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Nick Berning talks about President Obama’s Plan to Expand offshore oil and gas drilling, Justin Maxson discusses Alternatives to Coal Extraction Jobs, and Frederick Clarkson　has information about the Climate of Fear and Hate on Extreme Right.

Vic Fingerhut on Obama and the state of Democrats on Unemployment, Eric Boehlert looks at America media’s coverage of Health Care Reform; and Rashid Khalidi reports on the status of Palestinian Negotiations with Israel.  

Abortion as issue within the final vote in the Health Care Reform Bill; Legislation delivering pre-natal care for undocumented immigrant women; Obituary: Longtime Campaign Finance Reform Activist Granny D. Haddock

Juan Cole talks about U.S. soldiers killed inside Pakistan; Richard Goldstone on applying International Law to the Israeli Invasion of Gaza; and Kim Ives talks about the priorities in rebuilding earthquake ravaged Haitii.

Nick Nyhart reports on the Supreme Court Decision in the Citizens United case, Michael Marriotte talks about President Obama’s Push to build new Nuclear Power Plants, and Daniel Ellsberg　remembers the Pentagon Papers.

BBC TV investigative reporter Greg Palast assesses the Supreme Court Decision on corporate campaign contributions, Jenna Bitar recounts her participation in the Gaza Freedom March and Dr. Rachel Nardin discusses the special Massachusetts Senate Election and Health Care.

Brian Concannon samples International Reaction to the Haitian Earthquake, Richard Dieter introduces listeners to the Death Penalty Information Center American Law Institute, and Brian Miller reviews the “State of the Dream 2010”   

Between the Lines:  Heather Booth speaks on the Campaign for Regulation Reform of U.S. Financial System, Janet Keating updates listeners on Mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia, and Annie Shattuck　reports on the USDA Report on Hunger in America.

Farrah Hassen discusses the growing strength of Iranian Opposition, Bruce Gagnon reports on the campaign Against Drone Attacks and the New McCarthyism is explored by Peter Montgomery.

Terry O'Neil looks at Anti-Abortion Provisions in House and Senate Health Care Reform Bills; Aram Ayalon talks about on-going action demanding an end to the Gaza blockade, and Tom Juravich talks about the degradation of work in the 21st Century.

Wendell Potter talks about the Health Care Reform debate; Bill McKibben reflects on the lack of positive outcome from the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference; and Anne Weissman has details on the effort to recover Bush Administration Emails.　

Katie Robbins talks about the Senate Health Care Reform Debate, Anna Keenan reports on the UN Climate Change Conference, and Tarso Ramos has information about Christian Right Links with Uganda Gay Death Penalty.  Between the Lines.

Nicolas Davies talks about Obama’s Launch of a New Afghan War Strategy; Matthew Louis-Rosenberg discusses rectifying dangerous conditions in Appalachian coal field communities; Dave Lindorff　on the Commission Investigating Origin of Iraq Invasion

Marjorie Cohn reports on the General Eric Holder Decision to set trial of 9/11 defendants in New York City and Jules Lob talks about Congress' defunding the community organizing group ACORN, on Between The Lines.

Thie week on Between the Lines; Dana Frank explores U.S. policy toward the Honduran coup gGovernment; Eric LeCompte speaks on the School of the Americas Watch; and Alfred McCoy discusses the emergence of a Digital Surveillance State.　

Donna Smith gives a critique of House Health Care Reform Bill; Erin Matson looks at the Abortion Amendment adopted in the House Health Care Reform Bill; and Karl Frisch looks at the Corporate Media Spin of 2009 in selected Local and State Election Results.

Melvin Goodman talks about Karzai Government Corruption; Matthew Louis-Rosenberg discusses the Civil Disobedience Campaign to Stop Mountain Top Removal; and Frank Schaeffer looks at the Dangerous Call to Violence of Religious Extremists.

Between The Lines Reports on the fixing of our "Casino Economy", growing opposition of U.S. Excalation of Afghanistan War, and a look at the devastation cause by Mountain Top removal Coal Mining.

THIS WEEK: A status report on the heath care reform debate with an emphasis on the discriminatory practices against women. Plus, a look at the basic principles of the cap-and-trade climate change bill and a plan to relocate one community's elementary school because of environmental hazards.

A report on legislators in Violation of the Logan Act, a conversation with Israeli Mililtary Refusers and Elliot Madison talks about his arrest at the G-20 meeting.

THIS WEEK:       Kim Ives, an editor at the Haiti Liberte newspaper talks about a to Raise Haiti’s Minimum Wage Law, Nick Nyhart reports about a the Supreme Court Case that has free speech implications and a report about a court decision that upholds the University of Texas Admissions Policy using race as a consideration of admission.

BETWEEN THE LINES - Jane Harman, a seven-term Democratic congresswoman from California has progressive activists unhappy with her support for the Iraq war and warrantless wiretapping. L.A. high school teacher, Marcy Winograd, founder of the LA chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, has announced her candidacy to challenge Harman in the 2010 Democratic primary. Scott Harris talks with author and columnist Norman Solomon about the effort to unseat Jane Harman.

Between The Lines - BBC-TV's Greg Palast, considered by many to be the top investigative journalist in the United States, has just produced a new video documentary, "Palast Investigates: From 8-Mile to the Amazon - on the Trail of the Financial Marauders." The video covers his recent investigations on financial vultures who prey on the world's poorest nations; the human cost of oil production in the Amazon and the theft of millions of votes from American Indians in New Mexico.

For more information on Greg Palast visit http://www.gregpalast.com/

Between the Lines - Obama Adopts Bush-Lite Policies on Guantanamo Detainees

Between The Lines speaks with Elizabeth Goitein, director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.

BETWEEN THE LINES - Tina Foster talks about the Federal Court decision that U.S. military detainees in Afghanistan are entitled to challenge detention in U.S. courts; Gerd Leipold of discusses Greenpeace environmental campaigns targets, and Michael Zweig explains the news Iraqi labor confederation.

Coming from WPKN public radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Between the Lines provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media.

For more information on this weeks program visit http://www.btlonline.org/

BETWEEN THE LINES - Max Garcia talks about the historic victory of leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in El Salvador's March 15 presidential election; Vincent Warren on Obama's Clean break from Bush era human rights abuses; Yaniv Reshef, former Israeli soldier turned peace activist tells stories of unexpected.

Coming from WPKN public radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Between the Lines provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media.

BETWEEN THE LINES - Robert Borosage discusses how Obama's budget moves the nation in a more progressive direction, future battles ahead; Dr. Oliver Fein looks at the complexities of a single-payer government health insurance for broken healthcare system; and, Wenonah Hauter reports on international protests against water privatization.

Coming from WPKN public radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Between the Lines provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media.

BETWEEN THE LINES - In the month since Barack Obama was sworn in as president, the prospects of either Congress or the new administration's Department of Justice initiating an investigation into Bush administration law breaking have ebbed and flowed. As a candidate and as president, Obama has spoken often about his preference to look forward and not backward at the crimes that may have been committed during Bush's controversial administration, including torture, politicization of the Justice Department, flawed intelligence used to justify the Iraq war, and warrantless surveillance.

But Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has expressed guarded support for accountability found in the initiatives of Vermont's Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants to establish a Truth Commission to investigate a host of issues, modeled on the body that investigated the apartheid regime in South Africa. He wants the panel to have subpoena power but would not bring criminal charges. Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, wants to establish a commission to look at these same issues, along with an independent criminal probe.

Other groups, who reject a commission that would likely offer immunity in exchange for testimony as a white wash, have called for Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any and all government officials who have participated in war crimes. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Karen Greenberg, executive director of New York University's Center on Law and Security, who assesses the methods by which Bush administration officials can be held accountable for their violation of U.S. and international law.

Prosecution of Bush Administration Law Breakers called for.

Interview with Karen Greenberg, executive director of New York University's Center on Law and Security, conducted by Scott Harris

Matthew Rothschild looks at the politics behind the debate over the stimulus package and Wall Street Deceit.

Dalit Baum reports on International Corporate Business Interests in Israel's Occupation of Palestinian and Kathryn Kolbert looks at the likelihood of prosecution of Bush Administration officials.

A report on President Obama’s promise to restore scientific integrity to government.

A look at the President's approach to reversing the US's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,

and a critique of Obama's Executive Order to for Gitmo Closing  as evasive and minimalist.

BETWEEN THE LINES - As the nation celebrated what would have been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th birthday on Jan. 19, history was made the following day when America witnessed the swearing in of its first African-American President Barack Obama. Many commentators and politicians noted this historic moment, by declaring that Rev. King's dream of racial and economic equality had been achieved 40 years after the civil rights leader's assassination.

Between The Lines

THIS WEEK: A chronology of Gaza's Humanitarian Crisis & Conflict, a call for dialogue from Israeli Peace Activists and a look into the untimely and some would call “convenient” death of GOP Internet Strategist Mike Connell.

Between The Lines comes from WPKN public radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Between the Lines provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media.

Between the Lines: Massive Israeli Air Strikes in Gaza Kill Hundreds of Palestinians Suffering from Blockade

Between the Lines - In a Dec. 15 interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl, Vice Persident Dick Cheney admitted that he had personally cleared the way for the U.S. military to employ abusive interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects.

Between The Lines - With the U.S. economy officially in recession for the past year, the severe financial meltdown and 533,000 jobs lost in November, the precarious condition of the U.S. auto industry is now the subject of debate in the U.S. Congress.

Between The Lines - Iraq’s parliament narrowly approved a security pact with the U.S. on Nov. 27, which requires a withdrawal of all American combat troops by Dec., 31, 2011. The three-year agreement, backed by Bush administration ally Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, schedules U.S. combat forces to leave Iraqi cities and towns by June 30, 2009.

Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with independent journalist and author Dahr Jamail, who reported from Iraq for eight months between November 2003 and February 2005. Jamail examines the provisions of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces agreement and the volatile situation in Iraq that President-elect Barack Obama will inherit when he takes office in January.

For more information on Dahr Jamail:
http://dahrjamailiraq.com
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BETWEEN THE LINES: As Barack Obama prepares to become the nation's next president in January, the country he'll govern faces multiple economic crises, including the Wall Street financial meltdown, the subprime mortgage disaster, a growing recession with rising unemployment and the prospect that one or more major U.S. car companies could fail.