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Scott Harris' "Counterpoint" talk show

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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

"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

War And Profiteering


"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

"Cheney is Longtime Bad News for U.S.," by John Nichols, by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin), Jan. 16, 2007

"Bush administration provokes open war on Iran: Irbil raid, and other operations, authorized "several months ago," by Larry Chin, Global Research, Jan. 15, 2007

"Iran: The Next War," by James Bamford, Rolling Stone, July 24, 2006

Those Who Dared to Come Forward
Compilation of Washington insiders speaking out on Bush administration policies and actions

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



"Martial Law Threat is Real," by Dave Lindorff, commondreams.org, July 27, 2007

"ACLU: US Constitution in Grave Danger,"United Press International, July 25, 2007

"Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state," by Muriel Kane, Rawstory.com July 19, 2007

"Fascist America, in 10 easy steps," by Naomi Wolf, The Guardian, April 24, 2007

"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

"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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Between The Lines
For The Week Ending April 25, 2008

Posted April 16, 2008

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Former Abu Ghraib Prison Commander
Says Memos Prove White
House Authorized Torture


Excerpt of speech
by former Army Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski,
produced by Melinda Tuhus


karpinski

Army Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski found herself in the media spotlight as the officer in charge of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during the prisoner abuse scandal that was revealed in 2004. Photographs from Abu Ghraib, published worldwide, showed naked prisoners piled on top of each other, posed in humiliating sexual positions, and others with hoods attached to electrodes. These images set off a major scandal for the Bush administration, serving as irrefutable evidence that the U.S. military was torturing and abusing prisoners they held in Iraq.

After the abuses at Abu Ghraib came to light, Karpinski was demoted to colonel and then retired in 2005 after almost 3 decades in the U.S. Army. She is now self-employed as a consultant for executive training programs and a self-described human rights activist who is now speaking out against the war.

The former military commander was the keynote speaker at a student anti-war organizing conference at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., April 12. At the gathering, Karpinski said recent revelations that top administration officials approved torture techniques back in 2001 confirmed her view that the problems at Abu Ghraib were not confined to seven low-level soldiers under her command, abusing prisoners. She also discusses the sexism she experienced at the hands of top commanders in Iraq and how sexism led to the harassment and sexual assault of many women serving in the U.S. military in Iraq.

Karpinski's book, "One Woman's Army, the Commanding General of Abu Gharib Tells Her Story," was published in 2005 by MiraMax Books.



ADDITIONAL interview segments in this week's program.
  • Bush May Be Planning Iran Attack
    in Final Months in Office

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  • Dramatic Rise in
    Global Food Prices
    Triggers Rebellions

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  • Underreported News Summary
    from Around the World

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