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.

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 Sept. 14, 2011 for week ending Sept. 23, 2011

"In 2010, 25 corporations paid their CEOs more and spent more in lobbying expenses than they spent on federal taxes."

– Scott Klinger, Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, and co-author of the "Executive Excess" report, discussing how companies are making billions in profits and not paying their fair share of taxes due to loopholes

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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Study Finds 25 Top CEOs' Pay Exceeds Corporate Taxes Paid

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Interview with Scott Klinger, Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, conducted by Scott Harris

In response to continuing high unemployment and an anemic economy that threatens to turn into a double dip recession, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and the nation on Sept. 8 to propose a $447 billion package of tax cuts and new federal outlays designed to boost consumer spending and create jobs. Prospects for passage of Obama’s jobs legislation appear dim as congressional Republicans oppose the president’s plan to fund the jobs bill by raising taxes on the rich. Specifically, the White House wants to impose new limits on itemized deductions for individuals who earn more than $200,000 a year and families earning more than $250,000, which they expect to generate the $467 billion more than enough of what's needed to fund the new jobs bill. Story continues

Communities Adopt New Cooperative Models to Cope with High Unemployment

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Interview with Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and executive editor at Yes! Magazine, conducted by Scott Harris

The official jobless rate in the U.S. hovers above 9 percent, with the real unemployment rate estimated to be as much as 16 percent. Those grim statistics translate to some 25 million Americans unemployed, underemployed or having given up looking for work. Unemployment is by far the most important issue for a large majority of Americans, but with the election of the GOP-controlled House of Representatives last November, the imposition of austerity measures to reduce the nation’s deficit has until recently been the Number One preoccupation in Washington. Story continues

International Human Rights Groups Campaign to Stop Georgia Execution of Troy Davis

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Interview with Laura Moye, Death Penalty abolition campaign director at Amnesty International USA, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

Troy Davis is an African American man who's been sitting on Georgia's death row for 20 years. Though no physical evidence linked him to the 1989 murder of police officer Mark Allen MacPhail, nine witnesses testified that he was the killer. Since then, seven of these witnesses have recanted their testimony, declaring that they were pressured by law enforcement to wrongly point to Davis. However, Georgia’s judicial system has chosen to believe only what these witnesses stated on the record during the trial 1991. Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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Compiled by Bob Nixon

According to the Christian Science Monitor, Egypt’s political establishment grew upset in recent months with the Obama administration’s plan to give $65 million in funding to independent pro-democracy groups. The vast majority of U.S. "pro-democracy" funds went to United States political party groups such as the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute to build capacity of political parties for Egypt's parliamentary election this November. ("Why Egypt shuns US aid," Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 29, 2011)
Over 300,000 Haitian women and girls currently live in Haitian resettlement camps, where they experience high rates of hunger, disease and fear of gender-based violence. ("Haiti earthquake creates new crisis among women, girls," Miami Herald, Aug. 29, 2011; "Haiti Earthquake: Recovery failing women and girls," Human Rights Watch press release, Aug. 30, 2011; "Haitian women fight back against abuses," Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 31, 2011)
The new Republican majority in Congress has teamed up with lobbyists from big banks and insurance companies to stall key consumer reforms in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. ("Investor protection imperiled by Wall Street, GOP assault on financial reform," iWatchNews.org, Sept. 8, 2011)

Recent Shows

September

Week Ending SEPT. 16, 2011

Vince Warren: Legacy of Fear: 9/11 and the Erosion of Civil Liberties
Faiz Shakir: New Report Reveals the Roots of Resurgent Islamophobia in America
Anne McGrath Mulderry: Mother of 9/11 Victim Transforms her Grief into Universal Prayer for Peace and Love

Week Ending SEPT. 9, 2011

Liz Ryan Murray: New York Attorney General Working to Hold Big Banks Accountable for Foreclosure Fraud, Dismissed from Multistate Mortgage Abuse Panel
Emily Wurth: Energy Industry Political Allies Resist Legislative and Grassroots Efforts to End Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing
Natalie Foster: Newly Organized Progressive Coalition Challenges Corporate-Funded Tea Party Agenda in Washington, D.C.

Week Ending SEPT. 2, 2011

T. Kumar: Amnesty International: Hold All Sides in Libyan Conflict Accountable for War Crimes
David Goldson: House Republicans Attempt to Hold 2012 Budget Hostage to Repeal of Environmental Regulations
May Boeve: Protests Pressure Obama to Reject Proposed Alberta-to-Texas Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

August

Week Ending AUG. 26, 2011

Drew Courtney: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' Conduct Provokes Calls for Ethics Probe
Terry Nelson: Legalization: An Alternative to the Costly, Failed U.S. War on Drugs
Bruce Levine: New Confidence Required to Overcome Americans' Political Passivity

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