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Commentary :: Miscellaneous
BTL:Bush Administration, Peace Movement Learned Very Different Lessons from...
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08 May 2005
...Vietnam War ~ Interview with Marcus Raskin, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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News :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Nukes : Peace : Regime
US Nuclear Weapons Hypocrisy Highlighted as Int'l Conference Deadlocks in Week One
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08 May 2005
''If the 2005 conference fails to reach consensus, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will exist in name only,'' William Peden, a disarmament specialist at the environmental group Greenpeace International, said. This would leave the world faced with a potential catastrophic arms race in highly sensitive regions like the Middle East and northeast Asia, he added.
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Commentary :: Miscellaneous
BTL:Increasing Energy Demands and Diminishing Supplies Set Off Intensifying...
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08 May 2005
...International Struggle to Capture Petroleum Resources ~ Excerpt of a speech by Michael Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
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Commentary :: Miscellaneous
BTL:As Senate Fight over Filibuster Looms...
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08 May 2005
...Extremist Judicial Appointments Hang in the Balance ~ Interview with Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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LOCAL Announcement :: Gender and Sexuality
"The Education of Shelby Knox" on May 8th!
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07 May 2005
On May 8th, Boardman's Art Theatre is hosting a special encore screening of the 2005 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's Audience Award winning film, "The Education of Shelby Knox".
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News :: Media
Wireless World: Bomb detection wirelessly
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07 May 2005
A story about stopping terrorists in their tracks.
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LOCAL Commentary :: Civil & Human Rights
Fair Trade, Please
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06 May 2005
When you go to Starbucks or any other coffee shop, ask the person at the counter for fair trade coffee. It might cost like a quarter more, but it's worth it
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News :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Israel / Palestine : Media : Nukes : Regime : Right Wing
Nuclear Fundamentalism and the Iran Story
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06 May 2005
Modified: 09:51:27 AM
The person who has done more than anyone else to inform the world about that nuclear weapons program, Mordechai Vanunu, left his job as a technician at Israel's Dimona nuclear facility before spilling the beans to the Sunday Times of London in 1986.

If Vanunu were Iranian instead of Israeli, the U.S. press would be hailing him as a hero instead of giving him short shrift.
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News :: Media
Freedom House Report on Media Freedom
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06 May 2005
Freedom House has issued its annual report on human, civil, and media rights around the world. The full report is available at freedomhouse.org.

The sections of the report which focus on free and independent media may be of particular interest.

See the following report on Cuba from Freedom House. I'm continuously stunned that people hold up Cuba as a positive example of any kind of social or political progress.
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Commentary :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Government Secrecy : Peace : Political-Economy : Protest Activity : Regime
Populist #2
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05 May 2005
The Necessity of Constitutional Democracy to our Security
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