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 June 22, 2011 for week ending July 1, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Wal-Mart Gender Bias Class Action Lawsuit
"It doesn't close the door to class action litigation, but it does mean that plaintiffs will have to be much more precise in terms of challenging specific practices that have a discriminatory effect or that have some genesis in discrimination." -- Chris Owen, attorney and executive director of the National Employment Law Project
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PodcastWal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose in U.S. Supreme Court Decision Rejecting Class Action Discrimination Lawsuit
Interview with Chris Owens, attorney and executive director of the National Employment Law Project, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
In a 5 to 4 decision on June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out an 11-year-old class action lawsuit filed against giant retailer Wal-Mart. The lawsuit represented several women plaintiffs claiming gender discrimination and potentially represented 1.5 million female Wal-Mart workers nationwide. The major issue in the case was whether the lawsuit satisfied a requirement of the class-action rules that “there are questions of law or fact common to the class” filing the suit. The conservative majority on the court ruled it did not. Story continues
After Court Reinstates Wisconsin Anti-Union Law, Activists Organize for Summer State Senate Recall Elections
Interview with Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine, conducted by Scott Harris
Enormous pro-labor protests were organized over a succession of weeks earlier this year, challenging Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s legislative agenda to strip public sector unions of most of their collective bargaining rights. Even though Wisconsin unions had agreed to all of Gov. Walker’s proposed salary, health insurance and pension cuts to address the state’s $137 million budget gap, Walker refused to back down. When all 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats left the state in order to deny the GOP majority a quorum, the Republicans voted and passed the anti-union bill, in what critics charged was a violation of the state’s open meeting law. In May, Judge Maryann Sumi agreed, and ruled that GOP lawmakers had violated the state statute on open meetings in their haste to pass the bill. Story continues
U.S. Boat to Join International Flotilla Challenging Israeli Gaza Blockade
Interview with Robert Naiman, policy director of Just Foreign Policy, conducted by Scott Harris
Last May, the Israeli military assaulted a flotilla of civilian ships in international waters carrying thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian population of Gaza. The attack on one of the largest ships, the Turkish-flagged, "Mavi Marmara," resulted in nine dead, dozens injured and international protests against Israel’s use of deadly force against unarmed activists. Gaza has been subject to an Israeli blockade since the militant Palestinian party Hamas took control of the territory in June 2007 and rocket attacks were launched against nearby Israeli settlements. After the violence against the aid flotilla in 2010, Israel announced it would "liberalize" the blockade and allow a larger number of civilian goods and supplies to enter the territory. Story continues
This week’s summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- The Sudan Army has launched a new attack in central Sudan against separatist rebels in the oil-rich district of South Kordofan, raising fears of a civil war in the run-up to independence for South Sudan on July 9. ("Fighting takes ominous turn in Central Sudan," New York Times, June 15, 2011; "UN, US condemn Sudan border bombings,"AFP, June 15, 2011; "Inside Sudan's Nuba Mountains: Tales of Terror Bleed Out," June 20, 2011)
- Redevelopment activity in Port au Prince, Haiti, the epicenter of the 2010 earthquake has stalled. Over 800,000 people are still living in tents with little prospect of relocation to permanent housing. ("Behind the closed doors of Port au Prince 'reconstruction'," Inter Press Service, June 14, 2011)
- A new non-union aircraft assembly plant in South Carolina is the focus of the latest battle over union rights and the drive to protect good-paying industrial jobs in the U.S. ("Boeing labor battle to go before a judge," New York Times, June 14, 2011; "Primer: in labor board dispute with Boeing, growing controversy clouds facts," ProPublica, June 16, 2011)
Recent Shows
Week Ending JUNE 24, 2011
- Anuradha Mittal: Hedge Fund-Financed Land Grab in Africa Triggers Global Food Price Spike, Rise in Hunger
- Kenny King: Unions and Environmentalists March to Protect Historic Blair Mountain from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
- Jon Green: Connecticut's New Paid Sick Days Law Could Be National Model
Week Ending JUNE 17, 2011
- David Swanson: As Afghan War Approaches Second Decade, Activists Organize October Anti-War Protest
- Michael Klare: How Much Pain is Necessary to Break U.S. Addiction to Fossil Fuels?
- Michael Albert: Widespread Protests Challenge Spain's Political and Economic Status Quo
Week Ending JUNE 10, 2011
- Damon Silvers: Will Democrats Stand and Fight or Surrender to GOP Plan to Dismantle Medicare?
- Ben Schreiber: U.S. Senate Defeats Plan to Eliminate Billions of Dollars in Big Oil Tax Subsidies
- Dana Frank: Ousted President Zelaya Returns to Honduras as Repression Continues
Week Ending JUNE 3, 2011
- Howard Friel: Power of U.S.-Israeli Lobby a Major Obstacle to Restart Middle East Peace Talks
- Arjun Makhijani: Triple Meltdowns at Fukushima Reactors Another Reason to Phase out Nuclear Power
- Larry Gibson: West Virginia Protest March Will Link Campaign to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Labor Solidarity
Week Ending MAY 27, 2011
- Joshua Landis: Religious and Class Divisions Stoke Popular Uprising in Syria
- Kathy Kelly: Civilian Deaths From U.S.-NATO Drone Attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan Provoke Hatred and Violence
- Dr. Kevin Trenberth: Climate Scientists Now Connect Extreme Weather with Global Climate Change
Week Ending MAY 20, 2011
- Gabor Rona: Claims that U.S. Torture Played Key Role in Locating Osama bin Laden are Unsupportable
- Chris Toensing: For Fatah, New Unity Pact with Hamas is Risky, but Few Options Remained
- Ben Manksi: Although National Media Spotlight is Gone, Progressive Mobilization Against Wis. Gov. Walker’s Conservative, Anti-union Agenda Continues
Week Ending MAY 13, 2011
- Mel Goodman: How Will Bin Laden's Death Affect the U.S. War in Afghanistan?
- Terry O'Neill: NOW: GOP Assault on Middle Class is a 'War on Women'
- Michio Kaku: Nuclear Adviser Resigns over Japanese Government's Increasing Level of Allowable Radiation Exposure for Children
Week Ending MAY 6, 2011
- Raed Jarrar: Iraqis Fearful that U.S. Will Renege on Troop Withdrawal Deadline; Stage Angry Protests
- Darryl Malek-Wiley: One Year After BP Oil Spill Disaster, Environmental and Economic Destruction Difficult to Calculate
- Antonia Juhasz: Economic and Political Power of Oil Industry Succeeds in Weakening Deep Water Drilling Regulations
Week Ending APRIL 29, 2011
- Harvey Wasserman: Fukushima Disaster Unknowns Could Mean Years Until Nuclear Crisis End
- Steve Reisner: Complaint Alleges Army Psychologist Advised Interrogators in Torture Techniques
- Michael Ratner: In Stark Reversal, Obama Abandons Civilian Trials for 9/11 Suspects
Week Ending APRIL 29, 2011
- Harvey Wasserman: Fukushima Disaster Unknowns Could Mean Years Until Nuclear Crisis End
- Steve Reisner: Complaint Alleges Army Psychologist Advised Interrogators in Torture Techniques
- Michael Ratner: In Stark Reversal, Obama Abandons Civilian Trials for 9/11 Suspects
Week Ending APRIL 22, 2011
- Chuck Collins: Ending Tax Giveaways to the Rich is Key to Reducing U.S. Deficit
- Bruce Ackerman: Calls Grow for Government to Account for "Mistreatment" of Accused WikiLeaks Source Bradley Manning
- Kim Ives: Haiti's President-Elect Linked to Coup Plotters and Death Squads
Week Ending APRIL 15, 2011
- Andrew Kroll: Populist Backlash Against GOP Anti-Union Legislation, Cannot by Itself Reverse Labor's Decline
- Michael Jacobson: GOP Proposes Deep Cuts for Regulating Food, Health and Safety Standards
- Dr. Deborah Richter: Vermont Moves Closer to Establishing Nation's First Single-Payer Health Care System
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