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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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"On the Brink of Depression: Turning Point in World Capitalism?" - Panel Chairman: Suzi Weissman, St. Mary's College (off mike, not included in -audio) - Jack Rasmus, Economics and Politics, St. Mary's College - Nomi Prins, Author, "Other People's Money" - Michael Hudson, Institute for the Study of Long Term Trends - Hillel Ticktin, Critique "The Obama Campaign & Presidency: Lesson for the Left" - Panel Chairman: Bill Fletcher Jr., Center for Labor Renewal - Gihan Perera, Miami Workers Center, Right to the City Alliance - Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY - Barbara Epstein, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz - Frances Fox Piven, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY Others Forthcoming: Please email btlsummary-subscribe@lists.riseup.net to receive panel discussions as they become available  THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM  RealAudio (full-length) |
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Red Cross Report Documents Torture
The International Committee of the Red Cross issued a confidential report in 2007 on interrogation abuse that their monitors documented at U.S. CIA-run secret prisons. The report condemned America's treatment of 14 "high-value" terrorist suspect detainees held at so-called "black sites," as inhuman, violating U.S. and international law. The report remained secret until it was made public in early April by writer and journalism professor Mark Danner on the New York Review of Books website.
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Interview with Joanne Mariner, director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism program, conducted by Scott Harris  The Red Cross noted that apart from subjecting prisoners to "waterboarding," U.S. interrogators, with the apparent authorization from the Bush administration, had exposed detainees to extreme temperatures, beaten them and deprived them of food. In addition prisoners had recounted how they were threatened with electric shock, infection with HIV/AIDS, sodomy and violence against family members. Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, who indicted Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet when he visited London in 1998, has launched a new investigation of 6 former Bush administration officials for their alleged criminal authorization of torture. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Joanne Mariner, director Human Rights Watch's Terrorism and Counter-terrorism Program. She discusses the importance of the Red Cross report and how it adds to the growing world-wide pressure on the Obama administration to open an investigation and prosecute Bush administration officials who may be guilty of war crimes. Contact the Terrorism and Counterterrorism program at Human Rights Watch by calling (212) 290-4700 or visit their website at www.hrw.org Related links:
Amnesty International Calls In late December of last year, a ship loaded with weapons departed the U.S. bound for Israel, while George W. Bush was still president. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that it arrived in Israel on March 22, after Barack Obama took office. The spokesperson said that the shipment was destined for a U.S. pre-positioned ammunition stockpile in Israel. Under a U.S.-Israeli agreement, munitions from this stockpile may be transferred for Israel to use if necessary.
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Interview with Curt Goering, Amnesty International USA, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
This weaponry is part of the $3 billion in annual U.S. aid to Israel, most of it for military assistance. Amnesty International USA followed this shipment and contacted both the former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and the incoming Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to express concern that Israel was using U.S.-supplied weapons against Palestinians in ways that violated a number of U.S. laws. The latest instance was Israel's three-week-long air and ground assault on Gaza that began on Dec. 27, which killed an estimated 1,400 Palestinians, including 300 children and hundreds of other civilians. An Obama State Department official told Amnesty International that Israel's use of U.S. weapons during the Gaza conflict is under review to determine if Israel complied with U.S. law, but no conclusion has yet been reached. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Curt Goering, senior deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA, who talks about the U.S.-Israel military agreement and what steps concerned Americans could take to raise the issue with their elected officials. Contact Amnesty International USA. at (212) 807-8400 or visit their website at www.amnestyusa.org
Health Care Group Battles Insurance Companies
During his campaign for the White House, Barack Obama was an advocate of national healthcare reform with the goal of universal medical coverage for all Americans, of whom 47 million are without coverage. On the campaign trail Obama was often quoted as saying, if he were starting from scratch, he would probably support a government-run single payer system, but went on to say, that because of the existing infrastructure, he would settle for improvements to the current privatized insurance system.
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Interview with Katie Robbins, assistant national coordinator, Health-Care Now! conducted by Scott Harris  The group, Healthcare-Now!, doesn't accept President Obama's concession to the current system. Believing that healthcare is a human right, not a privilege tied to the ability to pay, Healthcare-Now is spearheading a national campaign to push for the passage of single-payer healthcare legislation known as the National Health Insurance Act (HR 676), sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan. The bill would in essence extend the current Medicare system to all citizens regardless of their age. A coalition comprised of healthcare activists, small businesses, faith organizations, labor unions, doctors and nurses, HealthCare Now! has organized demonstrations, public forums and lobbying to overcome the private insurance industry's well financed effort to exclude the single payer option from the national debate on healthcare reform. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Katie Robbins, assistant national coordinator for Health Care-Now! She talks about the advantages of single payer, and the obstacles that stand in the way of getting a fair hearing for the model used for the provision of health care in most industrialized nations of the world. Contact Health Care-Now at 1-800-453-1305 or visit their website at www.healthcare-now.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: Ruben Abreu Copy editor: Chris Ferrio 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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