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.
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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 Feb. 9, 2011 for week ending Feb. 18, 2011
Egypt's New V.P.: Torturer in Chief?
As people in Egypt and around the world speculate about
the fate of the Mubarak regime, one thing should be very clear: Omar
Suleiman is not the man to bring democracy to the country. His hands are
too dirty, and any "stability" he might be imagined to bring
to the country and the region comes at way too high a price.
-- Lisa Hajjar, associate professor of sociology, and researcher/author on torture and other violations of human rights
Listen now to the entire program Segment links follow.
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PodcastEgypt's New Vice President is Washington's Proxy Torturer
Interview with Lisa Hajjar, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, conducted by Scott Harris
After almost three weeks of intense street protests in Egypt demanding the removal of President Hosni Mubarak from power, more than 300 people were reported to have died in clashes between demonstrators, police and government supporters. Despite concessions such as Mubarak's pledge not to run in the presidential election scheduled for September and constitutional reform, the number of protesters in Tahrir Square in central Cairo swelled on Feb. 8. On that day, the crowd gave a hero's welcome to Wael Ghonim after he was freed from 12 days of secret detention by Egyptian authorities. Ghonim, a marketing executive for Google Middle East and North Africa, anonymously set up a Facebook page that many credit with inspiring the massive protests. Story continues
Popular Uprising May Demand Change in Egypt's Relationship with Israel
Interview with Ghada Talhami, professor of politics emerita at Lake Forest College, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
The question of how the popular uprising in Egypt will affect the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people is one of great concern in the U.S. as well as in the Middle East. The Camp David peace accords were signed in 1978 by Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, who was assassinated three years later. For the past 30 years, under Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has collaborated with Israel to seal off the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza and has been Israel's most powerful Arab ally. Story continues
Financial Crisis Commission Points Fingers, but Where's the Accountability?
Interview with Mary Bottari, director of the Real Economy Project, conducted by Scott Harris
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, made up of six Democrats, four Republicans and chaired by former California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, was formed in 2009 by Congress and tasked with examining the domestic and global causes of the U.S. financial and economic crisis. On Jan. 27, the bipartisan Commission released its 633-page final report where a majority on the panel concluded that the financial meltdown could have been avoided and was the result of poor decision-making both in government and at top Wall Street and financial firms that fostered a culture of excessive risk taking.
Story continues
This week’s summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Human rights monitors are raising serious concerns about the conditions under which Army Pvt. Bradley Manning has been detained, the man who is accused of being Wikileaks' source for leaked U.S. government documents. ("Stateside Gitmos," The Nation, Feb. 7, 2011) ("Stateside Gitmos," The Nation, Feb. 7, 2011)
- The Los Angeles Times reports that guns bought in Arizona and smuggled to Mexican drug gangs were used in a mid-December shootout that killed Border Control agent Brian Terry. ("Guns tracked by forearms bureau found at firefight scene," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2, 2011)
- The Obama White House's new overture to corporate America may come with the sacrifice of tougher worker safety standards. ("Pleasing big business, Obama administration blocks two workplace safety rules," In These Times, Feb. 3, 2011)
Recent Shows
Week Ending FEB. 11, 2011
- Stephen Zunes: Egypt: The Latest in Long History of Popular Revolts Against Repressive U.S.-Backed Regimes
- Terry Nelson: Legalization, An Alternative to the Costly, Failed U.S. War on Drugs
- Mark Brenner: Coordinated Campaign Targets Public Employees Unions Across the U.S.
Week Ending FEB. 4, 2011
- Nancy Keenan: Anti-Abortion Bills High on New GOP-Controlled House Agenda
- Ira Kurzban: Former Haitian President Aristide's Attorney: Washington Gave "Green Light" for Duvalier's Arrival in Haiti
- Bob Edgar: Conflict of Interest Charge Triggers Effort to Vacate Supreme Court Ruling in Citizens United
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
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