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Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)
Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.
Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.
His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.
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Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement
- "The man who predicted Trump presidential win now says Trump impeachment could happen," AM Joy with Joy Reid, MSNBC, Jan. 21, 2018
- "Sketchy Kazakh money finds its way into Trump dealings," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
- "Red flags seen in many Trump real estate deals," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
- "Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers," BuzzFeed, Jan. 12, 2018
- "The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition," The Atlantic, May 15, 2017
- "Here's what we know so far about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests," Washington Post's ongoing compilation
- "What Comey Was Investigating, Explained," The Moscow Project, Center for American Progress
- "Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands," Dutch TV documentary, Alternet.org, May 12, 2017
- Ongoing compilation of Trump's creeping authoritarianism," MotherJones.com
- Full resource list ...
Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris
SPECIAL REPORT: "No Fracking Waste in CT!" Jan. 14, 2018
- Jen Siskind Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state.
Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT
SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018
- Lindsay Kanaly
The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.
SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018
- Richard Wolff,
Economics professor Richard Wolff declares U.S. capitalism to be beyond repair and
suggests the need for a radical alternative. Interviewed by Richard Hill
SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017
- Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist and author of Big Chicken, talks about the widespread use and dangers of antibiotics in commercial poultry, beef and fruit production. Interview by Bill Duesing, Richard Hill and Guy Beardsly on WPKN's Organic Farm Stand.
SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017
- Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT.
Produced by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017
- Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018.
Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017
- Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny,
discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017
- Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven
- John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.
Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.
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who helped make our 25th anniversary with Jeremy Scahill a success!
For those who missed the event, or were there and really wanted to fully absorb its import, here it is in video
Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 1 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.
Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 2 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.
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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016
"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.
Listen to audio of the plenary sessions from the weekend.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"
Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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BTL Blog
"The Rogue World Order: Connecting the Dots Between Trump, Flynn, Bannon, Spencer, Dugin Putin," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Feb. 13, 2017
"Widespread Resistance Begins to Trump's Muslim Travel Ban at U.S. Airports," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Jan. 28, 2017
"MSNBC Editor: Women's March is a Revival of the Progressive Movement," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Jan. 24, 2017
"Cornering Trump," by Reginald Johnson, Jan. 19, 2017
"Free Leonard Peltier," by Reginald Johnson, Jan. 6, 2016
"For Natives, a "Day of Mourning"by Reginald Johnson, November 23, 2016
"A Bitter Harvest" by Reginald Johnson, Nov. 15, 2016
Special Programming
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A compilation of activist and news sites with a progressive point of view
This Week on Between The Lines
Posted Sept. 29, 2010
for week ending Oct. 8, 2010
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Interview with Robert Scheer, journalist and author, conducted by Scott Harris
Lawrence Summers, director of President Obama's National Economic Council and his top economic adviser, announced that he'll resign at the end of this year to return to Harvard where he's been both a professor and a former university president. When his departure was made public, President Obama thanked Summers for his service to the nation and said, "I will always be grateful that at a time of great peril for our country, a man of Larry's brilliance, experience and judgment was willing to answer the call and lead our economic team." Story continues
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Interview with Lorelei Scarbro, Coal River Valley, W.V. anti-mountaintop removal coal mining activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Over a thousand activists from the Appalachian coal fields and their supporters met in Washington, D.C., the last weekend of September for a two-day conference on how to stop mountaintop removal mining. The conference, titled, Appalachia Rising: Voices from the Mountains, was followed by a march, rally and acts of civil disobedience outside the White House, where more than 100 protesters were arrested. Story continues
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Interview with Denise Gray-Felder, communication director with the One Nation Working Together March, conducted by Scott Harris
The response of people to the worldwide economic crisis varies from nation to nation. Here in the U.S., the most angry and vocal activists have been right- wing groups, such as the Tea Party movement, which have called for dramatic cutbacks in government programs and dismantling the nation's frayed social safety net. They first gained attention last summer during protests against President Obama's modest health care reform proposal, later fueled by corporate donors and extensive coverage in the U.S. media. Tea Party candidates have since been victorious in key Republican party primary battles to run for U.S. Senate seats. Story continues
This week’s summary
of under-reported news
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Pragmatists in Tehran have their eye on the South Caucasus -- Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan -- to boost economic and cultural ties. ("Iran's near abroad," Foreign Policy, Sept. 20, 2010)
- More than a dozen of Colombia's most notorious rightwing paramilitary leaders have been extradited to the United States since 2006 to face drug trafficking charges. ("Colombian paramilitaries extradited to U.S., where cases are sealed," ProPublica, Sept. 11, 2010)
- In 2008, environmental activists delivered the money, enthusiasm and people power that helped elect President Barack Obama. Two years later, after a severe recession and sagging poll numbers for the Democrats, green activists are being outspent and out worked by the energy industry and tea party activists. (" Democrats fighting election battles ask environmentalists, 'Where are you guys?'" Los Angeles Times, Sept. 21, 2010)
Recent Shows
- Matthew Rothschild: Corporate-Funded Tea Party: Repeal New Deal Government Programs
- Nada Khader: Groups Raise Funds to Launch U.S.-Gaza Aid Ship
- Tyson Slocum: Oil Industry Organizes "Astroturf" Rallies to Fight Stronger Regulation
- Geneve Mantri: With Custody Transferred to Baghdad Government, Iraqi Prisoners Suffer Torture and Abuse
- Julia Harumi Mass: CIA Torture Victims Denied Access to U.S. Courts
- Sam Husseini: GOP Election Tactics and Media Bias Stoke Resurgent Islamophobia
- Bill Fletcher Jr.: Labor Must Put Pressure on Obama to Fight for Nation's Workers
- Hussein Ibish: Middle East Peace Talks Resume Without Hamas
- Patty Lovera: Massive Egg Recall Symptom of Larger Food Safety Crisis in Factory Farming
- Snehal Shingavi: Why International Aid is Slow to Arrive for Victims of Pakistan Floods
- Jordan Flaherty: 5 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Recovery is a Tale of 2 Cities
- Medea Benjamin: As Troops Withdraw From Iraq, Peace Groups Tie U.S. Wars with Financial Crisis
- Peter Hart: Media Amplifies Voices of Hate in Ground Zero Mosque Debate
- Talet Hamdani: Muslim Mother of 9/11 Victim Asserts Islamic Center a Matter of Religious Freedom
- Laura Kelley: Horticulturist: Disappearance of Honey Bees, a Warning Sign of Ecological Collapse
- Hugh Kaufman: Whistleblower: EPA Engaged in Coverup of BP Oil Spill Health Hazards
- Catherine Murphy: Cuba's Transition to Organic, Sustainable Agriculture A Model for the World
- Carole Scagnetti: Federal Judge Overturns California's Proposition 8, Affirms Gay Marriage as a Civil Right
- Jonathan Manes: Groups Launch Court Challenge To Stop Obama Assassination of U.S. Citizen
- Ken Hechler: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining No. 1 Issue for W. Virginia U.S. Senate Candidate
- Craig Aaron: Google and Verizon Plan Would End Free, Public Internet as We Now Know It
- Tom Engelhardt: Wikileaks Documents Paint Grim Picture of Afghan War
- Jennifer Jaff: New Transitional Federal Law Provides Health Insurance to Patients with Pre-existing Conditions
- Joy Gordon: Economic Sanctions Target Most Vulnerable, Rarely Achieve Political Objectives
- Lawrence Lessig: 'Fix Congress First!' Organizes to Change 'Pay to Play' Status Quo in Washington, D.C.
- Kevin Green: Seed Banks Challenge Corporate Control of Food Crops
- Tom Juravich: U.S. Workers' Stories Illuminate Intensifying Struggle for Dignity