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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The Resistance Starts Now!
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 ...
SPECIAL REPORT: "The Resistance - Women's March 2018 - Hartford, Connecticut" Jan. 20, 2018
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
- Disturbing developments in the Trump/Republican Agenda
Focus on the tax bill, destruction of our public lands, North Korea and Trump's private CIA. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill. Special guest: Jo Macallero of Rise and Resist.
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
- Lynne Ide, director of program and policy with the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, talks about the current state of health care coverage in Connecticut. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer
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
- Two leaders from Redneck Revolt, an anti-racist, anti-capitalist movement, talk about their work organizing with white working class people in Suffolk County, New York. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
- Bruce Gagnon, coordinator for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, describes the extent of -- and motives underlying -- the vast US network of military bases around the globe. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer
SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017
- Joyakol, South Korean peace activist and singer, discusses the crisis on the Korean peninsula and focuses on the resistance to the U.S. huge military base being constructed on Jeju Island. The event was sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council and this audio was recorded by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
- Joyakol discusses Americans' biggest misconceptions about the conflict between North and South Korea and the U.S., Interview by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
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.
2017 Gandhi Peace Awards
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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This Week on Between The Lines
Posted Jan. 26, 2011 for week ending Feb. 4, 2011
"(The GOP) ran on jobs and the economy; they did not run as being anti-choice."
Nancy Keenan, on the House's first bills to reduce funding for women's health programs and place new restrictions on access to abortion.
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PodcastAnti-Abortion Bills High on New GOP-Controlled House Agenda
Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL, Pro-Choice America, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
During last November's congressional campaign, the issue of abortion was barely raised, and GOP conservative candidates ran mostly on economic issues, calling for jobs and balancing the budget. Now that the new Congress has been seated, pro-choice groups are counting a majority of anti-choice legislators in both the House and Senate. On the 38th anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, pro-choice groups are dismayed. Story continues
Former Haitian President Aristide's Attorney: Washington Gave "Green Light" for Duvalier's Arrival in Haiti
Interview with Ira Kurzban, attorney representing exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, conducted by Scott Harris
The return of ex-Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier to Port-Au-Prince on Jan. 16 caught his nation by surprise as most Haitians still struggle to recover from last year's devastating earthquake and deal with a disputed presidential election. The former "president-for-life" ruled Haiti from 1971, beginning at the age of 19, until he was driven from power and into exile after a popular revolt in 1986. Both Jean-Claude and his father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier who had led Haiti since 1957, have been accused of committing gross human rights violations and looting the impoverished nation's meager treasury. Story continues
Conflict of Interest Charge Triggers Effort to Vacate Supreme Court Ruling in Citizens United Case
Interview with Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, conducted by Scott Harris
Jan. 21 was the first anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission case that, by a 5 to 4 decision, ushered in an era of unlimited and unaccountable spending by corporations and labor unions in U.S. election campaigns. The court upheld the doctrine that money is equivalent to speech protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. As a result of this ruling, campaign spending in the 2010 congressional mid-term election increased by 330 percent over funds spent in 2006.
Story continues
This week’s summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Foreign Policy magazine reports Chinese diplomats are putting intense pressure on United Nations arms inspectors, including trying to block the reappointment of the arms inspector who found Chinese made weapons in Darfur, in the western Sudan, in violation of a UN arms embargo. International arms inspectors say China has emerged as the top arms traffickers to civil conflicts, replacing Russia who dominated the small arms trade in the 1990s.("Exclusive: Named and Shamed, China Turns to Intimidation," Foreign Policy, Jan. 18, 2011)
- The Progressive magazine reports the FBI spent two years infiltrating the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, including getting access to the group's financial records and the personal lives of key committee members.("FBI Infiltrates Twin Cities Anti-War Group," Jan. 14, 2011)
- The shocking suicide of Rutgers Univ. student Tyler Clementi, who jumped off the George Washington Bridge last September, has led to a wave of suicides by gay teenagers and increased focus on bullying of gay teens. ("Gays Remain Minority Most Targeted by Hate Crimes,"Alternet, Dec. 31, 2010)
Recent Shows
Week Ending JAN. 28, 2011
- William Greider: Obama and Democrats' Surrender to the Right Could End FDR's New Deal Programs
- Chip Berlet: Demonization, Scapegoating and Violence on the Right a Smokescreen for the Corporate Agenda
- Vernon Haltom: EPA Sends Mixed Message with Reversal on West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permit
Week Ending JAN. 21, 2011
- Frederick Clarkson: In Wake of Tucson Shooting Rampage, Nation's Leaders Must Confront Political Hate and Violence
- Sherman Malone: Haiti's Path to Earthquake Recovery Requires More Justice and Aid
- David Lindorff: Obama's Staff Shake-Up Signals Less Hope, Less Change
Week Ending JAN. 14, 2011
- Brian Miller: "Trickle-Down" Economics, Tax Cuts for the Rich Exacerbate Income Inequality
- Josh Houff: Groups Decry Israeli Use of Tear Gas that Killed Palestinian Woman During West Bank Protest
- Wendell Potter: GOP Performs Repeal Effort Political Theater, As Insurance Companies Expect Windfall from New Health Care Law
Week Ending JAN. 7, 2011
- Bruce Fein: Obama Executive Order to Institutionalize Indefinite Detention
- Bill Van Esveld: Report: Palestinians Suffer Egregious Discrimination Under Israeli Control
- Joe Torres: Open Internet Activists: FCC Net Neutrality Rules a Sell-Out to Telecommunications Industry
Week Ending DEC. 31, 2010
- Beth Coye: After Historic Repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy," Pentagon Must Now Certify Implementation Plan
- Cindy Rank: W. Va. Activists Campaign for Better Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Drilled by Controversial "Fracking" Method
- Kim Ives: Earthquake Ravaged Haiti Faces Cholera Epidemic, Post-Election Violence and Political Uncertainty
Week Ending DEC. 24, 2010
- Anil Naidoo: Environmentalists: Agreement Reached at Cancun Climate Summit Nonbinding and Dangerously Inadequate
- Michelle Berlin: Report Finds National Women's Health Status Unsatisfactory
- Kevin Bankston: U.S. Reacts to WikiLeaks with Calls to Imprison or Kill Founder Julian Assange
Week Ending DEC. 17, 2010
- Arshad Hasan: Progressives Rally to Oppose Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal
- Kerry St. Pe: It Will Take Years To Assess BP Oil Spill Environmental Damage
- Danny Schechter: WikiLeaks Spin: The Public's Right to Know vs. the National Security State
Week Ending DEC. 10, 2010
- John Feffer: Talks, Not Threats, are Best Way to Reduce Tensions in Korea Crisis
- Zainab Salbi: Aiding Women Victims of War is Essential for Stabilizing Societies Torn by Civil Strife
- Russ Baker: Journalist's Book Reveals Deceptions Omitted in George W. Bush's Memoir
Week Ending DEC. 3, 2010
- Nir Rosen: Skepticism Greets New U.S.-NATO Afghan War End Date
- Allison Fisher: "Fracking" -- a Natural Gas Drilling Method -- Poses Threat to Environment and Human Health
- Dan Esty: While Washington Dawdles, Chinese Government Subsidies Boost Green Technology
Week Ending NOV. 26, 2010
- Maria Freese: Deficit Commission Co-Chairs Propose Deep Cuts to Social Security Benefits
- Allison Fisher: "Fracking" -- a Natural Gas Drilling Method -- Poses Threat to Environment and Human Health
- Osamah Khalil: New Middle East Peace Talks Hinge on U.S. Pressuring Israel to Comply with International Law
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