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"Giving Voice to Dissent: Bridgeport's WPKN Radio Covers The News With Left-Of-Center Takes Not Found In The Mainstream Media" Hartford Courant, Feb. 26, 2003
"The Rest of the News," New Haven Advocate, July 3, 2003
ISSUES IN-DEPTH
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Those Who Dared to Come Forward
Project for the New American Century's Letter to President Clinton on Iraq, Jan. 26, 1998 Urges President Clinton to remove the threat that Iraq poses by stating a strategy to do so in his "upcoming State of the Union Address."
"Iraq On The Record," U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman report, March 16, 2004
"Greenspan Testimony Highlights Bush Plan for Deliberate Federal Bankruptcy," by Michael Meurer, truthout.org, March 2, 2004
"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 War & The Bush Administration's Pursuit of Global Domination," Counterpoint, Sept. 15, 2003
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
"Occupation, Inc." Southern Exposure, Winter, 2003/2004
"Pipeline
Politics: Oil, The Taliban, and the Political Balance of Central
Asia," World Press Review Special Report, Nov.-Dec. 2001
"War
Profiteering," by The Nation editors, April 24, 2003
"An Annotated Saddam Chronology," ZNet, Dec. 15, 2003
Civil Liberties
"The Global Gulag: Into The Shadows," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, April 5, 2004
"Keeping Secrets: The Bush administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye. Here's how--and why," by Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound, U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 12, 2003
"FBI Memo: Tactics Used During Protests And Demonstrations" Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oct. 15, 2003
"F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies" by Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Nov. 23, 2003
"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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Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Commentaries, The Hutchinson
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For The Week Ending July 8, 2005
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Interview with Adnan Rashed,
A network of more than 100 national, regional and local groups called U.S. Labor Against the War sponsored the first-ever U.S. tour of Iraqi labor activists in June. Six representatives of three Iraqi labor federations visited 20 American cities, with the goal of educating U.S. trade unionists about the conditions faced by Iraqi workers and their struggle to build direct worker-to-worker, union-to-union solidarity. The three federations represent a broad spectrum of the Iraqi labor movement, but all call for the withdrawal of U.S. and British occupation forces and all are working to build a democratic, secular society in Iraq. Adnan Rashed, a mechanic and a leader of the Iraqi Federation of Labor, spoke in Hartford, Conn. on June 22 at the state headquarters of the Service Employees International Union/1199. While stating that repression of labor was at its worst under Saddam Hussein, Rashed describes how U.S. military forces occupied his union's offices for eight months last year, evidence he says that repression of unions continues. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Rashed through a translator. He discusses the history of repression, current economic conditions, and the support that Iraqi union activists seek from their brothers and sisters in the U.S. labor movement. Translation for this interview was provided by Mazin Qumsiyeh. Contact the sponsoring organization of the Iraqi labor tour, U.S. Labor Against the War, by visiting their website at www.uslaboragainstwar.org
 Peace Groups Organize Giant September Anti-War Protests in Washington, D.C.
Interview with Leslie Cagan,
Recent public opinion polls indicate that increasing numbers of Americans now oppose the Bush administration's decision to launch the Iraq war and the continuing bloody occupation. A Washington Post-ABC News survey found that more than half of Americans believe the war has not made the U.S. safer. A Gallup poll found 56 percent believe the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein's government was not worth the sacrifice and 60 percent favor a reduction in U.S. troops deployed to Iraq. After the deaths of more than 1,700 American soldiers and news coverage of the British Downing Street memo that cast doubt on President Bush's stated justification for the war, some Democrats as well as a handful of Republicans in Congress are now openly calling for a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. President Bush strongly opposes such a move and re-asserted in a June 28 national address his belief that there is a "clear path to victory" in Iraq. Over the past year, the U.S. peace movement has focused much of its energy on local organizing efforts. But anti-war groups are now planning for major protests this September in the nation's capital to give voice to the growing opposition to the war. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, who discusses the goals of the anti-war actions being organized by a coalition of peace groups for Sept. 24 through 26 in Washington, D.C. Contact the nationwide coalition United for Peace and Justice by calling (212) 868-5545 or visit their web site at www.unitedforpeace.org
Big Business Will Be Among Few Winners if Congress Ratifies Central American Free Trade Agreement
Interview with Chris Slevin,
When the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, was debated and approved by the U.S. Congress in 1993, little was known about the treaty's affect on workers in America, Canada and Mexico. But at the time, proponents of NAFTA promised that the agreement would boost the creation of high-paying jobs for thousands of Americans and lift millions of Mexicans out of poverty. More than 10 years later, critics of NAFTA point to data that indicates America has lost 900,000 jobs to cheap foreign labor and 1.3 million small Mexican farmers have lost their land due to unequal competition with giant multinational agribusiness. Now, President Bush has renewed his call for Congress to ratify the controversial Central America Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA that would eliminate trade barriers between the U.S., Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Critics fear that like NAFTA, CAFTA could accelerate the loss of U.S. jobs, devastate small farmers and encourage the proliferation of sweatshops. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Chris Slevin, deputy director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, part of a coalition of fair trade and labor groups opposing CAFTA. He considers the winners and losers if the Bush administration should prevail in its fight for congressional ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Contact Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch by calling (202) 546-4996 or visit www.tradewatch.org Related links:
This week's summary of under-reported news Compiled by Bob Nixon
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