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.
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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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"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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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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Interview with Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, conducted by Scott Harris
The May 1st U.S. Navy Seal Commando raid into Pakistan that killed Osama bin-Laden set off an angry backlash among Pakistani government and military officials who were kept in the dark by the White House and Pentagon about the impending assault on the al-Qaeda leader’s secret compound. While many Americans have watched and read accounts of this famous incursion into Pakistan, most are unaware that the U.S. and NATO regularly launch hundreds of unmanned predator drones with guided missiles to attack suspected Taliban guerillas and terrorist groups in the tribal regions of both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, there were 111 U.S /NATO Predator drone attacks inside Pakistan during 2010 resulting in 957 civilian deaths. The United Nations reports that from 2006 to 2011, an estimated 1,245 civilians have died in U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan. Recent U.N. reports suggest that the Taliban are responsible for a larger share of civilian deaths in the Afghan war now than in previous years.
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, whose cousin was killed in a U.S. night raid in March, has repeatedly condemned U.S. and NATO drone and other airstrikes that have resulted in the deaths of civilians. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She was among 37 protesters arrested at Hancock Air Force Base in Syracuse, N.Y. on April 22, where the military houses drones and trains operators for missions abroad. Kelly explains why she opposes the use of Predator drones in targeted assassinations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other nations.
Visit Voices for Creative Nonviolence's website and learn more about organized opposition to the use of unmanned Predator drones at www.vcnv.org.
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