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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For those who missed the event, or were there and really wanted to fully absorb its import, here it is in video

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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.

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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 March 2, 2011 for week ending March 11, 2011

"Why does Wisconsin Gov. Walker and the GOP want to destroy unions?"

"It's the primary economic motive of corporations and the Republican party to get rid of unions so that people would be forced into a race to bottom and have to go hire themselves to the most abusive employer who pays the worst wages and doesn't offer any benefits. That's paradise as far as corporate America goes."

-- Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive Magazine, on the massive, two-weeklong pro-union protests in Madison, Wisconsin, where crowds have risen from 10,000 to 100,000 supporters this past Saturday.

Listen now to the entire program Segment links follow.

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Can Historic Wisconsin Pro-Union Protests Re-Energize U.S. Labor, Progressive Movements?

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Interview with Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive Magazine, conducted by Scott Harris

For more than two weeks, large numbers of Wisconsin union members and their supporters from across the U.S. have converged on the state capital in Madison to protest Republican Gov. Scott Walker's effort to slash state workers' rights. On Saturday, Feb. 26, an estimated 100,000 pro-union demonstrators swarmed the State Capitol making clear that the outcome of the fight over union collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin will have consequences far beyond the state's borders. Similar efforts by Republican governors to diminish union rights are underway in Ohio, Indiana, Florida and Tennessee. Story continues

State Governments Implementing Reforms to Reduce Record U.S Prison Population

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Interview with Nicole Porter, state advocacy coordinator for the Sentencing Project, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

prison The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, which currently stands at 2.3 million people. By comparison, the incarceration rate in China was 186 per 100,000 in 2009, while in the U.S., the rate was 743 per 100,000. Story continues

Voices of Dissent Spreading Across Middle East, Now Being Raised Against Saudi Kingdom

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Interview with T. Kumar, advocacy director with Amnesty International, conducted by Scott Harris

saudi Widespread protests challenging autocratic regimes and monarchies across the Middle East and North Africa have now spread from Tunisia and Egypt to other countries in the Middle East, including: Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, Morocco, Iran, Djibouti, Jordan, Kuwait, Sudan, Syria and Oman. However, the worst violence in this wave of unrest is now occurring in Libya, where the embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi, in power for 41 years, is engaged in a pitched battle with large numbers of his people allied with former members of the nation's military. Violently repressed protests in major cities soon devolved to an armed revolt, with large portions of Libya's territory now under the control of anti-Gadhafi rebels. The U.S. and United Nations have responded to the crisis by demanding Gadhafi step down from power and leave the country. Washington has imposed a freeze on Libya's U.S.-based assets and the European Union is enforcing an arms embargo. Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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Compiled by Bob Nixon

Following an anonymous call to protest in 23 mainland cities, inspired by the Middle East uprisings, Chinese police cracked down on political dissenters and the international media. ("China's Jasmine Revolution: Police but No Protesters Line the Streets of Beijing," The Guardian, Feb. 27, 2011)
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel prize-winning economist known as the father of microfinance has survived an attempt to oust him from the bank he founded in 1983 to lend small sums to the poor people of Bangladesh and other parts of the developing world. ("Microfinance Guru Muhammad Yunus Faces Removal from Grameen Bank," The Guardian, Feb. 21, 2011; "Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunua Survives Attempt to Oust Him," Guardian, Feb. 28, 2011; "Yunus Beyond Legal Age Limit," Daily Star, March 1, 2011)
In 18 of 20 U.S. metropolitan areas, housing prices are falling again, and one-third of all homeowners now owe more than their property is worth, with 7 million facing foreclosure. ("The Housing Drag on The Economy," American Prospect, Feb. 28, 2011)

Recent Shows

Week Ending MARCH 4, 2011

Chris Toensing: Uprisings Across Middle East and North Africa: A Repudiation of U.S. Policy
Michael Zweig: Massive Pro-Union Protests Challenge Wisconsin Governor's Effort to Slash Workers' Rights
Susan Yolen: GOP Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood

Week Ending FEB. 25, 2011

Phyllis Bennis: Egyptian Revolution Places Trust in Military to Move Nation Toward Democracy
Chris Tixiere: Human Rights Groups Pursue Indictment of George W. Bush for Authorizing Torture
Andrew Miller: Ecuadorean Court Finds Chevron Guilty of Polluting Amazon Rainforest

Week Ending FEB. 18, 2011

Lisa Hajjar: Egypt's New Vice President is Washington's Proxy Torturer
Ghada Talhami: Popular Uprising May Demand Change in Egypt's Relationship with Israel
Mary Bottari: Financial Crisis Commission Points Fingers, but Where's the Accountability?

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