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
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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 29, 2011 for week ending July 8, 2011
"It looks to me like another Vietnam. Why are we still there losing more lives?"
-- Anna Berlinrut, organizer with Military Families Speak Out, on 10-year war in Afghanistan
Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual
interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description
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Interview with Anna Berlinrut, organizer with Military Families Speak Out, conducted by Scott Harris
In a nationally televised address on June 22, President Obama announced he would withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2011. That represents one-third of the 33,000 additional soldiers he ordered deployed to Afghanistan in December 2009. Obama also told the nation that the remaining 23,000 surge-troops would return to the U.S. by September 2012, with the remaining 70,000 to be withdrawn in 2014.
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Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL-Pro Choice America, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Almost all of the nation’s state legislatures this year were forced to focus on large budget deficits and figuring out ways to deal with them, including deep cuts to government services and programs. But, just like in the U.S. House of Representatives, many legislatures controlled by Republicans made time to debate bills that restrict women's access to abortion. Hundreds of measures were introduced around the country, and a significant number were passed. Some require mandatory ultra-sounds; others ban abortions after 20 weeks with no exceptions for the health of the mother or rape or incest; others place restrictions on abortion coverage in the federal government's new health insurance exchanges.
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Interview with Michael Mariotte, executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, conducted by Scott Harris
As corporate media coverage of the ongoing disaster at the four failed nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan has faded, a new concern has emerged in the U.S. as flood waters threaten two nuclear plants on the Missouri River. Both Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun nuclear plant and the Cooper Nuclear Station sit on the shores of the Missouri River, which is now facing record flood levels. The Fort Calhoun plant has been shut down for refueling since April, and operators there have installed berms, floodgates and piled up sandbags to help protect the facility. When floods caused the local electricity grid to fail, emergency generators had to be used to supply power to keep the reactor cool and prevent a meltdown, such as occurred in Fukushima. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has assured the public that the plant is equipped to safely survive the flood.
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
- China is engaged in disputes with its Southeast Asia neighbors over territory in the South China Sea, a key transit route to western markets. ("China Warns US in island dispute," Washington Post, June 23, 2011; "Philippine-US joint naval drill amid tension with China," BBC News, June 28, 2011; "Beijing asks US to back off in South China Sea Dispute," International Business Times, June 29, 2011)
- In countries devastated by natural disasters, like earthquakes, it can take years or even decades for the poor to be relocated to permanent living quarters. ("Nicaragua quake survivors got new homes -- 40 years after the disaster," Christian Science Monitor, June 16, 2011)
- In mid-June, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services classified formaldehyde as a "known carcinogen," confirming the findings of several other federal agencies. However, a final federal health standard on formaldehyde remains stalled by intense lobbying paid for by the chemical industry. ("Stricter regulation of formaldehyde remains uncertain despite carcinogen ruling," ProPublica, June 14, 2011)
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