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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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Insurance Lobby Shaped Weakened Senate Health Care Reform Bill RealAudio
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Interview with Wendell Potter, former health insurance executive, conducted by Scott Harris 
Under pressure from party dissidents, the majority were forced to scrap original provisions such as a public, government-run health insurance option, expansion of Medicare to cover uninsured Americans ages 55 to 64, and removing anti-trust exemptions for the heath insurance industry. If as expected, the Senate passes their $871 billion healthcare bill, that legislation must then be reconciled with the measure passed by the House in November , which includes a public option, withdraws anti-trust protection and pays for the program by taxing the rich. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Wendell Potter, the former head of communications with Cigna Insurance company, who now serves as a senior fellow on Health Care with the non-profit group Center for Media and Democracy. Applying his 20 years' experience in the health insurance industry, Potter assesses the winners and losers in the Senate health care battle and the value of health reform legislation shaped by corporate lobbyists that may be signed into law early in 2010. ______________________________________________ See rush interview transcript. Sign up for Between The Lines Q&A interview transcripts. ______________________________________________ Contact the Center for Media and Democracy at (608) 260-9713 or read Potter's blog at www.prwatch.org Related Links:
Failure of Copenhagen Climate Talks Portends Grim Future RealAudio
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Interview with writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
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Millions of Recovered Bush Era Emails Could Shed Light on Scandals RealAudio
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Interview with Anne Weissman, chief counsel with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, conducted by Scott Harris  When President Obama was sworn into office in January of this year, the groups which initiated the lawsuit, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive, had hoped for cooperation from the new administration. Instead, White House officials adopted the same defiant position as their predecessors in the Bush administration. However, after negotiations between the groups and the Obama White House, a settlement of the lawsuit was announced on Dec. 14. Under the terms of the settlement, the executive office of the president has restored a total of 94 days of missing emails, estimated to total 22 million, which will be sent to the National Archives and Records Administration for preservation and eventual access. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Anne Weissman, chief counsel with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, who explains how her group settled the law suit and the possible role the recovered emails may play in prosecuting Bush administration misconduct. Visit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's website at http://www.citizensforethics.org Related Links:
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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How You Can Support Between The Lines Click here to learn how to support our efforts! Last Week's Program Between The Lines Week Ending 12/25/09 Between The Lines' Blog "Reading Between The Lines" U.S. Politics "How Wall Street Bought Barney Frank," by Kevin Connor, AlterNet, Dec. 22, 2009 "Healthcare industry stocks explode as bill progresses," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Dec. 22, 2009 "Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator," by Drew Westen, Huffington Post, Dec. 20, 2009 "Obamacare and the Façade of Regulation: How Health Reform was Killed by Triangulation," by James Ridgeway, Counterpunch, Dec. 18-20, 2009 "The underlying divisions in the healthcare debate," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Dec. 18, 2009 Economy "A Longer, Deeper Recession Looms," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, Dec. 22, 2009 "Wall Street's fingerprints evident on financial reform bill," Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 22, 2009 "States' jobless funds are being drained in recession," Washington Post, Dec. 22, 2009 "Bernanke Tightens the Noose: Brace Yourself for a Hard Landing," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, Dec. 21, 2009 Bush Accountability "Report: Bush Admin Raised Terror Alert Based On Con Man's Al Jazeera 'Decoding' Scam," by Justin Elliott, Talking Points Memo, Dec. 21, 2009 "More Justice Department Chicanery in a State Secrets Case," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Dec. 17, 2009 International Affairs "U.S. aid to al-Qaida," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Dec. 22, 2009 "Top US officer: Force must be option for Iran," Associated Press, Dec. 21, 2009 "Cruise missile attacks in Yemen," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Dec. 21, 2009 "CIA working with Palestinian security agents," Guardian/UK, Dec. 17, 2009 "Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan "US forces mounted secret Pakistan raids in hunt for al-Qaida," by Guardian/UK, Dec. 21, 2009 "Why the Af/Pak War is Illegal," by Marjorie Cohn, Counterpunch, Dec. 21, 2009 "Turmoil in Pakistan threatens Obama's new Afghan strategy," McClatchy Newspapers, Dec. 20, 2009 "Channeling Sunni Rage Into Iraqi Political Clout," The New York Times, Dec. 19, 2009 "Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know," by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, Dec. 17, 2009 Civil Liberties/ Human Rights "Probe Confirms CIA Operated Secret 'Black Site' Prisons in Lithuania," by Jason Leopold, TRuthout, Dec. 22, 2009 "Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery," by Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque, Dec. 18, 2009 "America's Secret ICE Castles," by Jacqueline Stevens, The Nation, Dec. 16, 2009 Environment and Sustainability "Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions" by Art Levine, Truthout, Dec. 22, 2009 "Beyond ecological imperialism" by Jayati Ghosh, Guardian/UK, Dec. 21, 2009 "After the catastrophe in Copenhagen, it's up to us," by Johann Hari, Independent/UK, Dec. 21, 2009 "If you want to know who's to blame for Copenhagen, look to the US Senate," by George Monbiot, Guardian/UK, Dec. 21, 2009 Media Issues "Net Neutrality and the 21st Century First Amendment," by Marvin Ammori, Balkinization, Dec. 10, 2009 "Why Journalist Gary Webb Died," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Dec. 9, 2009 Activism "Anti-War Activists Losing Patience with Obama," Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX), Dec. 19, 2009 |
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