing education and outreach. The lopsided defunding vote attracted many Democrats, and victory was declared against ACORN, long a GOP target for the group's successful voter registration drives. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Jules Lobel, professor of international and constitutional law at the University of Pittsburgh and vice president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He explains the center's decision to file a lawsuit challenging what they believe to be Congress's unconstitutional defunding of ACORN for declaring an organization guilty of a crime and punishing it and its members without benefit of a trial. Contact the Center for Constitutional Rights by calling (212) 614-6464 or visit their website at www.ccrjustice.org
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Liz Becker Senior web editor/producer: Anna Manzo Web producer: Jeffrey P. Yates Web consultant: Gary Trujillo Newswire editors: 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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