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"Best of New Haven 2001"
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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

Those Who Dared to Come Forward
In-depth compilation on Washington insiders speaking out on Bush administration policies and actions

"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, UN 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

Multi-Ethnic Issues Advocacy

Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Commentaries, The Hutchinson Report
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Between The Lines
For The Week Ending Jan. 20, 2006

... MORE NEWSWIRE...

U.S. Politics

"To Russia, Love Tom DeLay," by Russ Baker, TomPaine.com, Jan. 4, 2006

"Abramoff Was Central To GOP's Political Strategy," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 4, 2006

"Lobbyist To Reveal All In Congress Bribes Scandal," Guardian/UK, Jan. 4, 2006

"Alito And The 'F' Word," by Paul Rogat Loeb, TomPaine.com, Jan. 4, 2006

"Bush Assails Democrats Over PATRIOT Act," Washington Post, Jan. 4, 2006

"U.S. Rep. John Murtha Says He Wouldn't Join Military Now," Reuters, Jan. 3, 2006

"Jack Abramoff's Cesspool Of Corruption," by Robert Scheer, Truthdig.com, Jan. 3, 2006

"New Rules Set For Giving Out Anti-Terror Aid," The New York Times, Jan. 3, 2006

"Jack Abramoff And The Politics Of 2006," by John Nichols, The Nation, Jan. 3, 2006

"Think Social Security Is Secure? Think Again," by Saul Friedman, Newsday (New York), Jan. 1, 2006

"The War On Immigrants: The GOP's Next Scapegoat Group," by Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect, Dec. 31, 2005

"Ghosts In The Voting Machines," by Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, Dec. 29, 2005

"Cleaning Up Elections In Connecticut," by Hank Hoffman, In These Times, Dec. 26, 2005

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Bush Regime

"A Cult Of Presidential Power," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, Jan. 4, 2006

"Bush, In Signing Statement, Reserves Right To Waive Torture Ban," Boston Globe, Jan. 4, 2006

"Military Confidence In Bush Hits New Low," by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, Jan. 4, 2006

"Alito Once Made Case For Presidential Power," Washington Post, Jan. 2, 2006

"So Much For The President's Assent To The McCain Amendment," by Marty Lederman, Balkinization, Jan. 2, 2006

"Bush Defends Legality Of Domestic Spy Program," The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2006

"Bush's Long War With The Truth," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Jan. 2, 2006

"A Criminal Administration," by Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar.com, Jan. 2, 2006

"A Brief Primer To Help You Understand Our New, Stramlined System Of Government," by Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 2, 2006

"Justice Dept. Deputy Resisted Parts Of Spy Program," The New York Times, Jan. 1, 2006

"The Bush Family Coup," by James Ridgeway, Village Voice, Dec. 30, 2005

"George W. Bush As The New Richard Nixon: Both Wiretapped Illegally, And Impeachably," by John W. Dean, FindLaw, Dec. 30, 2005

"Rumsfeld Admits To 'Ghosting' Detainee," by David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org, Dec. 29, 2005

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American Empire/War Profiteering

"U.S. Headed For Confrontation With Iran," by Leon Hadar, Antiwar.com, Jan. 4, 2006

"Oil, Gas And Imperialism," by Daniel Litvin, Guardian/UK, Jan. 4, 2006

"Bolivia's Morales Aligns Himself With Castro, Chavez," Associated Press, Jan. 3, 2006

"For The New Year, Time For A Really New Foreign Policy," by Mark LeVine, Common Dreams, Dec. 30, 2005

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan

"The Twin Crises Of 2006," by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com, Jan. 3, 2006

"U.S. Airstrike On House Enrages Iraqi Officials," The New York Times, Jan. 3, 2006

"U.S. Still Runs With Dreaded Wolf Brigade," by Gareth Porter, Antiwar.com, Jan. 3, 2006

"U.S. Air Raid Kills Iraqi Family," Reuters, Jan. 3, 2006

"Iraq Oil Exports Hit Postwar Low," alJazeera.net, Jan. 2, 2006

"PR Firms That Planted News Stories Also Paid Sunni Clerics For Propaganda Help," The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2006

"U.S. Military 'Shuts Down' Soldiers' Blogs," Newsday (New York), Jan. 2, 2006

"2005 Death Toll For U.S. Military In Iraq Is 844," The New York Times, Jan. 1, 2006

"Review Of The Year: Iraq, A Nation Falling Apart At The Seams," by Patrick Cockburn, Independent/UK, Dec. 30, 2005

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Civil Liberties

"Secret Surveillance May Have Occurred Before Authorization," Washington Post, Jan. 4, 2006

"Debate Over Eavesdropping Grows," Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 3, 2006

"NSA Whistleblower Warns Domestic Spying Program Is Sign U.S. Decaying Into 'Police State,'" by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Jan. 3, 2006

"History Professor's Mail Is Opened By Homeland Security," by Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Jan. 2, 2006

"NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance," Washington Post, Jan. 1, 2006

"Big Brother Is Watching And Listening To You," by Eric Margolis, LewRockwell.com, Dec. 31, 2005

"Padilla Lawyers Urge Supreme Court To Block Transfer," The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2005

"I'm A Soldier, Not A Spy," by Grant Doty, Washington Post, Dec. 30, 2005

"Leahy Wants To Know About Pentagon Spying On Protests," Boston Globe, Dec. 29, 2005

"British, U.S. Spying Draws Us Closer To Orwell's Big Brother," by T.J. Rodgers, San Jose Mercury News (California), Dec. 28, 2005

"Spying An Affront To Constitution," by Alamdar S. Hamdani, Houston Chronicle, Dec. 24, 2005

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Media Issues

"Pundits Disguising Their Own Iraq Failures," by Peter Hart, MinutemanMedia.org, Jan. 4, 2006

"Mediaocracy 2006: Out With The Old, In With The New," by Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org, Jan. 3, 2006

"Skirmishes In The Information Wars," by Mike Whitney, ZNet, Jan. 3, 2006

"Unfit People: The Ideological Meaning Of Povich And Springer," by Paul Street, ZNet, Jan. 3, 2006

"Behind The Eavesdropping Story, A Loud Silence," by Byron Calame, The New York Times, Jan. 1, 2006

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Activism

"Frank Wilkinson, Defiant Figure Of The Red Scare Era, Dies At 91," The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2006

"Is The Strike Dead?," by Steve Early, MRZine, Jan. 3, 2006

"Clint Jencks, Legendary Labor Organizer Featured In Blacklisted Film, Dies," by Marjorie Cohn, ZNet, Jan. 2, 2006

"Calif. Activist Plans To End 100-Day Fast Protesting Iraq War," Associated Press, Dec. 31, 2005

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