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Enron Ties to White House Senate Panel Subpoenas
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 8:44 am | Between The Lines
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project, who summarizes the latest developments in the investigation into Enron's corporate collapse and political scandal. More >>
Media Coverage of 9/11 Warning Scandal
Wednesday, 29 May 2002, 9:57 am | Between The Lines
* Syndicated columnist Norman Solomon, examines the media's coverage of the 9/11 warnings story and White House secrecy in dealing with the Enron scandal More >>
Carter's Trip in Cuba Sabotaged by Bioweapons
Tuesday, 21 May 2002, 9:52 am | Between The Lines
Not since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 has a sitting or former U.S. president visited the island of Cuba. However, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, with a personal invitation from Cuban President Fidel Castro, has made a five-day visit to the island ... More >>
BTL Interviews HRW's Joe Stork On Jenin
Wednesday, 8 May 2002, 10:23 am | Between The Lines
One thing we've found is a very disturbing pattern of willful killings, killings of civilians in circumstances where there doesn't appear to have been any military justification -- in cases where there was not ongoing armed conflict. More >>
BTL Q&A: Noam Chomsky On Middle East Conflict
Tuesday, 30 April 2002, 12:00 am | Between The Lines
Bush's support for Sharon is not very different from Clinton's support for Barak. Their policies are not all that different, and in fact the current actions have been fully supported by the political opposition, the Labor party in Israel which is represented ... More >>
Jewish American Peace Group Speaks Up On Invasion
Tuesday, 23 April 2002, 12:50 am | Between The Lines
There is a huge amount of intolerance in the Jewish world as there is in the Palestinian world. What you're seeing right now is an attempt to squelch even the slightest acknowledgment of the pain of the other. More >>
BTL: Conflict Stymies Bush Plan Against Iraq
Tuesday, 2 April 2002, 10:23 am | Between The Lines
Hussein Ibish of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee says that there is a profound recklessness at work in some elements of the Bush administration who want to push forward with a war against Iraq. More >>
BTL: Amnesty Intl. Condemns Secret Detentions
Tuesday, 26 March 2002, 9:55 am | Between The Lines
In the weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, some 1,200 immigrants were arrested or detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in a search for individuals connected to the deadly assaults on New York City and Washington, D.C. More >>
US Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons in Afghanistan
Tuesday, 19 March 2002, 9:26 am | Between The Lines
Major news outlets reported recently that the Pentagon is in the process of developing new nuclear weapons and tactics for use against U.S.-declared enemies such as Iraq, North Korea, Libya or China. One element of the planning calls for the development ... More >>
Coming Soon: Multi-Billion Dollar Media Mergers
Tuesday, 12 March 2002, 11:56 am | Between The Lines
On Feb. 19, a federal appeals court struck down Federal Communications Commission regulations that had prevented cable television companies from owning broadcast TV stations. The court also ordered the government to redraft current rules limiting ... More >>
International Opposition to New U.S. War with Iraq
Tuesday, 5 March 2002, 9:32 am | Between The Lines
* Denis Halliday, former U.N. under-secretary general in charge of Iraq's oil for food program, examines the Bush administration's war plans and the potential threat that Iraq poses to its neighbors and the U.S. More >>
BTL Q&A: Activists Organizing WEF Protests in NYC
Friday, 25 January 2002, 11:03 am | Between The Lines
* Michael Dolan, deputy director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch discusses his concern that after the events of Sept. 11, confrontational tactics with police may result in further marginalization of the anti-corporate globalization movement. More >>
BTL: Israel's Assassinations Triggered Escalating
Tuesday, 18 December 2001, 10:49 am | Between The Lines
* Analysis of Sharon's order to liquidate Hamas leader suggests it was calculated to trigger an escalating cycle of violence More >>
AI Opposes Bush Plan to Revive FBI Surveillance
Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 9:58 am | Between The Lines
* Fears grow that the U.S. government will re-institute the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), which targeted activists in the 1960s and 70s. More >>
Veterans for Peace Talk To Students About War
Tuesday, 4 December 2001, 11:35 am | Between The Lines
* Some veterans visit schools to explain why they oppose the war in Afghanistan and are critical of U.S foreign policy. More >>
Sept. 11 Attack Derails Global Social Justice?
Tuesday, 27 November 2001, 10:26 am | Between The Lines
* From Ottawa, the site of the November World Bank/International Monetary Fund summit, author and spiritual activist Starhawk assesses the impact of the attacks on New York City and Washington on activists organizing opposition to corporate-led globalization. More >>
Between The Lines: Guerrilla War in Afghanistan?
Tuesday, 20 November 2001, 9:38 am | Between The Lines
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr. of the Center for Defense Information, who assesses the quick turn of events in Afghanistan and how this may affect the U.S. goal of capturing Osama ... More >>
BTL Q&A: Fighting Fast Track/Trade Promotion Bill
Tuesday, 23 October 2001, 12:45 am | Between The Lines
* Labor leaders and others condemn the Republican attempt to link passage of Fast Track to the fight against terrorism. More >>
Between The Lines: Media's Role During Crisis
Tuesday, 9 October 2001, 9:45 am | Between The Lines
*Mediachannel.org's Danny Schechter says the bottomline mentality of media companies takes precedence over their public service responsibility, contributing to America's illiteracy about the world. More >>
Bin Laden, Taliban Created During Cold War Era
Tuesday, 2 October 2001, 8:55 am | Between The Lines
* Afghan Women's Mission's Sonali Kolhatkar says that in the 1980s, the U.S. government, through the CIA, gave billions of dollars' worth of arms, weapons and training to the seven most fundamentalist, extremist parties that the United States could find ... More >>
