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Saturday 11-Sep

Robert Scheer: The Great American Stickup

Sunday 19-Sep

Paul George: Iran and the Bomb - What's the Real Story?

Monday 20-Sep

Paul George: Iran and the Bomb - What's the Real Story?

Saturday 25-Sep

Robert Fisk: Lies, Misreporting, and Catastrophe in the Middle East

Friday 08-Oct

Reese Erlich: Conversations with Terrorists

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3/9/06 - Progressive Wins Instant Runoff Vote in Burlington

Ross Sneyd
Associated Press

Burlington's instant runoff voting system was called into action on its inaugural run Tuesday, electing Progressive Bob Kiss mayor on the second ballot.

3/9/06 - GOP Plan Would Allow Spying Without Warrants

Scott Shane and David D. Kirkpatrick
The New York Times

The plan by Senate Republicans to step up oversight of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program would also give legislative sanction for the first time to long-term eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant, legal experts said on Wednesday.

3/7/06 - Debate on Humbolt County Measure Could Go National

Daniel Mintz
The Independent (Redway, CA)

Legal scholars supporting Measure T, the ballot measure that seeks to ban political contributions by out-of-town corporations, say Humboldt County voters could be the ones that finally move markers on controversial election spending laws.

3/7/06 - U.S. Wins Ruling Over Recruiting at Universities

LINDA GREENHOUSE
New York Times

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law that cuts federal financing for universities if they do not give military recruiters the same access to students that other potential employers receive. The court ruled that the law does not violate the free-speech rights of universities that object to the military's exclusion of gay men and lesbians who are open about their sexual orientation.

3/7/06 - South Dakota Bans Abortion, Setting Up a Battle

MONICA DAVEY
New York Times

Gov. Michael Rounds of South Dakota signed into law the nation's most sweeping state abortion ban on Monday, an intentional provocation meant to set up a direct legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 United States Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal.

3/6/06 - White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks

Dan Eggen
The Washington Post

The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws.

3/6/06 - Tracing the Trail of Torture: Embedding Torture as Policy from Guantanamo to Iraq

Dahr Jamail
TomDispatch.com

Each day, it seems, more and worse pours out, largely to no obvious effect here. It is in this context that Dahr Jamail, who began hearing of American torture practices while covering the war in Iraq in 2003 as an independent journalist, looks back on the last several years and considers the nature of our torture regime.

3/6/06 - Scant Drop Seen in Abortion Rate if Parents Are Told

ANDREW LEHREN and JOHN LELAND
New York Times

For all the passions they generate, laws that require minors to notify their parents or get permission to have an abortion do not appear to have produced the sharp drop in teenage abortion rates that some advocates hoped for, an analysis by The New York Times shows.

3/4/06 - Pentagon Releases Names of Gitmo Inmates

Miranda Leitsinger and Ben Fox
The Associated Press

Offering a glimpse into the top-secret world of Guant�namo Bay, the Pentagon has released the names and home countries of many detainees who have been held at the isolated military prison for up to four years.

3/4/06 - On Torture and Being 'Good Americans'

Fred Branfman
YubaNet

Every generation or so an evil arises which is so monstrous, so degrading to the human spirit, so morally bankrupt that even to debate it is a sign of moral corruption. Today, torture, a practice far more degrading to us than to our victims, represents such an evil. The real question for us, however, is what this says not about President Bush and our other leaders, but about ourselves. What are we, as citizens, as human beings, willing to live with? Are we willing to live with a president, vice-president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, and attorney-general who either engage in or rationalize torture in our names, even as they shamelessly deny they are doing so?

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