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 Aug. 17, 2011 for week ending Aug. 26, 2011
"We need answers from Justice Thomas about why he has accepted (previously undisclosed, expensive gifts), what's the extent of his relationship (with billionaire investor Harlan Crow) and why he's not recusing himself from questionable Supreme Court cases."
-- Drew Courtney, director of communications for People for the American Way, on why 100 legal ethicists and law professors have signed a letter to Congress in support of Rep. Chris Murphy's bill extending the judicial code of ethics up to the Supreme Court; justices are immune from inquiry
Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description below.
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PodcastSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' Conduct Provokes Calls for Ethics Probe
Interview with Drew Courtney, director of communications, conducted by Scott Harris
When President George H.W. Bush nominated conservative Appeals Court Judge Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991, controversy followed. Allegations of sexual harassment made by Anita Hill, a former Thomas employee at the Department of Education, made for high drama during televised Senate hearings, and placed the nomination in doubt. But in the end, Thomas was confirmed and took his seat on the Supreme Court. Story continues
Legalization: An Alternative to the Costly, Failed U.S. War on Drugs
Interview with Terry Nelson, retired U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
In October 2009, the U.S. Border Patrol fired a probationary employee, Bryan Gonzalez, just before his two-year probationary period was up. He was terminated for the personal opinions he expressed several months earlier to a fellow officer. Gonzalez told his co-worker that the best way to reduce drug-related violence on the U.S.-Mexico border was by legalizing narcotics. He also stated that as a Mexican-American, he understood why many Mexicans felt they had no choice but to try to enter the U.S. without documents in search of jobs. On Jan. 20 of this year, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed a lawsuit against the Border Patrol for firing Gonzalez on the basis of his personal beliefs expressed in a casual conversation, rather than his job performance. Story continues
New Confidence Required to Overcome Americans' Political Passivity
Interview with Bruce Levine, psychiatrist and author, conducted by Scott Harris
Throughout world history, there are countless examples of how an activated and engaged group of citizens have banded together to successfully effect political and social change. Today, across the Middle East and North Africa autocratic governments and monarchies are being challenged as never before by large numbers of people who have taken to the streets and risked their lives to demand change. Tens of thousands of people in Spain and Greece have risen up to resist the harsh economic austerity measures demanded of them by the European Union and the continent's largest banks. Story continues
This week’s summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- On Sept. 24, 2010, FBI agents raided the homes of 23 leftist activists in Chicago and Minneapolis, as part of long running terrorism investigation of political activists. ("Activists cry foul over FBI probe," Washington Post, June 13, 2011; Committee to Stop FBI Repression)
- The United Nations General Assembly has merged four women's agencies to create a new agency, UN Women, in January to give gender equity a higher profile in the international community, but only $80 million has been raised in donor pledges, far short of initial goals of $500 million. ("UN women's agency being 'strangled at birth,'"Inter Press Service, June 30 2011)
- Louisiana State University has used Hurricane Katrina recovery funds to finance a long-sought new $1.2 billion medical complex far removed from its now vacant Charity Hospital, which had been one of the oldest continually operating public hospitals in the country and served New Orlean’s poor indigent population while training medical students. ("Why Was New Orleans' Charity Hospital Allowed to Die?"The Nation, May 16, 2011)
Recent Shows
August
Week Ending AUG. 19, 2011
- Jeff Halper: Outcome of Palestinian-U.N. Initiative for Statehood Has Serious Consequences for U.S.
- Chuck Keeney: Recent March to Protect Blair Mountain in West Va. Brought Coal Miners and Environmentalists Together
- Devra Davis: World Health Organization Study Links Cell Phone Use to Cancer Risk
Week Ending AUG. 12, 2011
- Dave Johnson: GOP Extortion Forces Deep Budget Cuts with No Tax Increases on the Wealthy
- Bruce Niles: Bloomberg Philanthropies' $50 Million Gift to Sierra Club Expands Group's "Beyond Coal" Campaign
- Chip Berlet: Norwegian Anti-Islamic Mass Murderer Influenced by American Christian Right Extremists
Week Ending AUG. 5, 2011
- Wendy Weiser: Looking to 2012 Election, Republicans Enact Voter Suppression Legislation Across the U.S.
- Junior Walk: Activists Engage in Tree-Sit Protest in West Virginia to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
- Arjun Makhijani: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Update: Mismanagement Leads to Radioactive Food Contamination
Week Ending JULY 29, 2011
- Eric Kingson: "Gang of Six" Senate Debt Ceiling Deal Would Make Deep Cuts to Social Security Benefits
- Ofer Neiman: New Israeli Law Targeting Activists Advocating a Boycott of Israel Provokes Backlash
- Steve Rendall: British Tabloid Scandal Unleashes Scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch's Powerful Media Empire
Week Ending JULY 22, 2011
- Richard Eskow: Obama Adopts GOP Agenda, Offers Deep Cuts in Social Safety Net Programs to Get Debt Ceiling Budget Deal
- Elliott Levitas: Native Americans Win $3.4 Billion Settlement for U.S. Government's Mismanagement of Millions of Acres of Land
- Eva Golinger: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s Battle with Cancer Raises Questions About Future of His Bolivarian Revolution
Week Ending JULY 15, 2011
- Peter G. Prontzos: Greeks Fight for Alternatives to Austerity Policies Provoking Economic Hardship
- Robert Naiman: Greek Government Acts as Israeli Proxy in Blocking International Flotilla from Sailing to Gaza
- David Leopold: State Initiated Anti-Immigration Laws Underscore Urgent Need for Comprehensive Federal Immigration Reform
Week Ending JULY 8, 2011
- Anna Berlinrut: Obama: Nation's Longest War in Afghanistan Will Continue 3 More Years
- Nancy Keenan: Republicans Push State-by-State Anti-Abortion Agenda Across U.S.
- Michael Mariotte: Investigation Reveals Dangers at Aging U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
Week Ending JULY 1, 2011
- Chris Owens: Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose in U.S. Supreme Court Decision Rejecting Class Action Discrimination Lawsuit
- Matthew Rothschild: After Court Reinstates Wisconsin Anti-Union Law, Activists Organize for Summer State Senate Recall Elections
- Robert Naiman: U.S. Boat to Join International Flotilla Challenging Israeli Gaza Blockade
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
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