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U.S. Politics

"The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JPMorgan," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 16, 2012
"So Much for Schneiderman Being Tough on Wall Street," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, May 16, 2012
"RNC Goes All In to Defend Wisconsin's Walker, but Where's the DNC?," by John Nichols, The Nation, May 16, 2012
"DNC Shamed Into Helping Wisconsin Recall, Still Not Committing Funds," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 16, 2012
"Uncovering the Other ALECs," by Sarah Blaskey & Steve Horn, Truthout, May 16, 2012
"Needy States Use Housing Aid Cash to Plug Budgets," The New York Times, May 16, 2012
"Bill Clinton, Boehner, and Some Other Rich White Guys Had a "Summit" and Agreed: It's Your Fault," by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 15, 2012
"The National Security State Wins (Again): Why the Real Victor in Campaign 2012 Won’t Be Obama or Romney," by Tom Engelhardt & William J. Astore, TomDispatch, May 15, 2012
"John Roberts’ Gilded Age SCOTUS," by Joan Walsh, Salon, May 14, 2012
"How being 'the party of no' is working for the GOP," by Gary Younge, Guardian/UK, May 14, 2012
"JPMorgan Sought Loophole on Risky Trading," The New York Times, May 12, 2012
"Coal, Foreclosures and Bank of America’s ‘Extraordinary Event’," by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, May 10, 2012
"Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, May 10, 2012
"Mitt Romney, Bully," by Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, May 10, 2012
"Wall Street’s immunity," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 10, 2012
"Romney Apologizes After Reports of Bullying Emerge," The New York Times, May 10, 2012
"How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, May 10, 2012
"Activists Want DNC Convention to Move out of North Carolina After Amendment One Passage," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 9, 2012
"Angry opponents of N.C. amendment call for moving Democratic convention from Charlotte," McClatchy Newspapers, May 9, 2012
"President Obama endorses gay marriage, cites Sasha and Malia," McClatchy Newspapers, May 9, 2012
"DC Democrats Upset That Feingold Called Out Pelosi’s Game of Footsie with Bowles-Simpson," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 9, 2012
"Lugar Loses Primary Challenge in Indiana," The New York Times, May 8, 2012
"Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline," by Tom Engelhardt & Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch, May 8, 2012
"The American Character," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 7, 2012
"Liberals Steer Outside Money to Grass-Roots Organizing," The New York Times, May 7, 2012
"Progressive Election Strategy and the Norman Solomon Campaign," by Jeff Cohen, New Politics, May 4, 2012
"Occupy Doesn’t Need to Get With the Vote," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 3, 2012
"Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 3, 2012
"The Peace Prize War President," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, May 3, 2012
"The People Behind the Lawmakers Out to Destroy Public Education: A Primer," by Diane Ravitch, Education Week, May 2, 2012
"The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, May 2, 2012
"Bread, Circuses, and the Edwards Prosecution," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 1, 2012
"Romney spokesman quits after right-wingers freak out about his being gay," by Alex Pareene, Salon, May 1, 2012
"As His Austerity Agenda Melts Down, Scott Walker Blames Protests for Record Job Losses," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 30, 2012
"Celebrating our “Warrior President”," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 29, 2012
"A Resurgent American Left?," by Eli Zaretsky, Dissent, April 27, 2012
"Obama Justice and medical marijuana," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 26, 2012
"Revive Socialism!," by Michael Kazin, Dissent, April 25, 2012
"Two Blue Dogs Defeated in Pennsylvania Primaries," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 25, 2012
"Justices Seem Sympathetic to Central Part of Arizona Law," by Adam Liptak, The New York Times, April 25, 2012
"Iran War Politics: Elizabeth Warren Contradicts Defense Secretary In Hawkish Talk, Bob Kerrey Calls Attack 'Disaster'," by Nico Pitney, Huffington Post, April 24, 2012
"Reports show hard-to-track donors dominate outside giving," USA Today, April 22, 2012
"Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals," by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, April 22, 2012
"The Citizens United Gang," by Jim Hightower, Creators.com, April 18, 2012
"ALEC Retreats, Sort Of," Yes! Magazine, April 17, 2012
"ALEC Disbands Task Force Responsible for Voter ID, 'Stand Your Ground' Laws," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 17, 2012
"Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare," by Laura Flanders, The Nation, April 16, 2012
"In Senate, Republicans Block Debate on ‘Buffett Rule’," The New York Times, April 16, 2012
"The War on Public-Sector Workers," by Dean Baker, Truthout, April 16, 2012
"Obama and Romney Are Politicians, Not Visionaries," by Dean Baker, Common Dreams, April 10, 2012
"Santorum Quits Race, Clearing Path for Romney," The New York Times, April 10, 2012
"The "Suicidal State" and the War on Youth," by Henry S. Giroux, Truthout, April 10, 2012
"The Buffett Rule’s low bar," by Robert Reich, Salon, April 10, 2012
"It's Romney, the GOP Candidate Opposed by 59 Percent of Republicans," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 10, 2012
"How Rick Santorum Moved the GOP Primary to the Right," by Ben Adler, The Nation, April 10, 2012
"Deepening the progressive bench," by Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, April 10, 2012

Economy

"California, the ninth largest economy in the world, resorts to austerity," Independent/UK, May 16, 2012
"Wells Fargo Has Blood on Its Hands: Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking Foreclosure Mistreatment," by Dave Johnson, AlterNet, May 15, 2012
"Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, May 15, 2012
"Lessons in Disloyalty: Eduardo Saverin and the Facebook IPO," by Ilyse Hogue, The Nation, May 14, 2012
"Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase: Why It's the Scandal of Our Time," by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 14, 2012
"Colonized by Corporations," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, May 14, 2012
"Why We Regulate," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 13, 2012
"Colleges as Merchants of Debt," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, May 13, 2012
"A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College," The New York Times, May 12, 2012
"More Than 200,000 Americans Will Lose Their Unemployment Benefits This Weekend," by Pat Garofalo, Think Progress, May 11, 2012
"CHARTS: Economic Mobility Is Stronger In Union States," by Travis Waldron, Think Progress, May 10, 2012
"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte: How Bank of America Silenced a Whole Town," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 10, 2012
"Waiting for Copernicus: On the Slow-Death of Neoliberalism," by John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 8, 2012
"New York Times Reporters Need to Read Krugman’s Columns," by Bill Black, Naked Capitalism, May 8, 2012
"Health care increasingly out of reach for millions of Americans," McClatchy Newspapers, May 7, 2012
"How to End This Depression," by Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books, May 7, 2012
"Why America's Rich People Are Better Than Everyone Else's," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, May 7, 2012
"The Stall Has Arrived," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 4, 2012
"Argentina and the magic soybean: the commodity export boom that wasn't," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, May 4, 2012
"Social security is not going broke," by David Cay Johnston, Reuters, May 4, 2012
"The Crushing Burden of Student Debt," by David Graeber, Mike Konczal, Brian Kalkbrenner and Sarah Jaffe, Truthout, May 4, 2012
"Discrepancies on Medical Bills Can Leave a Credit Stain," The New York Times, May 4, 2012
"A Down Week, Worsened by a Weak Jobs Report," The New York Times, May 4, 2012
"Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty, and Freaky Weather Into the Arena," by Tom Engelhardt & Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, May 1, 2012
"The Tinder-Box Society," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 1, 2012
"Five Tax Fallacies Invented by the 1%," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 30, 2012
"How to Destroy Education While Making a Trillion Dollars," by Robert Freeman, Common Dreams, April 29, 2012
"Depression Symptoms: What’s Behind Europe’s Spike in Suicides," by Michelle Chen, In These Times, April 26, 2012
"Bank CEOs gain as millions lose dreams, retirement to foreclosure," by Scott Klinger & John Cavanagh, Newark Star-Ledger, April 25, 2012
"American Austerity," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, April 25, 2012
"Europe’s austerity recession," by Robert Reich, Salon, April 25, 2012
"Wall Street-Inflated Student Debt Bubble Hits $1 Trillion; Debtors Rally for Relief," by Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet, April 24, 2012
"Wells Fargo, Terrified to Face Victims of Its Foreclosure Fraud and Predatory Lending, Locks Shareholders Out of Annual Meeting," by Joshua Holland, AlterNet, April 24, 2012
"The Middle Class Hasn't Disappeared. It's Just Sliding Toward the Bottom," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 23, 2012
"The Housing Market Doldrums," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, April 23, 2012
"Call for Growth Rises to Counter German Push for Austerity," The New York Times, April 23, 2012
"Shareholders Say No to Citigroup CEO Pay: A Model for Fighting Crony Capitalism," by Dean Baker, Truthout, April 23, 2012
"Schneiderman Propagandist Confirms Report of Lack of Staffing for Mortgage Fraud Task Force," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, April 19, 2012
"Rising Fears That Recovery May Once More Be Faltering," The New York Times, April 19, 2012
"Locking Down an American Workforce: Prison Labor as the Past -- and Future -- of American “Free-Market” Capitalism," by Tom Engelhardt, Steve Fraser & Joshua B. Freeman, TomDispatch, April 19, 2012
"Spain’s contagious collapse," by Paul Ames, Global Post, April 19, 2012
"How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe," by Ellen Brown, Truthout, April 18, 2012
"Five Reasons Why The Very Rich Have NOT Earned Their Money," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 16, 2012
"Six Rigged Rules Corporations Use to Dodge Taxes," by Sarah Anderson & Scott Klinger, The Nation, April 16, 2012
"For Two Economists, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start," The New York Times, April 16, 2012
"Europe’s Economic Suicide," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, April 15, 2012
"Vampire Squid Update: SEC Fines Goldman For Huddles," by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch, April 13, 2012
"The Federal Reserve Turns Left," by William Greider, The Nation, April 11, 2012
"An Economic Quagmire," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, April 10, 2012

Bush Accountability

"War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes," Common Dreams, May 13, 2012
"Yoo, Latif, and the Rise of Secret Justice," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 9, 2012
"Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom Foundation, May 7, 2012
"No Accountability for Torture," by David Cole, New York Review of Books, May 7, 2012
"More federal judge abdication," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 4, 2012
"UC Berkeley's John Yoo torture suit tossed out," San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2012
"'Torture memos' author can't be sued for harsh interrogations, court rules," Christian Science Monitor, May 2, 2012
"Jose Rodriguez, Poster Boy," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 1, 2012
"U.S. Torturers are Still Awaiting Arrest," by William A. Collins, Other Words, April 30, 2012
"Bush aide blasts torture," by Jordan Michael Smith, Salon, April 10, 2012

Audio Archives, 1999

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December

Week Ending Dec. 3, 1999

Ellen Miller, executive director of Public Campaign, who discusses a recent federal court ruling that upheld a vote-approved law instituting public financing of political campaigns in the state of Maine. See information on the Maine court decision.
Robert Rabin, with the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, who reports on preparations being made by activists to resist the likely resumption of the U.S. military's bombing the Puerto Rican island.
Charlotte Arnold, policy director at the Center for Food Safety, who describes a lawsuit initiated by her group that challenges the Food and Drug Administration's failure to require labeling and pre-market safety-testing of genetically-engineered foods. See information on the lawsuit filed against the FDA.

Week Ending Dec. 10, 1999

Jeffrey Winters, associate professor of political economy at Northwestern University, who examines the global coalition that has formed to challenge the free trade policies of the World Trade Organization. Call 1-877-STOP-WTO to contact a coalition of groups opposing WTO policy. See up-to-date information at www.indymedia.org. or www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=108 See AlterNet's in-depth coverage of the WTO: www.alternet.org.
Author and commentator Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who decries the dramatic loss of African-Amerian radio stations across the country in recent years. Dr. Hutchinson's column is posted on the Black World Today Web site at: www.tbtw.com
Elizabeth Horton Sheff, newly elected Connecticut Green Party member to the Hartford City Council, who discusses her hard-fought victory. See the party Web site.

Week Ending Dec. 17, 1999

Michael Albert, an editor at Z Magazine,who assesses the strength of the movement that brought tens of thousands of demonstrators to Seattle to protest the policies of the World Trade Organization. (In MP3)
Martin Lee, author of the book "The Beast Reawakens," who examines the connection between the resurgence of neofascist groups and the drive for economic globalization. For more information on tracking right-wing movements, see Political Research Associates' Web site. See this week's Between The Lines Q&A, on the Toward Freedom Web site.
Barbara Briggs, senior associate with the National Labor Committee, who discusses the importance of the global anti-sweat shop campaign in building resistance to the policies of the World Trade Organization.

Week Ending Dec. 24, 1999

Hussein Ibish, communications director with the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, who analyzes recently initiated peace talks between Israel and Syria and the effect they may have on negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians to reach a final peace agreement. Contact the committee at (20244-2990 or visit their Web site at www.adc.org.
Michael Ratner, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who examines the custody battle involving Elian Gonzalez, a 6-year-old Cuban boy rescued at sea -- who is in the middle of a custody battle between his father in Havana and relatives living in Miami. Contact the center at (20212-614-6464.
Regina Butterill, the education director for the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, who describes her organization's efforts to help consumers make socially responsible gift-giving choices this holiday season. To get a copy of the committee's consumer buying guide, call (77728-8400 or visit their Web site at www.nicwj.org.

Week Ending Dec. 31, 1999

Chip Berlet, senior analyst with Political Research Associates, who assesses the danger of violence from extreme right wing groups who believe that the year 2000 will usher in an era of ritual purification and apocalypse.
Nettie Mayersohn, a New York State assemblywoman who discusses a controversial law that makes mandatory the testing of newborns for AIDS. For more information, see Melinda Tuhus' Dec. 12, 1999 New York Times article, "Groups Challenge New H.I.V. Testing Law."
Kathy Feng, of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, who asserts that the U.S. government's prosecution of a Chinese American nuclear scientist raises troubling questions of stereotyping and scapegoating. Contact the Coalition formed to ensure Dr. Lee receives a fair trial at (21371-6565.

November

Week Ending Nov. 5, 1999

Steve Weissman, legislative representative with Public Citizen's Congress Watch, who examines the forces behind the latest defeat of campaign finance reform in the U.S. Senate. See Public Citizen's Congress Watch Web page on Campaign Finance Reform and Government Ethics
Syndicated columnist Norman Solomon, who charges that the complaint from conservative commentators of a "liberal media bias" is a myth.
Jennifer Price, author of "Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America" who describes how most of our encounters with nature come through the television or at the mall.

Week Ending Nov. 12, 1999

Citizen-activist and consumer-advocate Ralph Nader, who condemns legislation that would deregulate the nation's banking industry. See Ralph Nader's Web site Essential Information and his testimony on HR 10 to the Committee on Banking and Financial Services to the U. S. House Of Representatives, Feb. 11, 1999 See this week's Between The Lines Q&A on the AlterNet Web site. Listen to the RealAudio clip. (Needs RealPlayer G2, 6:24 min.)
Attorney Leonard Weinglass, who discusses the latest developments in the court battle of his client, death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal, to win a new trial. See also Refuse & Resist to learn how you can act locally. Listen to the RealAudio clip. (Needs RealPlayer G2, 6:35 min.)
Noam Chomsky, one of the nation's most respected, progressive critics of U.S. foreign policy, who examines the "New Military Humanism, Lessons From Kosovo," the subject of his latest book. Listen to the RealAudio clip. (Needs RealPlayer G2, 6:26 min.)

Week Ending Nov. 19, 1999

Seth Ackerman, an analyst with the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, who summarizes a report appearing in the London Observer, which alleges the U.S. government deliberately bombed the Chinese Embassy during the Yugoslav War, a story which has received virtually no coverage in American media. See the FAIR report, U.S. Media Overlook Expose on Chinese Embassy Bombing. See the London Observer story: NATO Bombed Chinese Deliberately
Michael Morrill with People's Global Action, who describes massive protests against economic globalization being planned to coincide with the World Trade Organization's ministerial summit meeting in Seattle, which begins Nov. 30.
Cecilia Bucki, a professor of history at Fairfield University, who describes the university's semester-long exploration of the politics and culture of the 1960s. Call her at (20254-4000, ext. 2307.

Week Ending Nov. 26, 1999

Michael Dolan, with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, who critically assesses the recently concluded trade agreement between the U.S. and China that clears a major hurdle for Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organization. Contact a coalition of groups organizing opposition to the WTO by calling 1-877-STOP-WTO or visit their Web site www.Seattle99.org See this week's Between The Lines Q&A on the AlterNet Web site.
Father Roy Bourgeois, co-founder of The School of the Americas Watch, who discusses his group's decade-long campaign to close down the U.S. Army school which has trained many of Latin America's most notorious human rights violators. Contact SOA Watch by calling (20234-3440.
Scott Cullen, counsel for the group Standing for Truth About Radiation, or STAR, who describes the results of a scientific study to determine the amount of radiation present in infants' and children's teeth. For more information on how you can submit teeth for study, call 1(800) 582-3716.

October

Week Ending Oct. 1, 1999

Alan Nairn, the last U.S. journalist in East Timor before deportation, who reports on the violence there and the slow response to the international community to the Indonesian military's murderous rampage. Look for Alan Nairn's Sept. 27th article in The Nation magazine: "US Complicity in Timor", as well as other background information on the East Timor situation.
Veteran peace activist Christopher Allen-Doucot, with the Hartford Catholic Workers, who reports his observations from a recent fact-finding mission to Iraq, which investigated the devastation of the continued sanctions and bombing raids by the U.S. and Britain on the Iraqi people. For a copy of the delegation's report, call 1-860-724-7066.
Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York, who analyzes the risk of Y2K-related accidents at nuclear power plants with the military's nuclear weapons systems. See more information from the Washington, D.C.-based organization, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, about the Y2K nuclear problem. See this week's "Between The Lines Q&A" featured on the Toward Freedom Web site.

Week Ending Oct. 8, 1999

Jack Doppelt, coauthor of the book, "Non-Voters: America's No Shows," who explains why he believes so many citizens abstain from participating in the nation's elections. See a description of his project, "Americans Who Don't Vote."
Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Studies at New York University, who examines the fallout for society resulting from the recent multi-billion dollar merger of the CBS television network and Viacom. See his article in The Nation's Oct.4, 1999 issue: "CBS-Viacom Nuptials."
Felipe Perez Roque, the new Cuban Foreign Minister, who talks about the status of U.S.-Cuba relations and Cuba's ongoing campaign to end the U.S. economic blockade.

Week Ending Oct. 15, 1999

Steve Rendell, senior analyst with the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting who examines presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan's record of bigoted and xenophonic rhetoric. See FAIR's page: Pat Buchanan -- Equal Opportunity Maligner
Eugenia Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education who discusses her group's challenge to a Christian fundamentalist drive to prevent the teaching of evolutionary theory in the nation's public schools.
Gina Kiala, of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, who discusses renewed efforts to free the imprisoned Native American human rights activist. The defense committee can be reached at 785-842-5774 or via email: lpdc@idir.net

Week Ending Oct. 22, 1999

Gordon Clark, executive director of Peace Action, who explains why his group is alarmed that Senate Republicans have blocked ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. See this week's "Between The Lines Q&A" on the Toward Freedom Web site.
Michelle Sforza, research director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch", who takes a critical look at the 5-year track record of the World Trade Organization. See this week's "Between The Lines Q&A:" World Trade Organization Undermines Democracy
Journalist and author Mark Hertsgaard, who describes what he discovered about the earth's environmental future, after taking a 19-nation tour in researching his latest book.

Week Ending Oct. 29, 1999

Jacqueline Cabasso, executive director of the Western States Legal Foundation who assesses the international repercussions following the defeat of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate. Visit the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Web site.
Robert McChesney, author of the book, "Rich Media, Poor Democracy," who argues that the nation's monopoly-owned commercial media have become a significant antidemocratic force.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tun, who discusses growing income inequity around the world.

September

Week Ending Sept. 3, 1999

David Bacon, an associate editor with the Pacific News Service, who discusses the most recent clash between Islamic separatists and government troops in the Russian province of Dagestan.
See Pacific News Service's online magazine JINN articles: "If Dagestan Islam Spreads It Could Bring Down Russia".
Julianne Smith, senior analyst with the British American Security Information Council who examines the continuing violence in NATO occupied Kosovo.
Dierdre McAliskey, daughter of noted civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, who talks about a recent police attack against peaceful protesters in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Week Ending Sept. 10, 1999

Russell Anderson, of the International Federation for East Timor Observer Project who discusses East Timor's historic vote on Monday, Aug. 30 to possible independence from the 24-year brutal occupation by Indonesia.
Rick McDowell with the group Voices in the Wilderness who discusses a delegation of Congressional aides that are visiting Baghdad to investigate the impact of nine years of economic sanctions on Iraq's population.
Wendell Primus, with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who assesses the effects of welfare reform legislation -- enacted in 1996 -- on the nation's poorest families. See the center's study: Average Incomes of Very Poor Families Fell During Early Years of Welfare Reform. A transcript of this interview is available on this week's "Between The Lines Q&A"

Week Ending Sept. 17, 1999

John Miller, with the East Timor Action Network, who reports on the violence he witnessed in East Timor after the territory's citizens voted overwhelmingly for independence and an end to 24 years of Indonesia's brutal military operation.
Dr. Dan Murphy, a U.S. physician who was recently expelled from East Timor, and talks about the humanitarian tragedy he fears he'll find upon returning to the island nation after this latest seige of terror.
Peter Rosset, director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, who examines the international debate over genetically engineered foods that has sparked a trade war between Europe and the United States. Listen to a a RealAudio clip (requires RealPlayer G. See the Between The Lines Q&A column, " Can Genetically Altered Foods Feed the World's Hungry? on the Minorities Job Bank Web site.

Week Ending Sept. 24, 1999

Seth Ackerman, with the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, who assesses the U.S. press corp's coverage of the latest carnage in East Timor and the longstanding role of America's support for the Indonesian military. See FAIR's Action Alert: "U.S. Role Missing From East Timor Coverage"
Carlos Alicea, an environmentalist from Puerto Rico, who talks about the environmental, social and political consequences of the U.S. Navy's control of two-thirds of the island of Vieques for the past 60 years.
Author and journalist Steve Ellner, who examines revolutionary political changes being implemented by Venezuela's popular new president Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez.

August

Week Ending August 6, 1999

Howard Lyman, former rancher and food safety activist, who discusses the status of a still pending lawsuit brought against himself and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, for their comments made about the nation's beef supply.
Michel Chossudovsky, author and professor economics at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada, who talks about how the Kosovo Liberation Army is sustained by organized crime with the approval of the U.S. government. See article: Kosovo 'Freedom Fighters' Financed by Organized Crime. Other Kosovo articles that give more clarity to the U.S. bombing.
Stephen Dunnifer, founder of Northern California's Free Radio Berkeley, who discusses the growth of the "micro-broadcasting movement" and the Federal Communication Commission's recent proposal to legalize some of the low-power pirate radio stations. See April 6, 1999 Detroit News related article: FCC tunes in pirate radio: Proposal to allow tiny stations would diversify airwaves

Week Ending August 13, 1999

Clark Kissinger, journalist and activist, and MOVE member Pam Africa, who talk about crucial information released at a recent news conference concerning the case of death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. See June 20, 1999 Revolutionary Worker article by Clark Kissinger: What's It Gonna Take to Save Mumia?.
Dr. Dan Lawlor, a labor organizer with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers,who discusses the growing movement to unionize physicians. See related May 29, 1999 Los Angeles Times article: Doctors Vote Decisively to Unionize
Scot X Esdaile and Rabbi Michael Whitman, who talk about their efforts to bridge the racial tensions between the African-American and Jewish communities in the New Haven area of Connecticut. See www.ZineZone.com: Mike and Scot's personal zine

Week Ending August 20, 1999

Hussein Ibish, communications director with the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, who assesses the chances for lasting peace in the Middle East following the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, who analyzes the root causes behind the economic crisis faced by many American family farmers.
3Peter Hart, of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting who explains why his group is calling for the resignations of the executive director and the board of the Pacifica Radio Network.

Week Ending August 27, 1999

Peter Montogmery, with People for the American Way, who reports on the growth of white supremacist groups in the U.S., as the nation tries to comprehend the most recent in a series of senseless shootings in California.
Esperanza Martell, a coordinator of Prolibertad, the Committee to Free Puerto Rican political prisoners, who analyzes President Clinton's recent offer of conditional clemency to 11 Puerto Rican freedom fighters currently in U.S. jails.
Adam Isaacson, with the Center for International Policy who analyzes the decades long civil war in Columbia and the deepening role of the United States in the conflict.

July

Week Ending July 2, 1999

Gregory Elich, independent journalist, who talks about Western policy in Yugoslavia, that he says created and fueled the war to place that nation in a dependent position. See article by Gregory Elich
John Miller, of the East Timor Action Network, who examines the widespread violence that has preceded a U.N. supervised election that will determine the territory's future political status after 25 years of brutal repression.
Soren Ambrose, policy analyst with the 50 Years is Enough Network, who describes the demands of a growing international movement to cancel the debt of the world's most impoverished nations.

Week Ending July 9, 1999

Winona Hauter of Public Citizen, , who explains why her group is urging citizens to write the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to maintain regulations that mandate the clear labeling of foods treated with radiation.
Jane Franklin, author of Cuba and the United States, A Chronological History, who talks about Cuba's new medical school which opened in March of this year, with the goal of training 5,000 student doctors from throughout Latin America.
Larry Bensky, a veteran broadcaster recently fired from the Pacifica Radio Network, who comments on increasing turmoils at Pacifica and their flagship station, KPFA in Berkeley, California.

Week Ending July 16, 1999

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of Nation magazine, who reports from Moscow on the growing tensions between Russia and the United States in the aftermath of the Yugoslav war.
Sister Dianna Ortiz, and Ethiopian nationalist Fekadu Eba, torture survivors who participated in a vigil at the White House to protest continued U.S. financial support of countries that violate human rights.
3Tony Hiss, the son of Alger Hiss -- accused of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1950s -- who talks about his family's long struggle to clear his father's name. See background information on Public Citizen's petition drive.

Week Ending July 23, 1999

Attorney William Schaap, who reports from Cuba on hearings being held in Havana on a $181 billion suit against the U.S. for damages and 3,000 deaths, resulting from a 40-year American campaign to overthrow the Castro government.
Hunter College professor and author Mimi Abromovitz, who assesses the Clinton Administration's record on confronting poverty as the president concluded a tour of the nation's poorest regions.
Michael Lux, with People for the American Way, who examines the record of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, as he works to cultivate a moderate image while campaigning for the presidency.

Week Ending July 30, 1999

Kevin Danaher, cofounder of Global Exchange, who examines the underlying causes for income inequality around the world as documented in a United Nations report.
Dennis Bernstein, a recently fired news producer at KPFA-FM, the Pacifica Network's radio station in Berkeley, California, who describes recent events which led to a lock out of all staff and a suspension of local programming there.
Earl Standberry, Gulf War Veteran, who talks about "Stonewalk," a project where he and other activists are pulling by hand, a 2,000-pound monument from Massachusetts to Arlington National Cemetery, in remembrance of civilians who have died in war.

June

Week Ending June 4, 1999

Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies, who examines how and why the United Nations has been bypassed in the current conflict in Yugoslavia.
Rosemary Bassilakis, a researcher with the Citizens Awareness Network, who assesses the conduct of Northeast Utilities in its management of Connecticut's Millstone nuclear power plants.
Gabriela Flora, program associate on agricultural biotechnologies at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, who examines the global impact of genetically engineered food. Week Ending June 11, 1999
Robert Weil, author and commentator on Chinese politics, who examines allegations that Beijing stole American nuclear weapons secrets and the future of U.S./Chinese relations.
Peter Hart, with the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, who assesses mainstream media's coverage of the ongoing war in Yugoslavia.
Rev. Lucius Walker, of Pastors for Peace, who talks about the ninth US/Cuba Friendshipment Caravan, which will deliver millions of dollars worth of lifesaving medicines to the doctors and nurses of Cuba.

Week Ending June 18, 1999

Jonathan Schwarz, research association with the Preamble Center, who, as the war ends in Yugoslavia, assesses the winners and losers and the precedents set by NATO's unilateral intervention.
Tara Thornton, national organizer with the Military Toxics Project, who summarizes the health hazards connected with depleted uranium weapons, most recently used by U.S. and NATO forces in their war on Yugoslavia.
Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, investigative reporters who were fired at FOX-owned WTVT Channel 13 in Tampa for refusing orders to broadcast slanted stories about the controversial rBGH bovine growth hormone.

Week Ending June 25, 1999

Gordon Clark, executive director of Peace Action, who critically examines the response of the U.S. peace movement to the war in Yugoslavia.
Bill Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, who advocates a ban on electro-shock stun belts, which are increasingly being used in prisons and courtrooms throughout the country. See Amnesty International pages: Cruelty in Control?
Redwood Mary, activist and organizer, who talks about the environmental conference she attended in Kenya and her arrest at a New York City protest to save the redwoods in California. See related web page: www.Lunatree.org

May

Week Ending May 7, 1999

David McReynolds, veteran pacifist and former chair of War Resisters International, who examines the strategy behind the U.S. led NATO air war against Yugoslavia.
Vita Bundra, a citizen of Macedonia now living in the United States, who offers her analysis of the conflict in Kosovo.
Dr. Steven Wing, of the University of North Carolina, who talks about his investigation into the incidence of cancer near the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant - site of the worst U.S. nuclear accident 20 years ago.

Week Ending May 14, 1999

Michael Ratner, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who explains why he has filed a lawsuit on behalf of legislators to require President Clinton to obtain Congressional authorization before continuing the air war against Yugoslavia.
Noam Chomsky, one of the nation's most respected progressive critics of American foreign policy, who examines what he believes to be the real objectives behind the U.S. - led NATO military intervention in Yugoslavia.
Jane Franklin, author of "Cuba and the United States," who talks about the political implications behind the recent exhibition baseball games between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national team.

Week Ending May 21st 1999

David Kotz, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, who assesses the political fallout resulting from the U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
Mario Hardy, field organizer with the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, who talks about the myths behind the military's recruitment campaign hype.
Justine McCabe of the Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care, who discusses her group's effort to pass legislation that would bring the Nutmeg state a single-payer health care system.

Week Ending May 28th 1999

Jerry Starr, author of "The Lessons of the Vietnam War," who examines NATO's strategy of selecting targets which endanger civilians, as the death toll from accidental bombings in Yugoslavia mount.
Regan Ralph, of Human Rights Watch, who talks about bringing those responsible for rape and other war crimes in Bosnia and now in Kosovo, to justice.
Paul Bass, columnist with the New Haven Advocate newspaper, who takes a critical look at the sale of his publication, along with four other papers in the Advocate/Weekly chain, to the Hartford Courant. see related editorial

April

Week Ending April 2, 1999

Francie Malloy, elected representative from Northern Ireland, who talks about the recent political assassination of human rights attorney Rosemary Nelson, who died when a bomb exploded under her car.
Gordon Clark, Executive Director of Peace Action, who criticizes legislation recenly passed in Congress that commits the U.S. to develop a "Star Wars" missile defense program.
The Sentencing Project's Jenni Gainsborough, who analyzes statistics released by the Bureau of Justice, documenting a 4.8% annual increase in the U.S. prison population, now the second highest per capita in the world.

Week Ending April 9, 1999

Matthew Rothschild, editor of the Progressive Magazine, who assesses the crisis in Kosovo and explains why he opposes U.S. led NATO air attacks on Yugoslavia.
Maria Santelli, of the Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping , who talks about potential problems with disposing of nuclear waste in the salt beds near Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Barbara Briggs, of the National Labor Committee, who discusses the movement on college campuses across the nation to end sweat shop labor.

Week Ending April 16, 1999

Robert Hayden, Center for Russian & East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, who explores the roots of the Kosovo conflict and chances for a negotiated settlement there.
Anne Platt McGinn of the World Watch Institute , who explores the contradiction between western consumer culture and the survival of our planet's ecosystem.
Bobby Byrd, co-publisher at Cinco Puntos Press , who talks about how the National Endowment for the Arts abruptly cancelled funding for a children's book written by Subcommandante Marcos, leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebel movement.

Week Ending April 23, 1999

Michael Beer, director of Nonviolence International, who criticizes the U.S./NATO strategy of targeting Yugoslavia's civilian infrastructure.
Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored , who examines the role of media during the ongoing war in Yugoslavia.
Father Roy Bourgeois, who talks about his group's continuing efforts to close the U.S. Army's School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Week Ending April 30, 1999

Michael Simmons of the American Friends Service Committee, who examines the ongoing U.S./NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia, and the potential for a wider conflict in the Balkans.
Linda Chavez Thompson, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President, who discusses the struggle to re-energize and reinvigorate the U.S. labor movement.
Tina Guglielmo of STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation), who talks about her group's efforts to close Connecticut's Millstone nuclear power station.

March

Week Ending March 5, 1999

Elliot Mincberg, vice president and general council with People for the American Way who outlines his group's recently launched voter education campaign to defeat the extreme right at the polls in November 2000. Related website on right-wing movements: Political Research Associates at www.publiceye.org.
Dr. Jay Gould, Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, who talks about the Tooth Fairy Project's Baby Teeth Study to measure levels of radioactive strontium-90 in the teeth of children in Long Island and New Jersey.
Investigative journalist Larry Shook, who explains why he and many others are advocating that neighbors work together to prepare for the unknown consequences of the coming "Y2K" problem. Related web page: Utne Reader's Y2K Citizens Action Guide

Week Ending March 12, 1999

Xanana Gusmao, East Timor rebel leader, recently released from prison but still under house arrest, who talks about the recent Indonesian government announcement that it would consider independence for East Timor.
Rear Admiral Eugene Carrol of the Center for Defense Information, who discusses the efforts to reach a peace accord in the complex and dangerous conflict in Yugoslavia's embattled Kosovo province.
WPKN producer Ebong Udoma, who reports on the recently concluded Nigerian presidential election which will soon bring General Obasanjo to power in that nation's first civilian government in 16 years.

Week Ending March 19, 1999

Dennis Halliday, former United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, who explains why he resigned his post last year and why he opposes economic sanctions for the people of Iraq. Related press release: Speaking Tour Will Focus on Plight of Iraqi People Under UN Sanctions
Xanana Gusmao, East Timorese rebel leader under house arrest, who talks about his recent meeting with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who promised U.S. assistance in the transition to independence for East Timor. Related Pacifica News "Democracy Now!" interview transcript with Xanana Gusmao
Carol Richardson, co-director of School of the Americas Watch, who talks about the recent Clarification Report released by the Guatemalan Truth Commission charging the Guatemalan military with genocide.

Week Ending March 26, 1999

Kate Doyle of the National Security Archive, who comments on the findings of a major human rights investigation in Guatemala which found that nation's military and the United States responsible for genocide during Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, who describes his group's campaign to preserve the nation's social security system by resisting calls for privatization.
Blaise Bonpane and Patricia Todd, part of a six-member delegation, who talk about their visit with Lori Berenson, an American serving a life sentence in the Socabaya prison in Peru. Related website: Free Lori!

February

Week Ending February 5, 1999

Author and syndicated columnist Norman Solomon, who examines the media's coverage of the ongoing Congressional impeachment process.
A special report on the resignation of eight veteran pilots serving with Connecticut's Air National Guard, for refusing to be inoculated with the Pentagon's controversial anthrax vaccine.
State Representative Christopher Caruso, a Democrat from Bridgeport, who talks about the Connecticut's handling of the January 7th murder of 8-year-old Leroy Brown Jr., who was to be a key witness in an upcoming murder trial.

Week Ending February 12, 1999

1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta, who talks about the recent move by the Indonesian government which says it is willing to grant independence to East Timor.
Mark Weisbrot, research director at the Preamble Center, who describes what he sees as the phony Social Security crisis that has politicians scrambling to reform or privatize the nation's most successful social program.
Author and commentator Barbara Ehrenreich, who takes a critical look at the Senate impeachment trial and the Clinton presidency.

Week Ending February 19, 1999

Kit Gage, coordinator of Coalition to Protect Political Freedom, who explains why she fears new anti-terrorism legislation could endanger our civil liberties.
Stanley Heller, chairperson of the Middle East Crisis Committee, who talks about his group's recent protest opposing U.S. sanctions against Iraq, and their call for the arrest of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Carol Collins, national coordinator of Jubilee 2000 USA,who describes her group's goal to bring about major debt relief for the world's poorest nations.

Week Ending February 26, 1999

Author and commentator Paul Robeson Jr. who assesses the opportunities to combat the right wing agenda in the aftermath of the GOP's unsuccessful and unpopular impeachment drive.
Toni Carraher, of the South Argmagh Farmers and Residents Committee in Ireland, who talks about the continued British military buildup there, despite peace talks and a solid cease fire.
Lou Goldberg, a former top Connecticut state official who points out many flaws in the process of building a stadium in Harford for the New England Patriots.

January

Week Ending January 1, 1999

Gordon Clark, executive director of Peace Action, who assesses public opinion during the dual crises of impeachment and military action against Iraq.
Activist Christopher Doucot, who talks about his recent arrest, while protesting U.S. and British bombing of Iraq.
Mark Milano, of ACT-UP New York, who discusses the newest drugs approved for treating AIDS, the difficulties many AIDS victims face due to the high cost of treatment, and how the magnitude of the AIDS epidemic is still misunderstood by the general public and the media.

Week Ending January 8, 1999

Phyllis Bennis, a research fellow at the Institute For Policy Studies, Institute for Policy Studies who questions the legal authority the U.S. used at the United Nations to initiatie air strikes against Iraq.
Vivian Stromberg, executive director of MADRE , who gives an update on relief efforts in Nicaragua after the devastation of Hurricane Mitch.
Stanton Glantz, professor of medicine at the University of California, who analyzes the recent agreement between tobacco companies and 46 state to settle lawsuits related to Medicaid health costs due to smoking.

Week Ending January 15th, 1999

Joseph Doherty, Irish freedom fighter, who talks about his recent release from prison after being held as a political prisoner for almost 25 years.
Bruce Shapiro, a columnist with The Nation magazine who looks at the impeachment of President Clinton as the process moves toward a trial in the U.S. Senate. Listen to a RealAudio clip (requires RealPlayer 5.0 minimum).
Gordon Clark, executive director of Peace Action, who examines the Clinton Administration's proposal to request the largest defense spending increase since the end of the Cold War.

Week Ending January 29th, 1999

Mark Potok, spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center, who examines the links between prominent Republican members of Congress and the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group.

See: Council of Conservative Citizens' website. See related articles:
Southern Poverty Law Center's What's New Briefs: "Council of Conservative Citizens is a Racist Group"
Southern Poverty Law Center's "Sharks in the Mainstream" on the What's New briefs page New York Times': Lott, and
Shadow of a Pro-White Group by John Kifner, January 14, 1999

Washington Post's: "Controversial Group Has Strong Ties to Both Parties in South," by Thomas B. Edsall, January 13, 1999
Todd Hettenbach, a researcher with the Environmental Working Group who discusses the dangers of pesticide residue in our food and the lack of effort by the EPA to limit the public's exposure to these toxins. See Environmental Working Group's instant information on: Pesticides in Your Food.
Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist, who talks about her ongoing vigil 180 feet up in an ancient redwood tree to protest the destruction of the redwood forest.

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